Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1830-09-21
MIR. CLAY'S MANIFESTO

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MIR. CLAY'S MANIFESTO
"Mordeca, the jew" having wander d from Coum-
bus TO Cincinnati harranRued his followers in the cap
POLICEMAN garden The 81 of August 1880" In other
words, certain wandering politician, forgetting wha,
is due 10 himself AMI 10 an intelligent people, over
whom he aspres TO preside, continues 10 travel about
the country Teasing, declamiHg, denouncing and la
menting Sacrificing propriey and decorum, he rails
against his distinguished rvals, robes himself i'm the
iamorta folds of lis American system and announces
at every road that Henry Clay is candidate for
the presidency This speech deliberately prepared af
ter the fumes OF the "AppOllonan festival had passed
away, may be considered the manifesto of a party
which under s modest leader, is about to disturb the
public Tranquility in clustering hut teeble opposition to
an administration, enjoying IN eminent gree the
confidence OF the people.
The orator opens with food OF gratitude TO one of
the great productive classes for "hese dtingui hed
honoIs"-of which "crog ned heads themselves might
well be proud"-or honors "offered to the man. but
the public principles and public interests which they
are pleased 10 associate with the name"--of Henry
Clay! We condole with the unfortunate tn
loss OF his trumpeterit is much be regretted tha,
there kind Giend in that crowded assembly to
d, scIib- The triumphant march Of Henry Clay. Blu,
we viii hide cur Bushes while the orator speaks for
and Of himSe
Throughout journey undertaken solely private purposes
there mas been constant effort on side to and that
Their affection and confidence IL has been marked by
and have where found myself by large
OF my eowcitzen often of both greeting
Caesar, when he passed the Rubicon--N >,oleon re.
turning from Eiba-never " struck such terror the
souls of fearful adVersafes" did Henry Clay-ac-
cording TO h- own account of the affair.
zeaos seemed to 0ppehond that invading army
beat the drums point cannon make all neediu
preparations for rosoulo assault gallant defence.
Verify the tiiends OF the administration must have
anticipated the approach of psstilemce and lsnine
But the kind-hearIed iinsrant takes compassion on
hem
o quiet approhonons of those zoalots assure them
that do not march at the head of any military force that
Chuesa black boy residing in my family whom fee the
sword, pistol, muskct."
The friends Of the President breathe again The Fri
umphan, vicor travels without "sword pistol mus
ket, and with no body guard save ga black boy resid-
ing III his family, aud for whom he feels the same
'ort of attachment that he does for his ewn chill.
dren :"
The modest orator passes rather abruptly, but by
very neutral association, from Fl ny Clay to the Bank
OF the United Staes We fear its anxious stock hold
ers will find little consolation in the Dephic confessions
~ one who desires 10 b. their iavori'e candidate
for the Presidency. The hold, the reckless Henry
Clay suddenly becomes circumspect, and reason.
thus:--
'Whohe the charter ought renewed or not near six
5 oe' IN my Iaagmeni IS question OF oXPodency to be de-
sS' Sy ,e mon eNI,ng state Of inc country IL will be
and OF ihe Union 10 ascertain if the public debt shall in
then fnnnca condition, what that of local banks the state
our commerce foreign and domestic as well as the of
our currency generally am therefore, prepared
whether The charter ought ought be renewed G
and hereafter forfeit all petensons The ques
ton is be alive any opinion upon il
belongs postr and if they the goodness to de-
eide for some ofthe PcrpoSng practical questions of the
for them As it's ought to be indefinitely postponed'
The question belongs TO poseriy aud ought TO be in
definitely postponed What a sad pro.pect for tho TO-
cent genera'on-posterity to bury all before 1886
VIII the stockholders OF the Bank of the United States
Oh whose support Mr.. Clay mainly calculates asi,n
their dividends to poserit}i The friends Of this gentle
man will regreto learn, that che may live TO form
an opinion upon i've had thought that opinion long
since formed and recorded-ha5 he changed III Or are
there two Henry CIays in Kentucky?
have of ftIl al, r.
ros American system Of perpetual public debt and uni
versal taxation. file arms his friends of the alarm
ing designs OF ts adversaries, and admonhes tie Tor
mer 10 stick together The orator Is particularly eIo
quent the subject Of molasses and protests against
the reduction of that duty, in defiance Of all the rs
monslrances aud strenuous Efforts Of his New England
friends
In referring 10 South Carolina and notification. Mr.
Clay wac Obliged though reluctantly. tonotice the CO
lebra'ed resolutions Of Virginia and Kentucky in '9s
and W lhese call up sncieut political associations,
little dscorGant With the orators present attitude
He appears to look back those far distant dayson
the constitutional battles Of his yoUlon the great and
glorious victory OF IS00-wiih penjtence and reeret
that he Is not now, he once yyas tvbig in uri,ci
pie and in practice Had he not cosIesced with Mira
iederasts. he would have referred most o0uentv To-
those ancient political contests and TO that prou ,i
umph Of The people and the constitution over the adj.
minstraon Of the elder Adams--an administrators,
which even Mr.. Clay, though now united with tbs
politicians Of that school, IL constrained to admit in he
Cincinnati speech, " believed TO entertain view,
hose 10 the existence Of the liberties OF this couo
try" We cannot but slider Il extraordinary, that
the same gentleman who entertained this opinion in
1900, should now be the leader of the same Marty and
should carry the doctrines Of The federal power far he
yond he boundaries admitted by the edeTaiss in 1900
End infinitely more "hose 10 The existence Of ,bo n
berties Of this country"
But IN these revolutionary times. we are not sure
that Mr. Clay may not abandon his federal and
come out at last a. HE friend Mr.. Webster would OK
press H., genuine republican "dyed in The yyooIo
one Of the chief productions II the American svs,en
being republicans manufactured out Of the federal raw
material Be This az IL may, Mr.. Clay seems prepar
ing Tor shit OF wind In referring to 1900, be Gays,