Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1840-08-13
F,o,p ,be Mem York Ereuing Post.


Mr. Clay has been demonstrating to the
satisfaction ofsomc hundred wings, assem-
bled at public dinner at Tavlorsville IN
Virginia, that the nation is ruined past all
remedy, by the mismanasement OF the
party which, at present has the majority.
The whig journals are publishing his
speech for the cdfcaton Of their readers.
The condition Of human life is so COM
pounded of good aud evil, that there is no
difficulty in proving, at almost any mo-
ment, by the hop of little dexterity in
ampliicaIion, that the times are wofully
out ofjoini, and that the world has gone to
ruin. We known prosperous farmer on
the banks of the Hudson, in every other
respect good sort of man, who is perpetu.
ally quarrelling with the weather. II al
ways is either TOO cold or too hot, too wet
or 100 dry, and he is never without some
ingenious argument to prove that ne is
ruined by the caprice and perversity Of the
weather, though. somehow, when the year
comes round, his granaries are always
full. lis his habit to complain, and long
practice has given him surprising dexteri-
ty and fluency in using the topics Of com
plaint, Mr.. Clay, also, has served toera-
BILE appreniship at the same trade. lie
began more than twelve years ago, when
he denounced upon the country, in case
Gen. Jackson should he made president,
a fute more terrible than TO he scourged
by plaques of war, pestilence and famine;
and since that time has done little esle
than labor to demonstrate thar the people
of The United States, by ejecting him aud
friends from office, have taken a plunge
into the gulf Of perdiion.
We find quoted in the Hartford Times.
which comes 10 hand this morning, an ex-
tract from speech made by Mr.. Clay in
in 1884, during the artificial panic Of that
year, in which he says:
Cast your eyes about you, Mr.. Chair
man-nolbing meets the view but ruin,
universal, wide spread ruin and Distress
Such was our situation in 1S34-the
universal ruin was so palpable that MIR.
Chairman had only to use bis eyes TO be
convinced of il. Since tha, time we have
been ruined haIfa dozen times: ruined by
the specie circular;-ruined by refusal
to receive the notes of The broken banks
Tor the public dues;-ruined by the neglect
of MIR. Van Buren, 10 consult Mr.. Biddle
and adopt his project for healing the EN-
barrassmenI 0four money market in twen-
iy four hours. Our readers probably haye
not forgotten the famous attack made by
the New York American, on the President,
for The offence Of allowing Mr.. Biddle,
when that parsonage called upon him with
a heart overlooking with benevolence TO
wards The community, 10 depart without
taking his ineslimable advice upon the dis
orders of the currency.
fyou will take The word ofa man who
is stunned out ofoilice, his successor never
manages well. The world has never gone
right with MIR. Clay, the affairs of the ma
non nave never been administered TO his
liking, since The 4th of March, 1928, when
he and his friend Adams were removed
from Office by the majority OF the people
of the United States. Before that time,
during four years, least, the affairs of the
nation were admirable conducted. Mr..
Clay's is common case.
ASK mems opinons-Scoto now shall tell
How trade increases, and the world goes WE'LL
Strike OFT his pension, by the setting sun,
And Britain, ifnot Europe, isundone."
1t is very true that comrnerse has suffer-
ed severe cheek in this country. Ii is
true. also. that the same effect Eas been
produced in other countries by similar
causes-overtradins and excessive enter
prise. In Ensla and in France at this
moment, commercial embarrassmenls pre-.
vail to great extent, and even if the ex.
lravagani credits and mad speculations of
1886 had never occurred in this country,
it would still be impossible that stasna.
ton in th'se great centres Of European
commerce should not OCCASION langour
and an inactivity here. This is understood
by every person who understands any
thing ofthe course of trade.
There is not a sensible tnan in the com.
munl'y who does not know that to charge
the embarrassmenIs Of our trade upon the
administration is the shellowest praltle that
ever was uttered. Even Mr.. G. while ef-
Getting to deplore the distresses Of the coun-
try, and arraisning the democratic admins
tTaiioD as the caus", ,lnes not attempt to show
in whal manner the conduct Of the admins
traton has produced them-He under.
stands very well that it is impossible to
invent even tolerably plausible theory
in support OF his charges.
From the Baltimore Sun.
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