The northern tribune., 1848-02-28
VOL. III. - NO. 100.

| ditson of the country to there Oaon 0d1GntGge.
think that with such proofs in my hands
should not hesitate to make the same state
ments again. even if "the wings were present"
! Our readers will perceive that Mr.. D. does
not cali in question the accuracy of our state
ment. He freely admits that he made the
charge against the Wings contained in the ex-
tract which he has quoted from our former ar
ticle. The above portion of his communica-
ton is no ''reply" to any remarks of ours, but,
as any one will perceive, an attempt to palli-
ate and justify himself for making what any
unprejudiced mind must consider gratuitous
and unsustainable charge. 1t is possible that
Mr.. Davis may be laboring under such an un-
accountable delusion as to suppose his proofs
entirely overwhelming, and has therefore
sought this opportunity to spread them before
our Wing lreaders, that they may see and be
convinced. Scores of our citizens will, no
doubt, remember that Mr.. D. stated in the
| Convention that the Wings were trying to
prolong the war that the country might be run
in debt and forced into the adoption of high
| tariff This charge, as well as all others made
against the Wings by Mr.. D., was met SO fully
and satisfactorily to the Wings of Bath, bI
Mr.. Morse, before four or five hundred of our
fellow citizens, in discussion with Messrs.
Davis and Wiley, that we need only ask the
careful attention of those who were not pres
ent, to the proofs by which Mr.. Davis attempts
to sustain his charge. In the first place, what
are here given as extracts from the speeches of
Messrs. Vinton and Hudson, will bear no such
construction as Mr.. DAVIS has put upon them.
All they amovnt to is, that, in the opinion of
those gentlemen, duties, levied on foreign
manufactures to such an amount as will pro-
tect home inaatstry, is better way to raise rev.
enue than to assess direct tar on the people.
Mr.. D. declared himself, in the discussion
above referred to, to be in favor of protective
/ tariff. Why, then, does he complain that 9TH
ers preach the same doctrines
But We should like to know why Mr.. Davis
relies so exclusively on the Washington cor
respondent of the New York Journal of Com
merce, one of the most ultra free-trade papers
in the whole Union, for his knowledge of what
Wings say in Congress. The speeches of both
Mr.. Vinton and Hudson are printed and have
been widely circulated. Mr.. Vinton's speech
was delivered on the Sth of February and p1b-
lshed in the Congressional Globe, "demo-
cratic" journal, the next morning. This
speech has been published in all the leading
+ af f4Lo
Mr.. D. carry about with him and read at the
Abolition meetings what he calls an extract
] from Mr.. Vinton's speech, when he, knows
what he reads is only an extract from letter
of the free trade correspondent of the Journal
of Commerce. We think such an extraordi-
nary course may be explained by the fact that
neither the language nor the ideas contained in
the above extract, which Mr.. Davis gives as
Mr.. Vnton's, are to be found in his speech as
published by either democratic or Wing pa
pers. If Mr.. Davis or any one else is deter
mined to palm off on his hearers what one
man says, on his own responsibility, as the
doctrine of whole party, he is bound by the
law of common honesty to go to the speech to
learn the doctrines laid down. and not to what
news gathering ''letter writers" and oppo-
nents, too, may, for some partzan end, say Of
II Rut in the case before us it seems differ
cnt rule has been adopted, and we leave our
readers to Judge whether it be a just or en-
unjust one. Mr. D. goes on with his second
complaint as follows;
ID. Again you say: =
"Mr. Davis, standing as one of tn" eos-
6odin.e,ts of christianity, was guilty Of gross
injustice to Mr.. Webster, whether wilfully So.