Democratic.
CO UMTP COA PEA•TIOX.
In pursuance of public notice, Delegates
from the several townships and Boroughs
of /Huntingdon county, met on the 10th of
August, 1842, in the Borough of Hunt -
ingdon, for the purpose of nominating a
ticket to be supported by the Democratic
Harrison Party of Huntingdon County.
The meeting was organized by chosing
ANTIIONY J. STEW ART,•of Morris
township. President, and aril ,rating ROS
IEST CAMPBELL, ALEXANDER STITT, AA
aux STAINS, Secretaries.
Upon calling over the several town.
ships and boroughs, the following named
persons appeared and were admitted del•
*gates:
Allegheny. John Stanley, Jacob Kin.
eel.
Antes. Peter Igo, Robert Campbell.
Cromwell. Aaron Stains, A. J. Wigton.
Blair. J. A. NPCalien, Alex. Knox - .
Dublin. Thos. W. Neely, William
el,mmons.
Fraukstown. George. Kopp. Joseph
Robison.
Franklin. John Lee, Samuel Wigton.
Hopewell. Sebastian Keely, James En
trik,n jr.
Henderson. W. R. Hampson, E. C.
Hampson.
Morris. A. T. Stewart Wm. L. Spear.
Porter. Hugh B. Cunningham, Jacob
0. Hulett.
Springfield. Hugh l'ladden, Moses
Greenland.
Shirley. Abraham Long, James King.
Snyder. Thomas W. step, J. P. Ma
thins,
Tyrone. James S. Wilson, Conrad
Fleck.
Todd. A.B. Crewit, Solomon Houck.
Uriun. John Stever, Benj. Greenland.
♦Vest. Jame. Stewart, John Rung.
Lower Woodbery. Dr. A. M'Kamey,
Samuel R. Stevens.
Upper Woodbery. Johnston 11loore, II
Warrrurgmaik. Peter Burkett.
Walker. James Moore, Peter C. S•voope,
Boroue,h II mll4lOOll, James Saxton,
Joseph Forrest.
Hollidaysburg. John Brotherline, P.
Hewit.
airport. David Caldwell, Thomas
Jackson.
Alexandria. Alex. Stitt, Israel Graffius.
Birmingham. James Melton, Joseph
Hogentogier.
Shit leysburg. Peter Myers. A.O. Brown.
Petersburg. Jacob Renner, Dr. J. AV
Cul lough.
Birree. John Crum, James Myton.
Murry's Run. Abr'n Evens, Benj. Con
bin.
Rosberry. Eli Harris, Samuel M'Coy.
The following ticket was duly elected,
and with confidence submitted * , tor the
support of the people of Huntingdon
sounty:
Assembly.--3NO. M'WILLIAMS
BRICE BLAIR.
Prothonotary—J A NI ES STEEL.
gister St Recorder—JOHN REED.
Commissioner—ALEX. KNOX. jr.
Auditor-- 110 NI AS E. ORBISON.
Coroner—JAMES S AXTON, jr.
Conlr essional Conferees. —Du. Jinn
IVPCULLOUGII, Joni HItOPHERLINE.
S'ertatorinl Conferees.—Peter Hrwit,
A. J. Wigton, J Metliu, Israel Oral.
flue.
The following was offered by R. Camp •
bell, and adopted—
Witeneas, it is expedient and proper,
that, upon the approach of our annual elec
tions, the people, from whom all power
emanated. should in their primal y assent
sp gilt freely of their public men and
of those measures of government on which
the welfare and prosperity of the people
depends, and winch will produce the great
est gond of the greatest 'lumber, as well as
fearlessly declare the principles which im
pel them to action. The inure especially
as this pri sent juncture of prostrated faith,
ruined credit, and general pecuniary dis
tress which pervades the whole Comnion,
wealth, or rather, prevails from one ex-,
treme of the Union to the other, destroy
ing and rendering abortive the reward of
industly, and although the Barns of our
farmers groan under the weight of an
abundant harvest, and the manufactories
and workshops are filled with industrious
workmen, ruin stares them in the lace for
want 01 a market for the products of their
industry—all produced by the mal•admin
istration ut government—the want of a
well regulated Currency and a Protective
Tariff of duties. it is the duty 01 govern.
