Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1859-11-11
Misrepresentation of Goods by a
Party.

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Party.
Fin our revolutionary contest the Brit.
ish had when compelled to vacate Phla.
delphia, declar, d for the cause of indepen.
dence of these colonies and had set up
vigorous pretensions TO the advocacy OF
that cause before as well as afterward, the
rest of mankind would have expressed not
a little surprise, If. when in full retreat
before superior strength on the patriot side
they had cndeavored tn recover power hy
appealing TO the people 10 join them as The
greater patriots, how would history have
recorded such an event. Yet we have its
parallel before us today For thirty years
we have contended as party for ''the de.
velopment of Furnishing industry in
this country for emancipation from our
industrial dependence on Great Britain. :"
and we have claimed that the obstacles in
the way Of this emancipation were not of
an unconquerable nature that, on the
contrary. they might easily be removed by
legislative action, wisely and duiifully
comprising sectional preiudces and claims
for the achievement of great national aims
For thirty years party calling itself dem.
ocratic, has contended for precisely the
opposite doctrines, fighting us leforc the
people because they said such legislation
was utterly wrong, and declaring that all
Industry should take care of itself. indie.
pendent of legislation. And in the for
tune of war this antagonist party has ,
dozen times beaten us, has seized and held
the government, and has denounced throuh
its Walkers and Cobbs, every semblance
of our theory Of industrial independence.
Butat last VIC have compelled these op.
ponents Of industrial development to evac
uatc Philadelphia. We have cited the
growth otthe States of the Zolivercin with
some effect. We have shown that France,
the Zollverein, and Belgium. have com.
pletely emancipated their industry within
the short space oftwen v five years. taking
the lead nov even of England in solid
They do this simply by the
aid of proper egislation--legislation which
wisely and dutitullv dodges all sectionalI
prejudices between Hesse Cassel and Hesse
Darmstadt. and which does equal justice
to SAKE Weimar and SAKE Cobourg. We
have cited the prosperity of these States,
which have to transport most of their raw
thousands of miles as proof that
We might prosper in the same pursuits
with both the raw materials and the con
sumers of manufactured goods at the very
gates of our factories We have said that
an abundance of hands could be found
constant y unemployed to work these fac
tories, and that all our people could not
find a living in agriculture. even if the
pursuit were congenial to their tastes
These are obvious truths, but for years we
have been compelled to submit to their
practical denial by our government, and |
to the aseendaney of a party which endea
vored in every way to put foreign industry
into marlo. hoads TO
iron works by Scotch pipe
purchases, and to put British cotions in !
exclusive possession here in order that
Cobb's empty Golfers might be filed at
Washington. Beaten at last however. and
to evacuate this State and city. |
what does this party do? 1t turns to the
advocacy of our own doctrines. 1t uses
half the words and phrases we have used
above to paint pretence Of favor to in
lustry, and thus retain power. 1t steals
lll our livery to serve the power which is
determined to hold place TO the death, and
on any ground that will serve to hold it, |
This is not the FIRST time that The people |
of Pennsylvania have been piled with such |
pretencos. "Polk, Dallus and the tariff of
1872 once constituted a watchword by |
which the greatest advocate Of American |
Independence was overthr0wn,
and a Walker was put in charge of the
treasury. The trick hss been many times
tried, and sometimes successfully, tut we
will take care that it shall not he success
iul again. When words and sentences
are taken from our mouths by wholesale,
lpd when the party evacuating the city .
seeks to get in possession again by putting
on the uniform made for ourselves, it is |
time to reclaim these goods. lfthe new
friends Of the emancipation Of industry
were real friends, their substitution for
others might be tolerable; but the truth
is, their Establishments are put forth only
TO betray. Advocating the tariff of 1872,
they tricked PeunsyIyaniaus into the
hands Of Walker, who did his best to de-
,troy that tariff, and succeeded. Advoca-
ting the tariff in existence in 1886. they
got meniu powerwho immediately reduced
it, and who refuse its restoration. In the
present apparent advocacy Of "A protective
tariff by the organs OF the democratic party
nothing more is intended than u cheat by
which that party can recover power inI
1860. A just public demund immediate
restoration of the arguments they use to
their rightful wners.-IhitddcLptia NORTH
AosertcaA.