The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-10-15

in which he NAV show gratitude for services rendered
There is no way in which the veto can be abolished ana
the influence Of the President at The same lme
except by making of the presidency form ana giving
all real power England, to the adroit managers VINO
may succeed in obtaining control OF majority ~ Con
gress Such is the legitimate consequence OF THIS new
doctrine Is such the design OF those who advocate
But the speech which hold in my hand indicates that
the speaker is indignant that any one should have cues
toned the fact that the Taylor party have any
lie is very severe in his comments on those VINO con-
found principles with measuresdoes not attempt to ex-
plain why indication of tho principles and measures
supported by his party given TO the world by the au
thority of the Philadelphia Convention; but assumes
himself say what the party is or is not in favor oil
Let us be thankful Tor small avorswe way learn some
hing-and let take what we can get You may learn,
Them that the ewing party have deemed it wise, jul
dicons and promotive of the best interests of the peo
pe thathe natural barriers to the free nercommunca-
non along the great to the inter-
nal commerce and trade OF the couny-shoud be erad
Gated and removed by the general government Whether
this is measure or principle we are no' informed.
This is a mode doubt, OF announcing that the party
is in favor of what the Rough and Ready address calls
ga general system of internal Improvements Inc
democratic party advocate and have ever advocated the
right and proprety of Congress making all such improve
of national character as were necessary Tor me
defence of the country in war, or Tor the pronouon OF
its commerce in peace But they not ready 10 enter mo
this general system, by which the people Will te taxed
creek-erecting every brdge-and grading every hui
that the inhabitants of neighborhood might de- de,
sire. They are opposed TO H. because tney oan h'u
undertake and carry out such works; They are OPP
posed to it. because If the power existed IL would be
The most expensive and least certain in which
the work could be done It costs some twenty per
cent to collect the revenue OF the United States; the
United States pay more for everything than any one
right to take as much OF the public money, and give as
little return for il, as possible they are opposed 10 ~
because it would interfere with the rights ana poncy Oh
the States reducing them, in fact to mere corporations
They are opposed to IT, because II would De colecung a
vast fund.- expense, TO be distributed by me most
corrupt of all combnatonslhat known as log rolling
f,r ,la nj NAL
Clans and robbing the public treasury. They are OPP
posed to because ii would reverse the theory OF our
instead of keeping power dependent on the people IN
der such system, Washington would soon become to
this country what Paris has been to FIancene grand
which all favors flowed 1t is unsafe to the States un
safe to the Liberties of the people, to place hundreds OF
such sums would thlsgeneral system OF IN
ternal Improvement cos-n the hands OF any admins
tration to be expended in particular Localities over me
land, influence OPINION control eectohs' ana give d.
tional works be undertaken by the nation but let the
States regulate their affairs and the citizen make
his own road from his back door TO his barn yard Did
time, and the of the weather, permit could show
how this scheme would operate to the present INJURY
and the future danger of the republic have sad
enough, however, to indicate It's nature anu te opcc
tions to which it is liable ,
Again read from the report of the speech. sAnother
and object OF the wings, winch is Oh primary u-
accumulation of wealth in the hands OF lew, and TO
promote its distribution among the whole people at large
There is nothing so dangerous ePabc ~ M f or
such evil in our country Here IS some
thing new under the sun, The whig party opposed to
The accumulation of wealth and in favor OF its general
distribution Do these gentlemen really imagine that
faculty Of memory Do they believe that the people
have forgotten that the wing party is par eceuence the
bank party--bank State and national That they nave
ever advocated the scheme OF banking cororatons the
aes o at a disposal OF w hs few s to enable them the
more readily to control the labor and property OF the
manyi Have they forgotten the tremendous power which
these corporations have welded in times past-making
money plenty to-day and raising the price OF everything
but labor which is the last to rise increasing the expense
of living to the poor man without increasing ms means
making him constantly poorer; and Tor their own pur-
poses calling in their circulation and making money
scarce a week afterwards throwing disorder and confu
everything first OF the wages Of labor which though
the last to se is, from the nature OF things the first to
ial Have they forgotten, do they suppose the people
will ever forget, the eloquent language OF Webster,
when truth and nature bursting all the artificial bonds OF
political associations he said: O all the contrlvances
for cheating the abong classes Of iaepe IS none
new This is the most successful OF inventions to water
the rich mans field with the sweat of the poor mans
brow Ordinary tyranny excessive ax S ION are
frauds and oppression perpetraed by means OF paper
money sanctioned by law, in any way coqnenanced by
The bank party is opposed 70 the accu-
mutation of capital in the hands OF a few!
Do gentlemen suppose that people ever forget which
party was the protector, the support and the adoPte OF
the bankrupt law line law ny With VI
lions OF debts were swept off by the lornaty OF sched-
ule and the ceremony OF an oath Ihese debts were
owing from the few the many; they represented the
produce of the farmer the fabric OF the mechanic, and
The toll of the aborer which had by pernclous system
of credit been absorbed into the hands of few and had
in TOO MANY instances been wasted and consumed in lux
urious ndugences and riotous living. This was the
work of wing hands and wing minds, yet now we are
told with air of gravity that the wing party Is III laV0
of "promoting the dsriDutiohoi wealth. aoS o "hoo
people al large"
But if the people can forget banks and bankrupt law
can thew so soon cease to remember the protective tariff
the great American systematic grand scheme by which,
under the preence OF encouraging domestic industry,
every man who wore coat, hat, or shrt-who used a
hutton comb or razor-who boiled his potatoes in pot
or broed his steaks gdron was forced To pay tax
for the benefit OF the large capitalists engaged IN the man
ufactllre of the articles which he consumed! say Tor
the benefit of the capitalists for ever heard OF
high tariff increasing the wages of aborit only increases
the expense of subssence-making the poor poorer,
and the rich richer year by year adding to the power for
oppression of the latter day by day weakening the power
for resistance of the former and gradually reducing our
manufacturing population to the level OF those OF other
lands ong, suffering instruments for the production OF
wealth in the hands of the capitalists This is the result
speedy and inevitable, of the protective tariff polcy yet
the party who advocates that policy is opposed 10 the ac
emulation of wealth in the hands of the few!
will not follow the gentleman in ms somewhat vague
and mystical ideas to the manner IN which ne deslres
to prevent accumulation and promote Distribution One
mode he proposes to make "the rich sustain the BUR
dens of government" and let those who riot IN wealth
and luxury and dress purple and hne lnen and least
upon the Fat of the land the expenses OF the gov
eminent" One would almost imagine that the gentle
man had become a locotoco, did we not turn from the
profession to the practice, from the text to the commena
n