meat to protect the people in their busi
ness as well as in their lives and property,
as by the prosperity and success of every
branch of useful business of our country,
the wealth and independence of the State
is enhanced and the people wade more
happy. We therefore emphatically de
clare that the doctrine of Flee rrade, the
watchword of the Locufoco'
party, ought to be repudiated as destructive
of the best interests of the people of this
Uoion, and ol our independence as a nas
tion, especially as our hills and our valleys
abound in rich mines of Iron and coal, as
well as all other useful products necessary
fur our comfort and convenience, and our
people posses ample mechanical skill, eti
terprise and industry, to convert all into
articles of use and comfort. W hy, then,
in the name of common sense, should we
not protect our own manufacturers and me
chanics and fit nter., whose interests are
identical and each dependant on the pros-
Irity of the other, rather than impoverish
d beggar our people by keeping up anti
sustaining the manufactoring interests and
pauper labor of Europe? We also declare
that a Tariff that will give full and ample
protection to all the manufacturing inter
ests of our country is a principle of our
creed and a measure the consummation of
which we cannot, as American citizens,
yield. And Whereas, the protection of
the public credit of our own Keystone
State produced by the extravagance and
dishonesty of the party in power, call a•
loud for vigorous and decisive action to
prevent total ruin, and th,it the sale of the
public works is a matter indispensable to
save the public credit, and honor of the
State and which must be done before the
people will submit to increased taxation.
Therefore Resolved, That a Protective
Tariff will not only restore the prostrated
business of the country but it will prevent
the drain of precious metal from within
our border, which in the absence of a Tars
HT will rob us of all the currency which
ae yet have, and leave us worse and worse
as time progresses.
Resolved That the Free Trade doctrine
is impracticable and only can be entertain
ed 5y those amongst us who are destitute
of American feeling, ertimies of American
Independence, and enemies of the welfare
of the people. A British doctrine only
'talked of in theory there and practised by
'their friends their dupes and their agents
here.
Resolved, That the Public Improve
ments (Canals and Rail Roads) should
be separated from party politics and that
in no way can they be more effectually
disconnected with party, than by selling
them for whatever can be got for them, and
thrrehy prevent an increase of millions of
dollars yearly to the present enormous
debt of 40 millions.
On motion,
Resolved, That the bill passed by the
recommendation of the Governor to double
every man's tax in the Commonwealth, is
unnecessary and only called for by the
profuse lavish of the public money upon
political favorites.
Resolved. That the conduct of David
R. Porter in meddling, in the politics of
our county, is degrading to the office of
Governor of so great a Commonwealth ac
Pennsylvania, and unbecoming an hon
orable man.
Resolved, That we earnestly recom
mend to the support of every friend of , h.•
Commonwealth, the ticket this day formed
and ;!all upon all to watch closely the ma
ticeu vres of the enemy.
Resolved, That it is recommended to
the Democracy of the District to elect a
mewber of Congress to represent our in
terests in accordance with the late Dis
tricting of the State" by the. Legislature."
Resolved, That the conduct of Davit
R. Porter, in attempting to suppress the
Bill Districtii.g the State, by usdrpinA
power not granted to him, in either the
old or new Constitution for selfish motives,
is unworthy the conduct of any man who
regards the interests of the people, and
only in accordance with the well known
character of such an individual as His
Most Gracious Excellency.
On motion of John Brotherline,
Resolved, That in case of any vacancie, ,
occurring in the Congressional or Senato
rial Conference the Conferees are hereby
en powered to fill said vacancies.
Resolved, That Huntingdon county is
entitled to the candidate for Senator and
the conferees are hereby instructed to urge
her claims, insomuch as the eastern end
()Nile District has now both the Senators.
Resolved, That the proceedings of this
Convention be signed by the officers and
published in the “Journal" and "Register."
A. J. STE W ART, Pres'L,
ROBERT CAMI•REI.L.
ALEXANDER STITT, Secretaries.
AARON STAINS,
O/&io.•.lmporiant.
The Ohio State Journal in the 11th inst.
contains the following important state
ment. It will be recollected that Mr.
