dOM m UN IG ATI ftf h I'fir the Columbia Democrat. THE TAltlFF. For several years a'fter tlio close of the last wat, the Taiiff was among ih0 most exciting subjects which claimed the stlen lion of Congress. And yet, it was, per haps of all others, the least n.iderstodd by the people. Under preienco of cherishing our infant Manufactories, the " American System" men, with Henry Clav at their head, urged the'neccssity of a high rale uf -duties, as the only way to efTsct so desira ble Tcstilt. That incipiant zeal, for which our countrymen are so greatly distinguished, was instantly enlisted in favor of Manufac tures, and they must be reared, oven in a " hot bed." Dut in the plenitude of zoal in favor of Manufactures, and a high Tar iff as the surest means of promoting tlieii growth, and ensuring their permanency, other interests of at least equal importance 1o the stability of our institution'!, and the security of our union, yf re perhaps over looked. Mr. Clay and his partisans seem to havo adopted as a principle, that ours is essentially a manufacturing country. Over looking tho more important interests af Ag riculture, every act of legislative benefi cence, was, for a time, shaped to the pro motion of the interests of the Spindle and the Loom, the Furnace and the Forge. The result of euch exclusive legislation has been in tho chivalrous excitement of the South, came near being felt in the disruption of the Union. The political hobby which was so triumphantly to carry Mr. Clay and his partisans into power, proved a stumb ling jade, which has thrown them among the Cotton bags of the South, and we have seen them hiding their discomfiture, and concealing their bruises, with the fragments of a " compromise law." As this law is soon (1842) to expire by limitation, and a rivision of the Tariff may then be expected, we already witness the efforts of the same men extending them selves In favor of the same increase of du ties, which on former occasions they have bo tenaciously urgsd. It is true, Mr. Clay, though not entirely " hors de combat," is not the man at this lime who is to tako tho front rank in carrying out the principle o protective and prohibitory duties Gcner nl Harrison, in whom wo are told ar con tered, not only the chivalric but he civic virtues, thoughjie now very condescending ly tells us, " it is nono of our business" what his sentiments xay be, is known to have been when in tho Senate of the United States, the friend and advocate of hip5i du ties. He is the candidate of that ptrty for the Presidency, anil should he be elected he will doubtless associate with him in the Administration, such men as Webster, Clay, Southard &c. whose views are believed to harmonise with his own, and endsavor, so far, to carry out their feelings, as to make a high Tariff of duties, a prominent featuie of his Administration. To us, it belongs, Fellow Citizens to inquire, beforo wo cast our votes for Gen. Harrison, what effect such a measure would havo upon our indi viJual interests, upon the interests of tin gieai mass 01 our countryman, and upon tho peace, harmony end permanency of the Union. Whatever the rale of duties may be, it is a known fact that tho consumer nf the article on which a duty is payable eventual ly pays the duty. Hence, a higher rate of duties than are tequirod to defray the ordiu ory expenses of an economical ailministra tion of the Government, are an unnecessa ry and arbitrary tax upon the consumer, at once inconsistant with the genius of our Government Constitution. So, also, du ties so high on any one spocies of goods, as to prohibit, or even greatly diminish the a mount of their importation, is a tax on one branch of industry, for the exprose purpose of qt ndmg extraordinary benefits toanolh er.lhus creatine a iirivileffed class, or a kind of Aristocracy, under tfa very nu3picos of a Government, pretondedly based upon principles of democratic equality. To illustrate tho subje.