The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1842-08-27

people. We have full faith in the in
tegrity and purity of his motives, and
believe that his policy tends to his
country's glory and prosperity. His
career has been due onward--open
as the bright sunlight of noon-day-
no opposition could ever turn him
aside--and time has proved that the
measures he advocated, were invara-
bly, dictated by the soundest Judgment
and safest policy. His popularity has
increased with years, and he stands
at this time in bolder relief before the
people than at any former period of
his life. His friends lave increased
in zeal and numbers, and even former
political opponents do not withhold the
tribute of their admiration for him as
an upright and honest man,-"a
statesman of the clearest and ,ortiest
intellect-.a pure and whole souled pa
triot."
BE it, therefore, unanimously,
Resolved, That we, the Wings of
Columbia county, cannot disguise our
ardent and deliberate attachment for
HENRY CLAY, whom, without dispar-
agement to Others, we believe TO be
the man for the crisis-the pilot who
is best fitted to take the helm, when
the feeble hands that now hold the
same, shall be compelled, in terror, tc
resign it.
Resolved, That HENRY CLAY is
our first choice for the Presidency,
and that we will use all honorable
means to promote his election.
Resolved, That in HENRY CLAY
we behold the great champion of the
agricultural, mechanical aud manufac-
turing interests Of the countrywide
friend Of that truly philanthropic and
end a Ars,e-:crr.. g t!ysSZ
live"
Resolved, That HENRY CLAY
has a peculiar claim upon Pennsylva.
MIA his political views having inva-
riabl " received cordial response from
the refecting part of the community,
in this State; and if carried out, she
must emphatically become, what she
is already styled, the Keystone State
of the Union.
Resolved, That in again entering
the field of political contest, we do SO
in behalf and in support of the follow
ing great and fundamental Wing
principles, as already declared by our
brethren in other parts of the Union,
and which we ever have considered
and still continue to believe to be in
dispensabla to the welfare of the coun-
try, viz:
lst. A Tariff--not an incidental
tariff, nor ,judtcious tariff, nor
simple reUenue tariff, but sound and
adequate Protective Tariff, which
will secure American Labor from ru-
inous foreign competition, encourage
the toll and enterprise of the producer
and consumer, the farmer, the manu-
facturer, the mechanic and render the
United States, what they ought to be,
"but what they otherwise cannot be-
free and independent States"
%. The distribution among the sew
eral States, to whom it rightfully be-
longs, Of the proceeds Of the sales
ofthe Public Lands.
Sd. The exercises of the constitu-
iional power reposed in the Federal
Government alone to provide uni
form Currency" by means of which
exchanges may be equalised and the
business and commercial operations of
the people may be facilitated and pro-
tected, or in. palmer language-a well
regulated United States Bank.
4th. That just economy in the ad-
ministraton of government, both State
and Federal, which is demanded by
the spirit of our republican institu-
tions.
5th. The absolute predominance of
Law and Order, and the redress of po-
litieal grievances, whether real or
imaginary, only by their instrument
tality.
9th. One Presidential term.
9TH The alteration Of the constitu-
ton by a modification OF the Veto pow
er, so as to protect the people from
its abominable abuse in the hands of
misguided ambition, whether exhibited
in the sensibility of a paraded con-