Adams predicted that evil would rise from
President Tyler's singular course of con
duct in filing leis reasons fur the approval
of the Apportionment Act:
SO APPORTIONMENT RILL PASRED-RE•
SIONATION OF THE WHIG MEMBERS OF
THE SENATE AND lIUUSE OF REPRESEN
TATIVES-APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE!!
It will scarce produce an emotion of
surprise on the part of our distant readers,
to hear it announced that the business of
the Legislature now in session has been
arrested, and that no bill fur the appor•
tionment of the State for the election of
Members of Congress, has been, or can
be, enacted. The course pursued by the
political majority in the two Houses, has
partaken too glaringly of premeditated
fraud and rapacity, not to have prepared
the public mind for such an event. The
crisis has occurred, and the agony is over!
Soon afier the preliminary business of the
two Houses had been despatched, this
moroin4, the resignations of the Whig
members, in both branches, (with one or
two exceptions,) were tend,red to the Spea
kers, and frith Muses were consequently
kit without a quorum.
The reasons for ais important step,
will in due time be laid before the public,
in detail. It will be demonstrated in the
most conclusive manner, that if the minor
ity, had not resolved upon this hightnind
ed and patriotic measure, they would have
deserVed the severest condemnation of
their constituents, as faithless and recre
ant to the trust reposed in their hands.—
Thank God ! they were not insensible to
the demands and obligations of duty, bat
have acquitted themselves in this crisis,
IS FREEMEN themselves, and as the Itsit
REiENTATI , ES OF FAREMENI The RC
claims of a people, jealous of their rights,
Intl resentful of every attempt to abridge
hem, will greet them on their return to
their several abodes.
Thus ends the Extra Session, conceived
in violation of the public will, prolonged
through three weeks of angry :ontention,
crawls and vain efforts to accommodate
the jarring interests of rival leaders and
,spirants, and productive only of schemes
of fraud and iniquity, for the furtherarce
of private objects and the subversion of
public right, in the foul concoction of
which their respective authors appeared
ambitious only of improving upon each
other's conceptions of the most effectual
mode of disfranchising the people of the
State, and converting the solemn specta
cle of our elections into the ridiculous
forms of a mockery !
Every efliirt has been made on the part
of the minority to conciliate the good will
of their opponents, and avoid this colli•
sion. They have been anxious, most an
xious to carry out the requirementsof the
Constitution and laws, in good faith.—
They have shown themselves willing to
pass over to the extreme verge of the
'ground of concession and compromise, if
they could be there met in a correspond
ing; spirit as equals and peers, with rights
'of their own and the rights of others to i
preserve. But such was not the will of
the majority.
Exulting in the present posseision of
power, obtained by accident, and which
they expect to lose, they had formed the
taring plot of perpetuating their influence
in the national councils by the peretra•
tion of a deliberate and odious fraud,
which struck at the fundamental princi
ples of all free government, and sought to
overturn and reverse all those maxims of
wisdom, truth and justice, upon which
rests the whole superstructure of our re
publican institutions. To have sat tamely
by and witnessed, nay, been accessarie,
to this sacrifice of popular right—the right
of the people to choose their own rulers—
THE RIGHT OF THE MAJORITY TO GOVERN
wouId have been a craven hearted sorrel',
der of the highest and dearest privileges
of freemen, and would have consigned to
merited infamy and never ceasing re
proach, those unfaithful servants who
could have thus quailed in the discharge
of a great duty.
Farming OIL a Large Seale.
What large tracts of land are sometimes
tilled in the Western States, under the name
of farms, may be judged from the following
article, which is found in the Peora Press :
AN ILLINOIS PRAIRIE FARM.--Mr Isaac
Underhill lots a flan' about 18 trifles above
this place, at Rome, on the Illinois river,
which is the largest, or at least one of the
largest in the State.
