Staunton Spectator, And General Advertiser

A STRIKING FACT

A few days ago, Mr. Cameron of Pa. presented to the Senate the proceedings of a meeting "of Democratic citizens residing in the valley of Wyoming, expressing their entire opposition to any alteration in the Tariff of 1842"—among the prominent actors at which meeting was Hendrik B. Wright, Esq., the President of the Baltimore Convention which nominated Polk and Dallas, and by which the famous resolutions were adopted of which so much has been said, and in conformity to the doctrines of one of which Mr. Dallas professed to consider himself pledged to give the casting vote in favor of "the British Tariff"—a tariff of which Senator Cameron truly said, "if the bill had been drawn by a British Statesman, it could not have discriminated more in favor of British workmen"—a tariff of which Senator Niles declared in his place, "not one-third of the Senators approved"—a tariff which Senator Benton brands as contradictory, incomprehensible, grossly defective and fraudulent!! And yet such a Tariff, thus disparaged by those who voted for it—thus confessedly crude and impracticable in its details, and threatening in its results the most disastrous consequences—this tariff, repudiated and scoffed at by a considerable number of the very men, who, under some strange infatuation, have nevertheless voted for it—this odious and inefficient measure, which is to bankrupt the treasury, to lead to a large National Debt, to diminish the wages of labor, to derange the currency, to check our manufacturing prosperity, to cripple commerce, and to paralyze agriculture,—this abominable measure has been forced upon the country by means which even its own friends dare not avow, and which they even shrink from characterizing! And this is done, too, in pretended conformity with a pledge said to have been given in the resolutions of the Baltimore Convention, in the teeth of the fact that the President of that Convention is seen among the number of its active opponents, and uniting with his "democratic" neighbors of Wyoming in the declaration that Polk and Dallas never would have been nominated by that body had it been presumed that they were opposed to the Tariff of '42, against which that resolution professes to have been levelled! The annals of party perfidy, abounding as they do in acts of treachery and fraud, furnish no case surpassing this in magnitude and enormity.—Rich. Whig.