Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1846-08-08
SPEECH OF TIE Hen. sImON CA M ERON
On the Red duction OF tho Tariff or sAa,


DELIVERED IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES, |
JULY 20, l646.
Nj. PRESIDENT feel no little reluctance in |
addressing the Senate on this subject. II my
own feelings were consulted, should certainly |
prefer to be sient. and to leave to others more
able. more eloquent, and more experienced in
debate, the task Of exposing the Inconsistencies,
and fallies, and the ruinous effects Of the meas.
ure now befise the Senate Enough has in.
deed been already said to prevent its passage, If
truth were to prevail and am in strong hopes
that il will be defeated: for il seems now so
poor, that there is none to do it rcverence-not
one to raise his voice in its favor. But cannot
suffer vote 10 be taken till have expressed
my hostility to it's passage, and said something
in defence Of the industry OF my State, which
it is calculated 10 ruin.
come here the representative Of State
deeply interested in the development of her re.
sources, and in fostering and protecting the in.
dustry Of her citizens: State which has ex.
pended more than one hundred and fifty mil.
lions of dollars in making those resources avail.
able, State which in two wars nus expen.
ded more blood and more treasure in the com.
mon defence than any State in the Union q
State which has never asked any favors from the
Union, and which has received as little benefit
| from it as any one in il t;-even the for: which
was built for the defence Of her city, with the
money ofher own citizens, has been suffered 10
90 to decay by the general government "a
State proverbial for the democracy of her sons
so much 40 that no democratic President
was ever elected without her vote: nay, one
which never gave vote against democratic
candidate for the presidency, until she believed
there was settled design 10 desert her dearly
cherished interests.
| You can, therefore, Mr.. President, imagine
my surprise when find our time. .honored com.
monwealth charged with want Of democracy
in her opposition 10 this bi,h From one end
Of her wide domain to the other she does op.
pose it snd i'll fail TO show that she has abun-
dant cause, it will not be for the wnnt Of dc.
fects in the bill ITSELF 30 far as she is con.
cerned, it can produce evil, and evil only.
The support of system Of protection for the
labor Of her citizens is with her not new. 1t is
a lesson she learned from the fathers of the re.
public, and which vas practised with uniform
and unvarying consistency by all her early set-
tiers. Her sons have not, ard TRUST in God
will never prove recreant to the Wholesome
lessons of their anc. sry. |, is to this practice
.ols "a DO, hat shs,. hnh nj
prosperity and lame.
Go where you will. there Is but ohe srhti.
, ment now Pervsding the public mind on this
subject. 1t has grown with het gtow,lh and
strengthened with her strength and there is a
try coming up now from ell her borders, echo
ed from every hill snd trom every SslfeyS from
? her very bowel> al you saw the o,het Day b,
the retitsun which presented from her hard,
/, miners, whose habitations are under ground
0 fross. every village. from every workshop ftut
: esety farm house Ia tho cry heard, invoking III
! 10 Intespose between them andruin. Every le
gisla,hte for years has instructed her repsesen
tstives here 10 adhere to her fovorite policy
!. and no nah has ever presumed to ask her favo
= without aJ.,iltng the justice and proprie,y @
her views upon this sthjecti and may add
: Nj. President, ooe beiide The man oho raise
his suicidal hand agufnst hrr, now n the huu
v Of her extremity. a
: have said her favor was never asked with
!. OH, pledge 10 support her views. You know
: sit. how it was in is44. ! need not tell yo
= = ,ha, you would not now occupy that chair bu
:. Inr the assurances of reiterated assurar
ID res--that her policy Wbald no. be dislurbe,
= You and Remember the scenes of that dal
\ We cannot forget the hsgs and banners whir
r. where carried In the professions Of her dem,
ne cracy. pending the election which tesulted
~ The triumph Of our party. II cannot, and
ought hot to be disguised. that, but for thcee 4
surances to which have alluded, that tfiumI
never would have been obtained. | reme.nb
R. the anxiety which pervsded the minds of Il
politicians Until the publication Of the Ksne d
!. ter, and cannot forget the pains that were
,et ken BY the leading men ofthe party to coavin
the people that II vas esdence Of an inten,i
az to protect our interests. Her con6ding citise
u. gats their support In good faith, and they
10. pec,ed goodiaiih In fstutn. The letter was pt
o. lished, in English and Germsni In every den
no cratic pspes ih the State, and in pamphlets
ore ,housands. Evety democrat pointed to il
~. . satisfactory tariff letter. shd no eemoe
nd doubsed II. 1t 10 not saying too much To sscr
not 10 that letter. msihlt, The democrats msjos
'hs Of the STATE. Sursly, honorsble men ~ill