The first field of this farm that, meets
your view in approaching Home, consists
of five hundred acres, under what is some
times called Virginia or worm lence, eight
rails high. Three hundred acres of this
are in wheat, principally put in last fall,
and which was sowed upon the sod, last
year for the first time broken up by the
' plough. From such ground a full crop is
never expected, before the large furrows,
which had lain in a solid body of matted
roots for ages, are thoroughly decomposed
and pulvarized, which cannot take place
in a few months. The wheat is now (July
911) '' white for harvest," and it is estima
ted that parts of this field will yield 25,
and some SO bushels to the acre, though
the whole may not average much over 20
bushels. The difference in the crop is
mainly attributable to the time and the
'winner in which the ploughing and sow
ing were done. The balance of the field
is in corn and oats.
The second field which is nearest Rome,.
and separated trout the first named, by
the road leading Iron , Northampton to that
place, consists of two hundred acres,
t%hich is enclosed with an excellent board!
fence. This was dune at an expense (IF
81265, which was about the coat of the
fence around the five hundred acres.—
This field contains wheat, rye, corn and
oats, and shows what the La Salle prairie
can do when under full subjection to the
hand of the cultivator. The wheat here
presents a scene beautiful beyond descrip
Lion. It overtops the lence, which exceeds
five feet in height ; it is clean, well head •
ed and even, and roust produce thirty
five bushels to the acre. A description
of the rye and oats would be such as might
excite doubts of its truth in the minds of
those who have never seen the crops of
our prairie state. The corn, though fine.
is not so we!l grown as it is at the same
time of the year in ordinary seasons.
The third field, which lies north of the
second, will be of mammoth size when
completed, which will be in a very short
time. Much of it is now under fence,
broken up, and a part of it in corn. It
will consist of sixteen hundred acres, all
under one fence.
The whole farm comprises about two
thousand three hundred acres, and has a
straight line of fence on one side, three
miles low , .
' Mr. U. expects this fall to be able to
put seven or eight hundred acres in wheat.
Much of this will be in ground a second
year under cultivation, and with an ordi
nary season, the next year's crop of this
and the sod wheat, or what will be put in
new ground, may reasonably be calculated
t o yield at least, an average production of
25 bushels per acre.
The bre:acing or ploughing of the prai•
rie cost Mr. Underhill 82 50 per acre by
contract, and wheat sold here nearly all
last winter at 75 runts per bushel; if it
came a little under that on some days it
went higher on others. We add these
prices to the peeceding account, that the
reader may form some idea of what can 1 17ziqz/ 2441
be done in the way of prairie farming in
Illinois. Things to be Remembered
Mr. U. is now building two large birns, the Polls.
50 by 50 feet, on the batik of the river, at KEEP IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE„I
Rome, where there is one of the best that the Locofocos of the Legislature'
steamboat landings on the river. The passed a hill, which the Governor appro-'
first of these was raised last Saturday, ved, TO DOUBLE THE STA rE
and
the other will go up in a short time. ES! to be levied upon the present usrEquAL.
UNJUST AND ODIOUS assessment !
KEEP IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE,]
• that whilst the Locofocos of the House of
Representatives voted to oppress the peo-'
ple with an enormous and unjust sTA I E
I'AX, they voted for the resolution to
' REFUSE Pennsylvania's share of the
PROCEEDS OP THE PUBLIC LANDS.
KEEP IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE,
that notwithstanding their taxes are to be
thus unjustly and heavily increased, and
the money is riot to be applied to the pay •
meat of the public debt, but it to he ,quan•
dered as millions have been heretofore.
UPON THE ARMY OF POLITICAL
FAVORITES AND OFFICE HOL
DERS upon the public works of the State.l
KEEP IT BEFORE THE PEOIV,K
that whilst the Governor promptly signed'
! the bill to DOUBLE THE STATE TAX
ES, he refuses his signature to the Ap
portionment Bill, (hits defeating the main
object of the extra session, which was cons
vened at the expense of thousands of dol
lars, and deranging the whole political
organi7ation of the state, and perhaps
putting the people to the additional ex
pense of holding a special election fur the
election of members of Congress.
KEEP IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE,
that if they wish Reform in the'administra
tion o f th e government, they must vote
for honest Whig Representatives to rep
resent them in the next Legislature, who
will pay some regard to their interests
and wishes
ineqaality of Taxation.
It will be seen from a report of Dr.
