Independent Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1842-1844, 1842-10-01

pers-It commences thus "Clay is fine
fellow &c." We recommend to attention
Of the Wings the ENTIRE article.
| CLAY IN THE FIELD AGAIN!
Yes, and we are right glad oft. We hate
ingraiitude-we despise meanness--we
scorn trickery--and these things are
scarcely less disagreeable and offensive
when we meet them in foe than in friend.
Ia proportion, therefore, 10 the disgust
with which we witnessed Mr.. Clay's treat
ment by his party, al the time of their
last Presidential nomination, is the gratifi
caiion--yes, sincerely and truly, the real
gratifiralion--with which we now witness
the more grateful justice which they do to
him, the better credit they do to them
selves, in again adopting him as their can
didate and their chief He is the best
stone they have got, and though their
builders and cunning architects rejected
him before, they are now fain to pick him
up again, in the hope, jealous however
vain, OF success in the object Of making
him the key of the corner.
Clay is a fine fellow, and our Wing
readers, aud those who do not and will not
read US because they are Wings, are well
come to all the benefit of the admission.--
We have always had a considerable pen.
chant to coquet little with Clay. He is
SO bold, he is so brave, and in the political
melee he rides laundering along at the
head Of his host, in the van of the strife,
so gallantIy, and with so ''haughty a
crest" Like the panache of Henry w.,
wherever the fight is hottest aud the blows
heaviest, there streams its white flItter as
the signal TO his friends of the point OF
pressure, and the direction to which they
should follow. He is man, every inch of
him--worth fighting, worth beating. And
when we hear and see in all directions the
evidence of Clay in the Field Again, we
repeat, as heartily as any of his own
friends, that we are right glad Of it!
"Give usIight!" was the prayer of Ajax.
Let Us but see our foe, and not be compell-
ed, while ourselves the aim Of thousand
shafts, to deal about US, in the dark, wild
and random blows, which encounter no
palpable and vulnerable enemy on whom
to tell. 50 it was with US during the last
Presidential contest. Laying aside their
own proper and veteran leader, who was
himself something, they seemed by the
act almost expressly to disclaim response
bility as party for the positive and tan.
gible principles and plans Of which he
might be taken as the representatives.
They took up candidates whose "availa-
biIity" consisted chiefly in the fact that
they were not thus identified with any one
distinct sci Of political opinions, the fac;
TO which their success was mainly due. Ii
was in vain that We might argue against
national bank, and impute to them The
design Of reviving the dead policy of such
an institute Min section Of the Union
possessing climate uncongenial to that
idea. we are met by vehement protesta.
tons that the imputation is falsehocd
and calumny; as il was declared by no
less eminent a person than General Har-
rison's Secretary OF the Navy, Mr.. Badger,
in public address to State Convention
in North Carolina. 1t was in vain that
we might impute 10 them probability of
the revival of high-tarif policy, when
their candidate for the Vice Presidency
was a man who had stood next door to Mr.
Calhoun himself in the day of Nullifca-
ton. How could even the charge OF an
intended distribution of the proceeds OF
the public lands be sustained in all parts
of the country, in the face Of Harrison's |
letter, Pledging himself emphatically "a
gain.t disturbance of the Compromise
Aclf-evident as it was that without the
revenue derived from that source the rate
of duties OF that act could not support the |
so that the promised mainte-
nance OF that measure necessarily involv-
ed the retention of the land fund. And |
where could we lay our fingers on the real
responsible opinions of party, which at
the south, and at particular quarters Of the
north, was able to exhibit the most salts |
factory evidences of Numerically opposite
on such subject as that of A
BOLTON? But now all this is changed.
They have reaped the bitter fruits of the
former policy, as developed by time and
Providence out Of its very success; and
they wisely abandon all idea Of its repiti-
tim. We shall hear no more Of con-
science keeping committees. There will
be no refusals To answer for fear of self
when bold Harry Clay is I'M
der examination before the country. His
hand will be spread out fair and open, and
there will be no "knave" in reserve, hid
under his sleeve. He will sail under no
false colors, but mailing his true and long
borne flag TO his mast, he will point man.
fully to the inscription on it, under which
he will sink or swim--"A National Bank
Land Distribasion--and the highest Ia
riff that can be eofr'