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THE SENTINEL.
Cadiz, July 3, 1814.
IIEXRY CXAV AM) THE HIGHT OF
IXSTRICTIOX.
'Whenever they kuow the wishes aud will of,
thoe who sect them here, they are bound to con
form to that will entirely."
"We aro nothins more -,n the mirror to re
flect the wii of those who called us to our digni
fied stations."
''It is no matter in what wouls or language
those instructions are given."
"And I,"avs .Mr. Clav,after maintaining that
the words request is better, because more res
pectful, than the word iimrvrt, "SHOULD
FEEL MYSELF BOUND TO COMPLY WITH
TilLIIl WISHES THUS COMMUNICATED."
Let us now see how far this preachor followed
his own precepts.
At the extra session of Congress in 1S-1J, Mr.
fi.. i, . i...r. . :.. .i ..e
rrs t- , . . . -, . . ww a luatmi" pan in me ijuiijc ui ute
i nerru&iucnuai Election 01 1 Standi Bankrupt law, which he called "a link in die
me liaukrupt law of 1 8 1 1 .
Br AMOS KEXDAtL.
During the first portion oUIenry Clay's polit
ical career, he was emphatically THE DEMO
CRAT. There wasno populardoctrine to which
he did not subscribe. He was always for the
People and with the People; and we' believe it
was some distinguished Englishman who called
Lim "the great Commoner.""
No man went further in inculcating tlio rlntv
of obedience to the will of the People by thei
servants in Congress and the Leg'slalurcs of the
States, or was more prompt in denouncing and
attempting to punish delinquent Senators and
Representatives. In loll the will of the Statu
c k- .....i... I . I . .
u. m-mutkj wuscieany expressed against re
diarterinjr the old Bunk of the United Slates:
hut John i Pope, then Mr. Clay's colleague in the
United States Senate, disobeyed the instructions,
and voted for the rechartcr For that act Mr.
Clay and his friends but him down in Kentucky,
though a, man of excellent talents and better char
acter than his rival.
Although Mr. Clay afterwards went over to the
Bank, ho continued to profess the same faith on
the subject of instructions, both popular and leg.
islative. He voted for the celebrated Compen
sation Bill at the session of Congress in 1S15-1G,
and for its repeal at the succeeding session. The
reason he gave for this change was the will of his
Constituents. In a speech which maybe found
in the National Intelligencer of 1817, he thus laid
down the doctrine constructions, as he recogni
sed it both in theory and practice, viz:
"Mr. Clay said he agreed perfectly in the scn
iiment, that instructions given by the People are
obligatory on the Representatives. This was a
principle consecrated by the Revolution, insep
arable from all free government, and which he
therefore hoped never to see departed from, in
practice, under ours. Whilst, then, ho had a scat
on this floor, Mr. C. said, it was immaterial how
ho arrived at the will of his constituents, or what
were the evidences of it; it was suflicient that he
should know it. In all casos of expediency, he
neia tne aoctnne ot an obligation on h;s nart to
observe the instructions, expressed or implied, of
But Mr. Clay was ambitious to be President
Ho had seen the Secretary of State sneered u,
the Presidency, until ho looked upon it as the
established order of succession. He thought ho
should be secure of the prize, if he could but
place himself in the line of "safe precedents,"
as he himself called that position in 182j.
, When, by the result if the electoral election
in 182-1, it was found that the contest in the
House of Representatives, would rest between
Andrew Jackson and John Q. Adams, the Leg
islature of Kentucky, by an overwhelming major
ity, adopted the following resolutions, viz:
"Resolved c'c. Thai the members of the
House of Representatives in the Congress of the
United States, from this Stale, be requested to
vote for General Andrew Jackson as President
of the United State.
"Resolved, at the, opinion of this legislature.
That Gen. And row Jackson is the second choice
of the Slate of Kentucky for the next President
of the Unilcd Siales; that a very large majority
of the people of this State prefer General Jackson
to Mr. Adams or Mr. Crawford, and that the
members of the House of Representatives in the
Congress of the United States will, by comply
ing with the request herein signified, faithfully
ana truly represent tlio leelmgs nnd wishes of
the good people ot Kentucky."
What said Mr. Clay? In a letter to a friend
in Virginia, dated 4th Feb. 1S23, and published
in the National Journal of 28 di April, 1828, he
said:
"What, do yuu desire?
Mr. Crawford ? I cannot.
WILL NOT."
Suiting the action to the word he voted for
Mr. Adams; and by his vote and influence made
him President, and received the ollicc of Secre
tary of Stale at his hands.
It was THE WILL OF MR. CLAY, not the
trill of Kentucky, which gave her vole to Mr.
Adams, and gave a President to the nation.
Whatever weight in;ght be given to Mr. Clay's
excuses for his flagrant violation of the will and
wishes of his State, in giving her vote lor Mr.
Adams in 1S25, there is a more- recent case in
which he stands without the shadow of an apolo
gy. Since that time, he has recognised the doc
trine of instructions in its fullest extent. On the
; 14th January, 1839, certain resolutions of the
. . North Carolina Legislature were piescutcd to
the United States Senate, of which Mr. Clay was
then a member, requesting their Ssnalors to vote
for rescinding the expuiijrins resolution, for the
distribution of the land money, tfce. with which
. the (senators Irorn that State icfused to comply.
