Litchfield enquirer., 1840-09-10

people expect too much from the Govern ment''-" Let the Government take care ot itself, and the people of themselves" No! the Democracy that he had learned was the reverse of this language of the present Demo- | cratic President. But the new Democracy does not stop here. It asks for allegiance to the powers that be. The Democracy of Jef ferson asked a candidate for office if he was capable, and honest, and would support the Constitution. But the new democracy asks very different questions. It asks, how ma ny votes can you bring 10 the polls!- Whats your influence? Are you boisterous partZans! It also holds out inducements, or bribes, which Jefferson's Democracy did not. It says, if you labor in my cause and the people reject you, wilt take care that your reward shall be certain. lie Instanced the appointment of Mir. Grundy, and then T, Gerred to the appointment of John M. Niles, as Post Master General, who not four months ago was rejected by the people by 4,5OO votes. To be thus beaten was sure pass port to an Executive office. By the by, he said, the office conferred upon Mir. Niles was not very enviable one, for he had to take scat previously occupied by creature than
 whom more despicable creeping reptile could not be named. His fellow citizens. he
 presumed, would know to whom he alluded.
 Mir. Clay here dwelt for some minutes up- on the immoral tendency to which such
 course of administration, as he had been al
 luding to, would lead. But he trusted it
 would be checked-that the great phy ysIclan,
 the Ballot Box, was near at hand, and that | by November, the disease would be met by an effective and most salutary rcmedy.- 1 When before had such state of things as
 now exists been known? When before such
 disregard of obligations! When before have
 GA out of 67 Land Officers proved default 1 CTS! When before have defaulters not only
 been retained in office after their defalca-
 tons were known, but absolutely reappoint-
 ed? He referred to the appointment of MT. ] Livingston as Secretary of State at time when he was a defaulter, but said he presum- ed the President did not reflect sufficiently
 upon the tendency such an appointment
 would have. He referred to the Moore and
 Letcher case, and to the appointment of l Hooker to the best office in the county for
 his services in that dark transaction. He
 had heard that Hooker had since proved defaulter.
 l MT. Clay said he would like to address 1 himself directly to the Democrats within the sound of his voice. He wished to address l them, not as enemies, but as brothers, as men equally patriotic and equally devoted with the Wings, to the best interests of the coun-
 try. We differ, said he, but upon what sub
 ject do men not differ! Have all your hopes
 been realized in regard to the administration
 of the Government! Have the pledges that
 were made you, been fulfilled! Take, for example, the one term for the Presidency.-l Did not the great Captain promise you that one term was enough for President to serve? Was it carried out? How was the promise, not to appoint members of Congress to office, carried out? How was the prom l ise, to reduce the eXtravagant expenditures, fulfilled? What principle was carried out what promise kept! what pledge redeemed Is there an administration man in this vast assemblage that will answer. shouted the Kentucky orator in the loudest tones of his MT. Clay said he had called tho present vast assemblage, and he would take that oc- casion to declare that there were more peo- pie and more banners there than there were at the great Baltimore Convention. And why are there SO many people here, coming 1 together from almost every state in the union! |
 MT. Clay said he claimed to be Democrat 1 in the true sense of the word-a Democrat ] ready to stand by or die for his country. He referred 10 the great contest now going on, and asked that nothing should be done to the [ injury of our opponents. All, he said, were interested alike-all were on board the great 1 ship of State-all were alike interested in | the success of the voyage. But there were exceptions to the general rule; there were beings in the lead of the party who could not 1 be hung too high-beings who set all the bascr passions of men at work-and labor constantly and solely for no good. There was another class-the boisterOus office hol- ders, the Prntorian band, the Palace Slaves he was about to say of Martin Van Buren But then to call such man King over such people as this great concourse oh, he WOuld mt SO inSnlt theml
 MT. Clay, in conclusion, addressed the Tennesseeans particularly. He reverted to the position of Tennessee and Kentucky.- They stood side by side-their sons fought side by side at New Orleans. Kentuckians and Tennesseeans now fight another and a different kind of battle. But they are fight. ing now as then, band of mercenaries, the cohorts of power. They are fighting a band of office holders, who call Gen. liar. rison coward, an imbecile, an old woman
 Yes, Gen. Harrison is a coward-but he fought more battles than any other General during the last war, and never sustained a defeat. He is no statesman-and yet he has filled more civil offices of trust and impor. tance than almost any other man in the Un- ion!
 A man in the crowd here cried out, Tell us of Mir. Van Buren's battles!"
 Ah said MT. Clay, will have to use my colleagues language and tell you of Mr. Van Buren's three great battles! He says that he fought General Commerce. and con- quered him-that he fought General Curren- cy and conquered him-and that with his Cuba Allies he fought the Scmiloles and got conquered!
 Mir. Clay referred, with great good humor, to the l6,O0O Whig majority of Kentucky, and asked if generous. chivalric Tennessee