Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1846-08-07
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often in this weeks paper to the passage of Gen.
McKay's Revenue Bill. One might we'll imagine,
as it has become the law Of the land that The press
would to- bring the subject before their read
lers. This would certainly be the course we
should adopt, were it not 80 wantoniy assal.ed
by its opponents, and more particularly portion
of the Iron mongers in and about the city of Phil
adephia, and by "the small fry" of the Federal
press, throughout the country The Iron manufac-
turer groans heavily because the people no lon
ger TO be taxed more than $40 upon every 500
worth of Iron and Coal they consume. The Phi.
adeIphia Spirit of the Times, and the Native Ea-
gle, actually went in mourning on the occasion.
We must indulge ourselves in making few ex-
tracts from these papers, in order that the readers
of the Journal may have something to amuse them
selves with during the hot days of August.
As will be seen by an extract we take from the
Union, Mr.. Dallas was hung in efigy, in phlIa-
delphIas and we have also seen it stated that his
private residence actually threatened by these
niserabe miscreants What will be the feelings
of all honest men wher they see such conduct per-
petrated upon public officer, who Fl Is the high
trust of Vice President of the United States, to
which station he has been called by large major
| ity of the people of the Union Has not Mr.
Dallas carried out the express will of the people of
the Republic Will any Federal Wing wilmer
pretend to assert to the contrary9 Was it to be
presumed, for moment, that the Vice Pres-
dent of the nation would act contrary to the will
of majority of the people who elected him We
say such things were not to be expected of George
M. Dallas. He has acted the part of patriot, and
for his bodness and firmness, the people-the tax
payers-the hitherto 'hewers of wood and draw
ers of WATER to the lords of the loom and iron
nongers of Pennsylvania-will sustain him
George NJ Dallas deserves the thanks of the whole
Union, for the frmness he exhibited i'll the great
est hour of t,ial, on importanta as that
of saving the new revenue bill from being cast into
oblivion. But we did not sit down to praise Dali
las. Our object was when we commenced this
hasty article, to make few extracts from some of
the Philadelphia, papers, i'll order that our readers
might see for them"elves, the abuse and execra.
ton heaped upon faithful public officer of the
nation. Our heart burns with indignation as we
write. Below will be found the extracts we al
lude to.
The Eagle mourns over the lost treasure, aud
says:
can extensive manufactory in Kensington, we
have Just learned, Intends discharging five hun
dred hands ON Saturday next now employed in
<~ofHl, os>f LIZ
| Several large mercantile firms in this city, are
reported az having suspended business and also
large manufacturing establishments at Manayuhk,
Trenton, Pottsvile, and elsewhere. Where the
end will be, time alone can tell.
The Spirit Of the Times, the other mourner
walks in the funeral procession, and thus raves.
| "PAssAGE OF THE TARIFF BEL IN THE SEN
ArE-TREAsoR 20 PENNsYLvANI A!-Fhe infamy
has been consummated! and by the vote of George
Mifflin Dallas of Pennsylvania t@The Old Key
stone has been blasted by the migrate hand of
treacherous son. Like that of him who fired the
Ephesian dome, the fame of George VI. Dallas
shall be immortaI-immortal to execration, i'm
mortal to infamy. The Commonwealth that had
given him birth, life. favor, wealth, station and
power, called upon him to stretch forth his arm
and save her; he has answered the call as the as
sassin responds to the mercy cry of the helpless
The Sentinel, another Democratic paper, deem
ed it impossible that Mr., DALLAS could vote for
the BILL and winds up thus
In the midst of our regrets, we have the Deep
the abiding consolation, that but too Pennsylva-
mans, one in each House, deserted the interests of
the State during the great crisis. Her Senators
Cameron and Sturgeon stood firm, and done bat
tie to the last, their fight done honor to themselves
and to their constituents; their names and deeds
will ever shine as jewels in State annals. So
will those of her Representatives. in the other
House. who<stood SO CALAMITY Sy our policy, and
conformed so closely to the instructions of the Lee
gslature 1t is due to these aUelI-tried and honest
Representatives, that the people shall continue to
honor and sustain them.
Thus, much we hase copied from Democratic
papers, and, as a contemporary remarks "If our
readers not blinded by their tears already, they
! will go on with us and read the wailings of the
Wings. What picture to stir the waters, is the
following FROM the North american ~
/ Pennsylvania has fallen, and the final and fatal
wound given her i'll the Senate House was nfct-
ed by the hand Of George M Dallas. Scion, the
Athenian, excluded paracide from his code as a
crime too unnatural to I've possible. Either human
nature has changed, or Mr.. Dallas is a moral H.
suS aaCture. The bosom which bore him, nurtur-
ed him from childhood to age, fostered him as mo-
theirs foster their feebler chdrenfor the past bears
no single memorial of service done to her-that boz
som,is bleeding under the wound. which he has
inflicted. g..
His violation Of plighted troth to the tariff, his
insulting opposition to the Pennsylvania demo
cracy. his bareced desertion of all the principles
heretofore avowed by him, his self-conducted sale
to the slave.drvers of the South, his ingratitude
to his benefactors, and his cruelty to the Iaborng
poor-are a load would sink mountain. He