Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1860-01-26
Philadelphia, January 5, 1860.

peg leave 10 SOLICIT its publcauOn III your
journal. Respectfully,
JAMES MILLIKEN.
Philadelphia, January 5, 1860.
To the editor Of the Morning Pennsylvania:
Dear Sir:-In an editorial Of yours, entitled
The Deserted Tariff" after stating that, in
the call for republican national convention,
"not one word is said about tariff, or pro-
lection, or domestic industry, or specific du-
ties, or modification Of the revenue laws, or
| anything kindred to them," you invite the at
tention of certain gentlemen by name, and
others by such designation as is equivalent to
| naming them-all of whom are either we'll
| known advocates Of protection, or deeply in
! terested in, and, therefore, strongly committed
| to its suppOrt-to look elsewhere than to the
republican party for aid and comfort in tic
matter Of tariff legislation As one Of the
parties addressed, and, moreover, deeply in.
terested in the question which you have lais ID,
| avail myself of your invitation "to lock
elsewhere" for help in this our time of need.
If, according to your showing we must de-
spair of aid from the republican party, let me
inquire Of you, as the expounder Of the doc
| trines and policy of the democratic party,
whether you intend to invite our hopes, con
fdcnce and support TO it. upon any promise,
confidence.
You assume that certain iron companies,
named and you imply that others largely iu-
terested in coal and iron, cling to the republi-
can party, notwithstanding its desertion OF
the tariff, which, to my apprehension, is the
same thing as saying that they are either un-
wise or uncandid in their party attachment.
| If such an unwarranted partisan devotion
were true in fact, and any other party existed
| whose doctrines and practice better answered
! to their own they would deserve such re-
] proach but the mass-of the men who repre-
! sent these great interests OF pennsylvania
| have not rendered themselves liable to such
reflections in the past, nor are they disposed
| to do so in the future.
When Mr.. Buchanan was presented to them
as a candidate for the Presidency, regarding
him as pledged by the professions and prac
| tice of his past life to the support of national
! legislation in the interest of protection, thous
ands of Pennsylvania protectlonists gave him
! their support. 1t is true that other thousands
| of devoted friends to our domestic industry,
either doubling the man or fearing the politl
! cal embarrassments which he was known TO
| have brought upon himself for the purpose of
securing his election, withheld their sutfrages,
| and cast them for one or the other of his an
rience, about equally exposed to the irony
which you are now indulging against one Of
them Those who trusted your Executive
have been disappointed, and deceived besides.
! Those who were not deceived have been dis
| appointed and beth are now compelled " to
| look elsewhere" for the relief they seek. You
must allow me, sir as | intend no personal
discourtesy, to say that you are not IN the
position to lecture protectionlsts who are
promised nothing by the party they support,
while speaking for a party that performs
nothing of all that it promised to them. Those
of US who did not support Mr.. Buchanan IN
1856, had reasons for our action then which
three years of trial have only confirmed.
There was progressive free trade" plank
in the Cincinnati Platform which threatened
mischief Mr.. Buchanan was the candidate
of the men who inserted 1t, and were then
likely to have the rule and ownership of the
President elected upon it. Has not the result
amply justified every doubt entertained OF
Mr.. Buchanan's promised services, In the
matter of protection? 1t is true, he has an
nually talked tariff to his party, and to the
nation; but he appointed Mr.. Cobb to the Office
of Financial Secretary, and his partisans
made Mr.. Phelps chairman Of the Committee
of WAYS and Means, and the legislation of
MS term ndo peen Iuleu liSiulJ ai'u GU 4 S0'i'0iJ
by the policy which oppresses US. The great
business catastrophe of 1857, and the pro
longed stagnation of our industry, which has
been constantly growing daily worse without
hope of change, have fallen upon US since ne
took Office All that should have stimulated
him to fulfil his engagements with the people
who gave him his whole majority of electoral
votes has failed of its deserved effect. The
Pennsylvanian, uniformly prutectionist in
profession heretofore, might with propriety