Mr. Clay gratuitously look them to tusk, nnd in
a short speech,, reported in the National Intelli
., gencer of Jan. 1(5, 1839, thus laid down 1lic doc
- trine of instructions, viz:
"And what is the doctrine of instructions, as
. it is held by all? Is it not that wc arc to conform
to the wishes of our constituents? Is it not that
, wo are to act, not in our own, but in a delegated
character? And will any who stands here pie
tend that, whenever they know the withes and
will of those who sent them here, they are not
bound to conform lo that will entirely? Is it not
the doctrine that we nro nothing more than the
' minor to reflect the will of those who called us
to our dignified ollicc? This is the view which
I take of the doctrine of instructions.
"And now I ask, is any peculiar language ne
r.esfary, other than that by which the will of our
constituents may be uudcrvtood and carried out?
Is there but one won that will answer no oili
er word but the word instruct? Is there no lan
guage tantamount to thai? It the Legislature
, simply express their will is that not an equiva
Jcnt word to instruct? Nay, more; is it not more
respectful to those receiving the instructions, to
avoid than to. two tho word instructions?
-
"And it -appears to me, that if tho Legislature
have the right, nnd choose to give instructions,
it is no matter in what words or language those
instructions are given; nnd I should feel mysoll
bound lo conform to thoir wishes thus communicated.'
Here wo have the doctrine from the mouth of!
Mr. Clay liirnjelf. It is
"To conform to tho will of out constituents."
great system of whig measures."
As antxipated, the people of Kentucky rose
up against the law, and demanded its repeal al
most unanimously. Their "wishes and will"
were very significantly indicated through the
Legislature.
On the 5th of January, 18-12, the Kentucky
House of Representatives adopted the following
resolutions unanimously or at least without a
division viz:
"1. Resolved, That in the opinion of the Gen
eral Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentuc
ky, it is the desire of a lavpc mijority of the peo
ple of Kentucky that tho Bankrupt law, enacted
at the late extra session of Congress, shah be re
pealed. '2. Resolved, further, That our Senators in
Congress be, and they are hereby, instructed,
and our Representatives requested to use their
influence to have said law repealed.
On the 19th of Januniy the resolutions came
bark to the House from the Senate amended, so
as to read as follows:
"Resolved, luithe General Assembly of the
Commonwealth of Kentucky, That it is the desire
of a majority of the people of Kentucky, that the
Bankrupt law, passed at tiie late extra session of
Congress, shall be rcpcalod, or so niodilieu as to
free it from its retrospective operation; and that
our Senators and Representatives in Congress be
requested to use their inllucuce to obtain such
repeal or modification."
The change made in the Senate, with another
resolution added by that body, declaring that the
People of Kentucky, as well as the General As
sembly, regarded "the continuance in force of
the Land Distribution Law as of far greater im
portance than the repeal of the Bankrupt law,"
was negative m tlie House of Representatives by
Tallmadge, Walker, White, Williams and Wood-
bridge -2 J.
If Mr. Clay bad conformed to the "wishes and
trill" of his constituents, and voted on the other
side, the Bankrupt law would have been repealed
and the wholesale repudiation of private debts,
witnessed in 1842, would have been prevented.
The Bankrupt law, was, therefore, Mr. Clay's
law. His ILL passed and preserved it, in de-
fianceof the will of his constituents. HIS WILL
WAS LAW.
But this "man Charles," who would not regard
either the word "instruct,"1, nor the word "re
quest" not any other evidence of the will of his
master, did" not confine himself to mere disobe
dience. He turned round and told his master,
that it was a "work of inhumanity and cruelty"
which he required him to do; so inhuman and
cruet that he had not "the heart to do it" that
he had not "the hand to it :" so atrocious, that
(says he) "I CANNOT, I WILL NOT do it."
But lest we should be charged with misrepre
senting him, we give a literal extract from his
speech on the occasion as revised by himself: v iz.
"Should the work of destruction be accom-
' plished, they will not be days of mercy but of
' cruelty and inhumanity.
"Their condition (the debtors) resembles that
4 of innocent and unfortunate men, long and un-
' justly incarcerated in the dark walls of a jail
' Its door is half open; they are rushing towards
it, pale, emaciated, and exhausted; the light ol
heaven has once more beamed upou their hag-
' gard faces, and once more they begin to breathe
' the cool and pure air of an unconlaminated al
4 mosphore. At this instant oi time, the Senate
4 is called upon lo drive them back to their gloo
4 my and loathsome ceils, and to fiirg back that
4 door upon its grating hinges. And I am invited
4 to unite in this work of inhumanity and cruelty!
4 1 have not the heart to do it! I cannot, 1 will
That I should vote for
For Gen. Jackson? 1
a voto of 5 to 62, and in consequence of this
disagreement the resolutions failed; but no man
was left in doubt as to "the wishes and will" of
the State in relation to the Bankrupt law. Of
that we have abundant evidence besides the
unanimous adoption of a resolution to that effect
in each House of the General Assembly.
