The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-09-08
From The Globe.
WHY MIR. cLAY's PROMINENT FRIENDS
CONTRlVED A SUCCESSION OF TARIFF
BILLS TO BE DEFEATED BY VETOEs

The opinion which we recently expressed-in re-
gard to the motive which induced Mr.. CLAWS per-
sonal friends, known 10 be in confidential communi-
cation with him. To attach TO all their ultra tariff bills
clause which insured their defeat by aveto-is now
confirmed by the admission oil the Lexington Report
err leading Journal supporting Mr. Clays interests,
printed al ms door We said Mr. Cay's
policy consisted in holding up the bounIes of an ex-
orbitan tariff before the eyes of the greedy manuiac-
turing classes; distribution to the longing, dsap-
pointed spectators In State stocks and internal
Improvements; and national bank to the whole ra-
venots crew of paper-money usurers, borrowers,
brokers, and stockholders but that he did not intend
TO indulge them with the immediate frution. Hence
II was contrved that veto should hold the tariff in
suspense with all the other sordd appeals which MIR.
Clay makes in his proposed schemes TO the vena and
selfish throughout the land. The leaving the Gov
eminent state Of desttution its credit annhila-
ted and It's creditors unpaid TO make the outcry
universal when added to the clamor Of the bankites
tariftes, and distr butonists Out of these elements
Mr. Clay expected to raise tornado, which he hoped
| to direct, and ride on to the presidency
Mr.. Adams, IN his report against the veto, made
sor, OF cauldroo OF it, IN which 10 mix together all
these ingredients, and cai cm before the people,
involved IN the next canvass. Mr.. Cay's Lexington
print (the Reportcr) in publishing the report and
commenting on II, quotes Mr.. Criltenden's remarks,
showing the determination Of Mr.. Clays friends TO
adhere TO the public lands and defeat The tariff The
Reporter SAYS:
fully expressed our views, when he declared, IN reply
TO on appeal from Mr.. Buchanan, OF Pennsylvania
TO give up the land bill that SO far the sacrifice of
the public credit and prosperity was concerned the
responsibility rested elsewh"r than upon Cong ress.
IL was not for the value of dollar that they Qhe
Whgs) would ad here the lands but for the sake of
Congressional independence, and for the purpose of
UNFOLDING popular vernment, and the right Of the
people to tax themselves, and not TO he controlled by
the will of single The appeal Of the Senator
had therefore been made in vain These are the ser
timents which every Wing IN the land main aims
They are the outpourings of noble spirit striving to
maintain the rights OF the people against Executive
diclalion."
And then Immediately totorrs an indiscreet adms-
sion of the motive which prompted persistence in
policy making "he sacrifice Of the public credit and
prosperity" 1t was not for the value Of the land as
Mr. Crittenden truly said " for the sake of con-
gressional independence" as he pretended, but, to
quote the words of Mr.. Clays editor, because
g If the success of the Wings 10 the great battle
which to be fought in 1874 alone to be con-
suited for one, should prefer to candidate
go into the contest upon the three great for
which the Wings have conended for twelve years;
we should prefer to him go into the contest the
advocate Of sound uniform currency, of the protec
ton of our own industry, and of the distribution of
that fund which belongs of right to the States These
measures constitute the great system which, the
Wings contend, will afford the only permanent relief
to the country from the expressions under which it
borne down. We contend that under the operation
Of the late Bank of the United States and the several
tariffs, the country marched in progressive state
OF prosperity, and that the destruction of these two
great measures has brought all the ruin and distress
which are to be seen all over the face of the land