Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1858-09-29
The Tariff Plank.

From present lndIc2tlops, the opposition,
called by themselves the peoples Party
or the Republicans" intend to add the
Tariff Plank to their Fusion Platform this
fall--hoping thereby to humbug a few voters
into the support of their candidates. who 9TH
erwise would vote the Democratic ticket, az
heretofore. This ticket of that tricky party,
We presume, will not prove very profitable in
this part of the Commonwealth. The lead
ers of that ever changing party have exhaus-
ted their fund of deception. and any renewed
attempts at their old tricks will he exposed.
and the imposition made to recoil upon their
guilty heads All their old notions-calcl
| by them iples-they have abandoned.
| aud now for want of sonnet hing better, revive
| the Tariff question-an unlucky hit for them,
when the procee iings of the Congress that
| reduced the rates are more fully known.
At the organization Of the 34th Congress
the Black Republicans outnumbered the Dem
ocrsts nearly two to onc-and after an un-
precedented struggle of months, succeeded in
electing BANKs, of Massachusetts, Speaker,
over the Democrats. In forming the Com
| mittees of the House, the tariff question was
kept in -iew. Speaker Banks, the tool and
choice of the Manufacturing Princes of the
East, placed CAMPBELL, of Ohio, the leader
of the Republicans in Congress at the head
of the Committee of Ways and Means, be-
ecusc of its control of the Revenue quest ions.
and because Mr.. Campbell was a low Tariff
nan.
| That we may not be eontradicted nor be dis
believed, even by those whose party preju-
| dices would incline them to do it. we will
publish in this connection few extracts from
the speeches made by Mr.. Campbell during
the discussion and passage of the Tariff bill
now complained of:
| Il wished to ascertain whether this geper-
al debate is to 60 on pending so important a
question as that of reducing the Revenue of
the Country"-C. F. page 4O6
In the higher schedules you will find q
reduction, taking the importations of the last
year as BASIS Of calculation, of about So
600, 900; aud if the importation of articles
in the intermediate schedules are no more in
the future than they were LIST year, you will
6aDono have an aggregate reduction of about $l4,
The reduction of tho Revenue is one great
object to accomplish" &C. G. page $50.
| Mr.. Campbell, as the leader and mouth
| piece of the Republican forces, and as the en-
| ployer of the Eastern Manufacturers, at
tempted to coax into the support of his low
Tariff bill the Democrats oe Kentucky aud
reuusyIFahla, Dy teillng tnem tnat there
should be no party politics" in the measure
and that they could afford a reduction Of du-
| ty Iron IN order to hare stability IN the
system, and be assured of rich harcest in a
fen years. Read his o-party aud free trade
| sentiments:
.! am very glad that the gentleman from
Kentucky is willing to take this feature of
the bill, because Kentucky has growing
| iron interest, as Ohio has; and believe that
great interest may well afford reduction of
duty in order to have that great question with
drawn from the party politics of the time,
and placed on firm and stable basis. >.
Again believe t.:at if this question
were settled. taken. as said, from the arena
of party politics, and placed upon the basis
reported by the Committee of Conference as
a finality, Pennsylvania will, before many
years roll around. reap rich harvest from
the bill; but if Pennsylvania will cling to
her old policy which sees no other interest
than her iron and coal. and prevents the pas
sage OF this bill. upon the shoulders of Penn
sylvania must rest tho responsibility, not
upon mine. Gong, Globe, page $50.
According 10 the leadership Of Al Camp