The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-07-21
MR.. CLAY AND CONSERVATIVES RE-
PUBIICANS.

PUBLICANS.
Ma. EDITOR: If there was State in the
Union, besides Kentucky, which Mr.. Clay reck-
oned as his own, few short weeks since, II
was Louislasa Gallant Louisiana was the
ultima thule of his hopes. II was the barrier
to further Democratic uiumphs, the shore upon
which the ever-angry wave of popular rights
was to break. His name, joined 10 that OF
SCOTS, was the rallying word Of the party
Clay, for President, and Scott, for Vice Presi-
dent, were the leaders under which their sup
porters went forth TO the battle Money was
poured out at the feet of INSCRIPTIONS polii-
clans. Clay and Scott clubs were formed, and
there went out from their shreds among the
People the most glowing accounts of the patriot
ism, honesty and glory of these two eminent
men, and the most fervid appeals TO the sove-
reign voters TO sustain these gentlemen and
their measures of policy, as indicated by the &C
ton of the Congress Of the two hundred days
and in their published letters. fraud was prac-
Used at the polls. The Banks entered the field,
and played the game of resumption and suspen-
sion, as best suited the objects 10 be gained
John Tyler was attacked in the most violent
terms, and any man who advocated his Admin
'stralion was prosecuted and hunted down with
aterocty truly alarming to the cause of freedom
OF opinion and speech.
And after all this parade, this preparation, the
battle began. Hundreds and hundreds of the
men who voted for Harrison and Tyler in 1870
refused TO raj under the Clay and Scott ban
ner. They looked to the country. They saw
that a triumph for these men would be a triumph
for National Bank Land Distribution, uncon-
diiionaIIy prescription for opinions sake; the
pucking of the Veto power from the Constitu
ton; High L. riff, or taxing the labor Of the
many for the benefit of The few; and, above
all, IL would amount 10 declaration in favor OF
Republic. They saw, loo, that if the Clay
cause were 10 succeed, the Bank power at home
would be freshly let loose upon the oppressed
subjects of its tyranny. All these evils they
resolved 10 assist in eschewng, and led on by
the Dupres, the Brashears, and other eminent
cratic party, and the resul, to the Clay and Scott
men was an inglorious defeat, ga sound and de-
served drubbing-a thorough LICKING"
Alas Tor poor Mr.. Ciay's hopes, for Gen raj
SCOTS aspirations. ''Tell me your company,
and can tell who you are )" said some saga
cous writer. SO it fares with the hero of Lun-
dy's Lane, much to our regret. He went into
the battle with Mr.. Clay, on the fat soil of Lou
i,ana, as his lieutenant, and both have been
routed, horse and foo,
Some of the results in Louisiana are astound-
ing, as showing the Indignation Of the People
against the present iaithless Congress, which is,
as it were the incarnation of Clayisn. In New
Orleans, the Harrison aud Tyler vote of July
1910, was reduced 1000; in the parishes OF ST.
Landry and ST. Martins, it was entirely re-
versed, being two years ago 400 and 600 in each
for Harrison and Tyler. The men who made
up the Harrison and Tyler majority, in July and
November, 1910, are the bone and snew Of the
State. They go for the country, before party
They went against Mr.. Van Buren,, because
they disapproved Of his acts. They now sus-
tain Mr.. Tyler. because his acts are democ attic,
look to the interests of the country, and do not
offend the spirit and letter Of the Constitution.
They are not ultras. They are ever ready to
check ultraism in the bud. They care not by
what name they are called. 1t is principle, not
name, thai guides them in the selection of their
agents, though that principle gives them name.
In every community there exists such body Of
persons, but nowhere is it so prominent as it is
in Louisiana, nowhere is its'inhuence SO sensi
bly, felt. They have helped the Democratic
party leader to dru5 the Clay men, but they ask
for none of the fruits Of the victory. All those
fruits will ehure, where they should enure, TO
the benefit of the Democratic party leaders,
The REPUBLICANS of Louisiana hold the balance
of power between The Democrats and Wings and
in 1914 they will show their strength again, if,
before that time. they do not enrol among their
number the great mass Of the voters OF that
State.
A Harrison and Tyler Uhig Of 1910.