Daily American telegraph., 1852-09-04
The Canvas. in Pennsylvanin.

A great mass meeting Of the Pierce men is an
nounced for the 4th Of this month at Reading,
Pa, at which Senators Douglas and Weller and
other distinguished leaders Of the party are ex-
pected to speak Among those whom the call
for the meeting enumerates as invited to attend,
are the " advocates Of protection TO agriculture,
commerce. and manufactures"
The game which was played in Pennsylvania
in 1874, when Mr.. POLL WaS represented 10 be a
better tariff man than Mr.. Clay, and when banners
were borne to political mass meetings bearing
the inscription I" Polk, Dallas, and he Tariff Of
'42'-that same game Of deception and imposture
is about to be played over again, it would seem,
in that same State where Democracy prdes itself
upon its purity in the inverse ratio of its intelli
gence.
Possibly the repetition Of the fraud may have
been suggested by the analogy which is so strik.
ing between the nomination Of Polk and Pierce :
the manner Of both being similar in all points
and inasmuch as the trick succeeded in the case
of the former the inference might have been
drawn that it would succeed again under crcum-
stances so very much the same. The reasoning
is logical enough; and il is further strengthened
by the consideration that the same obscurty Of
person and character which enabled Mr.. Folks
supporters in Pennsylvania to impute TO him
what principles they pleased-such being the
general ignorance that prevailed concerning the
principles Of q man so little known and Of so
little weight and infuence-the same obscurity,
the same range Of political insignifcance, the
same want Of knowledge concerning the man and
his principles, might be made equally available
in Pennsylvania now in promoting the election Of
Mr.. Pierce, by ascribing to him the champion
ship of protection to agriculture, commerce, and
manufactures, in the face of his ayowed hostility
to that policy.
| If the consequences Of an error may guard
against the repetition of it if the severe teach.
ings Of experience may effectually dispense the
| ignorance which precipitated its dupes and vic.
Tins into woful steps folly, and may afford any
sufficient safeguard against its recurrence-then
we might confidently believe that the attempt
now going on in Pennsylvania to induce the PEG.
pie to support Mr.. Pierce, as they supported Mr..
| Polk under the assurance that he would maintain
policy favorable to their industrial interests,
must inevitably recoil upon its projectors and
abettors and overwhelm them with shame and
confusion. Pennsylvania has suffered enough
from that blind stumble in 1874 to warn her
against such receptions for generations to come.
The time is propitous now for O vigorous and
successful movement in behalf of home industry.
With Gen. Scott in the Presidential chair, the
probability is fair that the decided favor which
IL would be known his administration would ex-
tend to that system would meet with such cordial
cooperation throughout the country as to insure
strong majority in the House Of Representa-
tives of the next Congress, prepared to re-adjust
our tariff system on better basis of protection.
Mr. Benton has avowed himself in favor of such
re-adjustment, SO far relates to the great iron
interest of the country, and to the Udgary, as he
aptly calls it, Of universal ad paiorems. We may
expect much from his efforts-much from the
efforts of others who, like him, prefer the welfare
of the country to the blind behests Of party dog
matism. Baltimore American.