-t a little further, wo will instance tho arlielo of woollen good. It it), I believe a conceedod, at any Ti'.o it is a demonstrable fact, that a yard of Ilroad Cloth which usually sells in this country for six dollars, is actually made, in eluding cxpeut of material, laborwearand tear of machinery Sie. &e(i for something less iliaii i c'ollara and fifty cent?. Here then, is a tl.ttci and :btatti. profit of more than three dollars and fifty rents on a sin g;a ; ard of Broad Cloth, or in other words, it is a l3x of seven dollars Upon him who buys a Coat worth nominally six dollars per yard, paid very directly into the packets of tlio Manufacturer. vSo It is with every arti cle on which a mitj, is payaile, Iron, Coal, '&c. though articles of prime necessity, and produced in great, abundance in this coun try, are nevertheless sought to be made sub ject to so high duties, when carrying fiom abroad, as to create a monopoly in favor of home produces. This too is only done at the grievous expense of the consumer and tends directly and alarmingly to the establishment of a home Aristocracy, infill ilo more to be dreaded by freemen, than the bristling' bavohols of a foreign force Though the writer of this, is certainly as friendly as any other man, to the Manufac turcs of our own. country, and to a fud de vclopement of all our irnraontc resources yet ho does not believe that they arc to be called at once into existence by oust of Mr. Clay s pnicspocches, oi'that'Goncral Har rison cau fix her permanency by a flourish of hib sword. The world was not made in a day. and it is essential to all human institutions, and'human Interests, that time and experience, should contribute to their perfections and their splendor. A forced, and rapid growth is succeeded by quick day. That interest, or that institution will always bo most enduring, which can command the interested and cordial support of a majority of members; The subject we havo thus briefly touch ed upon, is certainly one, which has claims upon tho most serious consideration of eve ry citizen. A high Tariff-of duties, and an unrestrained indulgence of our country men, in inordinate (inoculation, naturally produces a bloated Treasury, which is cer tainly not among tho least evils which can l.-r-i ... .... ueiai a representative covernmeiit. i ie disposal of a surplus revenue can never bo accomplished in a way to allay ihe distrusts and jealousies ol every portion of the coun try, or to dispense exact justice to all. llenco, Democracy would so arrange a Tar iff as that the receipts into our Treasury should only equal ihu necessary expendi tures of the Government, whilst their op ponents, by an cxhorbitant enactment of duties, would produce a surplussagc, either for unequal distribution, or to pamper the cupmity anu licentiousness of Rulers and their favorites, and, this too by an uneaual dram, fromitho pockets of the people. Ponder upon thuae things, my Country men, for with you the decision rests. CIIEVES. . . - i Mrt. Webb It certainly is a source of unfailing amusement,- to witness the con tinuous changes of modern Whiggcry. ihe 1'rotean shapes which it assumes be fore the people, excite at the same time sensations of risrbility and disgust. But most of all, they havo a powerful tendency to force upon the judgement, a conviction, that the instability of its principles have an utter inadaptation to the great objects of our Government, the happiness and prosperity of the people, and tho perpetuity of our Tree and glorious institutions. Indeed, so tontinually carrying on their professions, that the mind can hardly be stricken with surprise, when it witnesses the fact, that their candidates for oflice refuse to award to the people, the satisfaction of a knowledge of their punciples, or a peep at the proba ble bearing of their measures, should the administration of afi'airs bo committed to their control. Such disclosures, would be difficult, if not impossible to be made, for reasoning from tho pant, they cannot, them selves know, what chango a single new moon may bring upan their principles or their policy, whence this instability, ol party fooling, or what benefit does it indi cate to the people, should lhay. bv a chance of tlint confidence which Dsmodracy has never aouaed, make the Whins the denosi taries' of power? Arc wo to exnect iha euch over changing professions can advanco the dignity or our National character abroad or increase our prosperity at home ? Ai soon may wo look for tho extraction oi sunbeamea from Cucumbers, or a change in the point of polar attraction. Honco it is, tlut so discordant are the ma terials of which that parly is coiunoscd. that nothing liko stability of prinoiplc,can,in any emergency, attach to it. If we look among tho luading mou of their ranks, wc find thorn made up of disappointed oflico seekers, who havo boen discarded by th Uomocracy of tho country, for their vacil lating viowa, their political