The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-07-19


months are compared with the corresponding SIX months
last year. and the year previous under the old tariff
The great argument made use of by the wings when
the present arm lazy was undergoing discussion IN Con
sress was .ha The principle adopted by Secretary Walker
end, and the consumer, but would certainly increase The
revenue was ialacious For this he scoiied, booted
piles of political economy and the estimates OF receipts
which he based upon his own statement and plans were
do these wing gentlemen sayl They find that his
every prediction is fulfilled to the letter. with almost pro
phetc accuracy The consumer buys goods cheaper than
ever before tie manufacturers, who, under high tariff
Would nays been broken down BY COMPOSITION are more
not making dividends OF 20 per per their
a a1 Of Rs s
than ever before and actually exceeds the estimate made
ector Lawrence, Clearly pIoves The returns al ,h po
for the first six months of 1896 under the old tariff and 1si7
ana 1915, under the new, are as folowsi
ssoS4ssos sss , ,sas,sl4 sal ' 'os7,sss
showing an excess in 1917 1916 OF than eight
mlloIS Oh dollars, and continued excess in 1913 over
1877 OF more than three millions of dollars
The amount OF duties received during the same periods
ss,4ai.osl ss.sao,2ss $40. iis,sss
This, under the much denounced tariff 1885, which
@Hss are and y a 1sk s~ ae1'
ana - some OF our leading manufactures such as WOOL
ges &c clear protective duty OF 40 to 50 per cent
What other Interest in the country does the general gov
the aborer, receive Whatever and yet the Express
and other kindred prints would break down. The Ex
idea of seven millions of gold having been exported during
the last SIX months to for these excessive imports
imported in 1877 But the export of specie has
ceased, The steamer Britannia took away about seven
thousand dollars, and the Sarah Sands none at all
The Mexican war has closed the manufactures es
tabisled upon firm basis the gets his goods
cheaper than the constantly increases there
are twenty millions specie in the country than there
was four ago. and the tokens of prosperity
elected % Change all this That question about Which
The Judgment Of the people is now appealed TO- They
sway that Judgment, but, from the facts and evidence
placed before them, will render honest verdict.
Such are the relations which the two parties with
their respective champions, maintain towards each
other-the one, openly avowing their principles and their
measures; the other attempting to humbug the country
concealng their real designs under military mask but
determined to carry them out, in they have wing
President and Congress to back them.
There is another remarkable point of view in which
these parties may be compared together The southern
democrats never designed to southern man as their
President. Every candidate who brought forward
in the press, or IN the convention, from the north
the west-from nonslaveholdng State. Not such has
been the decision OF the wings. They have selected
man from the south to carry their flag but to propitiae
the northern voc he has forward to declare that
he will be nose of in their hands-that he will
yield to the action of Congress- and throw away his veto
power, evenif they attempt to fasten the Wilmot Pro-
viso upon all the Territories The south had diff
erent feeling upon the matter They thought was due
to the other sections of the Union yield them the pres
dency and all they asked was that the Baltimore Con-
vention should readopt the platform OF faith which
had been framed in 1910, and sanctioned again in 1874
1t is idle for insdous wings suspect the south
Of sincerity in her support of Gen. Cass No such idea
entered into the head of southern democrat We
it to pledges to principles to our nominees,
to stand by them We it also to the northern demo-
Gratis to support them with all energies Most of them
have stood by the south They have sked much for her
1t owing to their sympathies that the compromises of
the constitution have been protected against the outrages
OF the aboonss, and the south shielded from that pesf
We the present insidous designs of the
northern wings. They would have the south abandon
Cass and vote for Taylor under the hope of sowing dis
affection between the northern and southern democrats
and thus breaking up our party. They will be disap-
pointed The south will prove herself true her north
and western friends Most of the northern democrats
will be found true to the spirit of compromise in which
the constitution was framed.
The northern wings with few honorable excep-
tons) and the barnburners of New York are attempting
10 de1eat all immaculate ana amcdble adjustment of the
agitating question before Congress II vain does
this fearful question threaten to excite and conyulse
the Union. In vain bold and manly spirits
coming forward to seal up this fountain of bitter
waters and give peace to our country. These barn
burners will not have it So They are devoted to
their chaed and disappointed leader; and in their
anxiety to defeat both Cass and Taylor and TO graf
ify the passions of Martin Van Buren,, they are de-
termned TO keep up the agitation. They even bra
wing the friends of compromise; and they have already
printed and circulated memorial to Congress to force
repeal of the compromise present Congress should
in their wisdom, adopt it. .tsf
No press is active in keeping up the agitation at
the hazard of shaking this Union to the CENTRE than the
New York Evening Post, which was an abolitionist in
lS35whose editor signed the secret circular in 1876
and who, in late paper, has put forth violent
and denuncatory article headed Repeal! Repeai II
denounces the authors and the friends of the present
compromise proposition. 1t speaks of the committee of
eight with suspicion and contempt 1t is indecent and
nsolent enough to say that the committee will
recommend compromise, of course, and there will
be found from the north sufficient number of venal or
cowadly members to carry it through the Senate The
south will support it in solid phaanx-deserters from
the north will give it majority. A recommendation
from such committee will be object of scon to the
freemen OF the north They will regard it as the gallant
soldiers of the American revolution would have regarded
treatv Matched III, hotxuaon tho Rrt;sb orJ