The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-10-21

American objects and it, securing these objects, gooi
is reflected abroad, much the better. hold to no mar
row, bgoted definition of patriotism which would make
me lament that while am buying goods cheaper abroad
am paying for them the corn, and -four and pork OF
| Ohio, Indiana, or Illinois, which keeps millions upon
millions OF poor lrishmen out of the grave.
All this notion which is attempted to be made popular
by giving It a fine sounding name and calling IT .prpec
tried out and out by the British government They have
protected their labor by high duties against being
by Seap sGGdi which bn our % ZEN ,s
thank them for H. for like cheap goods better than dear
goods The aristocracy of Great Britain, who invented
this doctrine which arstocracy have copied because
the British astocracy have made the people Tor many
years believe that they really protected by the sys
tenn OF restrictions by shutting out the cheap products OF
other nations cheap bread well other hings) have
protected them until they have protected" them to the
very brink of starvation, and to the yerygnve They
have protected their labor, by compelling Them to labor
very hard for very small amount That is the way, and
il the only way the system OF restriction ever protected
| any man.
Nov, what is the tariff against which whig friends
talking again' say "agan," because little while
il seemed that that issue abandoned The wing
party boast that it the to-day that always was
that it has undergone change In August 1884, there
was an assembly in this very city of Salem, constituted
of the whole force of the wing party. They came from
other quarters well this city and in various ways,
by speeches. resolutions, and songs, they manifested the
principles of the wing party at that moment. say sat
that moment, because sometimes the wing party makes
very sudden changes. Them on that day OF August.
1884, the predominant idea expressed IN these words
"F up your bumpers, then drink to those noblemen,
Clay, Calhoun, Preston, Pondexler, the friends OF good
order" That the chorus of one of the good wing
songs, sung by the whole wing audience that
Now ask you for moment to see what could have
of tme in August 1884 Do they, then, profess 10 go
for the tAmercan SYSTEM, high protective tariff "
Clay had just plunged dagger into the heart of the
gress his horizontal tariff BILL cutting down all duties to
30 per cent. The high tariff, them not that which
caused their grateful reco of Henry Clay. Pres
af opllS
remembeed and Preston had just before said tSOuth
Carolina will be laid waste with blood and fire before
she will submit to that accused bill meaning the tariff
bill "The corpse OF many traitor shall backen un
buried upon her soil before she will submit Was 1t
that they DESTROYS to re establish the United States
Bank to restore the paper SYSTEM and prevent the pas
sage Of the treasury bill Mr. Calhoun just as
much hard-money man then as now. The Hon. John
Quincy Adams the leader of the delegation OF the State
OF Massachusetts in Congress- and the Hon. Stephen C.
Phillips then representing this district in Congress, had
Just voted for the sub treasury SYSTEM on motion OF Mr.
Gordon of Virginia. Poindexter the nqlliher Calhoun
the nulier and Clay, who had just abandoned the Amer
lean system to its fate and who touched for sew
en- years from that day, had formed coalition; and that
was the wing policy of Salem in 1884
tons back, and forgetting. all this, for one OF the
first qualifications of wing is shorness OF political
memory imagine and please themselves with the i 1
1884, and where il has stood ever since AS these gen
emen 1884 did not intend TO carry out any of their
old principles, what the bond OF union then, and
what was their war cry' 1t was, "down with mill
ary cheftan y general attack upon the admin
isration of Andrew Jackson and the raylng cry was
" danger TO liberty from the power OF a military man:
Why, you gentlemen there was nothing else lett
have gone over the whole list OF whg principles, and
there not one Of them left excepting that one rally
ing cry and what has become OF that?
That the state OF things In 1884 but very soon
the whg party returned to the principles it had formerly
ayowed and again attempted to carry them out LIS STU
again abandoned its principles at Phladep hia; but now
instead of crying out against mil tary cheftan, they
then did against man not bred in camps, but in civil
life by trade warrior, but warrior when the neces
sites of his country called him to the field, brought for
ward for his civil talents and services and because he
had done great military services alsothat cry dumb
and now instead of that, they bring forward without
precedent in your history, the history of any other
lion, mot known in civil life, but known mere
" for his military servicesa who never threw
vote in an election of the United States, although old
enough have voted for some thirty or forty years
Strong is the contrast with their professions then this
is their conduct now
Mr. Webster has Justly said that it is without prece
dent and without justification from anything IN our pre-
vous history" Harrison had seen some civil service
he had filled Offices of civil nature, governor OF
Territory, member of Congress, and minister abroad
His case, then, was not such case as that now pro-
posed 10 Washington was member OF Congress
when he was appointed commandern chief in the army
of the United States Washington distinguished
for his civil services for his military renown Wash
ington was not elected President of the United States
pEen commander chief, but long after he had re-
signed his military station and retired to the shade OF
private lie. Jackson was known to civil life from his
boynOO1 up lne[e is then DIS NI' WcUste nitS SAID,
no example, in the history of country, of such
lection OF candidate for the presidency by great po
cal party
But there is brought forward the Nestor of the old fed
eral party Harrison Gray OTIS to enghten upon this
subject He does not tilt against his friend Mr.
Webster by pretending that there is parallel case to be
found in American history; but he refers us, for prece
dents, to julius Caesar. Napoleon, Marlborough, and
Wellington, and believe these the only instances
from foreign history which any one has yet supposed TO
be at all parallel to that of General Taylor.
old hy distip0 aJ
Taylor has learned great national interests as julius
Caesar learned astronomy in the camp" Now, am not
going very largely into the history of julius Cesar but
this will say-that that remarkable man became known
first as statesman, before he was know a soldier
that he leading legislator, orator; that he
took up the military command and brought down the
whole weight of Gau TO crush the miserable arstocracy
of the city of Rome. Caesar began his public life as
politician, statesman, orator. He well known
in their public assemblies the best orator in the repub
lie excepting Cicero and greater statesman than Cicero
before he gained his military So much for that
examples which, instead of being parallel case, is as
opposite to this that of Washington or Jackson.
Napoleon is cited as parallel case But did not
Napoleon ever vote All his life long he poll
tician, and well known politician. He had written
upon political subjects pamphlets which now in ex
stence and had expressed decided opinions upon political
questions When he went into Italy, he was fact the
manager of all the French relations in that quarter long
before any dreamed of HIM as the executive head OF
Gil table which drew up that immortal code which bears
his he exhibited profound knowledge of civil
law any who held that board His case
them precisely parallel that of General Taylor
who, asked his opinion upon certain measures, re-
plies that he has not had time enough yet to examine the