Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1852-07-22
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cratic doctrine of being the friends of the
people and their true practice-and to show
that their boasted love of the "dear people"
was all pretension, having no foundation in
truth or sonnd reason. Since then we have
learned to our infinite qualification, that
Congress has exercised the forbidden power
treated of in our last, by making grant of
Lands to this State to aid in the construction
of her proposed rail roads-and that too by
a large per cent of whig over democratic
votes. Look now at the inconsistency of
the party in this case, they have for years
denounced such Legislation as unconstitu-
tional and are now urging the claims of
candidate for Congress, known TO hold the
opinion that it is such; and yet with all the
pliancy that gutta-percha conscience can
be susceptible of, they are lauding their
three Representatives in Congress TO the
very skies, for their "skill and tact, super
human efforts, &c.' in procuring its pas
sage, and endeavoring to reap for their own
political partisan'S brow, the lourels 5000
bly, won by whig agents. Oh! Shame! hath
thou no dwelling place in democratic
brow? Oh consistency! art thou but an
empty sound? Laud one set of Represen-
tatives to the skies for aiding in the passage
of an act-and denounce another for aiding
in the same laudable measure, and especially
when the latter believed it to be constitu-
tional and of course violated no oath, and the
former contending that it was unconstitution-
al to act the part he did.
All! well, a convenient conscience is an
agreeable article under certain crcumstan-
ces. The fact is, those three Democratic
delegates never would have touched the
subject much less been able to procure its
passage, had it not been for the four Wing
delegates watching them. So soon as they
found they had not the power to place Mis-
souri, where they plcased-that there were
others watching over her interests and who
could give force to the measure sufficient to
procure its passage and then be most likely
TO reap the rewards of such an act of justice,
they faced to the right about" and with all
the "superhuman efforts, skill and tact"
which they were masters of, strained every
nerve and exhausted every energy to do
what? violate the constitution according to
the Democratic doctrine, saying nothing Of
the oath Of those gentlemen. How could
Missouri have ever expected any thing done
for her heretofore by Congress. The whig
party in Congress were the only portion of
it who admitted the power OF that body to
aid her, but the Democratic delegation met
them with flat refusal of such proifered
aid, and placed the constitution between
them and as matter of course the wings
were not disposed to force it upon her,
But now that the wing delegation has pro-
cured its passage and the people of the state
are loud in praise Of such course, this con-
sistence party claim it as their own, let them
hold on to it to the last and carry it ont in
August at the polls and not be for it as Pope
| Plus told a cardinal, 'stick to tit brings
grist to the mill" whitley? "Ah! there's
the rub, nous veyrons.
| Let us now look little further into this
doctrine of the "dear people" in connection
with the 4th plank of the Baltimore plat
form as bolted fast by the lst of the JEFF
tsSson. The 4th article of the democratic
faith according to the Baltimore PLATFORM,
denies the policy and iustness" Of a Pro-
tective Tariff, because it is "fostering one
branch of industry to the detriment of anoth-
er." IT'S true these are vague terms, but
let us see if Protective Tariff will do this
let us see if it is not alike beneficial to
the farmer and artisan, which compose that
portion of creation, the ''dear people" We
will try this by figures which never lie, save
when they are employed in making out dem
ocratic statements for political purposes
lie us take a neighborhood-fo what is true
of neighborhcod is true of a whole country.
Let us take certain ncighborhood of 10
families, each consuming annually $50 worth
of fairfield articles, and 5000 worth of do
mestlc products, besides producing $500
worth for sale, and let the duty be at 20 per
; cent. Now suppose by increasing this
duty of 20 per cent TO so, we protect two OF
those families in their respective trades and
set them up at the same time drawing them
from this agricultural pursuit, we have an
increase then in the demand for the agrlcul-
tural produce Of the neighborhood of 33l
per cent, caused by the draining Of $500
from that branch. Now 1t follows that il
the supply is essened 33s per cent, the de-
maad must increase in the same proportion
: and we would then have each of the remain
ing eight persons benefited to the amount
ot 33l ner cent or Sl00 unon his SS3OC