The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1846-07-28
PENNSYLVANIA AND THE TARIFF.

PENNSYLVANIA AND THE TARIFF
We see in the Express extracts from tn
Speech of Mr.. Webster. delivered at Phila
deIphia on the lst Of October, 1874, warn
ing his hearers against voting for Mr.. Polk
and pointing out the consequences which
would result from his election. TO the pro
tec,ive policy, in the support of which Penn
syIvania was so deeply interested. Thes'
paragraphs were very strong, but not sc
,hens as many contained in the Valley
Forge Speech delivered by the same eminent
Statesman on the Sd of October, two days
after the former. We copy the following
from this speech.
The orator bad clearly set forth the opin-
ions of Mr.. Polk on the Protective Policy
he proceeds
And yet have seen banners floating in
The air in this intelligent County Of Chester
banners are floating in the air, on which
are inscribed,
POLK & DALLAS
AND THE TARIFF OF 1912.
[Roars of laughter followed this, which
listed some minutes.
WHY, is there no shame in men! MIR.
Polk openly nvows that he is for reducing
the duties on all imported goods to the lev
ell of the Compromise Act-to 20 per cent.
OIL every thing. He says, Down with the
TARIFF and his friends here say, Polk and
the Tariff for ever p Laughter and cheers.
Is there no shame 10 men! Or do they sup
pose that they will be enabled TO put such
a veil of blindness over mems ayes, SO that,
ifihey cry to be right, they will take the
leap, be where it may7 If men could be
msled by such means-if they could be de
ceived by such a miserable jugglc as this,
should despair Of the practicability ofpopu-
lar governments! If man can thus sti1e
the warning voice of his conscience-if he
can throw aside his integrity and patriotism
If he can forget the duty he owes TO him
self. his family, his country, and his God,
for such shallow device as this, how can he
be worthy Of being citizen of this great,
free and happy country. Tremendous
1T becomes our duty, then. TO expose in
every way, and every where, this infamous
jugsle-let US put it down, and put it down
at once and forever Let us declare it =
fraud and a.cheatI declare il fraud and
cheat; ard if my veice could be heard
throughout the whole Of this country, ]
would say that whoever he is-ifhe be man
of common information and common knowl-
edge, and comes to an eIector of this or any
other State, and says that Mr.. Polk is in ia
ror The TariG-that he means to chea. and
Jofraul hot of rho
else of the elective franchise! Cheers. |
And after be has got him to go for MIR. Polk,
he will turn his back on him and say, what
intolerabIe gulls the people are J. Shouts
ofIaughter and cheers.
If this were not so serious a matter, ii
would be supremsI, ridiculous. But it is so
serious thing that it excites our deepestin-
dignation. that men should try TO get the
honest votes ofan honest community for the
support of men and for measures which they
know an honest community do not desire.
TCheers.1 We eve it, therefore, duty
TO our neigh5ors, to 60 among them. and to
explain this whole matter TO them, and to
undeceive them, and to read Mr.. Folks dec.
larations to them. [Cheers. We owe il
10 them as a sacred duty-we owe it Ia them
as we are all embarked in the same bottom
[cheers If they 90 down, we shall go down
with them cheers we can't be happy
while they are unhappy. [Cheers. For
Reason and Philosophy and Experience and
Common Sense all leach that one PARTON OF
the community cannot prosper at the expense
of another portion. Cheers. Let us by
every exertion possible-by the use of calm,
sober reasoning and fair argument-bring our
neighbors who arc of opposite opinions TO
ours to see things in their proper light, and
lie induce them to give their support TO those
who are their friends, and the friends Of the
policy they desire to see perpetuated'
Such was the impassioned entreaty and
warning given to the People of Pennsyl-
vania in 1874. At the same time-we have
it on the authority OF a member of Congress
Hen. James Buchanan, then a member o.
the Senate, was declaring to the same People
that he knew, ofhis own knowledge,
THAT JAMES K. Polk WAS BETTER TAR
IFF MAN THAN HENRY CLAY. AND THAT HE
BELIEVED THE TARIFF OF 1912 WOULD BE
SAFER IN Mr.. PoLK's HANDS THAN 1T WOULD
BE IN Mr.. CLAWS.
Who thus attempted TO cheat and deGraud
every elector Of Pennsylvania out OF the
proper exercise of his elective franchise
James observation-disclosures Buchanan Sena-
tor? The same man who, for this cheat,
has been removed from the Senate to The
Department Of State. Shall this same de-
frauder ofth people-this unblushing cheat,
DO clothed with the ermine of the Judiciary
We shall see.-[Tribune.