New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1866-01-18
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.

JACKsONISM-PRO
The World amid noisy gable about "blun.
derers," "exact knowledge" &c, gives this
evidence of what it fancies precision"
I'm Observation-Disclosures OF ls2e NE great is,ne
,ras the Tariff; John Quincy Adams supported by
Henry Clay being the Tariff and Andrew Jackson tho
anti .protectoDist candidate"
AS we happened, though not yet voter, to
have taken as deep an interest in that contest
as in any other, we very willingly stake our
whole controversy with The Uorld on the "pre-
cision" of the above statement, and call atten-
ton to the following facts
The Tariff of IS25 was passed avowedly and
markedly for Protection, there being no financial
necessity for it even pretended. II was framed
and carried in the heat of the Presidential
contest, in Congress which had Jackson
majority in either branch. The State of New
York was mainly represented therein by Jackson
men: and it gave trenfy-nine votes in all for
the Tariff to sir against it. Among the twenty
seven who voted for Protection were Martin
Van Buren,, Silas Wright, Jonas Earll, Michael
Hoffman. Selah X. Hobbie, John Magee,
Nathaniel Garrow, and at least twelve more
Jacksonians.
PENNSYLVANIA gave Jackson his largest major
ity go, OOO) in the election then pending. She
gave her every vote for Protection. OF the
twenty five, not less than twenty were Jack
sonans. including James Buchanan, George
Wolf (afteward Goyernor), Joel ID. Sutherland,
Isaac ID. Barnard, &C., &c.
Kentucky (hen Jackson state, represented
by a Jackson delegation) gave solid vote for
the bill. Among her yeas stood Col. Richard
NJ. johnson, John Rowan, Senators Henry
Daniel, Joseph Lecompte, Chittenden Lyon,
Robert Mediation, Thomas 7. Moore, SC.
JacksOnians.
Among the additional voters for the bill were
John ii. Eaton (Jackson's neghbOr and biog.
rapher, Thomas II. Benton, Mahlon Dickerson,
and all the JacksOnians from Ohio; while ma.
ioritv of the Members from New-England (then
strongly for Adams) voted against the BILL
IL il true, then. that 1.-The great issue was the
Tariff, in that Presidential contest Scruti.
nize the record, and Judge. We who were for
Adams would gladly have made il "the great
issue" but we could not, while the high
est Protective Tariff ever framed was fashioned
by Jacksonian hands and passed in good
part by Jacksonian votes. We knew
that Adams and Clay were for Protection
/ that the anti-TariH men were almost unan-
nous for JacksOn-but here were Van Buren,,
Wright, Benton, Dick johnson, Eaton, M.
Hoffman, and other Jacksonian leaders, at the
head of the hunt for Projections and how could
we make it We could not; and Pennsylvania
rolled up her heaviest majority against us in
gratitude for the jackson Tariff"
But The World, with quite superiluous inn
pertinence, parades an extract from Mr..
Bancroft, which seems to assert that, "Gtfer his
election, Gen. Jackson inclined, with the whole
weight Of his energetic nature, to the side OF
Revenue dutics;" and wonders what we can
say to that. We answer that Mr.. Bancroft is a
high authority; but that, with regard to Gen.
Jackson's opinions, the highest authority is
Jackson HIMSELF and We find him, in his first
Message, saying that
after the extinction Of the Public Debt it is no,
probable that any adjustment Of the Tariff upon princ
pies satisfactory TO the People of the Union. WILL until
remote period II ever leave the Government without
considerable surplus in the Treasury beyond chat mag
be required for its current serrtee."
If that means "revenue duties" We cannot
understand it.
More broadly, in that Message, Gen. Jackson
says:
THE general rule to be applied, in graduating the
duties upon articles Of foreign growth Manufacture
is that which riR place orn in fair competition riH
those Of other cosniss and the inducements 10 advance
even step beyond this point controlling In regard
70 those articles which Of primary necessity in time
Of war;"
If that is not Protection, then we know moi
how to advocate Protection.
The World thinks us very laundering in thai
we don't know that Gen. Jackson was chosen
President as an Protectionist. But thu
General was himself equally ignonnt-nay
more: he insisted, after his election, that the
question of Protection ought not to be mixed
up with party politics. Hear him on this poin,
in the Message aforesaid
"In celebrating therefore, these interesting sub
eots local feelings and preudioes should be merged II
The patriotic determination to promote the great inter
ess Of iae whole, ~ sSsg2V " esHDs5 mtR VIA "