The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-12-05

Mclean Cauon, Daniel, Nelson, and Grier are
h,r, and there is every probability that the BUSH
ness Of the Court will commence on Monday.
THE PHILADELPHIA sPEEcH-oNCE
.# MORE.
Among the many passages OF Mr. Webster's
.psech which arc not worth the consideration OF
ANYBODY, we find one which is fully entitled TO the
k.rsful attention Of the Democracy-and especially
v the Democracy Of Pennsylvania;
ls"He took the ground that for himself he was for
protection adequate, ample, permanent, and founded
In lust principles Further, that he considered the
principles Of the act of 1912 the true principles
ior such law, imposing specific duties, and not an
al yaorem assessment. He went for Just dis
elimination, and in making this for great care not TO
TAX the raw material so high as 10 prove bounty
20 the foreign anufacturer. Such were the Pnn-
oplss of the act of ls42 and whenever they should
be presented 10 him from any quarter, he was pre-
psred 10 adopt them. His object was to obtain the
best tariff be could and he believed he could obtain
me fully adequate TO insure protection on just prin-
feiples He should take no part In any tinkerng
of the existing law 30 long the vicious principles
of that law remained. The administration could
not get rid Of their Just responsibility in this matter
by tampering with partial interest And here,
said Mr.. W., allow me to say frankly to you, ye
iron men and coal men of Pennsylvania; l know
YOU are incapable Of compromising on this subject;
and il any indueement shall be held out TO you to
make your IRON little softer, and your coal
10 burn little clearer, while you leave the weavers
10 destruction. warn you that your iron and your
coal must 90 down too"
This is as plain as possible. Mr.. Webster will
have no compromises. He was willing enough to
part at the last session. with large portion of terri
tory, and even to stand in the way Of others who
sought to secure it. But he goes without any scru-
pies for "lhe whole or none" Of the tariff Of AZ.
He breads and depreeates "compromise" on the
coal and iron interests more than he deprecated
the action Of the Executive in maintaining and urg-
ing our title up to ffty-four forty. Mr.. Websters
purpose in all this is entirely manifest Both Dem
ocrats and Federalists in Pennsylvania must sec
through it. He tells them plainly enough that it is
not the thirty per cent on iron and coal which he
really seeks to augment in new Tariff. But il is
the duty on the cottons and woollens Of Massachu.
sets which is not high enough to please him. He
pines to get back the cotton minimum and the 9th er
snormtes of its class So he tells the Pennsyvanians
plumply enough, "units with US for whole Black
Taif-a Tariff at once without mitigation and
without scruple; and then the duties on coal and
iron shall be as you please" Mr.. Webster Is the
great apostate from free trade. Such blind and rab
id violence as this is always the apostate's wei
known characteristic. Best of all that il should be
so. The democracy Of the country, and the de.
mocracy Of Pennsylvania, will now know the man
the party, and the purpose with which they have to
do We must encounter a desperate struggle 10
restore all the condemned enormities Of the Tariff OF
1912. ..... u..a.
Just before attacking the Mexican policy of the
administration, Mr.. Webster asserts that its spirit
is opposed to that of the administration of Gen.
eral Jackson. In making this point, Mr.. Webster
found no occasion to refer to the manner in which
General Jackson urged the payment of our claim
upon the French government. Yet this was meas
ure eminently Characteristic of Jackson's admins
,ration. Perhaps il brought to Mr.. Webster, how
ever, no pleasing "reminiscences Had he spoken OF
it, his audience might have remembered what he
saw fit to say upon that memorable occasion about
"rhsng 10 grant supplies, though the enemy BAT
srng do,on the ,oali, Of the Captoim Had the orator
been so minded he might perhaps have dscerned
some analogy between Jackson's course then to-
wards France and the course which the present
government has pursued in respect to our Mexican
claims. In the same connection, Mr.. Webster might
have recoected that, as early 1886, Gen. Jackson
declared that we then had ample of against
Mexico. As MIR. Webster has of late taken to citing
the authority Of General Jackson, land why should
he not make this change as well as every other
within the compass Of political possibility he
might have very properly RETAINED from asserting
that war against Mexico, which jackson pro-
claimed to be proper and justifabe in 1885, has be-
come "just cause for impeachment" no,c, after nine
or ten years more Of insult and Outrage. In fact,
Mr.. Websters allusion to General Jackson is alto
gether unfortunate and thankless. 1t demands from
him more than ordinary audacity now to eulogize
that heroic statesman whose great renown, when
living and in power, he sought to hunt down with
partisan rancor, at once implucablc and mpotent.
ster when he euogizes Andrew Jackson Such eu.
logy is too like that "kss of old which betrayed"
We have already given several specimens of Mr..
Webster's Accommodation. Others are at hand.
We find them even in the propositions and tho ar
suments against the war which are given in this
very speech We may expose them hereafter. We
may show that Mr.. Webster has become 80 accus-
toned to trample upon the very idea Of political
consistency through career, that he has at last for
gotten how to preserve his consistency through even
single speech. But yet--and this is rare praise for
this great orator-we will show that he is entirely
consistent with himself in the part which he now
takes against his country's war. He now stands
just where he stood in 1914 and 1894. The follow
ing extracts will show this:
q" see evidence he said)I "He would not vote the
ofany inenton to defend means defence the enc
frontiers. ! have assu1my bettering down the
rance this army will be apwals Of the Capito[ Dan
Piled to any such purpose lei Webster in 1884 when tho
cannot lend my support actoounty threatened with
over sgain the scenes Of theIa with France.
tvolast campaigns. am all "It voted for by
ready satisfied with the exhany body the President made
brfon. IL without any vote at ALL"
"hl the evils which affct And that leads TO say
the country imputed othat this war In its origin Il
the opposition II 10 said toa presidential But the
De owing to the opposition constitution declares thai
that has been prosecuted alone shall have the
with better This power Of declaring war;
SRI strain II the beg to know where when
constant tune OF every weak how they declared II
or wreched administration. The first hear Of II ir