The daily union., 1846-08-25
From ths Columbus 20 PrsIs.
THE BLACK TARIFF OF 1912

| inE bLACh IAHlFF OF lo42
The Journal and the federal whig papers Of the
country generally, continue to howl over the repeal
OF this late Odious law with as much desperation as
If tho last erum Of bread was about to be snatched
from them. The ruin of the country is predicted
with the same certainty as il has been by these
same croakeIs for al least twenty different times
| What were the circumstances under which this
pealed act was passed. II will be remembered that
the hard-cider campaign of lS40 brought into both
houses of Congress a decisive majority Of federal
wings, and that that Congress passed this act, bul
not with the votes of their own party, as, had moi
Messrs. Wright, Of New York, and Buchanan, OF
Pennsylyans, voted for the bill, it could not have
become law; they voting for IL, not because the
bill was such they desired but because the
government would be efl without means Of subsist-
ence and declaring their intention to modify IL al
the hrst opportunity. But what was the action OF
their own friends-the whg senators and represent
atves-on this bill, and some of them the same men
who now howl so pteously over It's repeaR On the
23d OF August, 1872 when the bill was under con-
slderatlon IN the Senate, odious II deemed by
wing senator's, that every shift was made that could
be to defeat the bill. MIR. Merrick (whig) moved
10 limit its duration TO twelve months, at the same
time protesting against it. MIR. Rives (whig) con-
tended that the bill was not a revenue measure.
Hear what he said:
'ln the first place, (said Mr.. Ryes,) it could not
be characterized a repenGs measure. His hrm
SOhfiSuOH was ulal IL wOulu not pTOuuCc al
crease OF revenue. IL was absolutely measure OF
protection extending, in particulars, to pro-
hIbton. This was the true character Of the bill
IN regard 10 many of the articles which enter most
deeply into the consumption Of the country, such,
for example, as several descriptions Of cotton and
woollen goods, and some Of the manufactures OF
iron, hemp, &c"
Here it will be seen it was denounced by whig
as absolutely measure of protection, extending
in some particulars to prohibition, thing so odious
that even the bluesl Of federalism dared not openly
ayow.
Mr.. Preston, a leading wkig in the Senate, only
| claimed 1t as "temporary measure" He moved
to limit 1t TO two years. Hear him:
"Mr. Preston (whig) moved to limit the law to
two years. he supposed il must be obvious 10
everybody that there could hardly be such an ad-
iustment Of the tariff an could be considered perma-
nent. Pressed, as Congress was, IN time, II would
not be probable that the deliberate and matured
judgment of Congress could be given TO specific du-
| ties. He said there was now no doubt that some
revenue bill was indispensable. He did not think
1t reasonable TO suppose Congress would refuse To
adopt an essentially necessary temporary meas
ure."
| And MIR. Crittenden himself, who has lamented
over the repeal, then declared "that he had with
reluctance been driven 10 the conclusion Of potng Jo
this biHr' And the final vote on its passage, III,
/ following whig senators voted against the bill
derson, Msngum, Merrick, Preston, and Riyes.
| Here were nine federal whig senators voting
sganst the bill; and that when there was no mean'
Of subsistence for the government, and when th'
| government was in their own hands and they wer'
| responsible for il. So odious this bill Of abom
nations, that under all these circumstances thes'
NINE whig senators voted against the bill. And
in the House of Representatives, John Quincy
| Adams John NJ Botts and William Cost John
| son, and many other wings voted with the demo
Gratis against the bill, and were there barely
enough to vote for it to pass It, by two majority
when they had majority of some forty IN tn
House. And have these senators and representa-
tives been ostracized by whigery because the!
voted against this darling whig project Let US see
| Messrs Clayton and Mangum have since been re
elected to the Senate. John @. Adams has sine
been reelected. Mr.. Bolts has been run by tn
wings for Congress, and beaten, and Mr.. Graham
was elected governor Of the State Of North Carollns
as soon as he went out of the Senate, and the whig
are now rejoicing over his re election; and yet h
voted against the black tariff.
Mr.. Merrick, (whig,) of Maryland, moved a
amendment on the eve of its passage, as follows
"that an additional section be added, limiting tn
loperation Of the law to two years, and NO LONGER
Mr.. Preston (whig) spoke in favor Of the amend
ment, and it was lost by ONE VOTE. With all thes
evidences of the nfamy Of this whig bantling, the
now ask democrats to discard their own men for vo
ing to repeal measure that was so odious that the
could not pass il themselves; and while they ar
continually putting men in Office who would nc
vote for on its passage. II these nine whg sens
tors, ard the many whis representatives who vote
against this bill, were so opposed to "protectin
home industry" why they not cast off by tn
whigsi Why are they not thrown overheard an
suffered to die "unwept, unhonored, and unsung,
as recreant to the protective" policy Of feder'
whigery. The object of the federal wings is t
get into power once more, as they have alway
done, by fraud and deception. In 1924, Adams wa
elected by fraud; and in 1910, Harrison was eecte
by deception Beware! democrats, that the sam
game is not practsed again.