Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1852-10-11


ly afterwards, TAYLOR carried the State by about
$4,000. The issues and the men were different.
In the State election, the Wings had not the
benefit of the great national issues-the taiif, in
ternal improvements and distribution OF the pro-
ceeds of the publclands. Let not the Wings, then,
in Virginia or elsewhere, be discouraged in the
slightest degree by adverse result, in Pennsyl-
yania, next Tuesday. Now, in every Wing pro-
cession, in Pennsylvania, we see wagons iuii OF
nstraightouts from CAss to Scorr." Even IN oiu
Virginia. the mother of PRESIDENTS, there are signs
that she will cast her vote for her own glorious ana
noble son, WIsFIELD SCOTT, in preference 10 an
obscure and unknown New Hampshire attorney.
In one county, he had noticed, he believed tha'
81 Pierce ssVigilance Committee men had come
ont and declared for Scorr. In IA, the Democratic
majority in Virginia, was about 6,OOO; IN '4S, II
was reduced to about 400. One more such effort
for old WIsrrELp and the field will be won. Will
VOL, make it, The universal response was: 1--WE
,piY,, A large number will then vote for the Pre-
sident for the first time; they were not yet bound
by the shackles Of party, and can any fnginlan'
can any man not so bound, but free to follow the
impulses of gratitude and PATRIOTISM tail to prefer
WINFIELD Scorr, who has devoted his lie, shed his
blood and covered his country all over with unfad-
ing glory and renown. Could any but the veriest
slave of party fail to prefer such aman to FRANK
LIN P,EncE-without services, without qualifca-
tons, without claims of any kind upon his coun-
irymen. Was such thing possblel NO. no!J
The superstition would be an insult to the lntelii-
gence and patriotism Of the Old Dominion. hepu-
blics are not ungrateful. This was proved IN the
cases of JACKSON, HARRISON and TAYLOR, and Will
be confirmed, with still grealer emphasis, in the
case of SCOTT.
Mr.. S. went on at length to discuss the political
issues He said there were but three living issues
now dividing the two great parties, in and out OF
Congress- The Tariff, Internal improvements and
Distribution. Jefferson, the father and apostle OF
Democracy, was the firm and decided advocate Of
all these measures. He went, not only for high,
but for prohiLitary Tariff; and the surplus reve-
nue., he said, divide among the States, for Inter
nal improvement and Education" These were
Jeferson's sentiments, repeated over and over i'll
his reports When Senator and in his messages when
President. Were they not true, he called upon any
Democrat present to deny it. Hepaused, but there
was no response. Then, what was the position
OF the two parties these questions! The
opposed to him on all these measures. Who dare
deny it! The Wings were the real Jeffersonian
Democrats. They had the principles and their OPP
ponents the name, and nothing but the name, and
with it they scduced all the unthinking foreigners
INTO their ranks. "You have fed" they say,
"from oppression, we invite you into our ranks
we are for popular rights; the Wings, our oppo-
nents, opposed to them; they are the arIstocra
cy." Thus, by falSehood and fraud, these honest
and confidng Irishmcn, are seduced into party
advocating the British doctrine of Free Trade,
which impoverished and drove them from Ireland
and will impoverish and ruin them here. Nothing
but the famine OF AT and the California gold since
has saved the country from ruin under the Tariff
of '46. The British press throughout the King
dom, is out boldly for Pierce and Free Trade. In
London, Liverpool, Manchester, every where
ave prefer Pierce" says the Liverpool Times,
"not because he is the better man--far otherwise,
but because he is the nominee Of the party in the
Union who desire to push the principles OF Free
Trade to its utmost limits" There it is: not be-
cause he is the better man, far otherwise, but be-
cause he is on their side.' The British know Gen.
Scott-yes, and fear him too. On this great and
all absorbing question Of Protection there were but
two sides, the British side and the American side.
1t was a contest between British labor and Amer-
can Dor for the American market, and the ques-
tion is, which side will you take-the British side,
or the American side! In the Revolution there
was similar contest. The British attempted to
stop manu- fatcuring i'll the Colonies and to force
their Cos DIS upon us, 1t was resisted then by the
Wings, and is resisted no,o by the Wings. There
trb m l.
ish side, we all know what they were then called.
They are now called Democrats" he called them
Locofocos.
Mr.. Stewart then went on TO explain the opera
tons of the Tariff Of '46. 1t had doubled, and
more than doubled the imports of Foreign goods
From 100 Millions it had increased to 212 millions
of dollars and that too under the fraudulent yaiua-
ton, the actual amount being much greater. This
was the result of the ad valorem system, which
Disseminated not for but against Protection 1t
operated the reverse of the British sliding scale;
it went up and down with the price. 1t gave high
Protection when the Foreign prices was high, and
no Protection was wanted, and took away all P TO
lection when the price was low, and when Protec-
ton was alone required.
Mr.. S. here adverted to the piles of British Rail
Road Iron he had seen lying at the r. X. Depot IN
our city, to be laid down over the richest mines OF
Iron ore and Coal in the world, and in the midst
of the ruins of delapidated Iron Works, Furnaces
FORCES and Rolling Mills, in Virginia and Mary
land, the erection of which cost millions, under the
Wing Protective policy, and had diilused millions
of money among our honest and industrious farm
ers and laborers, had enhanced the wages of labor
and the value of our land and its productions
Now, he asked. why are all these fires extinguish-
ed, this American labor thrown out and their rich
resources of native wealth and independence des-
troyedl 1t was the effect of the Tariff of '46, and
who is benefited by it? The British, and nobody
else. Mr.. S. then went on to demonstrate, most
clearly, that the three four millions OF dollars
worth of British Iron laid down on our road, was
nothing but so much British agricultural produce