New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-09-10
A CRE.r FRAUD EEvIvED.

In the year 1874, the STATE Of PeBnsyiVahh was
Aourislpg as she never had been before or has pee"
since. under the Influence of the Protective farm
just before passed by the Wigs. she was po'
only highly prosperous, but satisfied with her pros
perity and anxious to preserve II. Inc " "g u"
d;d.tes for President and Vie President were
Henry CLAY and Theo. FreliIehuysen, DOM
decided wellknowu, life loog Protectionis's
They were undeDisbly supporters OF the I"'iu "
40 AGAINST item stood James X. Polk aud
c.orca NJ. DaIlas-the former always previously
an ext1eme Free Trader; the latter Democfa'c
halfway Protectionist 1t was necessary 10 carry
n.ylyapia for them or Mr.. Clay would Do
elected: if was necessary TO make the Democea's
of Pehnsy lvania believe Polk and Daiias ia'Oi'
able to Protection, or Clay Wou'o suieH
carry the State and be elected. Hence, John
Kane wrote to Mr.. Polk private let
tsr (which we tried hard TO induce Dit.
Kane to publish but without succesS,) to which
Mr. Polk responded publicly in bis famous kane
letter. declaring himself for "fair and equal Pro-
election to Agriculture, Manufactures, aud ali
"our National interests" &c. This letter was
trnmpeted by his supporters as fdl, nnequi7ocai
adhesion Of Mr.. Polk to the Protective policy, and
it was steadily asserted by them that he was at
least as thorough PrOtectiOnist as Mr.. Clay.
"Polk, Dallas, and the Tariff Of az, was the
war.cry OF the party, and steadily borne on lie
banners. The fact that Mr. Dallas was pat on the
ticket was triumphaLtly appealed to as evidence
of the devotion of the Democracy to Pennsylvania
VA DANA
Graf of the coal region, held public debate with
William b. Reed Oh the single issue OF the relative
soundness of Clay and Polk as Protectionlsts-and
Hughes was held by bis pariisaOs to have achieved
a great triumph. The general spirit OF the Demo
cratic canvass that yeaI in Pennsylvania was fairly
embodied in verse Of one of their campaign
songs, which ran thus:
40 poor coony Whg
What makes you looA so blue
We will have Polk and Dallas
Ind the TdrW Of ~
Thus Pennsylvania was carried and Polk and
Dallas elected and the result 'cas The prostitution Of
the Tariff of 42 and return TO comparative Free
Trade by The po,rer Of the triumphant Democracy in
Congress, aided by the casting uOtc Of George d.
Dallas, ,cih the cooperation and official sanction Of
James X. Poik Pennsylvania has not yet fully
recovered from the blow thus inflicted
Mr.. Stephen A. Douglas was among the most
active ard relentless opponents OF Protection
throughout the struggle just glanced at he
entered Congress (tbe House, in Dec, l6i3, and
voted, within three weeks the eater, for Mr.
Rhett's motion for the repeai Of the Tariff of AZ.
lie voted again and again against Protection IN any
shape, even Incidental; for 20 per cent. uniform
Tariff, &c, &c. He voted with South Carolina
for the Tariff of 1916 at every step and ia every
shape, and thus his vote stands recorded on the
Journals and in The Globe. The project of admit
ting Railroad Iron duty free, and every measure
looking to reduction repeal of duties, has been
advocated a,d voted for by him throughout his
whole Congressional career On the LIST OF March,
1655-a proposal to engraft a new TaIif on the
General Appropriated bill being under considera-
tion-Mr. Douglas said:
"Iam for reduction Of me tariff strict rere5ue stand
ard am FEEETRApK Man TO THR FULLEST EXTEST tha we
can carry It aud the time collect revenue enough to de-
y the expenses Government In other words am for
no other kind Of tariff than revenue tariff" isee Globe
Such is Mr.. Douglass Uniform record down to
the last Session of Congress, when it occurred to
States were not likely to favor his aspirations to
the Presidency. Mr., Douglas dil not cote on any
question connected with the Tariff at this Session.
and Mr. Hunters motion to postpone the bill to
next December vas carried by Yeas %, Nays %
Mr. Douglas not voting, but Mr.. Pugh, his shadow,
voting with the FIee-Trsders to postpone, which
barely prevailed The r0feS Of Douglas and Pugh
could hare changed that result ard put The bH on ats
passage. Aud now this same Stephen A. Douglas
walks coolly into Pennsylvania and makes speech
which friendly hand cOndeDses for the Associated
Press as follows:
"r Douglas commenced his speech by glowing eulogy
Pennsylvania empire within herself She State had
great in the Union Her Interests required h fostering
hand Of She had reesed thai support from
National G9rHen she as entaedto She had the whole
Union market Her whole mineral wealth iuexhsusd
be end worth than mines Of gold He pitched generally
into Congress and the General Government for the past ow
years
He denoyaced he GoDsrnment parolyrrg The interest of
Penallroni0 for yeay The Government had failed
perform the ,tious for which created The system OF
Government must be changed disaster would Either
reduce the expenditures increase the The
oElv yopey tariff When the tariff proposed
Congress- always 0yersaughed by the int-rmaoe
sro Questn he rent into argument delsiue Of the Pro
teettre py pscay Jt9ards PenHsyraHas interest," bat
the question will be settled till the intern na5e negro
question thrown snd repudsted He censured Congress
for It's neglect legitimate duties to stray after false gods &c.
sc.
in all we ever saw or imagined Of human
audacity there is nothing equal to this. just
think Of it. This man has been speaking aud
voting against the Protective policy for twenty
odd years-has repeatedly stumped Illinois against
Henry Clay because of that policy, stigmatizing it
as a contriyance Ia plunder the farmer Ia enrich