The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-11-22
The Pennsylvania Programme. Democratic
Dulles.

Claiming their rewards Tor achieving that glO-
rious victory" in the shape of an increased duty
on iron. The full proceedings of the Berks
county meeting, demanding that protection on
their domestic industry as right, appears in the
Pennsyiuanian, unaccompanied by one word OF
comment. Pennsylvania, il is well known, has a
pet son of hers as candidate for.the Presi-
dency. Mr.. FoRNEY. the editor of the Pennsyl-
ra''an, was candidate for the profitable post
OF clerk Of the House of Representatives last
session, and repeats the experiment again with
this House ; and Mr.. GLossBREESER we believe
body. So it seems that the well known maxim
ITO the yictors belong the spos of victory" is
not yet out of vogue. Whether Pennsylvania
will get the places to which her sons periodically
aspire or the protection" for iron she pa.
theiically pleads for, as a corallary to the tri-
umph Of the free trade party there, time will
show. We invite the special attention of the
Washington Union to this Pennsylvania pro-
gramme, and call on the free trade Democrats of
the South TO read, mark, and inwardly digest it,
"DEmocRATIc County MEETING. -Agreeably
to the call of the standing committee an un.
usually large meeting of the Democrats of
BeIks county, was held in the Court-houae al
Reading, on Monday November I7th 1851, at
o'clock, p. M, " for the purpose Of taking such
action upon the question Of modifying the tariff
uponsiron as they may deem expedent" The
meeting was organized by the appointment of
the following officers, viz
President-Dr. ii II. Muhlenberg, Reading.
Vice Presidens--Wllliam Lobach, Pike
George Dengler, Asace; David FISHER, Kutz
town Daniel X Hottenstine, Maxataway; Isaac
Ely, Reading; John Miller, Hamburg; John
MCGOWAN, Union; Daniel Woof, Hamburg
Daniel Young, Reading; Peter Kline, Green
wich; Philip Gougler, Cumru; Henry Mergel
Cernarvon joseph Mcdonnell Reading Levi
p Knerr, Reading; David Kutz Maxatawny;
DR.. Peter f. Maggie, Reading Henry A. M. FIJI
BERT Reading; Jacob Madeira, Muhlenbsrg
Samuel Shearer, Heidelberg
Secretaries-Dr. John Soldering, Hamburg;
Edward NJ. Clymer, Charles Kessler ]. Law
renee Getz, James K McKenty, and George F.
Spayd, Reading.
When the officers had taken their seats, f..
M. Clymer. esq, announced that Francis W.
Hughes, esq, of Schuylkill county, was now in
be appointed to wait upon Mr. Hughes, and
invite him to address his Democratic fellow cit
liens of Berks upon the subject they had assem-
bled to consider, which was unanimously agreed
to; wbereupon the president appointed Messrs.
+. M. Clymer, A. l.. IIennershotz, and John l..
Rightmyer said committee.
On motion of Joel b. Wanner, esq, it was
Resolved, That committee of twenty-five
persons be appointed by the president, to report
resolutions expressive Of the sentiments of this
meeting.
In pursuance of this resolution, the president
appointed the following commit ee.
Joel B. Wanner, Reading; William Shafner,
Tulpehoccon John Grett Maidencreek Peter
Fister, Greenwich; Edward C. Ruggles, Read
ing; s. E. Ancona, Reading; Jacob Coleman.
Amity Adam Hickman, AlsaCe; Richard Her
bert, Reading; E. Penn Smith, Womelsdorf;
Daniel Keller, Greenwich Thomas Shaner,
Colebrookdae, Henry Riege, Reading; j. Y
Bechtel, Union; Daniel B. Kutz, Kuiztown
George Shenk, Hamburg David A. Stout
Reading; Joseph Specht, Rockland; George
Smith, Reading; Benjami' Nunemacher, Upper
Bern; William Nj. Sallade, Lower Heidelberg
Jacob Becker Robson; j. Daniel Wanner
Kutztown; John Fisher Maxatawny; John
Green, Reading; Charles w Esser, Kutztown.
In the absence of the committee, the meeting
was addressed with much force and eloquence
by Francis w. Hughes, esq of Schuylkil coun.
ty, Hon. William Strong, and Senator II A.
Muhlenberg. The speeches of these gentle.
men went over the entire tariff question, exhib-
ted its bearing upon the leading il dustral in.
terests of the nation, and conclusively demon.
strated the justice and propriety of such
change in the present tariff act, according to
81 ,l,tsa - q.
Robert j Walker, and other Democratic au-
thority, as will enhance the revenue. and afford
more adequate incidental protection to tie great
staple of Pennsylvania.
AT the conclusion of Mr.. Hughes speech, the
following resolution was offered by Samuel
Sohl, and unanimously adopted:
ReSolped That this meeting hereby tender
their best thanks to Francis W. Hughes, ESQ.
for his able sound and eloquent democratic
speech in favor Of a modification of the revenue
law of 1916 upon the article of iron.
The committee on resolutions through their
chairman, Joel b. Wauner, esq, reported the
following, which were unanimously adopted,
with loud acclamations:
Resided, That we hereby renew our pledges
to stand by the principles Of the tariff Of 1916,
regarding them as acquiesced in by the Demo-
cratic party of the Union as a permanent adjust
ment of the tariff question.
ReSolred, That while we have sustained the
principles Of the act of 1876 rs a final DISPOSE
ton, we have looked forward with earnest sole
itude to the period when Congress would be able
and willing 10 seHle upon permanent basis, the
details Of The Act, and particularly The duty upon
iron.
ResolUed, That the crisis has now come when
Congress should finally settle this question, by
advancing The duty upon iron up TO the revenue
standard and by so regulating the mode of as
sessing duties upon that article as to secure il
as far practicable from fraud and fluctuations
The Democracy are nop an po,oer in The national
legislature, and 10 them Pennsylvania books
Time and experience has proved to her that
revenue tariff may afford ample incidental protec
ton to iron. She has the pledges of the South
ern and Western Democracy in their votes on
the Hon. Mr.. McKay's bill of 1874, aud Of the
Hon. r.. J. Walker, the author of the bill of
lS45, in his report to Congress in ls47 that an
duty on iron would not only be per.
fectly consistent with the principles of the act
of 1886 but that it would add TO the revenue
DeeoIroJ That ;s ,ou- ,>........l