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

his house officers and the hundred oher modes
which he may show gTaua n i csn be- aboshed and
the influence of the President at the same time
except by making of the presidency form, ana givhS
a real bower as in England TO the adrolt managers VINO
NAV succeed in obtaining control OF majority IN Ioh-
gress Such is the legitimate consequence OF this new
doctrine Is such the design OF those VINO aavoca'e eha
But the speech which hold in my hand indicates lhat
the speaker indignant that any should nave cues
toned the fact that the Taylor party have any principles
He is very severe in his comments on those VINO con-
found principles with measuresdoes not attempt 10 ex
plain why indication OF the principles ana measures
supported by his party was given to the world oy 'e au
thority of the Philadelphia Convention; but assumes
himself say what the party is or is mol IN FAVOR Oh
Let us be thankful for small favors-we way learn some
hing-and let us take what we can get GU may leatn
Them that the swing party have deemed 1t wise, Ju-
dcous and promotve of the best interests OF The eo
pie thathe natural barriers 10 the free mtecommunca-
ton along the great Observation-Disclosures to the inter
nal commerce. and trade of the counyshoud be eradi-
Gated and removed by the general government heter
this is 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
"a general system of internal improvements me
democratic party advocate ana nave ever lhe
pht and propety of Congress making all such improve
ments of national character as were necessary or inc
defence of the country IN war, or Tor me pronouon Oh
is commerce IN peace pI hch bs peope Will he taxed
for making every little road-clearlng out every little
creek-erecting every bridge-and grading every hill
that the inhabitants OF neghoorhood might ae,,
sire They are opposed to it, because they can lind
no power granted 10 Congress by the constitution 10
undertake and carry out such WORKS; tney are oP-
posed to it, because if the power existed, IT would be
the most expensive and least certain manner IN which
the work could be done. 1t costs some twenty per
cent collect the revenue OF the United States the
United States pay more for everything than any one
else; for there to be general feeng mat IL IS
right to take much OF the public money and give as
little in return for it, as possible Theyare opposed OFT,
because it would interfere with the rights and policy OF
the States reducing them, in fact to mere corporations
They are opposed TO IT. because It would De eoectng
vast fund.- at expense, 10 be distributed by the most
corrupt of all combnationsthat known as log rolling
for the purpose of making the fortunes OF little poli
Clans and robbing the public treasury. They are OPP
posed to it because would reverse the theory OF our
government and make the people dependent upon power
instead of keeping power dependent on the people IN
der such a system, Washington would soon become to
this country what Paris has been to Fancethe grand
source from which all authority emanated, and from
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 this general system OF IN
ternal Improvement costin the hands OF any admins
traon, be expended in particular localities over the
land to influence opinion, control elections, and give d.
rection to State and neighborhood affairs Let great ma
tona 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 nature of the weather, permit could show
and the future danger of the republic have said
enough, however, to indicate Its nature and the ooec
tons TO which 1t IS liable go :,
and object of the wings which of primary i'm
portance under government, is to prevent the undue
of wealth in the hands OF a lew, and to
There is nothing dangerous IN republic as an ar
stocracy OF wealth. and means should be spared for
preventing such an evil in our county, Here rs some
The accumulation of wealth and in favor OF its general
distribution Do these gentlemen really imagine that
because they inconsistent the people have lost the
faculty of memory' Do they believe that the people
have forgotten that the wing party 49, par e1cehence the
bank party-bank, State and national! mat tney nave
ever advocated the scheme OF banking corporations, the
whole object of which was to accumulate capital and
place ii at the disposal OF the few to enable them the
more readily to control the labor ana property OF me
hese corporations have welded in times past-maklng
money plenty to-day, and raising the price OF everything
but labor which the last increasing the expense
Of living TO the poor without increasing his means,
making him constantly poorer and Tor their own pur-
poses calling in their circulation and making money
sion into every branch OF business lowering the price of
eveythng-and first of the wages OF labor, which, though
The last to rise, is from the nature OF things me tst 70
all 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: "Of all the conrivances
for cheating the laborng classes of mankind there
80 eecual as that which deudes them with paper mo-
ley This is the successful Of inventions to water
he rich mans field with the sweat of the poor mans
,row Ordinary tyranny excessive taxaton--these are
rling and transient evils compared with the monstrous
rauds and oppression perpetratea by means Oh paper
The bank party is opposed to the accu
mutation of capital in the hands OF few
Do gentlemen suppose that people can ever forget which
he bankrupt law ?-the law by which hundreds of mil
ions of debts swept off by the iormaly OF sched
lle and the ceremony OF an oath? These debts were
owing from the few the many; they represented the
produce of the farmer the fabric OF the mechanic, and
he toll of the aborer which had by perncious system
credit been absorbed into the hands of few, and had
n TOO many instances been wasted and consumed in lux
lrious ndugences and riotous living. This was the
work of wing hands and wing minds, yet now we
old with an air of gravity that the wing party is In favor
If 'promoting the distribution OF wealth among the whole
people al large"
But if the people forget banks and bank upt law,
,an thew so soon cease to remember the protective tariff
he great American systematic grand scheme by which,
under the preence OF encouraging domestic industry,
every man who coat, hat, or shlrt-who used a
button, comb, azor-who boiled his potatoes In pot
for the benefit OF the large capitalists engaged in the man
uacture of the articles which he consumed? say Tor
the benefit of the capitalists Tor one ever heard OF
high tariff increasing the wages of abort only increases
the expense of subssence-makng 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
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 poicy YET
the party who advocates that policy is opposed u 'e ao
of wealth in the hands of the few
will not follow the gentleman in his somewhat vague
and mystical ideas to the manner IN Whch ne oeses
10 prevent accumulation and promote dislriouuoh one
mode he nronoses is 10 make 'he rich sustain the bur-
lens Of government and et those who riot In wealth
and luxury and dress in purple and fine nen and feast
mon the fat of the land, meet the expenses OF the gov
,rnmentu One would almost imagine that the gentle
nan had become a ocofoco did we not turn from the
Profession to the practice from the text to the commenta
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