The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-02-27

/ ck.rg. s constitutional duty TO Congress and the
country in relation to this tariff. The democratic
marty in Congress, giving place in the first instance
10 the necessary action the Oregon controversy,
has been waiting patiently for the day when the Who'll.
tariff question should be regularly laid before 1t
The principles upon which that question shall be set
lied when it comes up, not doubtful. They form
a leading article in the democratic creed. They
are defined in the Baltimore resolutions. They are
in substance reiterated and enforced in the message
and in the treasury report They are quite indie
pendent Of the action of England. They are, m
the judgment of the democracy, true and self-sus
tanned in themselves. They to be carried out
prudently, irmly, ehectuaIly. So to carry them
out, the present democratic Congress was sent to
Washington by the people. All This is known, just
state it, to every wing journal IN the country,
And yet, mark the result. Because the democrats
will not apostatize from their old doctrinesbecause
they will not falsfy their pledges as public men
because, being elected democrats to vote down
the tariff of ls42, they now propose TO continue
democratic in so voting il down--ihey are charged
by all the wing press ,0h trucking 10 England and
buying Oregon by the sacrifice Of .anlaiean industry!
and this charge is made because the democratic par
ty cannot see the justice or wisdom Of a law which
makes q square yard Of cotton cloth, which costs
Ave cents in Manchester, to be valued here at TWEEN.
ty cents, and then taxed thirty per cent. on that
value before the poor man can have 1t made into
clothing
This Is Just the case The democracy have come
together in Congress to modify the tariff, because
the tariff is unjust, unwise, unpopular, and anti
democratic. Events have just transPlred which
make the modification Of the tariff measure OF peace
These events have come opportunity. Providence,
in visiting great nation with calamity, has given
to another a new motive to just legislation, and
new power which may be welded to extend ana
strengthen the commercial relations of the two
countries, and so, by act Of justice to ourselves
to preserve the peace Of the world
And now the sefstyled peace party by eminenee
the party whose journals in their trucking for the
sake Of peace have been willing to forget PATRIOTISM
and pervert truth, and make "the worse appear the
better reason"-whose journals have exhausted
every resource of vituPeraon against the admins
traton because the administration would not give
up American soil to England, nor permit foreign
power to control the possession Of that soil-this
party forsooth is now, in those same journals, get
ting up clsmor against the administration, because
il, tariff policy hn ms Oui 10 be the policy Of peace
To rouse the ire OF the wing press, is not enough
that the present tariff has long been foredoomed be-
cause of its injustice and oppresson--it Is not
enough that the democratic party have long since
protested against il, and resolved that il must not
stand More is wanted TO whet the edge Of wing hos
tlty The wing journals cannot rest till they throw
in the face of the administration the fact that Its tariff
policy will prevent war if war can be prevented.
To prevent war, these journals will get up any day
a Fl of the horrors in view of British armaments-
they will crnge and shake as with sgue, and speak
for American rights in "bondsman's key, with
ba,ed breath and whispering utterance." But
when the question is, shall we do great right TO
the agricultural masses of our own country, now
taxed by an unjust law, and by so doing preserve
peace with England, by interlacing the commercial
interests Of the two countries-when that is the
question: then the wings become ferocious haters of
England, all Of sudden, and will have il that we
truckle to England in doing what we pledged our
selves TO do before our controversy with England
arose This is faction run mad Ii begins Its
charge by turning probability out of doors, and ends
it by throwing possibility out Of the window.