Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-07-28
MONDAY, JULY %, 1856.

Mr.. Buchanan and Protection OF Amer.
lean manufacturcs-Ihe Cincinnati
Platform.
The Cincinnati Platform enunciates the
following as a principle Of Democratic
faith
a. That justice and sound policy forbid the Fed
eral Government to foster one branch Of industry
to the detriment Of any other, TO cherish the
interest Of portion to the injury of another por-
ton Of our common country; that every citizen
and every section Of country has right to demand
and insist upon an equality Of rights and privileges,
and to complete and ample protection Of person
and property from domestic violence or foreign az
gressiOn.
There have been three tariffs enacted with
a view, whilst raising revenue sufficient to
meet the wants of the government, to pro-
tect and foster manufacturing interests,
zone branch of industry, to the detriment,"
as democrats have charged, Of the interests
of farmers and planters. These tariffs
were enacted in 1924, 1928, and 1912.
Mr.. Buchanan was in Congress and voted
for them. For these votes, we refer the
reader to chapter, verse and page as fol-
loows
Tariff of I824-See 26th volume of
Niles Register page Ill, April 18th, on
which day the bill was ordered to a third
reading, Mr.. Buchanan voting in the af-
frmative. On page ll3 the editor re-
marks that the vote on its final passage
was the same as that on ordering it to a
third reading, with the exception that
MessrS. Edwards and Miller, who were alb
sent on the 18th, were present and voted.
The vote was l07 to lO2, close shave
Tariff of l82S.-See Gales and Sea-
tons Register of Debates for 1928, part
2, page 247l, April %, 1928, when the
bill passed, Mr.. Buchanan voting age. This
is the bill which Mr.. Polk and other Ten
nessee democrats were wont to denounce
as the "biU of denominations"
Tariff Of lS42.-See Congressional
Globe, I'd session of 9th Congress, page
800. This was the tariff which Tennessee
democrats denounced without measure in
1914, and urged Mr. Clay'S defeat because
he had voted, as Mr.. Buchanan did, for it.
But these are not all of Mr.. Buchanan's
tariff sins. On the oath Of February, 1887,
as will be seen by consulting Gales and
Seaton's Register of Debates, volume Is,
part /, page 939, be voted against releasing
the TAX ON SALT, that indispensable arti-
Gle for man and beast" as Mr.. Polk was
in the habit of saying in IS43, when he
accused the wing party of doing what Mr..
Buchanan did.
He also opposed taking off the duty on
railroad iron. See Congressional Globe,
Cd session of 9th Congress, page 944.
The record of Mr.. Buchanan and the
policy of the democratic party as enunciat-
cd in the above extract from the Cincin-
natl platform, are totally variant They
are wholly irreconcilable. Old line demo-
Gratis who have consistently opposed tariffs
of protection must regard Mr.. Buchanan
with misgivings; for surely they cannot re-
feet without apprehension upon the al
most impossible gulf which separates him
from them on this question, as on the ques-
ton of Internal Improvements by the Gen
eral Government. True he has accepted
the platform, but of what avail are the
pledges Of democratic platforms now-they
seem to be made only to be broken-are
swallowed as Mr.. Benton says, to be
"puked up again" And how long will Mr.
Buchanan he rnvnrned hv them2