The Somerset herald and farmers' and mechanics' register. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 183?-1852, 1846-03-24

iSSs HiSuoidDie buuSSicOI lC4t., HouSH
pierced and torn IN many a stubborn con-
! flict, that sold flag has never been low
cred or surrendered, and shall wave over
our heads to the latest moment of our POI
litical existence
Resolved, That the Wings of Peunsyl-
vania solemnly re-iterate the expression
of their unwavering devotion TO the Tar
iff of lS42!--a Whig measurable re-
suit of Whig policy-passed by Wing
Congress-and which has covered the
country with blessings and benefits; and
we most earnestly invite and adjure eve
ry true hearted Pennsylvania, of what
ever party name, to unite with us in en-
deavoring to rescue it from the disastrous
overthrow with which it is now menaced
| BY the National administration.
! Resolved, That we denounce the anti
protection and free trade doctrines pro-
claimed by the President of the United
States in his annual message to Congress;
re-affirmed by the Secretary of the Trea-
sury in his Treasury report; embodied in
in the Bill to reduce the Revenue submit
ed under the favoring auspices of the
| President, to the Committee of Ways
and Means, of the House af representa-
tives of the United States; and endorsed
as good by the deliberate sanction Of the
Locofoco party, through its delegates in
Convention on the 4th Of March instant.
as false in theory, unfounded in principle,
| repudiated by experience, and as fatally
subversiye Of every vital and cherished
interest of Pennsylvania; which will par
alyse the arm of industry, arrest enter
prize midway in its career, close the shop
of the artizan and mechanic, cause the
products Of agriculture to rot in the fields,
and open golden harvest to the shavers
and spectators, and corrupt and venal
tools of power, enriched by speculation
and rioting in the ''spoils'' Of Office.
| Resolved, That in view of the doc
trines and policy OF the dominant party
as at present developed, as contrasted
with their feigned professions in favor of
protection and the Tariff of 1912, during
the late Presidential contest, we ask the
people of Pennsylvania whether they
can still resist the conviction that they
were then most grossly and wickedly de-
ceived and deluded; and kindly, respect
fully, but earnestly appeal to them to be
| deceived no longer, nor any further TO
confde in the selfish and corrupt leaders,
who have lnred them on to the virge Of
| ruin.
Resolved, That the unqualified praise
and unconditional approval of the course
of policy pursued by the President and
the Governor of this Commonwealth, ex-
pressed by the Democratic Convention
in their resolutions, as published TO the
world, whilst the frstis striving energetj-
caily to destroy the profectiue system,
and the second cordially seconds The en-
deauor, replaces that party in the posi-
ton it always occupied before it was
found necessary to deceive Pennsylvania
into the support of James X. Polk-that
of the bitter, determined, aud unrelenting
enemies of the protection of American Ia
Dor against foreign pauper competition.
Resolved, That the members of
the Convention do most solemnly pro-
test, and warn their fellow-citizens a.
gainst the destructive policy of the Ma
tional Administration, by which it is pro-
posed that the immense mineral wealth,
and the millions of investments in the
manufactures Of the country, shall be sac
rifced to a modification of the Corn Laws
of Great Britain, when it is known that
Great Britain must have provisions from
abroad. or her people must starYe athome
and that the Government of that coun-
try will be compelled to take provisions
from the. United States, without any con-
ditions of reduction of the Tariff of
1912. This attempt to beguile the peo-
pie with pretended reciprocity of trade,
is of the same character with the decep-
tive course that poclaimed the successful
Presidential condidate( during the late can
vass, a 'better friend of the Tariff than
his illustrious opponent. The success
that was built on falsehood, is to be sus-
tanned by deception.
Resolved, That in the name of the peo-
pie of Pennsylvania, burthened as they
are with taxes that will scarcely admit of
any further augmentation, and bowed
down beneath the load Of an enormous
debt, contracted in the construction Of
works Of National utility, we claim our
just share of the proceeds arising from
the sale OF the Public Lands, held in trust
for the several States by the United States;
and that it is one of the doctrines of the
Wing party, now re-affirmed as earnest
ly as it is denied by our opponents, that
such distribution, on the Federal or some
other fair and just ratio, should be made
without delay: Therefore.
Resolved That we accept the issue
made by our opponents, of hopeless IN
definite, remidyless taxation, with a still
further increase Of the burthen, on the
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