Mr. Clay himself, on presenting certain peti
tions against a repeal of the kw on the 12th Jan
uary, 1812, uttered, the following, viz.:
"A single romaik he must be permitted in re
ference lo tho delegation in the other House
from his own State. At the last session, every
member of that delegation, with one solitary ex
ception, had voted against the passage of the
Bankrupt bill; and even that single advocate of
the bill, on his return to his own district, tuund
so great and general dissatisfaction with the pro
visions of the bill, that he had on tho present oc
casion felt it his duty to give such a vole as he
piesumed it would appear he had this day given
in that body on the question of repeal." See
Congress Globe, 1S11-2, page 130.
And Mr. Garret Davis did, with tho entire
delegation from Kentucky in the House of Rep
resentatives, vote for the repeal of the law.
Mr. Morehead, the colleague of Mr. Clay in
the Senate, gave testimony to 4thc wishes and
will" of his constituents in tho following manner
viz.
" It could not have escaped his notice, nnd that
of the Senate, by the Legislature of Kentucky
had by a largo majority passed resolutions upon
tho subject of the Bankrupt law, expressing an
opinion that it ought lo bo repealed.
Whether tho Bankrupt law
was a measure of national beneif, or national
injury, was a question, about which the People
of the United Stales could form their own con
clusions; but whether the measures would affect
advantageously or injuriously the interests of the
people ol Kentucky, t.icy alone were competent
to judge; and so far as he was concerned, he
thought from their judgment there was no ap
peal. .
Surely, here was evidence enough to satisfy
the most incredulous as to "the wishes and will"
of the State of Kentucky.
1. There was the unanimous vote of (ho Ken
tucky House of Representatives, instructing their
Senators, Messrs. Clay and Moorhcad, to vole
for the repeal.
2. There was the vote of tho Senate of Ken
lucky, wc believe equally unanimous, requesting
them lo vote for tho repeal.
3. There was tho unanimous vole of the dele
gation from Kentucky in the United States House
of Rcprescnratives in favor of repeal.
4. There was the vote of Mr. Clay's colleague
in the Senato for the repeal, avowedly in obedi
ence to the unequivocal and overwhelming opin
ion and will ot the Slate of Kentucky.
5. There was Mr. Clay's own admission, that
h:s own Representative, the only member of the
House who had dared to vote for tho passage of
the act, was compelled, by the overwhelming
voice of his constituents, to vole for ils repeal.
Did Mr. Clay OBEY the instructions of his
constituents, so unequivocally expressed? Did
ho practice upon the precepts ho laid down to
Senators Brown and Strange, of North Carolina,
in 1839? Did he "coulorm to the will of his
constituents?" Did ho act "not in his own, but
in a delegated character?" , Was ho "nothing
4 not do it!" See App. to Cong, Globe 1841- 2,
page 98.
Who is it that Henry Clay thus characterizes
as MONSTERS ot"inhumanity and cruelty?'''
His colleague in the Senate!
The entire delegation from Kentucky in the
House of Representatives!!
The entire Legislature of Kentucky!!!
FOUR FIFTHS OF THE PEOPLE OF
KENTUCKY!!!!
He not only disobeys his constituents but he
INSULTS them! Thev are too heartless and
cruel to be obeyed by a servant so tender hearted
and so gentle-handed as Henry Clay!
Ah! if that heart could have felt a little for the
wife and children of the murdered Cilley.
Henry Clay's WILL in r'criance of his con
stituents, gave a President to the nation:
Henry Clay's WILL, in defiance of his con
stituents, has once given a Bankrupt Law to Ken
tucky and tne nation.
Kentucky and '.no nation punished him for the
first offence; lie is now on tiial for the second.
It remains to he seen, whether Kentucky will
reward with her support, a SERVANT who dis
obeys and insults her; whether the nation will
place at its head a man whose STUBBORN
WILL, regardless of tho most sacred obligations
of a public servant, has once given it a President
to distract it and a Bankrupt Law to demoralize
it. If his WILLIS LAW when in a subordinate
station, what may it not be with the keys of the
Treasury in his hand and the Army and Navy at
Ins command f
and
"To act, not in our
character."
own, but in a delegated
more than tho mirror to reflect the will of those
who called him to his dignified station?" Did
ho, considering it "no mutter in what words or
language those instructions wore given," feel
himself "bound to comply with their wishes thus
communicated r .
No, no. While every other member from the
State yielded lo the popular will, Henry Clay a
lone haughtily replied to the almost unanimous
demand of his State, "I cannot, I WILL NOT do
it." Yes, 1I1S will was to govern, instead of that
of his constituents. He made himself tho MAS
TER, instead of the servant; Ihe MONARCH
and tlio TYRANT, whose will was law. Em
phatically, tho will of Heniy Clay, in this case,
was LAW. Tho Bankrupt act had not yet gone
into operation. Tho bill to repeal it had passed
tho House of Representatives. It was the 38th
of January, and tho net was lo go into operation
on tho 1st ofl' cbruury. Without Mr. Clay the
Senate was equally divided, and on tho repealing
bill the voto was as follows, viz.:
Ykas Messrs. Allen, Archer, Bayard, Ben
ton, Buchanan, Calhoun, Fulton, Graham, King,
Linn, McRoberts, Morehead, Pierce, Prentiss,
Rives, Sevier, Smith of Connecticut, Sturgeon,
Tappttn, Woodbury, Wright, and Young 22.
