The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1846-03-14
Correspondence ofthc Boston Atlas.
Matters and Things at WASH
in q t on.
WAsHINGroN, March ,, la

The Onion" with It's characteristic effrOn-
terry and rccklessness, now that It's Party and
President are safely ensConced in power, be
means of the most fragrant and uneXampled
corruptions at the ballot box, and lIy system
of the viest duplicity and fraud, begins 10
unmask the real purposes gifts overseers, by
telling the country that they came into Office
with pledge to destroy the existing Tariff.
Dares the Onion" reprint, in It's columns, the
language of the whole Pennsylvania Press,
during the last canvass, upon whose every
banner was hung out the Tariff Of lSl2?-
Dares it rcpublish the language Of the New
York Press every where out of the City, up
on the same issue? No; it neither has the
honesty nor the moral courage, to stand the
test ofsuch an ordeal. The Union knows,
as we'll us can tell it, that these great States,
which swayed the Presidential election, were
carried by the mmttigatcd fraud contained
in the Kane letter, which was concocted to
cheat the Taritfiltcrcsts into the support of
the Loco Foco ticket, by stamping the inn
preston that MIR Polk was the friend of the
Protective policy. The Union knows, that
when Mr. Polk was called upon, by the Car
lyle meeting, and others, TO respond, specifi-
cally, as to the Tariff ofIS42, he lodged the
issue, with his accustomed trickcry, and
would moi dy,s,cer. The Union knows that
Mr. Buchanan, Mr. McCaudlcss, and different
prominent representatives of the high T'n7F
policy, went before the people in Pennsylya-
ma upon the authority an they stated, Of the
present Executive and pledged him to be
better Tariffmun than Henry Clay. The I'M
ion knows that Mr. Marcy and his compatri-
OTIS peregrinated the State of New York,
preaching the same doctrine, and that, upon
every occasion, the Kane Letter was held
up in vindication of Mr. Polk, as the Tariff
candidate. The Union knows that ono ofthe
largest iron furnaces in the United States was
erected i'll honor of the victory, and immor-
taliZed with the subriquet of the Poik Fur
nance; one, by the way,whch its owners will
be apt 10 re-christen before the probationary
term ofthis to-be-short-lived Administration
has expired. And yet, in the face of these
glaring facts, it has the assurance to stand be-
fore the American people and proclaim that
the destruction of the Tariffwas the universal
and cardinal principle ofits mongrel party
Ofcourse, Buchanan, Marcy and Bancroft,
who are now enjoying the rewards of their
treachery, in cheating the people of their
dearest rights, will complacently succumb to
these insults from the Presidents paper; be-
cause they prefer place to principle. They
will hold on till driven out by the Free trade
clique, which has already attained the ascen-
dancy: and, when discarded by this admins
uation, iftheir servility to Sir Robert Walker
will not procure for them the compassion of
retention, they will seek the skirts of some
other British T'0i0te, with whom they will
hope TO play the same game, and thus seek
to power.
The Union affects to treat with levity the
charge of a British coalition to PROSTATE the
Tariff, so as to gain compromise upon Ore
gon and yet Mr. Richie, labors with remark
able zeal and ingenuity, for one who disbe-
lieves what he is aiming to subvert. All the
contortons and qubbling of the Presidents
paper will not save the administration from
the odium which it so justly deserves, for this
disgraceful alliance. 1t is too clearly estab-
lished to be mistaken; and no subterfuge can
avert the doom which it is destined to receive
from the judgment ola candid and indig- |
nant public opinion. While one set of ennis
saries was distributed through the Tariff |
States, to pledge Mr. Polk as the protective
policy candidate, another, as am led to be-
lieve, was despatched to England, to negoti-
ate with the Free Trade League, f6r assis-
lance in the canvass of 1874. Through the
ofthe first, New York aud
Pennsylvania were defrauded of their votes;
and through the British gold of the latter,and