Huddleson, Chairman of the State Corn
mittee on Education, that there are thirty
four counties in this state which do not
pay into the State Treasury a single cent
for the support of government, but on the
contrary they draw front the State Trea
sury C 5,278,84 for the support of their
schools which is paid by the people of
other counties, or more properly they draw
from the Treasury inure than seventy five
thousand dollars above what they pay in.
This sum, besides what they pay to edu•
cate their ow n children is paid by Berks,
Bradford, Bucks, Centre, Chester, Colum
bia, Dauphin, Delaware, Franklin, Hunt
ingdon, Lancaster, Lebanon, Lehigh,
Lycoming, Montgomery, Northampton,'
Nortumberland, Union and Philadelphia.
In the face of these facts the representa
tives of all the above counties that had the
misfortune to be represented by loco to•
cos voted to double the taxes upon their
constituents. The lntelligencer in refer•-
ring to the late iniquitous tax bill collects
from Dr. Huddleson's report the facts
that the counties of Beaver, Butler, Mer
cer, Venango, Warren, Jefferson, Arm
strong, Erie and Crawford, containing
210,483 inhabitants, and represented in
the Legislature by twelve Representatives
anal four Senators, will not, under the
present tax law, pay one dollar into the
Treasury for the use of the Common•
wealth, whale Dauphin and Lebanon,
comprising the Senatorial district, con
taining only 51,990 inhabitants, and rep
resented in the Legislature by only three
Representatives and one Senator, will
have to pay $39,056. Who will submit to
such a tax?
According to the report made by Mr.
Ifuddleson to the Senate, the nine coun
ties above mentioned paid only 825,605
of the state tax in 1841, while they drew
from the Treasury annually $57,378 for
schools, leavine other counties to make up
tiy taxation, after supporting their own
4chools, $31,772 to educate the children
of these counties. The counties of f)au•
phin and Lebanon pay, under the old law,
a tax of $25,917 24-813,139 inure than
they draw out fin• school purposes, and
under the new law their state tax will
amount to $51,835, 48, or one dollar for
every man, woman and child in the two
counties! while in the nine countiel of
Beaver, Merces, Butler, Crawford, Erie,
Venango, Warren, Jefferson and Arm
strong, the tax under the old law did not
exceed 12 cents, and under the new law
will average 25 cents upon each inhabi
tant:"
Rhode Island.
We are happy in stating that the Gov
ernor of the State of Rhode Island, by a
Proclamation dated on the Bth instant,
has suspended the operations of the act of
the General Assembly of the 25th ofJune
establishing martial law in the State. In
exercising this discretionary port er confi
ded to him by the act aforesaid, the Gov
ernor congratulates the citizens of the
State upon the fortunate termination of the
late dangerous crisis, and returns to them
his sincere thanks for the prompt and no
ble manner in which they assembled in
arms to defend the laws and Government
of the State. "To their gallant conduct
in the field," says he," they owe the safety
of their institutions, and the preservation
of the State from disgrace. Their num
bers and their zeal at (nice looked down
all hostile opposition to the laws, and frus
trated the wicked and unjust attempt,
heretofore unknown among our North
American Republics, to subvert the Gov
ernment of a free State by a lawless force."
—National Intelligencer.
A DINTRFASIMG OCCURRENCE.—The
Baltimore Clipper of yesterday says : On
Wednesday, of last week, the lady of Mr.
William George, residing on the Liberty
Road, tight miles from Baltimore, placed
her infant daughter, aged about 3 months,
upon a bed, spreading some light covering
over it, where she left it in gentle repose.
A short time alter, a servant of the family
entered the apartment with a bundle ol
clothes, and, without perceiving the child.
threw them upon the bed, where they re
mained until the anxiety of the mother
was excited by the protracted slumber ol
her infant, when, unconscious of the ser
vant having entered the apartment, she
hastened to the bed-side ; but who can
describe her agony at finding her little
one cold in death, suffocated by the weight
thus heedlessly placed upon it! So severe
a pang paralysed her every faculty, and
rendered her indeed a being to be pitied—
and even at the present moment, we are
informed, she can scarcely be made to
acknowledge the reality of her melancholy
privat:on.