Nays Messrs. Barrow, Bates, Berrien, Cho
rtle, CLAY, Clayton, Evans, Hendeison, Hun
tington, Kerr, Mangum, Merrick, Miller, Phelps,
Poitcr, Simmons, Smith of Indiana, Southard,
Progressive 1'odcral 3sm Cooncy
Ntitivcistsi I2eutic:tl.
On Tuesday last, Mr. Archer, a loading whig
in the United States Senate, made a speech up
on the occasion of presenting a memorial from
the church-burning coons of Philadelphia for an
alteration of the naturalization laws, so as to re
quire a residence of twenty-one years before a
person who has tho misfortuue to be born in
Ireland, Germany, or any other portion of the
world not included within the limits of Hie Uni
ted States can be allowed to exercise tlio elec
tive franchise. In that speech Mr. Archer laid
down the principles of whiiraerv of which he
is tho brightest ornament in the following,
which we cut from the Congressional report of
the Baltimore Aigus:
44 lie (Mr. Archer) had observed that, in two
or three instances recently, the gentleman who
presented similar memorials from tho same quar
ter accompanied them with the expression of
their own sentiments on the.subjoct. Although
it was quite an unusual thing for him, on the oc
casion of presenting a memorial, to indulge m
any observations, he should now so far depart
from th;s course, as to remark, m opposition to
the dissent expressed by those gentlemen, that
ho entirely concurred with the memorialists in
the prayer of the memorial. I Ins was a sub
ject which, he was sorry to say, had not as yet
sufficiently attracted the attention of the people
of the United States, There was, he thought a
growing combination of circumstances, which
furnished ample ground for the conclusion, that
the great mas3 of uneducated foreigners, whol
ly ignorant of the nature and value of our insti
tutions, annually pouring into the country, could
not, within the short period of five years, fixed
by the present law, become fit to exercise, with
a due sense of their value and responsibility, the
rights and privileges of native botn citizens. The
premature exercise of Buch rights had grown to
an evil of great magnitude, of which there had,
unhappily, but too recently, been a painful de
monstration. If no other persons in the national
councils should take up tins subiect, ho would,
himself, in the proper time, when that party the
whiff parly! should come into power which would
give effect to views of sound policy introduce
some measure such as the memorialists justly con
cluded had now become necessary. .
We have now the pledge of one of the lead
ing lights of whiggery that, as soon as that parly
net tho power, thev "would introduce some
measure, such as the memorialists just couclu
ded had now become necessary." The "just
conclusions" of the memorialists arc, that persons
born out of the United States should serve an
apprenticeship of twenty-oue years before they
can bo allowed the same rights that are allowed
to negroes in Rhode Island.
The law passed by the alien and sedition law
administration of old John Adams, and which
has covered that administration with an infamy
as eternal as that which covers the character of
Henry Clav, only required a FOURTLEN
YEAR'S RESIDENCE in the Unilcd States,
to enable a foreigner to vote. Since that day,
federalism has PROGRESS ED Church burn
ing whiggery has improved vpon the ultra fed-'
eralism of old John Adams they have added
ONE-THIRD TO THE APPRENTICESHIP
OF FOREIGNERS TO MAKE THEM E
QUAL TO NATIVE COONS. Old John Ad
ams's federalism admitted the foreigner to a par
ticipation of tho privileges of an American citi
zen after a residence of fourteen years, but mod
em federalism would now requiro TWENTY
ONE YEARS'. RESIDENCE, before a citizen
of tho land of Montgomery, Pulaski, I)e Kalb,
or La Fayetle. can have a right to voto,
Coonory, in Ohio, has tried haul to deny the
afliuity between Naliveisin and whiggery. . Af
ter this declaration of principles for the public
eye, by Mr. Archer, will they still repudiate
their church burning principles? Statesman.
16 DAYS LATER TRO.H KI HOPE.
Sentence and Imprisonment of O'Con-
nell and others.
The Royal Mail Steamship Acadia, Captain
Ryrie, arrived at Boston on Wednesday after
noon, at about 1 o'clock.
Switzerland has been the scene of a short
though somewhat sanguinary civil war.
TIIE STATE PROSECUTIONS SEN
TENCE UPON TIIE TRAVERSERS
Tne Court at Dublin was crowded on Friday
to hear the decision of the Judges on the new
trial motion, and in anticipation of sentence be-
iii2 passed on the repeal agitators. Ihe traver
sers having been called on,
Mr. Justice Perrin read his judgment, which
was that Mr. O'Connel and Father Tierney were
entitled to a new trial, there being no evidence
whatever against the latter.
Mr. Justice Crampton decided that Father
Tierney alone was entitled to a new trial, and
that the verdict should stand as regarded all the
other traversers.
Mr. O'Connel and the other traversers have
not only been setenced, but are in prison, very
much to the astonishment, alarm, and indigna
tion of that numerous body in England, as well
as in Ireland, who have pinned their political
faith to the sleeve of the Liberator, or who look
upon his proceedings, in reference to the repeal
question, as calculated to assist their own views
of removing the civil, political and religious in
stitutionsof the mother country.
