The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1842-11-24
TIE RIGHT SPIRIT.

THE RIGHT SPIRIT.
Our gallant friend Of the " Petersburg
Intplligencer," in announcing the disas-
irous result of the New York Election,
thus discourseih: Register.
What is TO be done now! "0h we
are gone," say the timid. There is no
use in irying-Ilenry clay won't do
there is too much prejudice in the coun
try against him." " Ont upon such
towards" say we-and every honest and
true-hearted Wing will say . .9men."
IL the Wings cannot succeed in elect
ing the man who most truly repre-
sents their principles, il proves beyond a
doubt that those principles are in mino.
rily. When the question is narrowed
down TO a choice between Henry Clay
and his principles, and The Loro Foco
candidate and his principles. il Mr.. Clay
is beaten, il willshow beyondlhe doubts Of
scepticism itself, that a majority Of the
people are opposed TO National Bank,
to Discriminating Tariff, to Distribution
Of the Lend Fund; and in are a(yor Of re-
enacting the Sub-rreasury, repeating the
Tariff, and snrrendering to the National
Treasury fund which Of right belongs
10 the States. ..u Ill.
We repeat, If Mr.. Clay is beaten in a
fair field, the fact will be conclusiyely es-
lablished, that the principles which he
advocates have not found favor in the eyes
Of the majority Of the American people:
and the party who have supported himwill
bow with resignation to the decision.
We say If" because the trial is gel 10
be made, and we are yet to entertain the
slightest doubt that Henry Clay can beat
any man who may be brought forward
against him. -. = %
The Wing party are now lighting IN.
der all the disadvantages which could un-
der any circumstances be brought TO bear
against them. The odds and ends of all
parties have for the present combined
against them. The respective friends Of
all the aspirants 10 the Presidency nOw
make common cause against the Wings.
The Tariflite Loco and the Multiplying Lo-
co-the friends of Dick Johnson and Cal
houn, of Van Buren, and Buchanan. stand
cheek by jewl in their opposition 10 the
Wings, aided and abetted too BY the pat.
ronage Of the government and the little
squad which Captain Tyler calls his
own.
But how long VII this heterogeneous
mass he held together! Just until Ma
tional Convention meets and decides who
shall be selected from the legion OF aspi-
rants as the candidate for the Presidency,
and not one momen, longer. When that
selection is made. "good bye" 10 all
harmony among the Loeos. We shall
then see how much real good will is en-
tertsined by the Northern man with
Southern feelings" towards his South
ern allies, and be enabled to measure to
the minuiest grain the affection which
the Honest Nulliier cherishes for his
Proclamation and Force Bill friends in
the North. And then, too, we shall know
who is the strongest man before the peo-
fple-Henry ttay or his adversary! 'a
But, in addition to these considerations,
there is another which should prevent
any true Wing from even entertaining
the thought of dropping Mr.. Clay. Itis
this--If Mr.. Clay be dropped, The Uhig
party UiH for time be disbandea. There
is no other man who can receive the votes
Of one third Of the Wings of the Union;
and knowledge Of this fact is the rea-
son why our Loco Foco adversarics are
SO anxious to persuade us that Mr.. Clay
is not our strongest man. They know
that while they cannot beat Mr.. Clay,
they ran beat any other man who may
come forward as the candidate Of the
Wings; and hence the trouble which they
kindly take to persuade US that the results
of the recent elections are proofs of Mr..
Clay's weakness. All their exertions
have tended 10 this one object. They
knew that among the Wings there are
some who are faint-hearted and fer who
are not well disposed towards Mr.. Clay,
and they exerted themselves to carry the
elections, in the hope that these two clas-
ses Of Wings would conspire to " rule
Mr. Clay off the track" and thus leave
II for them to raik orer. Will the Wings
permit themselves to be deluded by these