Litchfield enquirer., 1832-01-05

l0Is UG COUtQ JUL Wptt CDAttOte A4WSENNt this may be, it is certain that the expectations and hopes which some persons may have been disposed Co indulge of the success of his X have been sigually disappOint- ed. and that his failure has been more cBmsj uIete than even his enemies could have pns- sibly anticipated. The political history of fhe Union for the last three years exhibits a series cf measures plainly dictated ih all their principal features 6y blind cnpidity or sindic- tive party spirit. marked throughout by . disregard good policy, justice. and every high and generous sentiment, aud termina- l ting in dissolution of the Cabinet under circumstances more scandalous than any 0t the kind to be met with in the annals of the ciyilized worlds The voluntary dissolution of the Cabinet authorizes the remark which we have made. above, that the failure of the administration of General Jackson was not only signal and complete, but acknowledged and it is remarkable that, after this public ac-
 acknowledgement of his incapacity tO execute
 the duties of his office, through agents app
 pointed by himself, even to his own satlstdc-
 ton, he should deem it expedient Co offer his services to the nation for second term.
 The first official act of the President i1di- cated, in striking and painful manness in how small degree any unfavorahle antscipa-
 tiOns that might have beenfOrmed of his con
 duct were likely to be realized. We allude
 to his Inaugural Address to the People, in
 which he levelled against the administration of his predecessor sweeping charge of in- capacity and corruption. A charge of inca pacity to conduct the civil affairs of the
 country. .prelerred by Andrew Jackson against such men as Mir. Adams, Mir. Clay, and their
 distinguished colleagues in office. wasof course
 merely sindicrpus but the imputation of cor ruptiOn was of more serious character.- Had there been the least foundation for it in
 fact, it is obvious that tho last person who ought to have made ait his business to de-
 nonnce it 10 the public wAs the President of
 the United States, who has no other consti- tutional agency in regard to such offences hut the powersof pardon. sThe indecorum of
 this denunciation was hardly less glaring
 than its essential injastice,e aAd can@ only be
 paralleled by that of ths Subsequent denunci-
 authbritysto 3 foreign bvernpient."
 N On the great stjIieeasOf internal policy,
 witch have given sFiss to ed I'leting opinions
 and adverse feelings amONf N6e citizens, the
 course of the President has been so incOnsis-
 tent and vascillating that it is impossible for any party to place confidence in his charac- ter, or to consider him as a true and effective
 friend. By avowing his approbation of ju- dici0us tariff, and at the same time rec0n-
 mending to Congress precisely the same
 policy which had been adopted as the best
 plan of attack by the opponents of that meas.
 ure by admitting the constitutionality and
 expediency of internal Improvements of national character, and al tthe same mOn1Sukl negativing the most important billspf this des scription which were presented 10 him bx Congress, the President has shown that he is l either secret enemy of the system, or That he is willing to sacrifice the most important national objects in a vain attempt 10 cOnci- ate the conflicting interests, or rather adverss party feelings and opinions of difereDt sec 1 tiOns Ofthe country. How can the President I he regarded at the North and West as the I friend of the Tariff and Internal Improve ments, when his only recomnlendatiOD at the South is the anticipation that he is the person thl ough whose agency the whole system is to be prostrated With Chief Magistrate who acts upon so temporizing and uncertain a ' policy, it is obviously impossible that any that prevails upon these disturbing topics. It is only through the intervention of states man. in whose known sentiments and elevated character all parties can place confidence, that hope can be entertained of SO regula- ting these delicate subjects as to extend n fair and impartial protection to all the great bran- ches of industry, whether agricultural. com-l mercial, manufacturing, or mechanical, with out exciting the just apprehensions of4any sincere and enlightened friend of the Consti- tuition and the Union."
 disappears from this concise survey of the present situation of the Union, as regards the principal branches of our foreign and domes- tic policy, that it is the duty of all patriotic citizens not only not to aid in the reelection ofthe present incumbent to the Chief Magis- tracy of the Union, but to use their efforts to elect change in the National Administra- tion: and in order that such efforts may be made with success, the time has now arrived when it is necessary to designate candidate , for the succession whose name may be a ral- lying point NNd a principle of union among the citizens who are opposed to the re-elec- ton of Andrew Jackson.5
 ln looking round the country for such per- son, 1t is almost superAuous to say, that the eyes of allgare 4instinctively directed towards that ilinstrious citizen, who, after occupying the most distinguished places in the gift of the people, and in all the departments of the administration, has dwelt for some years past
 m tranquil retirement in the bosom of the
 West. The qualifications and services of E HENRY CLAY are too we'll known to re-
 quire the aid ofOur testimony. Al a states
 man., advocate and orator, he has heen from
 his youth upward the pride of our courts and
 legislative halls. AS an ardent, fearless, and
 consistent friend ofliberiy and republican in-
 atitutions, he has endeared himself t0 their
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