SENTENCE ON TRAVERSERS.
Daniel O'Connell. To be imprisoned for 12
calendar months; to pay a fine of 2000, and to
enter into securities to keep the peace for seven
years himself in 5000 and two securities of
2500 each.
John O'Connell, John Gray, T. Steele, R,
Bartlett, C. G. Duffy, and T. M- Ray. To be
imprisoned for nine calendar months; to pay a
fine of 50, and to enter into securities to keep'
the peace for seven years themselves respec
tively in 1000 and two securities of 500
each.
Address of O'Connell to the People of
Irclasid Pence and quiet.
People ok Ibelanb Fellow Coiinthymen
Beloved Fellow Countrymen: The sen
tence is passed. Rut there is another appeal
from that sentence. It lies to the Houso of
Lords. I solemnly pledge myself to bring an ap
peal against this sentence, and I assure you there
is every prospect that it will be received. Peace
then and quiet. Let there be no particle of ri
ot, tumult or violence.
This is the crisis in winch it will be shown
whether the people of Ireland will obey mo or
not. Any person who violates the law, or is guil
ty of any violence, insult or injury to person or
property, violates my command and shows him
self an enemy to mc, and a bitter enemy to Ire
land. The people of Ireland tho sober, steady, hon
est, religious people of Ireland have hitherto
obeyed my commands and kept quiet. Let ev
ery "man stay at home. Do not crowd the streets,
and in particular let no man approach the pre
cincts of the Four Courts.
Now people of Dublin, and of Ireland gener
ally, I shall know, and the world will know,
whether you love and respect mo or not. Show
your love and regard for me, by your obedience
to the law your peaceable conduct, cc the total
avoidance of any riot or violence.
PEACE, ORDER, QUIET, TRANQUILITY.
Preserve the peace, and the Repeal cause will
necessarily be triumphant. Peace and quiet I
ask for in my name, and as you regard me
Peace and quiet I ask for in the name of Ireland
and as you love your native land. Peace qui
et order. I call for under the solemn sanction
of religion. I conjure you to observe quiet, and
I ask it in the adorable name ot the ever Jivih
God.
Gratify me and your friends by your being qu
ct and peacable,
The enemies of Ireland would be delighted
at your violating the peace, or being guilty of any
disorder.
Disappoint them gratify and delight by peace,
order and duiet.
Your faithful friend,
DANIEL O'CONNELL.
The Whig KefaM lo Prevent Pipe-
laying.
Tho most enormous frauds have been judi
cially proved lo have been piactised by the whig
party ujion the democratic party, frauds which
go to destroy tlio very loundalions 'ol our Oov
erument popular sovereignty; and which tho
Democrats, hi a body, allege gave the whigs suc
cess in isiu. itie democratic party in tne
House of Representatives pass a bill to prevent
a repetition of those frauds, and the whig Senate
postpones its opeiation until after auother Piesi-
deutial election! Can any honest mmd resist
the conclusion that the whigs of tho Senate
know the advantages they have heretofore deri
ved from the frauds complained of, and that they
do not intend to give them up till after another
election, which, if they carry, will enable them
to substitute tho power of a Bank of the United
States over the people for tho frauds they must
now resort to upon their suffrages, Globe.
Polk Sallad. Poke (Phytolacca-) is a valu
able medicinal plant, its root is emetic, purga
tive, and somewhat naicotic, and we trust the
dose recently administered by the Democratic
Convention, will have similar tiled. I hat it
will work the body politic, and cleanse it from
impurities, that all corruptions and gangrene
will disappear, and a healthy action be created
throughout the system. The whigs will be set
to sleep, and if they wake again before the expi
ration of four ycais, we will prepare another
dose.
All acknowledge the value and usefulness of
Poke as Salad, (or rather greens,) and we have
by spelling the name of the nominee for the Vice
Presidency backwards, (Dallas,) aiid also prefa
cing it with tho name of the nominee for the
Presidency, (Polk,) Poke Sallad to regale our
uppetitcs during the ensuing year. Liking the
vegetable, wo go the whole for Poke Sallad.
Chcraw S. C.) Gazette.
Henry Clay, in spite of his clubs, of his chor
isters, of hiscoon-adoring, andsong-singing apos
tles aid disciples, will fail of ' attaining to the
Presidency, is day by clay, becoming stronger
Taking the character of the man alone into view
we aro ready to admit that he is one of the most
aitlul party managers in the world; that Jie lias
his party machinery most admirably adapted to
effect his obiecls; but there seems to be a control
ling destiny which prevents the accomplishment
of his purposes at tho very eve of success; which
dashes the cup from his hand at the moment when
it touches his lips: which has said to him, "so tar
shalt thou go and no further;" and which has
stamped upon the book of fate Henry Clay shall
nover be President ot these United Stales, lis
last move upon the political chess board is one
that loses him the game. He plays admirably to
a certain point, and then with the tho recklessness
of a gambler, mad with tlio prospect ot success.
he makes a fatal move, which ruins every thing
He has courted the northern abolitionists, he
will find that they arc not the northern people
He will learn to his sorrow, that, d iv alter day
the measure of Texas annexation will grow upon
the whole American people; that it is a ineasu
of the utmost importance to Northern interests
whilo it is closely allied to tho prospects of the
Southern people; and that, ere the Presidential
contest comes on, a party shall have been raised
in this country, which will laugh to scorn his
boisterous clubs, and his whining choristers who
think to rule this free nation by their much tal
ing, shouting and singing Georgian.
