The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-07-23
Berks county gave Mr.. Polk a majority of

The whole democratic majority Of the State OF
Pennsylvania was something over 5000 and 1t will
be SEEM therefore, that these counties sustain the
democracy Of the State. The town Of Norristown
was not in the coal or iron region. IL a manu-
featuring town, and owed much of its prosperity to
the large cotton manufactures which had sprung up
under our tariff laws, and which gave its neigh
borhood market for its agricultural products. In
1910 its population about 2, 500. IL now con-
tain= over 5000. Montgomery county gives a large
and decided democratic majority.
MIR. SEWER then said that he regretted to find
the senator from Pennsylvania engaged in panic
making;n but to do the senator justice, he Mr.. s
was bound to admit that he did il with pleasant
smile, as though it was all a 6rst-rate Joke A good
deal had been said about condolences; and this
tainly was something like coincidence in what was
going there. On the meeting of the Senate every
day. FIRST they had prayers by the chaplain then the
reading Of the journal, and next an hour and hall
consumed in the recital Of sort Of funeral dirge
from the pensioners Of Pennsylvania. He had sal
quietly and patiently whilst all that was going on.
because the senator himself appeared to think the
whole thing good Joke. Was there an intelligent
mNn in Pennsylyania who at the last presidential
election did not know perfectly well what were the
opinions Of Mr.. Polk in regard to the tariff Was
there a single individual who did not then know that
Mr.. Polk was ,r1e-trade mani
Mr.. ARCHER They thought him a better
tariff man thin Mr. ny, that is all. ....
MIR. Err proceeded, No State had been
position TO chartered privileges, yet they now
told that unless this high protective act of ls42
manned, they would be entirely ruined. Did Penn
syyania expect the States to pay her debts' No.
That not in accordance with their good old
democratic principle. He had heard 1t said that
under the operation of the act Of lS42 journeyman
blacksmith in Pennsylvania had become great manu-
fscturer and had now nine hundred laborers in his
employment How many would he have if left to
60 on at that rate for two or three years longer
Why, he would very soon have every man in the
State under his control. Pennsylvania had made
no complaints heretofore, He believed she never
had been, and never would be otherwise than demo-
cratic. He had only word to add. He thought
that the gentlemen on the other side had had ample
opportunities afforded them for the discussion OF
this question without interfering with the time de-
voted to the transaction of the morning business
They had the debate all to themselves; his frienda
had not as yet allowed themselves be coaxed into
1t, but had received the fire of their adversares with
out resistance. He hoped therefore, that the morn
iag hour would not be thus encroached upon. He
hoped these petitions would be hereafter laid on
the table, referred without any debate or long
speeches.
Mr.. BAGBY objected to the occupying Of the
morning hour in this way. He would insist on .
strict observance of the rules of order.
Mr.. CAMERON said that he always smiled when
his friend, the senator from Arkansas addressed the
Senate on this subject. His wit was SO irresistible
that Il excited his risble faculties no matter how
solemn the mood in which it found him. But he
could permit his friend to charge his State, or
her citizens, with being dependents or pens oners on
the government They were not like Arkansas or
other States that he could name, that, were con-
standy appealing to Congress for aid from the
public treasury, for whose benefit some twenty bills
were now files, asking for aid--and for
whose benefit we had been called upon only yester-
day, for ssme 10000, without even voucher, ex-
cept the assertion that the money had been drawn
for and expended. The senator from Arkansas, he
said also did him injustice in quoting his remarks
OF yesterday. He did not then say that single
person in Pennsylvania controlled nine hundred
workmen. The workmen of that State were not
controlled by their employers they were freemen,
and they could stand erect before their God without
beng controlled by any one. The senator from
Arkansas had in this much mistaken the character
OF these petitioners, when he compared them to the
slave labor of the SOUTH he did when he said that
"aborers were the same everywhere" The labor
crs OF Pennsylvania were white men; they were
freemen they were intelligent men; and they asked
no favors from the government but to be let alone
in the enjoyment Of their labor. The senator from
Arkansas had charged him (Mr. C. said) with act
ing on this question with the wing senator from
Massachusetts,. He admitted that on this question
they were together; but he would remind that hon
orabie senator Of what seemed 10 have escaped his
memory-that he and the honorable senator fron
Massachusetts, had stood shoulder to shoulder on a
question which was perhaps of still greater maeni-
which took from this country and gave to the Brit
ish nation several degrees Of latitude in the Oregon
country. He wished his friend to reconcile that
coalition before he charged other senators with act
ing in the company Of wings. He (Mr. C. said
was acting with the democracy Of his own State;
and he desired to learn no new democracy from
gentleman who compared his laboring fellow-eiti-
zens with the negro laborers Of the south.
Mr.. SEWER briefly replied. u... Bly,.
Mr.. CRTTTENDEN said he was whig so-call-
ed, bat democratic enough to allow the people TO
decide these great questions and to allow their voice
to be heard. He added few remarks, alleging de-
cePtion on the part of the democratic party in the
manner in which the question was put to the people
OF Pennsylvania before the last secton.
MIR. JARNAGIN made a few remarks, in the
course Of which he asked the senator from Arlsn-
sas il he understood the "Ksne letter" MS embody-
ing Mr.. Folks creed with regard 10 free-tradc'
Mr.. SEWER replied that he regarded that letter
a. the echo Of James K Folks political principles
on free-trade which he had consistently advocated
for years. $3.50 -, -...-F.
Mr. wESTOoTf made few remarks, and said
II the people Of Pennsylvania were so easily deceiv
ed as wss alleged in relation 10 Mr.. Polk's views