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The Liberty Party And A Tariff

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Parent Issue
Day
9
Month
May
Year
1842
Copyright
Public Domain
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-TheLiberty Standard. of Maine, is in favor of a modorate Tariff. but uttcrly opposcd to a Tariff party. The Emancipator has not expresscd any opinión upon the ineasure. The People's Advocate, N. H. is opposed to the Home League excitement in all its sapects. The Friend of Man. of Utica. is about neutral, as nearly as we can discover. Gerrit Smith, we believe, is a free trade advocate., while Alvan Stuart. the candidato for Governor of New York, is a decided Tariff advocate, and attended the Staie Home League Convention as a momber. William Goodell's opinión ïvill be found on our first page. Arnold Bnffum. of the Western Freeman. Indiana, is a decided Tariff man, and wishes for a national Liberty Convention to adopt that as a rneasure of the Liberty party. Dr. Bailey. of the Philamhropist, we understind to be dccidedly friendíy lo a moderate Tariff. but we are not aware that he ia, in any sense, Home League partisan. The Madison County Abolitionist conaidcr9 the Home Lengue enterprize as Ja whig trap to catch voters for Henry Clay." In a subseiueni number, it snys: What earthly reaeon can the Whigs give why they do not have a TarifF. if Tariff tíiey want? - The Lo.o Focos can not defent them. The Arolitiomsts "hnve nobody in Congress" fo hinder their legislation: their way is clear to pass a Tar '.ff Bill before April poes oat. ii they have thk will But this would not answer ihiir ends - They want a:econd edtiion of 1H40. They must h'ive '■■commjtlon, motion. motin. the country through." or they are defeated in '42 and '44 - If they hy the'r sins at the door ofotheis, if they can induce the people to believe that there is some insuperable ohstnele (.) strait forward legisla'inn. and thus furnish an excuse f .r agitation on the ques'ion of protection. they hope to gain their ends by it, and thus elect a Godlees, hkartlls; Woman whipper to the Presidency.

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Signal of Liberty
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