A5
4TllE WAGES OF LABOK, THE FIRST TTI1NO TO
FALL, AND THE LAST THING TO IUSE.' This Was
one of those important principles laid down by
Ihe Democratic Party in the exciting canvass of
1S-10, which was assailed by tho Whig leaders
with the fury of persons who fully understood its
tutitre importance on tne pontics oi ine counuy:
But during the last year, this principle has been
illustrated so clearly, that few will hereafter doubt
its truth.
Since tho spring of M3, it is notorious that
prices of almost every article used in the con
sumption of the country, has risen. Cotton goods
are higher, and so is the raw material. Hard
ware is higher. Woollen goods have also Ad
vanced in a greater proportion than the price of
wool. Iron has also taken a large start much
to the profit of the manufacturers; and Real Es
tate and Rents have also decidedly advanced.
Tho manufactories of America are reaping tar
more than their usual harvest of profits. This
is not denied. But the question most interes
ting to a statesman is, have tho wages of labor
risen under this renewed prosperity? It is noto
rious that they have not. For more than a year,
Capital has been rocoiving a steady pecuniary
benefit from the tariff law of 1812 while Labor
which it was ostensibly desigued to protect, has
received no advance. Wages are no higher in
the spring of '44, than they were in the spring
of'43.
Of late, there have boon efforts in some of our
cities to obtain an advance by means of strikes,
on tho plea, just in itself, that everything else du
ring tho last twelve months has advanced but
their wages. . ' -
Do not all these aspects prove that labor is the
last thing to rise, and that Capital, rather ihai
Labor, was enriched by the Tariff law of '42?
Albany Argus. .
Somo professing Christians will, at tho ensu
ing Presidential election, cast their votes tor
duellist, a gambler, a man of habitual profanity;
and will then go " up into the tempic lo pray,"
and thank God that they are not like other men,
and especially like these Democrats. So did
the Pharisees of old. Notwithstanding their
boast of tho influence of "this blessed religion,"
they moan to show, they have' "got somo spunk
left yet." N. Y. Plebeian.
Thnt Tea and CoSI'ec Tax.
Why aro the whig papers silent about Ilcnr
Clay's being in favor of taxing Tea and Coffee?
Wo wish it, distinctly homo in mind by ou
readers, that. Mr. Clay on September 4, 18 11, in
the Senate of tho United States, spoke in favor
of imposing a tax ou lea and Coffee. Ho said
he 44 should vole lor a tax on 1 ca and Coiiec.
The British before the Revolution attempted
to impose a tax on Tea. Tho patriots of the
Revolution opposed it. Tho Boston 44 Tea-
party " overthrew Ihcir Tea into the sea. Mr
vJlay desired to go tanner than tAird iNorlli him
self and fax Coffee nnd Tea, and thus put a bur-
den of tax upon articles used by the poor as we
as the rich. (37-Not a Clay man in the United
Stales dare contradict it. Mich. Jcffcrsoniun.
The issue is now Clay and Fielinglmyscn
against Polk und Dallas, demagoguism against
patriotism, Fudoralism against Democracy, the
bank against the people, a combination of a few
manufacturers nnd politicians against tho bos!
interests of tho country, tho "embodiment
of whiggery against the charter of our liberty
the constitution'; and having entire confident:
in the purity, patriotism, intelligence, and justice
of the people, wc aro rcadv to meet it, Who
doubts but the people will gain an overwhelm
tug triumph? Plebeian.
Beak, tup. Buckeye Blacksmith. This no
torious and loul-moulhcd utterer ot day win,
humfcuggery and falsehood, recently made
speech at a meeting of the Clay Whig Club in
Pittsburgh, in which ho said that James K. Polk
. . . . , , , , i -t mi-
was a duel list, a tfamuicr, and adiunuarci, ims
Bear is the same brute who stated, a short time
since, that he illuminated his house when he
heard of the death of Cillcy, and who also said
that he would rejoice to hear of tho death of
Gen. Jackson. Plebeian.
" Oh, for a whip in every honest hand,
To lash the rascal naked through the land ! "
It is astonishing to witness the enthusiasm
which i s every where manifested for " Youno
HtcKony. Lvory man, woman and. child you
moot is full of it. We havo accounts of like en
thusiasm from all parts of the Union the watch
word is "AlVs Well!" Hurrah for Polk and
Dallas (hat's the ticket, :
Consistency. Mr. Clay on a late occasion
said: "I should have preferred that the Com
promise Act, in all its parts, could have boon
adhered to." Yet tho whig press assail Col.
Polk, ttTid call him a Frku Thaue Mas, because
he is in favor onlio Compromise Act. I .Mi, con
sistency, thou ort a jewel!
Tkuth and Wit.- Tho Democracy of Pitts
burgh held an immense meeting in that city to
respond to the nomination by the Baltimore
Convention. The speech of Mr, M'Candless
was peculiarly happy. In the course of his re
marks he said: 44 The whigs say Mr. Clay is a
triel friond: and so he is. He has been tried
twice and condemned, and will be executed in
November, 1844."
