The North-Carolina standard., 1840-03-11

FROM THE (sPR1NGFIELD, 1LL.) OLD HICKORY.
Conspiracy against the rights Of the People
Ofthe y. States. 4 foul plot detected.
We have been favored by some unknown
friend with the following most important docu-
ment, which clearly discloses the objects and de-
signs of the Opposition in making Gen. Harrl-
son their candidate for the Presidency, as we'll
as the means by which his nomination was pro-
cured from the Harrisburg Convention.
1t will be borne in mind that the Federal party
throughou. the Union, held up Mr.. Clay, as their
candidate for the Presidency from the commence
ment of Mr. Van Burens administration till al.
ter tie last August elections The measures Of
MIR. Van Buren's administration h'd been sub
mitted 10 the good sense and intelligence of the
country, and he last summers elections In the
several States showed that they were gIoriously
and triumphantly sustained. Mr.. Clay himself
was in the field, actively engaged in eiectioneer-
ing-travellng from State to State-eatlng pub
lie dinners and making political speeches, when
the news of his utter and entire overthrow in the
States of Tennessee, Indiana, and Ohio, drove
him home to Ashland in despair. The fall cleo
tions mpeted the triumph ofthe great measures
of Mr. Van Buren's administration; and by de-
monstrating that those measures were and would
continue to be sustained, it was also shown that
Mr. Clay, high tariff internal Improvements,
and National Bank, would no longer meet
with the encouragement and support Of the Amer
lean people. In many parts OF the Unlon' the
Federalists gave up-tAe contest IN despair, and
every where it was admitted that MIR. Van Bu-
rcn had triumphed, and that his success in the
next contest was certain. Some Of the leading
Federal papers even went so far as to urge the
dismemberment of the party, and the cessation OF
all hostiIites TO the present Democratic admins
tration To the Federal party all hope had fled a:
and it was not by an advocacy of the principles
which had ever characterized them that they
could again expect success. Boldly and openly
had they battled for years in support of protec-
tive tariff, a grand system of internal improve
mens, and a National Bank. Upon these qaes-
tions they had failed, and with them had fallen
their great champion Mr.. Clay. ...
During the past season, the Abolitionsts and
Abolition newspapers had shown themselves
against Mr.. Clay, and had given the most deci
ded manifestations in favor of Gen. Harrison.
To abandon Mr. Clay-to secure the co-oPe
ration of the ABOLITIONISTS-a to pro
cure the nomination of Gen. Harrison, to whom
the Anti-Masons and Abolitionsts were suppos
ed to be a,tached-was now the object of The
Federal leaders To seek this alliance openly
they dare not To proclaim the motive publicly
and openly, would be fatal, Bot to secure the
nomination OF Harrison. it was necessary that Il
should be known all over the Union, that the
Abolilionists and Anti-Masons would give bin
their support With this view, the Central Ab
clifton Committee" at Albany, in New York
got up the following Circular, which was direct
ed by Mr.. S. Dewitt Boodgood, leading Abo
ltOnist in Albany, to various leading men of the