The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1847-07-10

"iu giving W |dIiouS OtIlcT iNlcTeSlS tnelI
portion in due season, he turned to the
friends of protection for domestic industry
in the East, and told them, with due empha-
ss OF italics and capitals, ''Let it be known
and proclaimed as certain truth, and as a
result which can nerer hereafter be changed
or recalled, that upon the refusal of re-an-
nexaliOn, now, and in all time TO come,
THE TARIFF, AS A PRACTICAL MEASURE,
FALLS WHOLLY AND FOREVER, and we
shall hereafter be compelled to resort to d.
rect taxes to support the government. -
Be not incredulous. gentle reader This is
the selCsame Mr.. Robert J. Walker, now
Secretary of the Treasury, whose bill for
the repeal Of the tariff passed the House OF
Representatives OH the third day of July
instant, and and in the week of this pres
ent writing will be carried through the Sen
ate by those two Texan votes which he was
So eloquent with the cotton manufacturers
to give hun in order that the tariff might
be saved. How strange that the wise
should ever he caught in their own cralii-
ness,
What effect this friendly suggestion had
in winning over opposition. is not 10 be
known. Motives are by no means always
evident, even to the party moved Certain
it is, however, that Mr.. Walker did not
reckon altogether without his host, when he
considered that there are those in the Wing
party with whom the Tariff is the cardinal
point OF the party creed; and if by surren-
dering every high principle of public ac-
ton, and writing themselves recreant 10
what had made them objects of confidence
as public men, they expected TO buy the
forbearance Of the South, and If, after all,
they found themselves deceived, it was no
fault of Mr.. Walkers that they miscalcu-
lated and were disappointed, after all the
experience Of the past. And certain il is,
al all events, that in the summer and au-
tunn Of 1915, an unexpected state OF SEN
timent was manifested, even in some high
quarters in Massachusetts. The people of
the Commonwealth felt more I'M ured and
more determined The leaders i'm part Of
il WINGED
For the frs; TIME, in the following win.
ter, there was detection in a portion of
the Wing party in the General Court Mr.
Wilson. the s,eadfas, and true hearted mem
Der from Natick in the House, introduced a
Resolve, covering more ground than that
Of any previous legislative action, and
frankly expressive of the sense Of the towns
Of Massachusetts respecting the s;erner at
titude which the abuses of the times re-
quired. 1t passed the House in the follow
ing words, THAT Massachusetts distinctly
and solemnly announces to the country her
uncompromising opposition to the further
extension Of American slavery; that she
hereby deliberately declares her earnest and
unalterable purpose I'd Use every lawful and
constitutional measure for its overthrow and
entire extinction; and she hereby pledges
her cordial cooperation 10 the friends of
civil liberty throughout the Union, in every
ust and practical measure that shall tend
10 free our country from the dominion,
curse, and shame OF slavery, and make her
great and glorious among the nations
The vote for the Resolve was 147 10 50.
There was about the latter number of Dem
ocrats in the House
In the Senate. the addition made by Mr..
Presiden, Calhoun To the Committee TO
whom the Resolve was referred, gave ii in
10 HANDS which ght have been expected
to sirangle it. Their report, not meeting
the isSue, but representing that the resist
ance Of Massachusetts, had already been
sufficiently pro,racted, was adverse to the
Resolve. The report was accepted, in the
Senate, by vote Of 20 TO l6 Of the Suf-
folk Senators, only two stood for the re-
solve So Ear as may be gathered from
that indication, there would he some plallsi-
bility i'm the assertion tina, the Resolve does
not express the sense of Boston. But it
does stand, and i, will stand. nevertheless,
as the sense of Massachusetts,. William
Pinckney said, nearly sixty years ago, that
if slavery should survive fifty years, it would
work decay Of The spirit of liberty in
the Free States. But the prophesied toe
gloomily. The capital may cover; but
Massachusetts,, at least, has done, and will
do, her part to eiscredit the prediction.