The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1846-10-10
The Congressional Election.


Important as is election for State officers, the
utmost attention should be paid TO that OF members
of Congress. A great point of policy is to be
passed upon, 10 which the West is most deeply in
terested, and in the Improvement Of the democrat
ic settlement of which, Ohio, as a leading agricu,
tural state, should take the most prominent part
We allude to the tarif-to fhe question Of protee,
ton as it Is called. A democratic Congress has
Just effected reduction of the oppressive protec-
tive tariff of 1912. democratic administration has
aidedin the completion of SO righteous work.
Every vote gained BY the wings now. especially
for member of Congress. is claimed by them as
proof that the popular will is adverse to the course
of the party dominant IN the nation, so far as re-
CARDS their action on the tariff. Their success in
preventing the election of democrat, is to them
amatter great importaHce-their success in elec-
ting whig in the place of an anti-tarff democrat
would be perfect God-send. The people Of no
state interested in the maintenance Of albesal pol
icy regulating our intercourse with foreign coun-
tries, should permit the wings to make such gains
as may afford plausible ground for their persist
ance in attempts to restore the old tariff, with its
Nigh rates of dutes its favoritism to Eastern man.
,ufactures, and its oppression ofthe great Western
interest of agriculture.
This election is indeed one Of the most impor-
tant to us as an exporting people, and not the less
50 to the lover Of abstracttruih who wouldsee JUS
;iice done in the premises, be the result what 1t
may. On our side, we are contending for the SUI
periority of sound commercial views, and for the
adoption and continuance Of policy in accordance
with those great modern discoveries the science
,of national economy, which have proved so inju-
rious to monoposts aud SO beneficial 10 the peo-
pie. We are the champions efmodern truth against
antique error; the assertors Of the right OF men to
conduct their own business in their own way, with
out the vexaiious iDtermeddling of government in
matters which its interference cannot advance and
must injure We are the opponents of those ex-
,ploded errors to which the wings yet cling, as Is
the nature Of aparty that aims to conserve every
thing that intelligent men have outgrown, because
dts ascendency can be achieved only through the
Ignorance anddegradation Of the human race.
II is as advocates Of views in accordance with
the increased lights of the age, that we present
our candidates for Congress to the attention Ut the
peo pie. They are not supporters OF any scheme
of protection calculated TO plunder the masses, ta-
king from them their hard earnings, and dividing
them semi-annually among few overgrown cap-
taIists, whose great wealth proof Of their be-
ing dangerous to the community, and also the
strongest evidence that can be conceived or desi-
red of the OF system at once unjust, inso-
ient and cruel. We ask for our candidates the
votes of the people, because they IRE the friends OF
the people--the men who, in their legislative ca
pacity, as well as when private citizens viii give
their strongest support to all measures calculated
to bring about equal taxation, and protection to the
Door, against the audacious attempts OF the non
opoists to reduce the industrial classes OF the land
to a state Of vassalage. The manufacturing inter
est, aided by other capitalists to certain extent
is aiming to convert our people into mere money
making machines; and they lose no opportunity Of
compelling the Legislation Of the country to favo'
their most unhallowed designs Their waiings
over the repeal Of the tariff Of 1912, under the op
erations of which they enabled to double theii
capital every three years, are the best evidences
that can be adduced of the tendencies Of the sys
tenn. They see in that repeal the commencement
ofa condition Of things for the people" the be-
ginning Of the end" of their own glory. Hence
their shrieks wailing and plaintive as the fablef
mandrake -deceitfuI and fatal if listened to, as
the cries Of the crocodile. Hence their vigorous
attempts to elect members Of Congress favorable
to their most cherished and loved doctrines Blu
..,,.ad Thav nust not he allow
ed to extend their strength in the national legisla
ture; and to this end. the people of Ohio shoul'
give their support to men as members OF Congress
whose opinions are liberal, whose views are favor
abIeto the interests Of agriculture. and who vii
notbe the slaves of monopolits, lin short. TO TIL
REGULARITY NoMINATED DEMocRArrc CAN
prpATEs.-- StqtesnaS.