The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-07-16

~ 10 49, '"a IMPOSED ivowed himself In favor OF
" w. ''Psa the tariff Of 1872, and opposed
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The first observation which strikes US on COM
parison Of these two extracts is, how danger
Gus it must be, especially for political opponent,
TO undertake, from memory alone to state what
had been said by member Of the opposite party in
a stump speech delivered nearly two years before,
and this at a period Of high political excitement
How much injustice has Mr.. Pollock done to Mr..
Buchanan The first version Of his speech has
gone all over the country, and has been read by
thousands who will never hear Of the correction.
According to that version Mr.. Buchanan declared
"that James X. Polk was better tariff man than
Henry Clay, and that he believed the tariff Of 1912
would be safer in Mr. Folks hands than il would
he in Mr.. Clay's;" and il would necessarily be I'M
derstood from Mr.. Polock's language that this dec
laration was made, not as an inference from the
public acts and declarations of these gentlemen, but
because personally he Mr.. Buchanan "was well
acquainted with their opinions
Had not Mr.. Foster interposed, it would not have
appeared that Mr.. Buchanan had even referred to
their public acts and declarations.
1t now appears, however, from Mr. Polock's re-
vised speech, that Mr.. Buchanan did not declare
that "James X. Polk was a beiier tar # man than
Henry Clay, and that he believed the tariff Of 1912
would be safer in Mr. Folks hands than it would in
Mr.. Clay's;" but merely that "James X. Polk was
a, good tariff man as Mr.. Clay, and that he be-
lieved the tariff of l842 would be as safe in Mr..
Folks hands as in Mr.. Clay's;" and that to prove
this assertion, Mr.. Buchanan had referred ''to Mr.
Clay's letters and speeches.
Had this simple statement been made to the
House Of Representatives by Mr.. Pollock, however
mistaken he may have been, j, would have produced
no "great sensation" Voices would not have been
raised to inquire 'Did you hear that" "Did you
hear him say so'" AIS that possible'" And Mr..
Pollock would not have been called on to repeat his
statement and been made to say that che had heard
Mr.. Buchanan these ,oords." ....
Such declaration the part of Mr.. Pollock
would have awakened no curiosty-excited no won
der; for it was doubtless known to every member OF
the House, that Mr.. Clay had religiously adhered
to the principles Of the compromise bill during his
whole subsequent service in the Senate; that he had
retired from that body short time before the pas
sage ofthc tariff of 1912 that in his different letters
and speeches on the subject, he had never, until
some time after the adjournment of the Baltimore
convention expressed the slightest appreciation of
this tariff; but, on tho contrary, had repeatedly
avowed opinions universally understood as being
entirely rrcconcieabe with the idea that he could be
friendly to its continuance, and that he never did
come againstthe modification Of this tariff until
in his letter to Dickinson township, dated on the
9th September, 1914. "
In Mr.. Pollocks revised speech, he says that &C
cording to his recollection, Mr.. Buchanan did not
"reEer TO the numerous and then recent letters OF
Mr. Clay, in which he avowcd himself in favor OF
the tariff of 1872 and opposed to its repeal;" but he
qualities this assertion, he had not done in the
first version, by stating that che may have made
| such reference"
| Now, the fact is that Mr. Buchanan did make
such q reference to all the letters Of MIR. Clay,
| Concluding that to Mr.. Cope,) within his knowledge.
| This is abundanly shown by the article from the
Penpsylvanan, which we publish to-day, written
by John w. Forney, esq, the editors OF thS
| journal, who was on the stand with Mr.. Buchanan
when he made the speech, and was an eye and cor
witness to ell that occurred upon the occasion
We have no doub, that Mr. Forney' recollection in
this matter can be confidently relied on and that he
has here furnished true, though necessarily I'M,
perfect, sketch of Mr.. Bachanan's remarks at Mil.
ton, so far as they related to the tariff
| sGff From the Pennsy vanian.
MR. BUCHANAN AND TIE TARIFF
A great clamor has been raised by some OF the
whig editors against Mr. Buchanan, in conse
quence Of statement made by Mr.. Pollock, a mem
her Of the present Congress from the district com
| posed Of the counties Of Northumberland, Union,
| Lycoming, and Clinton. in this State in his recent
| speech in that body on the subject Of thrift. The
statement is based upon speech made by Mr..
Buchanan Milton, in this State the subject OF
| the tariff, in September, 1874. We understand
hs, Mr.. Pollock has been unsupported, and that he
| will do Justice TO Mr.. Buchanan IL the speech
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