The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-07-21
MORE OF THE PANIC.


more and more desperate and audaeious. That
journal is now, as il conscious Of the mpotency Of
its efforts TO make out any case Of real panic against
the new tariff bill, attempting wholly TO change rs
ground and most absurdly charging the administra-
lion with an attempt to break down the "right OF
uetition" Defeated and exposed in its attempts to
oct up fraud panic, that journal now thrusts for
ward the "right of petition" as a shield to protect
its effort at deception against due chastisement But
the trick is too transparent Il is the old resort Of
the rogue detected in his cheat, and looking about
him for a scapegoat.
Our own views on this matter Of the "right Of pc
tition" may be frankly stated in few words. We
hold il to be indispuable and undisputed, save by
the yeriest madness Of faction that the people Of
these United States have, after full trial and hearing
pronounced Judgment against the tariff of 1912, in
lis principles and in its details; and that they have
sent their representatives up to the present Congress
10 execute, in due form, upon that iniquitous law,
forced upon the country under protest. and in the
measure Of an irresistible emergency, this their
SOLEMN ,sntsncs of condemnation. This is the
fact Of the case. II is proved by the presiden.
ta canvass, by the presidential election, by the SOL
,mn pledges of the democratic party at Baltimore,
nv the protests of that party against the law OF
lslo. when il passed, and by the recent vote Of
.;0htsen States, as represented in the popular
House.
Now. il il does SO happen Notwithstanding all
this that in particular sections Of our country the
mas, of the people are benefited, or even il they
srroneousy think themselves to be benefited by
o,r,sip unjust and UNEQUAL protective provisions
Of this same condemned tarifr-then we say,
Let the masses of the people in such sections
Of the country be heard through their Pc
ttons or through their representatives; and
,,t IN. great democratic party, in ODE
dienee TO its principles of equal Justice to
an men and all sections, give due considera.
,on n everything that NAV be thus alleged. This,
n, w. bel;sv. has been done-so far as such a
thing can be doue-by the new tariff bill which we
bav. already shown to be a compromise between
the friends of protection and the friends of free
trade.
We put our view of this matter distinctly before
the senator from Connecticut, who has chosen to
spesk of u,-impliedly at least--as under southern
influences. We say in reply that we are under
democratic influences: that we are laboring for the
harmony and union of the phole democratic party
We bslev. that the present tariff bill with its thirty
per cent duties in favor of American manufactures,
is ;u,, ba,i, of such harmony and union.
We ask the senator from Connecticut, stern repub.
c,n as he claim, to be. to DENY, if he can that the
tariff If 1910 i. an uuius, and UNEQUAL law to DENY
If he can that il is grossly partial to particular in
,srests and n favored sections of comparatively
limited manhattan; to deny. if he can, that il pam.
rers grea, ,cornorations of capita at the expense
n. snoroo,. .xnen.e If a free and en,erprisng
neone filing mn the erandest agricultural region in
the world. We charge that the senator cannot deny
this. ,h., his sneecb hardly pttsmpts to DENY it
and the, ,ve ,sk hin, how he can reconcile. and
h.,h.r b. evor 70 reco,c;le his defiance O,
81 ,,,;,h H., a,,.rn don,oor,c,,, which hs
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have vat to learn the sense and the spirit oil
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u'i'oe'"ey' VIC "o'u VIC. '"' ''i"' d''''o" 'F
now the great democratic question OF the day so we
have treated it, and so we shall continue to treat it,
Ru re,,rn "a the ,sborsd article of the Intell;.
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to sustain the whole right Of the people to be heard
through their pe,ition and their remonstrance But
-. a. e . h,,aaa I'D oroani1.d
We SUI" '"s s'u'o' " :" o"",''' ""N -.
and pampered clique not the less, put the more
"neh IL attemPls 10 pass isei OH ior inc 'hs"'y
,o''e Oh 'ne people, we nav' SEEN u ".e Sea''
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"o's" VIC eo'u"'"s " 9a,n'an P'eS'' VIC A'o"
o'"y ''' nan" s.r' VI '''e popua
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