chimeras, an Anti-Republican conduct, Hartford Conven tion Federalists, Hluo light Tories, who considered it " unbecoming a moral and re- success of our country's arms." Abolitionists, who are scattering the seeds of disunion in every section of the Union, -Bank Directors, A- gents and Attorneys, whoso Crmsean wealth lias ueen accumuiaicu nom ino lunsoi uiose I 1. - Mj. .t. ... II i .1 whom thov now doom to offices of the meanest drudgery, toil and oppression, and the whole posse of professed Aristocrats, who arc to be found in lesf, ornrcalcr num bers in every City and manufacturing dis tncl in tho U. Slates. Suppose wo were to elect a President, whose pliant disposition,' would call about him a Cabinet composed of such heleroge ncous and discordant materials. To what port of profit, or. haven of safety could they possibly direct the ship of state? The vo ry idea that such may ever be tho situation of that country we love, which contributes so largely to our happiness, and tho advance ment'of those principles which alone can dignify and embellish humrXature, is full of startling danger's. And yet, my Countrymen, this is the very secno you are called upon to enact in the political drama Elect W. II. Harrison to the Presidency, and you will place in that high station, ours who has not only insulted your intelligence but trampled upon your rights by locking in the secret arcana of his own breast, every iiiiurmauon you nave a iignt to claim, as to the governing principles of his Adminis tration, lou place there a man, who you have reason for behevieng stands pledged to leaders of tho fragments of every party, winch Jias at any tunc, distracted our coun try, to carry out in his Government, some, at least of tho peculiar views of each. What disastrous consequences, then, may we not reasonably apprehend 1 Suiely our dearest rights may be stranded upon the quicksands of folly, and tho fairest institu tions of Republican freedom may be cmer- cd in the evils of Despotism.. Such an Executive, so (unrounded could not in any possible contingency, administer tlio Government in accordianco with those principles of freedom and equality on which it is based. The most obtuse mental vis ion, though enveloped in the most amnle folds of charity, could not be so blinded, as not to discern that the experiment would lie lull of danger. Could tho pliant syco- pliaucy which in somo respects has charac terised tho course of Henry Clay, yield to, the dnbending Aristocratic course of AVeb- ster, without a collision' of interests or a sacrifice of rights ? or would the latter bar ter his boasted purilv and independence of feeling, his stern defiance, and holy dread ol Democratic equality, for the sooty em brace of amalgamating Abolitionists? Cer tain it is, the peculiar policy of every sec tion of the party could rvot bo adopted. Of course, discontent, jealousy, and a discor dance of action would be engendered con flicting opinions would load loacts.of doubt ful consequences, and in the "oncral rush for supremacy, among so many and variant views, mat which, ought to bo iho supreme object of every political wish, tlio " great- est good of the greatest number," would, .cry naturally be overlooked or trampled upon, and tho liberties of our country be come a sacrifice to the shrine of unchaslen- ed ambition. My Countryraen.as you dresd uen consequences, be careful how you de part from tho tried pallia of Democracy, in which you have so long marched in peace, prosperity and Independence. No Candidate for Office. DAVID PETitlK" STV. Mn. Wi.bb I this day saw a verv abu sive circular, issued by Doct. Potrikiu. in which he arrogatos to himself the character of teacher, ruler and dictator of the demo cratic party in this county. Aenusa3 Ins neighbors of being dishonest politician, un . .r - r t .i wuimy oi commence, aim challenges any one to find so much as a single error in his political life. Now, sir, I do not intend en tering into a newspaper controversy with Doct. Pettikin. Sueh a eonttoversv burn would bo useloss. In his own countv.whuro he is known, his slandeis are shameleaa. and his destitution of any thing like faith to his political friends and of political hones ty, m proverbial. But as his extra sheet is intended to gpt clear of tho keep rebuke he received at tho county meeting for his un warrantable abuse of Gov. Porter, and to operate in another quarter, I will draw at tention to the Doctor's popularity