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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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ADMINISTRATION 1"
How far
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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
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