The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1858-09-17
SHRIEKS OF A FRIGHTENED DEMA-
G0GUE.

Ole STATE oil IFeHiidtl1i. AlAS ALUM va thN
Tariff. in the last Abolition organ, indicates that |
he is almost frantic with fear concerning the I
issue Of the present campaign. He had Halter
ed himself that by raising Tariff excitement, |
some Of the good citizens of Bedford county
might be swung from their Democratic moor-
ings, but alas and alack! his fond hopes We're
destined 10 an early blight, and now, in the
overwhelming gloominess Of his despair, he sits
down, trembling and aghast, and shrieks to the
people he has so often deceived, TO shun the
couoses of The Democratic party The harmo-
nv and ENTHUSIASM in the raEks OF the
| Democracy, in contrast with ;he dissensons
and listlessness Of his own party-the mpregna-
| bic positions which the former occupy in re-
! gard to the different issues before the people,
when compared with the miserable shifts TO
which he and bis fellow demagogues are COM
| PEELED, from time 10 time, 10 resort-in short,
the whole aspect of parties and politics, cause
him 10 "ftar and tremble" for the result on the
twelfth of October next.
Mn. JORDAN talks about having seen ''many
contemplate eyasions and much hypocrisy in
his day." which we have no doubt is very true,
as he must have seen plenty of both whilst
engaged IN cheating the Fillmore men in 1886.
He also says lhat The people were deceived in
1914, by the cry that ssPolk was better Tariff
man than Clay, who, he says, was the .'iather
Of Protection" Now, if the people were de-
ceige,l, in ! 9I4, how comes il that the country
never enjoyed greater prosperity than when
the Tariff recommended ty James K. Polk,
was iu force How comes 1t that with the
revenues obtained under that Tariff, the Govern
ment was perfectly solvent, paid off all the heavy
indebtedness incurred in carrying on the MeXi-
can War, purchased and paid for large tract
of Territory, and betrayed all IFS regular and
Incidental expenses S.;f7viiy, ii tne people
were deceived, il was not The Democrats who
deceived them, but the lying, unscrupnlous
politicians who told them that the country
would be ruined if Polk were elected President
But, Clay was the father of protection" was
he? Well, let US see:
HENRY CLAY ON THE TARIFF.
"Carry out the spirit of the Compromise Act
Look TO revenue alone for the support Of
Government. Do not raise the question of pro-
lection, which I had hoped had been put TO rest
There is no necessity of pro fection for protec-
ton" Mr.. Clay in the Senate, January 81,
1912, in reply to Mr.. Woodbury., on the TFeasu-
ry note bill.
81 NEVER WAS IN FAVOR OF WHAT Is REGAR-
DED A HIGH TARIFF. No more reUenue should
be ieUied than IS necessary 10 an economical ad-
ministration of the Gouernment" Mr. Clay
to MIR. Meriweather of Georgia, October 3D.,
l843.
81 never was in favor Of duties being 50 high
- amount ~ Prohiotioh ol aitle'es on
which they were laid | have thought il best
for all interests that there should be competition.
Mr.. CLAW to Messrs Brennan Bledsoe, of Geor-
gia, July 9Th, l843
There That is the doctrine Of Henry Clay
on the Tariff ssNo more revenue should be
, levied than is necessary TO an economical ad-
ministratiou Of the Government" said Nix.
CLAY. And what say the Democracy How
, does the resolutions on the Tariff adopted by
our late Democratic County Meeting, tally with
this sentiment of the lamen ted Clay 2 Why
that resolution embodies his very idea. Here il
is compare it with the language Of Clay
= :, ResoIUed, That we are now, as we have
IL ever been, III favor OF Tariff for revenue
u Tariff which whilst il would raise fund sUHi
il cient to detray The expenses Of an economlca
d administration o. the GoUerHmenf, should also
; with our currency in sound condition, anc
with udciouS discrimination in favor of ouI
domestic interests, such as Coal and lion, afforc
'e incidental protection TO those branches OF our
/ home industry which may require it.
le Mn JORDAN also imagines that he has discover
g ed wonderful mares nest in the fact that the
Id late Democratic County Convention re-alhrmec
Id the doctrines of the Cincinnati platform and a
le the same time ado pied the resolution just quo
al ted. He tries 10 show that the Cincinnati Plat
N form avows the doctrine Of Free Trade, n orde
pt TO do which, he quotes that part oil it which de
&c cares in favor oil 'free seas" and ''Progressip
free-trade throughout The world'' Now, ther
is vast difference between '.free-trade through
out the lcorld' and free-frade as understood IL
- its relations 10 the tariff question. What W
- understand by .free-trade is the importation c
81 foreign goods into our country free of duty
le II is not the "fres seaS"--the free commerc
~ ~ OF the world-referred to in the Cincinnat
Il Platform. Nobody ever understood il as sue
~ and if Mn. JoRDAN's intellect were little Ia
obtuse, or his conscience not qnite so elastic
he would not have conloundrd the one with th
j. other. The Democratic party, as is We
he known, has never yet committed Itself to Ii
IL doctrine Of Free Trade and il is at this da
.s farther from doing 50 than ever, for the reaso
- that It's Free Trade men, such as DAVID VII
MOT ana IOTIN III READ have deserted