Columbus Democrat. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1839-09-21

MR.. CLAY AND THE WING TICKET.


IN State Convention, and all their candidates are
pledged TO bis support. The question then, IN
the Governors, Congressional and Legislative
elections in tins State, is placed on the issue Of
the support Of Clay for the Presidency. This IS
the great issue now rendered by the wings IN their
convention, and the people mus; decide 1t at the
polls. Now, We subJoIn lew reasons among
many, why Mississippi should not support Mr..
Clay or his advocates,
LIST. Mr. Clay by has vote and Influence in
Congress- made John Quincy Adams, the old fed.
eral aboEuonst, Presden, of the United States :
in dong which, he violated the clearly expressed
will of the people, and sub,ered that fundamental
maxim which maintains the supremacy OF the
peoples Will
ID. Because after Mr. Clay by his vote and
influence, had elevated Mr. Adams from the of
fee Of Secretary Of State to the Presidency, be
accepted from Mr.. Adams the office of Secretary
of State, and then IN his celebrated yindleauon,
boldly avowed as among the reasons which IN
duced his vote for Mr.. adams, that to elevate a
Secretary of State to the Presidency was "a
safe precedent"
Sd. Because after Mr. Clay had elevated MI
Adams to the Presidency against the popular will,
he declared to Governor Floyd of Virginia, IN re-
lation TO Mr. Adams and himself, give us pat
ronage and we will make ourselves popular
4th. Because Nh. Adams in his first message
declared, that the representative ought not TO be
palsied by the will of his constituents" and yet
Mr. Clay continued to support him and all has Iatl-
tudinanan measures, including the tariff OF ISIS,
which was forced upon the country by the admin
israon of Adams and Clay, aud especially by
Mr.. Clay's influence.
5th. Because Mr.. Clay has ever opposed the
great interest Of Mississippi, both as Southern
State and as new State.
9th. Because Mr.. Clay opposed, as the Jour
nails show, the reduction of the price of the pub.
lie lands in 1920, from So to 81 % per acre,
upon the ground that it would occasion great en-
lGration 10 the new States and decrease the man
uiacturmg interest
7th. Because Mr. Clay still pursues the same
pocy, and at the last session of the Senate and
at every preceding session, voted against every
reduction Of the price OF the public lands IN favor
Of actual settlers, and still denounces the meas
ure so vitality important to Mississippi IN order
that he may restrain emigration TO the new States
and retain the laborlng poor IN the North, as
workmen in the Northern factories.
| 9th Because Mr.. Clay has voted against the
last pre-empon law and every preceding pre-
emp,ion law, and still deuounces the whole sys-
tenn thereby maintaining the abomrable prnc'-
ple, that the actual settler, who with his family
had settled and improved he land by his labor
should be sacrificed to the ovetD;udlng oil aNan
cous spectators.
4 IL nIthnuuh 10 trua Ipnei hi
| Mr.. Clay, that hu did dot denOunce the u,tuo cot
Tiers and ple-emptioners as banditti, pirates an'
plunderers vet he did in the debate in the Senate
on the pre-emption bill of 1888, declare as loI
lows. lha, the settlers we're "idwleSS hespaSsers
rho might as ,ceA seize The public forts or res
seIy. as rush out and seize The public lands =
Nor was this a sudden declaration in the ardor
debate, for several days alter this speech wa
made by MI Clay, upon the call OF Mr. Upton
the Senator from Indiana, to ascertain me exac
language used By Mr.. Clay, he reiterated ana re
affirmed the above statement as ms 0ellOerap
conviction IN the presence oil the whole senate
whereupon, Mr.. Upton revised and corrected
his own published speech, by inserting IN the ne'
edition. the words above stated, IN alhrlnahce Q
all which, we have the published statements
Mr. Young; the Senator from Illinois Mr.. LAY
from Alabama; Mr.. Linn, from Missouri MI
NorvelI and Mr. Lyon, from Michigan as we
os Mr. linton, and of all the Senate reporter
who took down the debate at the time aho
y.s on the undenied and undenlable proof
these facts, that Mr.. Clay was recently owe
thrown in Indiana by an overwhelming majority
the new State Of Indiana would not support U
M, who had thus denounced and traduced h
settlers, and will Mississippi submit to lh's NUM-
iation, by eecting the calumnlator Of her Peep
to the Presidency Of the United States vi
fourth Mt least of the settlers Of Mississippi we
settlers ,pori the public lands, and instead OF beIF
"awless trespassers," have always been among
the most Industrious and patriotic Of our ci''zeh
I, IL true Mr.. Clay has not called them by nan
nira,es and plunderets, but has he not ACCUSE
,hem Of acts of piracy and plumber 10 SCI
tho nublic forts would be an act oil pIHnder
so;ye the vessels of war would be an act oil pr
~. and vet Mr.. Clay has declared that the 81
liars might as well commit these acts as 'ush {,
and seize the public lands and, to elec'
CLAW 10 the Presidency under such clrcuins'anc
and with such declaration boldly made and q
I;heratelv reaffrmed, would be to disgrace eve
,.n who ever had settled, or IS now settled,
49,, hereafter settle on the public lands and
49, -, them and their children with lnlamy a
w., al the whig candidates in MISSISSIPPI, are ;,
'.owed supporters Of this man tor the PRESIDE
"I her election will be hailed as The tTluin
Mr. CLAY. If Mr.. Clay then IS elected 70
Presidency, we shall have no more Pre.e'" g@,
laws or graduation bills reducing the Pr'cs S o.
subIc lands in favor Of actual settlers h. s. NGy l
, here not every reason to believe, that ne WIN
.uer nn, -" the augmentation Of the pncee to
doars per acre a. he eqn,sndsd s should os
'Od case in 1927 How different the G SSa
'od Ms Mos;n Van Burenl He supported IN 1873
,ou Rn a proposition to reduce the P''ce o.
I'VE s.'IIs tqnd, nj once TO one dollar per &C
"a "a. -. ssd National Inelgcncer Of 1921 and !"
Nso' - 80 no advocated 10 an able speech,