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MR. POLK.

 WINcHEsTER,M May 29, '43. 10 MePeoPle of TSnMessees

 The object which I had in proposing to GOv- e,SsOr Jones, at Carroll vile, on the 12th of April last ,that we should each write out and pub- fish our views and opin- ions on the subject of the Tariff. was, that o,tr ye- spective positions might be distinctly klOaC's aud ss'sderstOOd by Me PeO- pie. That my opinions were already fully and distinctly known,T could not doubt. IHAD STEAD ILY DURING THE PERL oD l WAS A REPREsEN- TATIvE IN CONGRESS BEEN OPPOSED TO A PROTECTIVE POLICY, AS MY RECORDED VOTES AND PUBLISHED sPEE- CHEs PROVE. Since I retired from Congress I had held the same opin- ions. In the present canvass for Governor I HAD AVOWED MY OPPOSITION TO THE TARIFF ACT OF THE | LAST WIIIG CON- GRESS, as being highly I frosective in it's charac- ter and not designed by its author ss a revenue measure. I had avowed my opinion in my pulp lie speeches that the in- terests of the country and especially of the producing and exporting States, REQUIRED ITS REPEAL, and the resto- ration of the principles of the compromise act of 1883.

 | JAMES K. POLK.