Columbus Democrat. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1849-08-11

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sea.l. p.es1as o -as e-e.1a TIE Wing legil
ia fe.eiense 90 oar sa.1ar: u Nj Vac Buren, is
equally inapPIe4te Es had VI. Van Buren's pos-
tive declaration previous % Biz eertiDn Tat there
.sIs considerations lgs.H-. ILe abohtoa Ct slavery
IN the district q Columbia b. Congress as impera-
tive as The most absolute art oi constitutional pow
or could be- and ia his inaugural, he sole'any pledg
ed himse!. to ye;o AM law passed By Congress TO
abolish slavery in the district. Mr Harris support
ed Mr.. Clay, knowing ih4lhe @as the great champ
ca and that bis election would be the triumph o. GER
tain measures and j. u ceFIainlya fair inference to
suppose that he DIR II ass the advocate Of those
measures.
In regard 10 protective tariff, we feel certain thar
Mr. Harris did supper, directly Mr.. Gays views on
that subject In speech delivered at Aberdeen
sometime in August Of 1874, chiefly in reply toGen.
Speghi he sIenuouay defended .he prime pie Of the
tariff Of 1872 and the general policy Of the protective
system. We can scarcely be mistaken in tiis mat
ter, for se we're present and lsiendei most attentive
lyto Mr.. Ianis and sc well rac0lleci reuarking 10
Col Jefferson DAVIS at the time tlmi i was The first
protective tariff speech we ever heard from SOUTH
ern orator, Ar Harris did allule % Senate; Weights
views on the tariff bat II was only for the purpose Of
sustaining tie tariff act Of 1912, sor which Nh
Wright voted The difference betweoa that states-
man and NJ Harris in regard TO the act Of ~ seeal-
ed to be this--Mr. Wright goted .or the act as a
matter Of necessity and under protest, while Mr.
Harris approvedot the general principles Of tie act
as wise and beneficial to the country at large But
suppose We are mistaken III all this It is certain that
il Mr. Harris candidate ior the presidency had been
elected, the tariff &C, oi 1912 would not have been
repealed or materially modified
We had intended to notice more fully the "'Vhig's
but sc are warned that we have moi
he space, and We must hasten to close. In one
Hates the "solt impeachment Of having ever been
ully identified with the democ ratio party OF the state
md to "hx the fact beyond all question: he assures
as thathe has never seen the time when Mr. Harris
'oud not have claimed his cheerful support, That
wv dove stand corrected "disabused and olsen
hralled OF the opinion that neighbor Of the Wing
ever was or ever could have been democrat Hes
| whig-a bona fde Wing and never can be any thing
,lse politically
That long homily about ''the exclusive despotisn
of parly discipline, is mere rchaeh OF Mr. Harris
no purity speeches, which he commenced on the Doth
Of Feb, 1913, Mr. HIS "meiio httssae IBIS Of Ovid
a stewed down by the Wing into the golden mean
81 Horace, but the flavor the political dish is stal
The eame,and equally pause,tng. AS the courme,
said, ''an egg il good or bteak,os', and 90 Is chick
N, but something 5stgeeaa an EGG and 4 chicken is I
lorrd"