The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-09-12
MULTIPLICATION.
THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM REAs-
sERrs CONFEDERATE DOCTRINE.

Its Tariff Plank e Aimest sp Exact
Copy Of the South Carolina NuliiAca-
tion Ordinance of is3a. Made by Cal
houn and the Stakeholder.
Sixty years ago next November gen.
eral convention was In session in South
Carolina. Its members represented the
sentiments of that arrogant elavehold-
ing oligarchy whose influence few
years later induced the southern states
to attempt the dissolution of this repub-
lie by armed force. They were by birth,
training aud interest opposed to the ele-
walton of workingmen and women, and
viewed with alarm the growth of the
army of intelligent free labor in the
northern states under the shelter of the
protective system. So they hated pro-
lection with an all consuming hate, and
had called this convention for the pur-
pose of formally serving notice ON tho
president and congress that the pro-
tective tariff Of 1928 must be repealed, so
far as South Carolina was concerned, or
South Carolina would secede from the
Union. The convention passed an TOR
ldinance" Of notification, of which the
gist Is contained in the following ex-
tracts:
by various acts, purporting to be acts laying
duties and imposts oh foreign imports, but in
reality intended for the protection of domestic
manufactures, etc., hath exceeded its Just
powers under the constitution.
We therefore, the people of the state of
South Carolina, In convention assembled, do
declare and ordain, and 1t is hereby declared
and ordained. that the several acts and part Of
acts of the congress OF the United States, pur-
porting to be laws for the imposing of duties
and imposts on the importation of foreign
commodities, etc., are unauthorized by the
constitution of the United States, and violate
the true meaning and intent thereof, and are
null, void and no Law.
The answer of that great Democrat,
Andrew jackson, who was then presi-
dent, was to order South Carolina to
submit to the tariff, and he dispatched
troops and gunboats to see that his or
ders were complied with. Congress,
however, saw fit to modify the tariff suf-
ficiently to appease the South Carolina
nullifers, they receded from their po-
sition and bloodshed was postponed I'M
til twenty-eight years later, when the
pretensions of South Carolina were
stamped upon by the American people
for good, and all at cost of half u mil
lion precious lives and untold sufferings
They hoped that they had heard the last
/ of notification and the absurd tariff
views of Calhoun and his fellow multi
fiers. But they were mistaken. just
about twenty eight years after the clos
ing scenes of the tremendous struggle III
which it was believed the principles of
the nullifcrs were buried forever, an
other convention was held, not in South
! Carolina this time but in tlH native
state of Abraham Lincoln, which has re.
asserted the teachings of Calhoun. Here
is its pronunciamento: a..
We dcnounce Republican protection as .
fraud, robbery of the great majority of the
American people for the benefit OF the few
We declare il TO be u fundamental principle oil
the Democratic party that the federal govern
ineut l2s 10 constitutional power TO iinpoGt
and collect tariff duties, except for the pur posi-
of revenue only, and We demand that the col
lection of such taxes shall be limited to thu
necessities Of the government when honestly
and economically neutrality-suspicious.
Platform of 1892.
For the first time since the civil wal
: political party has dared to incor.
porate into its platform the utterances
of the ordinance of notification, and &
declare that the tariff laws supported
and advocated by Washington, Jeffer
son, Hamilton, Adams, Madison, Clay
Webster, jackson and Lincoln were un
constitutional and mere legislative rob
berry of the people.
There is no installing the meaning Of
the Democratic tariff plank, and we are
glad of it,