at home. Somo time since he was placed upon the ticket for the Legislature, and w dafealed by a Volunteer candidate, and that by a large majority. Subsequently, ho was, by a combinalion of Circumstances which oan nevor occur again, placed on (ho tiefcet for lieious people to rcioiee in the And although DAvid R. Porter i received 1&28 majority the Doctor" rr.ee ceivctl I but COO, and this is his popularity. And I j say now ho cannot get fiOO for any olliue in I the county. Ho is esteemed as a persecut i.. . jug enomy, who will etriko at the bosuin of his best tuend if they cruse Ills ambitious seeking for office. And he is believed to havo brought tho grey hairs of his aged and venerable Father who was one of the firm est domocruis in thu days of Simon iitiyder, in sorrow to his grave on account of ho political apostney because Wm, Fuidlv would not appoint the Doctor to an office, which ho could not conaistantly do, and ap point the Father, which he did, lo the same office in Centre county. 1 will also ak, whether the Doctor is not one of the great est bank speculators in this county ? And was not deeply into ceitain banks not 100 miles from this county ? I will alsb enquire whether ho has not speculated more in cor porations than any ottiprn in .Columbia county f Whether he has not had coiilracls on almostj every rail road ? Whether ho has not spcculmed more out of the state ca nals than any other man in the county ? I will also ask whether he did not move in Congress to oxpoud upwards of 30,000 dollars extra and uncalled for on the Ticas ury building, to tho disgust of tho President of the United States and in direct robbery of the people's funds 1 will also ask whether he dhl not for sinister motives, get democratic Post Masters removed and whigs appointed ? I will also enquire whether the Doctor's political course at Waahinton to far as any good was in it, was not the result of necessity, rather .than any prin ciples of his ? 1 will also nk whether the Doctor did not sacrifice the friend that inido him, to give his son a fat office in the West? I will lastly onquire whether the Doctor was not tho butt and ridicule of the demo cratic parly at Washington Cily ? I be lieve every enquiry above can bo proved in the afiirmatiTe. A DF.iinmjA'i' AMERICAN IRON. A writer in the National Gazetin pt;. mates the present consumption of iron in wis country at throe hundred thousand tons, and the average annual expenditure of each member of tho community therefor, at two dollars sixty-fivo ceuis. Tho present sell ing price of bar iron ie nbnut nri,- limwlro.l dollars per ton, and it is asserted that it can be produced in thu anihrnniin 'rnnt ,-.; for less than forty dollars, or much less than me amount oi expenses and duty upon that which ia imported. II e stinnnsf! ili( ,tw. reduction of prices that must lake place wncuover uie new woriis slmU become ca pable of supplying the demand, will iml i iiiL-rcasu Rruauy uie amount per head, be cause oi uie suosiiiuuon ol iron for numer ous purposes for which wood is now uspd, and because of the increase! foniliiv nr .. plyiiin demands of overv ileBrriminn may ujise; diu aumiuing t.'iat the average annual cxpcnuituro ol each person shall eon- uiiuu iiiu came, anil mat i n- n nn . - the price ol iron shall bu only twenty-five pei ucih. no estimates mat there will be ie nuired in 1850 nt Ipsh ih-in nr.n nnn to supply the demand of a population that win uiuii aiuoi ni to rrom twnmv.i iro.. ... uveiuyuvo minions. Tna quantity re quired for that of 1860, then auiootiiiii" io about thirty millions, will be uearly a "mil lion nf tout), requiring not leas than threo millint.e. .if .-mo I 1 .... v ia , ,,uiiurc, ana six minimis ol tons ol coal Tor its conversion into the va rious forms in which it is to be used, from ihe water pipe and stovo. plate to thu pen knife. The production of Great Britain has risen, in twenty yoars, from 400,000 tons to a million and a half, and it is difficult to see any reaaun why that of the United .Stales may not increase as rapidly. If these calculations bu verified by time, thono who have invested their means in tho coal and iron lands of Pennsylvania, and in iho im provements loading thereto, will have lit tie cause to regret it. I England, acres of coal land sell for hundred of pounds, and we see little reason to doubt that such will spaeilily be the case here, as our pop illation will spedily equal that of Groat Britain and Ireland, and will double itself ogam in a little more than twenty veurs, and with every increase in the number ol consumer, there must be lncltM0 in the value of the land which vialdmha coin modity that is to be consumed- U. U, Ga zette. Ocnwnenial.A whig p.per aays Tipi csnoo cradlera are becoming fashionalu a mum whig ladies (married or single ihe od itora aayeth not ) Wo recommend the fol lowing nursery ditty as an nccompani. incut, 1 Hushaby baby, Daddy's a whig, Bofore he comes homo, Hard cider he'll swig Should ho get tipy, Together wo'll f,t Down Wi conuJ jajlIy 1 ip, cradle and all. n . . - Congress. What is this line for ? Guess. 