An Anli-Gambling Society, numbering 500
members, has been tormed at Baltimore. l'hu,
Mercury.
Wonder if this Wasn't a whig tnck to save
Clay from Poker.
H-a-h! When Mr. Clay heard of the Balti
more nominations, one of his coon neighbors
asked him how he would like a game of Polker,
44 Oh, it's a doubtful game, sir," said Clay ; " I'd
much prefer 4 Scecn-up,"1 and if that wont win for
me, why, my dear sir, wo must do our best at
'JSrag!1
How tremendously the coon parly shouted a
monlh ago; and how small they sing now! The
roar of tho lion from ihe eternal. rocks, has chan
ged to tho thin squeak of a mouso from a cranny
in a stone fence. ' .,
To keen preserves for years, bottlo" them up
and place thoni on somo conspicuous shelf, lab
elled 44 arsenic." Wo have kept the best pro
serves for years in this manner, even in a house
full of boarders and apprentice boys. It boats
cool collars all to smash.. 1
For whitewash that will not rub off, mix half
a pail of lime and water reudy to puton the wall;
then take a gill of wheat flour, mix it up well
ivith a very little cold water, then pour boiling
water over it til it thickens, l'our u into mo
white wash' while hoi, and stir the whole well to
gethcr.
MRS. WIMER; OR
.Another Remarkable Cure by using
Wisiar's Balsam of Wild Cherry Tree
THE GREAT REMEDY FOR
CONSUMPTION!
MOXG all ihe famous Jletlicinei for Consump
tion, none stems to be meeting will greater suc
cess, or gaming a luglier reputation uiun mat most won
derful article,
Wistar's Balsam of Wild Cherry!
Ttmt it stands at the head of all other remedies is
now universally conceded. It has cured thousands
upon thousands of all classes in cases of the most
dangerous ooiiuni)tive character. And physicians of
the greatest eminence throughout our wnoie couuiij,
unhesitatingly recommend it ns the
' MOST POWERFUL CURATIVE
of Pulmonary diseases in the whole rnnge of Pharmacy.
The Sales in the Western States have thus far been un
paralleled; and tlio most gratifying proofs of its effica
cy have been received from every place where it has
been used. Thousands of CONSUMPTIVE PAT
ENTS have aliendy tested its exalted virtues, and con-
icsseu its urpiiKuiig- excellence and amazing power.
The remarkable success of this BuUmmis no doubt ow
ing in a great measure to the peculiarly agreeable and
powerful nature of its ingredients. It is a
r iiMi IIEKdALj MliUlOlINK!
Composed chiefly of WILD CHERRY BARK and the
genuino ICELAND MOSS (tho latter imported ex
pressly lor tins purpose, the rare nieuicai virtues oi
inert, nro niso continued ny n new cnemicui process,
ith the Extract of 2'ar, thus rendering the whole com
pound the most certain and efficacious remedy ever
discovered for
Consumption of the Lungs.
$ q 3 3
The folluwine we have iust received from Messrs. Jos-
lm si. itowe, IWuggrsts, in newarK, in mis oiaie, io
whom it was communicated by John Wimer, Esq., a
citizen of Hurlington, Licking county, Ohio.
Buhlinoton, Ticking Co.,0., Dec. 1, 1843.
Messrs. Joslin & Rone : At your request I herewith
trnnsmit to von a statement of the case ot Mrs. Wimer
and child, as near at I am able to communicate, which
ou are at liberty to publish it you see nt, as j. leei a
.esire to inform the world of the effects of the invalu
able medicine called Wistar's Balsam of Wild Cherry,
to which, by the divine blessing, I am indebted lor the
restoration to health of my wile and child.
About five years ago Mrs. wimer was uimcttuu
with a violent coush, nuin in the chest and side, and
symptoms of approaching consumption. During the
intervals from that time to sometime in Feb. last, she
had been treated by eminent Physician irom unca,
Sylvania, Homer, Chatham, and Newark, and with
only partial relief of the most urgent symptoms. A-
bout one year ago sue caugnt a vioiem com, nuw.
seated upon the Lungs, producing an alarming aggra
vation of nil her previous symptoms. Her Physician
was eont for, and despite Ins best efforts, she began
rapidly to sink under her disease. Cough, Expectora
tion, Hectic, together with night sweats, soon reduced
her to a complete skeleton. In Feb. last, her attend-
g Physician, deemed her case altogether hopeless, a
illicit was callod and after deliberating upon her
cnae, unanimously pronounced her to be beyond the
reach of means, ami expressed their opinion that she
could survive but a short time, one or two weeks at far
thest, She was at this time entirely confined to ner
bed, and scarcely able to articulate, except in a whis
per. Her daily paroxysms of coughing would lost her
interruptedly 'from three to five hours, und so severe
were they, that we did expect thjat every paroxysm
would be the lust. The Physicians in council, pro
nounced her Lungs, Liver, Kidneys, pmc, end Mu
cus, Membrane of the Stomach to be incurably dis- ;i
eased. It was at this last extremity that we happened
to obtain a pamphlet describing Dr. Wistar's llalsam ol
WMil ('hnn v. ns nnnlicable to Lunsr affections. We
immediately sent to you and procured a bottle, and
cointnenceu its use at evening uy givmg "c uuc
spoonfnl, and such wus the surprising effect, that she
was able to pass a comfortable night's rest, without ex
periencing any paroxysm oi cougmug, um ram
its ultimate effect, that after taking 6 bottles she was,
contrary to the expectations of her physicians, nnd eve
ry one who saw Her, entirely resioreu ut iieatin, mm
since lust summer has done the entire work of her fam
ily. After the last attack of Mrs. Wimer, our young
est child, then nn infant at the breast, was taken down
mil rapidly sinking, with the same symptoms as its
mother, ami seeing the happy effect ol the Balsam in
the case of the mother, wo were disposed to make trial
of it for tho child, and it was attended vyitli the same
perfect success.
