The Arkansas advocate., 1830-12-01

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 6 l now proceed, fellow-citizens, to present a few considerations in refer ence to the relative pretensions of the two candidates for the Chief Magstra- cy of the United States. We cannot fail, ln the outset, to remark the long continued and perseyering expression of the popular sentiment in favor of Generai Jackson, against the preten- sions of his present rival. In the year 1894, after an active canvass, in which all the objections to his character were freely and iorcibly urged, our present Chief Magistrate had a large and de- cided majority of electoral votes ever each of his competitors, rawford, A- dams and Clay. The same result at- tended the election of lo2S, preceded as 1t was by struggle of unexampled yielence-but his majority had now be- come vast and overwhelming. Not a dissentient voice was heard among the electors west of the Alleghany, or south of the Potomac. This unanimity was indeed astonishing-but it becomes far more so whenwe consider that the whole of the Eastern States from which the opposing candidate obtained the great CT share of his electoral votes, were al- lied to the then administration by local and personal considerations.
 < On the other hand, Gen. Jackson had no preponderance in point of local attachments in any but his native State. dis present rival Was in the Cabinet, aad disputed his claim to the affections of the west. Considering all these cir cumstances, the unaaimity of popular sentiment at the last election is altogetil- CT without a precedent in the history Of elections: it astoaished his opponeuis5 and went far beyond the calculations oi his friends. and is there no weight to be allowed to such aa expression ol the popular will? Is there no detereiiee due to the acclamatioas oI 2 whole coa- tineat? Was not=the result at least eaough to cause the adYefsaries Of eSea. jackson to suspect the justice ot their 9pposition?-to pause and consider the pfoprlety Of perseverance ln then course2 Will 1t be said that the pre- ference expressed for General jackson was only the result of fsudden burst ol popular enthusiasm?-it was no suen thlng-iitt was the mature judgment Of the American people, perseyered ID du- ring eight years of solemn deliberations, and continued to the present moment.
 Let us now see by what claims Oil the popular favor Mir. Clay seeks to re- deem himself from this hostile tendency of public opinion, so long and perseyer- ingIy expressed. Is it by his everlasl-
 ing harping on the American System? believe there is now sarcely an indpl- dual to be found who will maintain that the duties are not already sufficiently nigh. The endless reE Eetitlon oi his mo- notonous eulogiums on protection, with which the Yves IS for ever resoundihg, is therefore wholly futile, and irrele- want to the issue between him and Oen. Jackson. Indeed, the latter, in his able and enlightened message to the last Congress, expressly assumes both the constitutionality and the expediency of protecting tariff. He also there de- velopes the only just and beneficial po- Hey in relation to this subject, by re- commenting the imposition of protect ing duties on such articles of foreign growth or manufacture as we are pre- pared to grow or fabricate for ourselves, and diminution of the existing duties onarticIes of generalconsumption which we can never manufacture. In pursu- ance of his express and specific recom- mendation, the duties on tea and coffee have been reduced considerably more than fifty per cent, while the duties on salt and molasses have been reduced to q corresponding extent, Tn accordance with the same enlightened policy. An immense burthen weighing heavily and progressively on the daily consumption of every class of citizens, but bearing with peculiar weight upon the poor, has been thus happily removed; and this without at all interfering with the poli- cy of protection, as we have never at tempted to produce any of the articles in question to any adequate extent. Is there an individual here who can fairly impugn the policy of the administration in reference to the tariff? And to what purpose are the eternal declamations oI Innrrr Clnu nta tIn;e sl,hinc49 rEIe,.. r.