Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1842-05-10


our Loco Foco friends will come to
our support Or will they wait too,
and relax their vigilance, and say
"They sleep, LEI US not engage in a
contest against sleeping men," Ex-
perience has shown us, that they are
ever active-incessantly engaged by
night and by day, moi only on the great
theatre Of public action, but in the lit
tie circles of neighborhood association,
and even in the private intercourse Of
life, where the kindlief feelings Of our
nature should alone be cultivated.
Under all the circumstances Of the
case, then, it is idle to talk Of delay.
Action is dictated by every considers
ton of policy and duty. No wise
man should hesitate for = moment.
If then, we are TO act,and at once, what
ought we TO do? The report recon-
mends the nomination Of Wing Can
didate for the Presidency. Who shall
that candidate be? TO this question, if ask
ed in any assembly Wings in North
Carolina, there will be but one res
ponse. Not one man can be found,
who will not answer-HENRY CLAY,
Of Kentucky. No Sir, hot Henry
Clay of Kentucky-nor Henry Clay,
of Virginia-he was not born, nor does
he live for any one portion of this wide
spread continent-hs patriotic afec-
tons, enlarged and elevated beyond
every low and narrow, sectional preju-
dice, are wide as the whole country ,em-
brace all its parts, and are given up
with intense devotion to the prosperity
and happiness Of the entire Union
when we contemplate such a man,
we think not where he was born, or
where be lives, but regardless alike Of
his nativity and his residence instinct
lively hail him as Henry Clay, of the
United States. True, he has been as
sailed--no man acting such a part as he
has on the theatre CT his country. could
escape the restless detraction which al
ways follows eminent men. But he
has outlived, land lived down all the as
pensions to which either ignorance or
prejudice has given birth. His own
prejudices, said Mr.. B. once believed
him capable Of the only act of political
baseness ever charged Upon him Md
the multiplied calumnies with which
he had been pursued-a charge origi-
mated by an atrocious conspiracy
scarcely paraIleled i'll the annals Of
politics, and now, happily for the coun.
try, for the cause of truth and patriot
ism, dispelled, disproved and by all in
genpous minds, thoroughly theved;
and, his elevation TO the Presidency is
due 10 him, if for no other reason, as
the only adequate PREPARATION for ,I,-
most cruel wrongs ever inflicted upor
distinguished public benefactor. |
Oliver Cromwell's rule, TO ''judge o
the future from the past" be as certain
now in its results, as it was in his day
no uneasiness need be felt by III
Wings, in taking Mr.. Clay for thei
candidate. True, as public man h,
. has his faults. What man has not
; But his faults are those which belon;
TO manly, open and impetuous tenn
per which, though il sometimes run in
TO excess, instinctively spurus allianc
with everything insidious, skalklng, 0
in the least akin to hypocrisy or col
7 ruption. Ifsuch man cannot be trus
4 ted, in whom can confidence be pla
e ced?
D Some may say, continued Mr.. B.
: that though action at time may be prop
e er, yet it will not come with prophet
b from the Wigs Of North Carolina
e Or, in other words, that as we hav
It heretofore, led, we should now ava
a the movement OF our neighbors, an
If put under their guardianship, VII.
h they have been pleased to think the Id
1t FAINT, half idiot State of North Csrolin;
IS What, Sir, shall the good sense Of tn
o Old North State submit TO take its d
II rection from the visionary yet mischie
n vous distractions of Virginia. or tn
: disorganizing, anti-social, Union-dei
g troying metaphysics of our Soulher
g neighbour Is this position worthy
: ourselves or our sires' Sir, said nj
: B., we should lead on this occasioi
: and have in my judgment, the quaIiti'
it that entitle US to the distinction. 1t
} no new thing with our people to give
t. lead to the rest Of the Union. Durir
E. the year Immediately preceding Il
G. glorious Revolution Of 1776, whe
lie doubt and uncertainty we're spread ov
r, the States-when even wise and goc
as men were endeavoring to concilia
If our unnatural mother across the wat
On at that day, few determined p;
ry riots Of North Carolina, on their o,
C. responsibility, and without consali
r. the opinions or engaging the supp,
lig of others, impelled by their sense
re, Tyranny land their determination to
We free, boldly declared their separate
he from the mother countfy-an &C: nj
ed err surpassed by its fearless and indo
40 table spirit, in the history Of .resistar
led to oppression. We then led at Ne,
be; lenburg, and raised the standard