HARD CURRENCY.-- I lie followinz, it is
said, were the funds with which a certain
safety batik in Michigan redeemed its
notes, to under $5. in whet.
tones; all over $5 and under $lO, in
Grindstones ; all over 810 and under $2O,
in millstones; all over 820 and upwards,
in checks on any quarry in the State.
He that has no bread to spare should
net keep a dog.
A HEART-RENDING OCCURRENCI.--OR
Saturday morning last, an occurrence of
a most heart-rending nature took place in
Alsace township, about three miles from
Reading, on the farm of Mr. Daniel Baum,
and which resulted in the loss of three ,
lives by drowning. From the evidence
before the Coroner, it appeared that Eliz
abeth Andy, aged 48 years, her son, aged
IS, and another small boy started out to
gather berries, and being some distance
from the house and near a pond of water,'
a chip hat belonging to one of the boys
blew into the pond, when the elder boy
stripped off and went in for it, and the
water being from twelve to fifteen feet
deep and unable to swim, the mother no
doubt having been alarmed by the cries of
the little boy, and perceiving his awful
situation, rushed in to rescue her drowning ,
son, hot alas it was only to share the sad
fate of him she loved. By this time the
little boy had spread the alarm at the
house, where a daughter of the old lady
was, named Rebecca Boyer, aged 22
years, who also rushed to the pond to res
cue her mother and brother, but in the
attempt she too was doomed to perish in
the same watery element. They were all
taken out after having been about half an
hour in the water. The old woman, who
weighed about two hundred pounds, was
found floating on the water, whilst the
other two were found lying at the bottom
of the pond. The pond is situated in a
field, about two hundred and fifty yards
from any house. Their remains were all
interred in one grave on Sunday last, in
the grave yard attached to the Alsace
church, attended by several thousand pro
ple.—Readsug Press.
From ehe National Intelligeneer,
The Lund Question.
To the Hon. JAMES BUCHANAN and DAN
IEL STURGEON, Senators in congress
from Pennsylvania.
GENTLEMEN : As one of your constitu
ents, I claim the privilege respectfully to
propound to you the following questions
in relation to the voles which you have
given in favor of the gratuitous surrender
of the proceeds of the sales of the public
lands to the United States: and as repub
licans and responsible Representatives,
you are doubtless prepared to give your
constituents prompt and explicit answers.
Preliminary to the proposed questions, it
may Le proper to state that, originally, the
public lands belonged to the States; that,
after the formation of the Federal Govern•
ment, these lands were ceded, by the
States to which they belonged, to the Fed.
oral Government to pay the Revolutionary!
war debt, and when that was discharged
they were, by the terms of their cession,
to revert to the States. The last of that
debt having been discharged some years
ago, Congress accordingly passed a law,
on the 4th of September last, surrender
ing the proceeds of the public lands to the
States, in pursuance of the tern's of its
original cession.
By the official report made at the last
extra session it appears that the public
lands, to which the Indian title has been
extinguished, amounted to 220,000,000
acres, and that to which the title remain
to be extinguished to 780,000,000; making
in the aggregate 950,000,000 acres; of
which Pennsylvania, according to her rep
resentation in Congress, is entitled to
101,785,704 acres; that is, 4,241,071
acres for each Representative. The title
of Pennsylvania to her just proportion of
the public lands, viz: 101 ,785,704 acres,
is now, by virtue of the original cession
and the act of Congress of the 4th of Sep
tember last, as perfect and indisputable
as your right to seats in the Senate, or the
farmer to his lands for which he holds the
patent of the Contseeawa t lth. Th e share
of Pennsylvania in those lands, at the
minimum pricy, (81,25) would be worth
$1127,24-2 130; and, at forty cents per
jacre, would pay off the whole of her State
Idebt amounting to upwards of forty mil
lions of dollars, which can never be paid
iu any other way, without crushing, the
'people with insupportable burdens. rake
away the proceeds of the public lands and
Pennsylvania must become bankrupt, or,
o hat is worse, repudiate. In this condi.
iron of things, would it not be inure wise
jand patriotic in her Representatives to
, endeavor to procure additional means to
pay her debts, than to give away for no
thing the only means she has?
