The Yazoo City Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 183?-1840, 1839-08-02
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aseendans and. inspiring with Hope I
bright and cheering is its 81 d light, sheasn
thusisss ID the cause 81 American Iibers,
and tie hasers Of strife. fraud and usurpa
ton, assures them that they already see, an.
lare approaching moro and more nearly ever.
day, she haven Of general confidence, m
Itionals peace and glory, purity, and genoin,
liberty.
HEvRY CLAY has been, and Is daily de-
noaneed, BY Liberal partizans and govern.
ment parasites, as an aboIitonist, because
forsoothe, he has, in a mere abstract way dc.
MED the rightfulness Of slavery, and invest
ed such denial with that respondent hale
Of enthusiasm, which ever distinguishes
true eloquence ana genius. What man q
sense, who is not blinded BY sycophantie
adherance to Van Buren,, can believe thai
Mr.. Clay, slave.hoIder as he is, does moi
see the impracticabifity Of suddenly annihi.
lating our institution Of slavery, without
thereby giving birth to herrors affecting both
master and slave, to which the countless
woes and most nauseous diseases that sprang
from the tabled Box Of Pandora, u hen opened
furnish but the poorest and weakest smile?
Too well must and does Mr.. Clay know that,
amidst the horrors of such sudden annihi-
lation, unlike the fable Of Pandora's Box,
there would hardly be found hand to de-
tain even Hope, the last lingering source
of comfort to the most wretched. Full well
does he feel that, indeed in such day OF
darkness, and weeping and waiIing and
crashing of teeth,'' would
'sIore whitening FLY, and Mercy sigh FAREWELL p
The spirit of philanthropy which so brightly
adorns the character of Mr.. CEAY, speaks
most impressively for him on this subject
TO say nothing of that eloquent annuncia-
ton Of his feelings and opinions IN regard
to abolitionism, which will be ever remem-
bered as well by succeeding generations, as
the generation which is now acting its brief
part in the mysterious drama of eternal Time.
None, too, can doubt that Mr., Clay most fully
appreciates and admits the sternness of SUI
preme necessity, wherever it exists; and
that he perfectly understands the dangers of
sudden change, and the principles and inn
portance Of the institution and right Of pro-
perty, and their effects on human nature.
Are State Rights men certain that Mr..
CLAY is not an advocate Of their abstract
doctrine Of State Sovereignty to the fullest
extentl Surely his conduct on the occasion
of the odieus Force Bill affords some presump-
ton that he is SO. And, insomuch as there
is no proof that Mr.. Clay deems his evorite
doctrines to possess that tendency which
Nullifers impute to them, it is somewhat
unfair and illogical that Nullifers should
charge upon Mr.. Clay an entire dissent from
their view Of State Sovereignty.
tits one of the deepest sources of regret
to the thinking and patriotic portion of the
community, that the people Of the United
States have, from the beginning of the Fed
eral Government to the present day. been
almost constantly excited by political mea-
sures and questions, to degree which
threatened and has more than once, come
very near achieving an utter humiliation of
general peace and happiness. Does not,
then, the spirit which characterized Mr..
Clay's Tariff Compromise. not only furnish
the strongest presumption that he will be
ever ready to pour oil on the stormy waters
Of political commotion, but also afford high
guarantee that he will touch no question
and take no measure calculated to mar the
enjoyment Of national harmony and peace2
Mr.. Clay is, too, as all must admit, most
thoroughly capable of preserving the effects
likely to follow from the agitation of any
given question. But above all, the very
name Of Clay is associated with thecertainty
of an enlightened and patriotic governments
Ia government on which Mr.. Clay, as its
chief executive officer, would rather shed
lustre, than borrow one from it.
And as for Mr.. Van Buren,. are we sure
that we have not already National Bank
in the form Of Sub Treasury, saving only
that Bank Officers have ever shown them
selves more honest than the sub-treasurers
of the present reign! Has not Mr.. Van
Buren,, although in general disgraced by his
''non-committal,' yet in regard to the sub
ject of slavery, ever evinced the most un-
compromising hostility to the feelings and
wishes and interest Of the sIave-holding
States! Has he not, by promising sycophant-
like. to follow in the footsteps Of his illus
trious predecessor given the world to un-
derstand that he never relied on his own
sense and worth as means sufficient to eIe-
Vate him to the station he now occupiesl
Were not the ssfootsteps'' of that Hillustri-
Gus predecessor" marked BY acts not only
most highly federal, but stamped with tyran-
ny Of the darkest, deepest dye''9 Has not
Martin Van Buren, diggraced the national
character Of manlness and the independence
and elevation Of intellect By forever talking
Of the present Lights have before me''!
Surely Alr. Van Buren, viewing the world
! by the help Of sl1ch li0hts a. blair Randall