'fllE COLUMBIA DMlotuvi "MVTU WtTHOLT K j" PIU4SIDBNTIAI, ULEUTIOK-mJ run i-r.csiUENT, JVIAKTi- VAN EUREfi, Fon Vie:: PnnsiDnsT, ItlCHAKD M. JOHXSOS, AND THU CONSTITUTIONAL TREASUny ELECTORAL" TICKET. Jamks Clakkk, of Indiana, ? Gr.o. G. Lriprc. of Unlaw-, C acnaicr. 1 Ool. John Thompson 2 lienjamin Mililiti Frederick Stocver 3 ttm. II. Smith ' 4 John T. Steinman John Donliii Henry Myera 0 Daniel Jacoby G Jesm Jnlirithin 7 Jacob Able 8 Gao. ClirUtmau 0 Wrn. Shwncr 10 llonry UelwlT 1 1 Ilemy Logou 12 rrflcriitt Smv 13 Charles M'Clura ' H J. ?.. Ouroell l.r G. M. Hell,.,,., 10 LflMlUl.l i'fou.j 17 John Hartonj.. 18 VV.Iwn flv .a IS Jvilin V0I,;sa 30 V.'.-tly 1'.,. t 'Jt )J"ii. nJrr. 22 Yv miaia V. t'kisi 2tJ A. K. Wright 21 Join Findl.y 25 Stcj.hpn JJurlow COUNTY CONVICTION. Delegate Siecocn. THE Demomtic pitisen nf fVl,rvV.5 Hint county who are friendly to the State AJraia-leof, laiicuiim, i uuvocaies ior tiic re-elections of Martin Van Hnren and II. M. Jolinswj as i'reaiucnt and Vice President of t!ie II. nited States, arc rcnuested sual places of holding the Rennd Electiosi uiuiin meir reep;c ire towns nns and . iron districts, un Saturday, the 20A day cf August, 1 6 10. f between the hours of tbree and six o'clock in the afternoon, in order to elect TWO De-1 inocratic Delegates in each Election Dis trict, to represent their respective districti; in a County Convention of Delegates, id meet at the house of Enoch Howell ia Di... i ... . , i ... uiuuuiouurg, a; i o C10CK, fll. on .AlOn'Jav, KirS .ui. uisi u.i) ui iiisjusi, iQ.ju, ior me pur- ijraa nose nf fiCllliii'r n ti,-I.-, in l.r. .,,n.,..i l llaV ihe parly at the ensuing Election, by nom inating One Pencil for Stale Senator One Person for Member of the Ltgii laturc. One Person for Sheriff, One Person for Coroner, One. Person for Commissioner, One Person for Treasurer, One Person for Auditor and for the purpose of appointing Confer ees, to meet tho Conferees of l.n,r. .,! aad Schuylkill counties, in relation to the lOflt nomination of candidates for Congress and Troi Senator, to be supported by the Democrat- iJWf ic Republicans of iho Congressional and JSBS Senatorial Districts. ftff SAMUEL CKEASY, SAMUEL KISNER, SAMUEL IJ. WILSON, ISAAC.. KLINE, OWEN D. LEIB. Standing Committee. August 10, 18-10. The cront western 11 on Tuesday evening last, and oh, what a "noting and a iiimpus" there was amons the whigs. His speech was any thing ami every thinjr but such an one as we should .have expected froin;the renown with which the whigs have covered him. It was made up of the common placo slang so ofldi pub lished in the whig papers, and as ofien re futed by the democratic. II in language, however, was moderate, iiiirl tint t; ni if nittr. sonal. This we attribled mora to the good seno and gcntlfmanly character of Ilia kceniiur comminos " ii,,. ,n U, , . , III'.,, ,U .1, aeration or good lenao of his own. A FRANK Afjmssrnv The Doa'.on Courier rr. paper, rarers lo tho olmi tic preases against Gen. llarriann. that he wore a I LACK COCKADE during the renin of Turmr in lann ; p..h , " . .www ,iiu iuiiuiviii;; iii- deaeudent iiiaiiimp "Tho Van H corkado during ,, rdgn of the older Adams and parade tint tfi',,n,. ,.r .. m- r i. .of Kontucky, m support of the imputation. .l,ju,c uen. Harrison did. Un mUi.N.0rr.?!'K W0RN' A M0R HONOBA- llljl'. IJA IXrE. fin inuun., . inir.M IIHIIUIMl,..' "tt.MW .1 i ujili ADMINISTRATION 1" How far - . i.wiH.fuuni una iiiuKiiiu ot the Courier, expressing its true opinions --""w.aiineTit, man iho low disgust ing oltorls of the pfisses ln denying that which they know to be true and viitually permitting that to be comoodiouj which thev Vof-ui of, Veffl M if it ! tnor- , 3kan Ul 'fUCI 'f wvet BKut rnnd if approvo. '
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