The tibovo statement can be attested by our physi
cian as woll ns our neighbors and acquaintances, who
saw Mrs. Wimer during ihe course of her sickness.
Very truly, yours, 4c.
. JOHN WIMER.
Biiilirtp-ton. Iickine Co.. O.
The case of Thomas Cozens is related by himself as
follows, nnd acknowledged by all wno know mm as
one of tho most astonishing cures ever performed.
IlAnnoNFiELD, N. J., April 20, 1843.
On or about tho 13th day of Dec. 1841, I whs taken
with a violent puin in lltn side near the Liver which con
tinued for about (ive days, anil was followed by the
breaking of nn ulcer, or something inwardly, which
relieved the puin u Utile, but caused rrte to throw up a
great quantity of offensive matterand nlso much blood.
oeing greatly niurmeii tit mis, i upptieu io ti puytuuiuu,
but he said lie thought he could do but little for me ex
cept givo me some Mercury Pills, which 1 refused to
take, feeling satisfied they qould do me no good ; maHy .
other remedies were then procured by my wife and
friends, and none did mo any good, and the discharge
of blood nnd corruption still continued every few days,
and at hist became stt offensive I could scarcely breathe.
I was also seized with a violent cough, which at times
caused mo to raise much more blood than I had done
before, and my disrase continued in this wuy, still grow
ing worse uni'il Feb. when all hope of my recovery was
given up, nnd my friends all thought I would die with
n galloping consumption. At this moment, when my
life was apparently drawing near at a close, 1 heard of
Dr. Wietni's Balsam of Wild Cherry, and got a bottle,
which relieved me immediately, aim by the use of only -three
bottles of this medicine, till my pnins were remo
ved, my cough and spitting of blood und corruption en
tirely stopped, and in a few weeks my health was so
fur restored as to enable mo to work nt my trade,
(which is a Cnrpentoi) and up to this time I have enjoy
ed erood health.
Witness. 1 am acquainted witn Mr. i nomas t-o
zens, and hnving seen him during his illness, I think
the above statement entitled to lull credit.
SAMUEL II. BURROOHS.
Gloucester County, SS.
Personally came before me, the subscriber, one of the
Justices of tho Peace in and for the said county, Thom
as Cozens, and being fully affirmed according to law,
saith the above statement is in all things true.
THOMAS COZ1SJNS.
Affirmed before mc on the 20th day of April, 1843. 1
J. CLKMliNT. )
frV We publish no fictitious statements. ,
Price $1,00 per bottle.
ft7- For sale in Cincinnati only by
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At their Western Depot of Valuable Medicines corner
of fourth &. walnut sts.
Sold in Cad iz by W. B. Boebe, in Steubenville by A.
L. Frazer,and in Mt. Pleasant by John Hogg.
03-Sand ford & Park lire General Agent for the
west. june 19.
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ftMlE SUBSCRIBER thankful for past favor, offer -JL
to his old customers and th8 public generally,
tho largest and best assortment of Boot and Shoos,
pump and gaitors, anil half gnitors, children A.O., to
gether with every article in his line of BusinesB everof
lered in this market he still continues to manufacture
boots, shoes nnd every article in his lino, in the neatest,
cheapest and roost fashionable style. Ho also keep
constantly on hands all kinds of loather, kid skins,
men and woman's morocco skins, lining and binding
skins, sparrowbills, pegs, and all kinds nf Shoemakers
tools, and minings 01 every Hum, uuu uiuu u as
sortment of trunks of different kinds; and a first rate as
sortment of bras clocks, shoe blacking 4,c., all of the
above he pledges himeclt to sell as cheap as the cheapest.
And if he cannot convince the purchaser he can do o,
he will not ask them to buy, but would oarnestly solicit
sing elsewhere, ns he is determined to ollvery low, par
ticularly for cosh as ho is in want of the article. Hei
till at hiaold stand on Market street.
j.me5. SAMUEL SLEMMONS.
'IS. B. Ho still continue the livery business, and
having provided tho best kind of oarringes, and stock,
fnrthitt business, he flatters himself he can accommodate
tho public to their satisfaction, a his term shall bo
vory reasonable.
LOfi WOOD, Lampblack, Shoe blacking, Cnstile, .
I whito aud Rosin sonp forale at the cheap store .
o J.P.WOOD. ' may 23.
of mcklnsjust received nd .
P. WOOD. may 23
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