The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-02-24


At three O'Clock Mr. ID! had not concluded, but
yielded to motion 70 proceed to executive busi-
ness.
The House was engaged in the consideration Of
the bill making appropriation for harbors and rivers
MANGUVRE OF THE WING PRESS.
The whig press is most desperate, indeed, when il
is compelled to resort TO the little nssss, which nov
disgraces its columns. They arc now crying ou
ia chorus from the bass drum Of the National Intel
lgencer TO tho toy-drum Of village newspaper
that the Administration 10 about to sacrifice the
ufacturing interest for tho territory Of orego1-in
this way to propiiate the feelings Of Great Britain,
and to purchase her rights. Sometimes these sup
pie editors affirm, that negotiation Is proceeding
upon this basis and thsn that tho treaty is actually
concluded. And then thev fabrieale other facts,
which never existed.but in their own imaginations
twisting, peverting, guessing, imagining, and dis
torting everything to create clamor, TO excite the
people, to prevent the requisite reduction Of the ia
nH to smbsnass the negotiation for Oregon, to de-
feat the administration on every TACK, and 10 raise
their own PROSTATE banner from tho dust. To such
sxtruvsgant excess u this new trick carried, that
Baltimore wing paper presents tho following i'm
asinative view from sPsu Of i,s Warrington cor.
respondent s-
81 perceiveit stated in tho foreign news that Mr.
Secretary Walkers free-,rade report, which the
British House Of Lords liked 90 we'll az 10 order the
printing of tho sans "a British compliment never
before paid to B,itsh-haipg, any other member
Of tho American cabipetl) was forwarded to and
received by the government Of Great Britain, long
before twas committed 10 tho proper committee Of
the American Congress-
"Csn this be truel 10 il necessary for this ami
Briti,h administration 10 communicate foreshadow-
ing Of iu contemplated measures to tho British
ministry, before sending the same 10 the American
CongesS IL so, what ought to be thought Of the
hOlow-hearted proclamations Of modern democ-
ncy, that the iohigs the friends Of the British,
in alliance pih hsn, while their opponents most
cordially hate ne British, and would rather go To
than coalesce with them in any manner, or do
anything TO forward their interests crafty their
DESIRES
"You may rely upon it, this British-hating admin
straion is resolved to buy qT England from insisting
upon her claim to the Oregon territory! Yes, TO
purchase Of England sortion Of that territory which
II procaims Is all ours with Clear and unquestion-
able title vested in the United States,
And how, and at what price, does the admins
tration design to purchase that of Great Britain
which the said administration declares is already
ourss What will England require in this bargain
asa sufficient compensation for giving up her claim
fly her most' What is the darling, cherished OBJ
eet OF her heart IN this matter! The breaking do,cn
the .1msriesn tariff, that gipes active bushes, 10 the
.iaean people Of all classes and eangs and fills the
.}msrean treasury ciih the Of paying oil our OBJ
legation, and keeping our credit honorsd! This is
what England desires! This is what she will take
in exchange for her pretensions to Oregon And
what will be the cost' Ay, there's the rub, What
will be the cost Of this purchase Of that which Mr.
President Polk has solemnly declared is ours al
| ready!
"Mr. Walker estimates that his tariff bill will
yield revenue Of twenty-five millions OF dollars
annually. II will probably yield sixteen rnons
but even IL the sum were to reach twenty-five mil
hons 1t will not then be large enough, by about ten
millions, to meet the annual expenditures Of the gov
eminent How 10 the deficit to be meli A deficit
Of ten millions OF dollars year for fifteen years
supPosing the design to break down the tariff and
keep il down for that length Of timc-would amount
to the snsg little sum of hundred and fly mil
lions ofdofars! And this is to he supplied, paid in
u the treasury from the hard earnings Of the farm
ers, mechanics, and other laboring men Of the
country, by means ora direct tar, or BORROWED and
FUNDED DEBT created and entailed upon those who
come after us Is not this pretty price for our
selfStyed democratic administration to contemplate
giving to England for nothing, for her claim
rtory which the purchasers positively declare she Is
not in the least entitled to- .."
"Who truckles to the British in this matter Who
CATERS maneuyres, and gets up British tariff reports,
that give the British minisry great pleasure and sat
sfaction, and which that delighted ministry have
printed and circulated over the queens empire'
Who indeed but the very politicians and party who
have been everastingy proclaming tina. their oppo.
nsn' are British whig' and the friends of the Brit
DO not all the facts in the case show il See the
reception in the House of Lords Of the anti. tariff
report of Sir Robert Walker (as tariff, locofoco
member Of Congress styled the Secretary Of the
Treasury!") 80. 49, -
But this manuuvre is too shallow to gull an en-
lightened people. Tho wings are as well aware as
we are, that tho republicans came into power to
tablish certain principles, and to introduce certain
reforms. One Of the most important measures
which they are pledged, with the exception of a
small portion Of their party, to carry out, is the
modification Of the abominable tariff Of 1912 !,
was a reform inscribed upon their banner in the
last campaign. 1t was proclaimed at Baltimore
svowed in almost every resolution of their public
meetings by almost every stump orator in
the land. twas put forth as one of the articles o.
faith by nearly every democratic press--and GER
tsnly held forth as Of the most prominent ele-
mens in the Prospectus Of this paper. Time af,el
time was il promulgated in our columns, under the
sanction Of the President and his Secretary Of the
Treasury and every republican expected to soc il
marked out and recommended in the message, ex
cept some desperate wing press, or some falterns
friend who did not know "who was James X
Polk" ". ..
These avowals-these calculations were as clea
L" the sun in tho canopy Of the heavens Thu
measure Of reduction was urged under different as
poets of the Oregon quesiion--when the 49th paral
lei was offered to Mr.. Pakenhem--after it had beer
rejected by him, and then withdrawn by us-anc
then when the President declared it as his impress
son, from Satisfactory evidence that no compro
mise which the United States ought to accept car
be effected"
We repeat, the wing presses know all these fact
"well as we do. They mus: know, that the reduc
ton Of the tariff Of ls42 constitutes one of the mos
important measures which they were pledged il
word, and bound by principle to carry out; and ye