The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-11-18
MR.. DALLAS'S LETTER AND THE
"NORTH AMERICAN"

"NORTH AMERICAN"
We have oflate seen some passages in the "North
American" apparently intended to be very severe
upon ourselves. When that journal shall have
piled up hard words enough against to make
respectable annoyance, we may take such notice Of
its efforts they deserve. In the meantime,
we give, before we forget it, passing comment
upon the feeble but furious attack of the "North
American" of the I'd instant, against Vice Pres
dent Dallas, on the occasion Of his letter to the
Pennsylvania Washington county committee, in
answer to one from them cordially approving his
casting vote on the "tariff Of 1886" We feel, GER
ainly in the present instance, contempt rather than
indignation at the wild denunciaton, both in man.
ner and matter, ofan eminent and virtuous public
servant. The North American has shaken its
truncheon at this mastery letter of Mr.. Dallas
with all the solemnity of Hamlet's father; yet,
unlike his plying son, says he would have
no mercy upon his father, were he as full of
sin and all manner Of wickedness, doubt
less he deems Mr.. Dallas. Worthy this of Ro.
man, as well as Of the tragic muse; though mo-
ment before, and with marvellous transition from
vely to severe" he had compared the style of the
Vice President to "the flowers tricked out in mil
liners bonnet-the same that he wore at Prince
ton" Was the editor Of the North Am erican
"about, or has he talked with those who were in
the land at the times he speaks Off If so, he would
have known that the young graduate he would
sneer at was then on his only "green cloth" at
"Nassau Hail." not as "coronetied knight" but
wearing the laurel crown of the "frst honor" Of
his class, the day he left it. The faculty OF
Princeton college awarded this distinction to Mr.
Dallas when YOUTH for his industry, acquire
ments, and good conduct; and, for like virtues,
increased and matured by time, "the faculty" of
the democratic party-that is, the majority of the
people of the United States, gave him in 1914 the
SECOND HONOR Of his country. The enemy "wrote
a book" when he started his vituperation with "Mr.
Dallas at Princeton" The "style" of the Vice
President, further says the North American, sis as
smooth as desert, and round as the head of an
IDIOT" The offending "style" is further character
lied s@t s....-
"As marble polished (rightl and as marble hard"
(For Feds to ansoer. we will grant the bsrd)
"Dsclaiming," as the editor says, "for the twen-
teth (D time, all personal reflection" he opines and
declares that the Vice President "won the vote of
his State by trsachery and it with the smile of
successful guilt" Genius of Temperance forgive the
rabid North American; and shades Of the departed
"Ticklers' and Balances" if not now earth,
"smie" to see him wear your editorial mantle SO
fitting and so we'll We triAe over, as the best way
of treating it, such very respectable twaddling, and
proceed to notice what the editor calls the Vice
Presidents successful guilt" in the matters of the
tariff, and his wickedness about the United States
Bank.
Mr. Dallas says, in his letter, that 1.-THE people have
now called for reduction Of the duties on imports
to the measure of revenue wants" "Who called
for III" says the editor, in pous amazement.
"When, where, and howi" he quickly adds, in
surprise nigh unto political rage. "Why,"
continues he, Mr.. Webster addressed Mr..
Dallas in the Senate, upon the singular fact
that no living ~ being of the millions they (he
and Mr.. D. represented, had asked for the meas
ure." No "living beng!" the editor and Mr.. Web
ster ("Moses and the Vicar''--of course not the
"Vicar of Bray" and of course not referring to the
"Vicar's" speech against protection" at Faneuil
Hall, Oct. Sd, 1890, and republished in this paper
on the 18th inst.,) when they wrote or spoke this,
must have forgotten the Baltimore democratic conven-
ton in the spring of ~, which represented, as was
soon after proved the small item Of than eight
and half millions of these "livng beings" and
what so often battles the skill Of wise wing doc
tors--a majority of the people of these United
States. The representatives of the same number Of
Giving beings" in that convention, CALLED ron,
promised, and pledged a reduction Of the tariff Of
IA to revenue standard. They doubted not the
fidelity of those they nominated; and when their
party triumphed neither its members its constit
uents pettioned, much less howled in panic in the
of their representatives in Congress, the well
known pledge. II was, by the casting vote Of Mr..
Dallas, resolutely redeemed Mr.. Webster, who
represented less than eight hundred thousand Of
"ving beings" in his antinew-tariff State, voting
against it, and Mr. Dallas, mindful Of his promise
to the Baltimore convention, and representing
more than eight and a half millions of those
same "living beings" in his new tariff eots,-
iry, "csed" into existence the tariff Of 1896
But this vote, says the editor, twas won by the
treason of the Vice President, (severc, this) or by