The Somerset herald and farmers' and mechanics' register. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 183?-1852, 1846-10-06
From the North American.
THE PROSPECT.


There has been no time for wears past
when the prospects of the Wing party
were so brilliant in this Stare as at pres
eut. The course OF the administration,
had the tariff pledge of "A been respect
ed, and the interest of Pennsylvania left
unassailed, would still have been suffi-
cient to secure the State for the Wings.
The usurpation by the President Of the
power of plunging the country into a
war, prerogative distinctly withheld by
our constitution, and known only to mo-
narchies, is an outrage that could not fail
to startle every Pennsylvania republican;
while the motives OF that usurpatIon, the
conquest of Mexico, in order to add
number of slave States to the confedera-
cy, to destroy all equipoise in our govern
ment, and subject the people of the North
TO the slave owners of the South. heigh-
ten the Indignation and apprehension
which such a measure is calculated to in
spre. The veto by the President of the
Harbor Bill is regarded with no less dis
appreciation. The law was demanded by
the best interests of the entire country; it
was sanctioned bv the enlightened states
men of all parties, and demanded to Sc
cure our commerce and those engaged in
it from calamities at which humanity
shudders. The Suh-Treasury act, also.
a measure against which, after full trial
and elaborate argument. the people of the
nation, with unprecedented unanimlty,
gave a verdict Of condemnation, has been
revived. A vast government mammoth
bank has been created; its notes are made
a currency; and in the absence of any
revenue adequate to provide for their pay
ment, the forethoughtful look 10 see the
land flooded with an issue of continental
rags-the eowardly and cruel stratagem
of government to cheat a people they
dare not more directly tax. The first We
to of private biIl-thc French Claimants
bills not forgotten; nor the fact, that
while the President makes war upon
Mexico, upon the ground that she does
not pay her acknowledged debts, he re-
fuses 10 pay the debts of our government,
of longer standing, more solemn obllga-
ton, and due TO our citizens; and does so
upon no better ground than that he wants
the money TO compel the Mexicans to be
honest. The folly and madness, the in
consistency and ueachery, the final imbe-
cilitv and meanness of the Administration
upon the Orr gon question would of itself,
be sufficient to carry the State against it.
Indeed the subjects of accusation against
the government as now administered have
so multiplied in number and SO swelied
in grossness, one above another, that 1t
may be apprehended that the public press
have not done justice to any. But the
intelligence of the people, who have wit
messed wrong after wrong and shame after
shame falling upon the country, has cher
ished remembrance of the long calender
of offences. and will pass judgment upon
them, according to their merits, at the
polls. Were the Tariff question buried,
these issues would secure the condemna-
ton of the Administration. Were these
questions lost sight of. the Tariff fraud
and outrage would render the same result
inevitable.
PENNSYLVANIA is Wing State. Cir
cumstances have hitherto delrauded the
party OF the victory which was its right;
but the result of each earnest contest has
shown a regular advance in the vote OF
the Wings. The Tariff fraud has deci-
sively ascertained their triumph. 1t has
split the party throughout the entire State.
Ii is the ruling question in Pennsylvania
politics: and necessarily so, for 1t is inter-
woven with every fibre Of Pennsylvania
industry. Six months since the entire
population of the State were ultra in sup
port OF the tariff of '42. The course of
the administration has thrown every thing
into confusion in the ranks of the locofo-
cos. There are some that must 90 with
the Administration, go whithersoever it
may; they have guIped down the shame
ful dose prepared Tor them. bent their
necks for the collar, and can in nothing
be distinguished from the nullifers OF
South Carolina. There are others who
sDo perceive here divided Duty"
and while in national politics they are for
free trade. on local Issues they still affect