The Somerset herald and farmers' and mechanics' register. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 183?-1852, 1847-03-16

Ste oHt-ulal power monarchy III fact,
and, if not checked and Febnked by the
people, will SOM be monarchy in FORM
as well as in FACT. But. sir. the dav is
now dawning in the East. The clouds
and darkness that ~overshadow rs are fast
disappearing. The decree has gone forth.
The time is at hand when the people vii
redeem themselves from the doings and
the doctrines of this destructive Democra-
cy.
Sir. | here venture TO say, that if Jas.
K. Polk, when he came into power, had
set himself down, in the Cabinet council,
to devise a system of measures to des-
troy, first, his country, and next, his par
ty, he could not have contrived a system
better calculated to achieve the object than
the one he has adopted aud carried cut.
As to its. effect upon the party. look at
the scenes of this morning-look at the
scenes that daily surround us-the divi-
%sions, dissentions, quarfels, and fights,
that are daily occurring on this floor, be-
tween the belligerent divisions and regi-
ments OF the harmonious Democracy"
Ask the Democrats from Pennsylvania.
New York. and Ohio. what turned them
ont last fall, and they will tell you, and
Tell YOU truly, ..it was Polk and his poll
cy'' that done it. AS 10 is effect upon
the country, look at It's condition when
he came into power, and look at it now.
Who could have believed that such a
change could have been effected in so
short a time! Then the country was in
the enjoyment of peace and prosperity,
already both are destroyed. Then the
national industry was protected and pros
porous, and the revenue abundant Under
the tariff OF ~; now our national indus
try and our revenue have been both put
down together BY the infamous British
tariff of '46. True, sir. Providence has,
to some extent, counteraeted the desirue-
tive effects of the Polk policy, by visiting
with a famine, a failure Of the potato crop
in Ireland, and OF the wheat crop tlrogh-
out Europe, while we have been blessed
with an un1sual, a s-uperahundant crep,
TO supply this deficiency. This has great
~ increased our imports, and sustained,
to some extent, the revenue; but this will
be temporary. Yet, notwithstanding all
these favorable circumstances, look at n
great and undeniable fact when Mr.. Polk
came in to power the Estates stock stood
S1I6 for SI00; now it is down to sos
This fact speaks volumes as to the disas-
trous effects OF his policy on the public
credit, at home and abroad. Polk found
the country with a sound currency. now
we have the Subtreasury and Treasury
note bills. The one says we viii TAKE
nothing but SPECIE, the others we will
PAY nothing butpAPER. Treasury notes
are in fact the paper issues of a suspend
ed non-specie paying bank. 1t is ma
tionai bank without specie in its vaults
it is this, and nothing else.
The Subtreasury and Treasury notes
are insepara6ie: they have always come
and went together. They calne in with
Van Buren,, and they went out with Van
Buren,. They have come in with Polk
and they will 90 out with Polk. It is a
coaIrivance to get money after the Trea-
sury is exhausted, 10 feed and la!ten Afc
hundreds and thousands Of hungry parti-
zans with offices and salaries, good con-
tracts and Jobs, at the expense of the hon
est, hard working, and tax-paying far
mers and laborers Of the country; and, TO
cover their extravaganza, they get up a
war, no meter with whom, what for, or
how. Van Buren, made a war something
like the present in It's origin and objects,
to rob a few Indians in Florida Of their
land, because they would not sell it Al his
price; bat this war has cost the people
more than forty millions Of dollars, and
we are now supporting these Indians be-
You'd the Mississippi, at an expense of
nearly a million a year. Well, Mr.POlk.
following in the footsteps OF his illastrious
predecessor, has made war upon Mexico,
with the same object in view, TO acquire
territory and give Fat jobs, contracts, and
offices to his partizens, at the expense of
the people; bat when, where, and how,
the Polk war is to end, God only knows.
What ii is to the nation is being involved
in debt at the rate of forty or fifty mil
lions a year, without a~ny--measnre Of rev
enue proposed 10 discharge the debt, or
even to pay the interest. Why not meet
the crisis you have created like msn2-
Why shrink and skulk from the response
bi!lty? Two months after the dcclara-
ton of the war with Great Bfiiaia, Con-
ggess promptly, and without hesitation
passed an act to double the duties on for
eign goods, and imposed shortly AFTER
wards internal duties to meet the expen-
SEES Of the war; but now nothing can be
dene but pass enormous appropriation
bills. issue Treasury notes, and divide the
proceeds among greedy partizans, who
stand with open mouths TO seize the bread
and homes distributed at the White louise
The Democratic plan seems 10 be 10 pass
LII 10 tho n1n7nV. ans