The questions, then, to which I request
answers (and they must be given to the
tax-paying people, by all who voted with
you on this subject) are these:
Ist. Is Pennsylvania In a condition to
give away the whole of her distributive
share of the public lands without some
equivalent)
Pennsylvania surrenders to fhe
United States 101,7 04 acres, her
dis
tributive shore of p land, worth at
forty cents per acre, in than forty mil
lions of dollars, ought it riot to be on con.
dition that the United States assume at
least that amount of the Pennsylvania
debt, for which her creditors would gladly
accept a United States three per cent.
stock, which would reduce the lands to
twenty cents per acre, less than one sixth
of the present minimum price?
Sd. If you give up the public lands.
what has Pennsylvania, or any other in
debted State, left wherewith to pay the
pr,ncipal and interest of their State debts?
This is a grave and important question, to
which there is but one answer, and that
is, taxation —increasing taxation —now,
henceforth, and forever. Will this ans
swer be satisfactory 7
4th. But why is Pennsylvania and oth
er States so soon called on to retrocede to
the United States the proceeds of the,pub
he lands to which they are now both equit
ably and legally entitled 1 The only an.
swer is already given. "To avoid the
necessity of increasing the tart/fon foreign
goods."
sth. Rut since it has become necessary
to impose taxes either on foreign produc
tions or our own people, is it not better to
impose them on foreigners, especially
when foreigners impose duties to more
than double :he alumna on most of our
staples ; and when the effect of the tariff'
on foreign goods would be to create home
markets for our farmers, and check the
exportation of our specie to pay for what
we can and ought to produce at home 1
It is then, in fact, a question of taxation
between foreigners on the one side and
Americans on the other. It will be dis.
cusivid and understood by the people, who
already see clearly that the land and the
tariff questions are inseparably connect
ed.
Those who vote to give the land pro
ceeds to the States go for the tariff and
against State taxai ; and those who
vote to take the land from the States, and
give it to the United States, vote against a
tat iff and in favor of increasing State tax.
atom. Such is the obvious effect of their
votes, and it cannot be long disguised or
evaded.
This brings up the great tariff questioa
itself, which so deeply concerns the pros
perity of all the States, and of none more
than the State vou represent. Pennsylva
nia is essentially agricultural ; and of all
interests the farming interest is the most
deeply concerned in the result of the tariff
question ; for it may he sakly affirmed
that more than oneitalf of the value of all
the goods imported from abroad consists of
the agricultural productions of foreign
countries, worked op into cloth, iron, hate,
'hoes, and every other species of merchan.
ilize, &c. sent here for sale, and our spe
cie. by millions, exported to pay for them,
while our krtners are left without a mar.
ket, without money, and without a motive
to indu,try. For example : Take a yard
of foreign cloth, worth six dollars ; one.
half the value ($3) is wool, the product of
sustained by the grass and grain of
foreign countries; one fourth of its value
(Itt,so) consists of likad and meat, and
other agricultural supplies, consumed by
the hands employed in its manufacture.—
Thus three-fourths of the whole price
($4,50) is sent in specie to pay for English
and French wool and other agricultural -
produce, worked up into a yard of cloth,
and sent here for sale. The same result
will attend the analysis of iron, anti a
thousand other articles. Is it not ruinous
to our agriculture (on which every other
interest depends) to pursue such a policyl
And can it be sustained by the votes of
kmerican Senators, and especially those
representing the great farming interests of
the country?
But 1 will not now trouble you further
on the tariff' question, but may hereafter
add something in another letter.
Yours, respectfully,
w - FAYETTZ.
AVHIG PitosttsEs."--Before the elec.
tinn of 1840,4 was the standing complaint
of the Locolocos that the Whigs concealed
their intentions, and would not declare tits
principles on which they intended to
conduct the Government, but smothered
' all inquiries in the hurrah for Log Cabins,
Coon skins, Hard Cider, and Tippecanoe. ,
Now these same veracious gentlemen as
4ert that the AV hi gs promised every thing,
and pledged themselves to do every thing,
possible and impossible, in that very con.
test in 1840! Do not these two falsehood,
«aye ne the trouble of refuting •tithsr?..--
/V. Y. Tribune.
J. Orville Taylor estimates that there
are 80,000 Common Scheel, in the Union,