The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1842-10-29

A FEW OF TIE REASONS WHY HENRY
CLAY SHOULD BE OUR NEXT PRESl-
DENT.

DENT.
lst. BY lis elevation, we shall have at
the head of the Government the most tai
ented and honest statesman in the United
States; one whose vrtuous fame is co-ex-
tenslve with the civilized world, man
whose patriotism always prompts hun TO
act, not for party, but for his country
I'd. If we place Henry Clay in the Pre-
slden,ial chair, we shall have fair dealing,
sincere and honest men, who will violate
no pledge, swerye from no duty, practice
hypocrisy-but who will go forward in
the steady and dignifed practice of the
great political principles which have ever
governed him.
Sd. By electing Henry Clay, the people
of the United States will secure to the M
selves good, sound currency, adequate
to supply their wants and iufuse activity
and life into every department OF trade and
commerce. We shall have United
States Bank-an institution similar to the
old one which Gen. Jackson crushed
We shall not be cursed with another ten
years selge of experimenting; but will at
once recllr to the abandoned system of
National Bank. And even as we pros
pered under the auspices Of that system
III days gone by, so will we prosper again
4lh. As necessary result OF the re- es-
adjustment of bank, the people Of the
United States will save themselves from
the utter ruin and misery that will speedily
fall upon them, if they permit specie cir
culatlon to become the established sys-
tenn.
9Th. A good currency will give the
poor laborer constant employment and
lair pay-will dlluse cheerFulness and
prosperity amongst the poor classes, and
enable those who practice the mechanic
arts to enjoy a seeson of prosperity like
that which blessed them before the erper-
tmenters began their destructive misrule.
9th. BY voting for MIR. Clay we secure
the establishment of a tarif adequate to
supply the immediate wants of the nation
al treasury, and incidentally to afford adj
eque protection to american labor. The
locoioco party, it is known, oppose tar
ifl.-The inevitable result of abandoning
the tariff system will be to create direct
taxation. The Government cannot exist
without revenue. A revenue, if it be
not procured by taxing imports. must be
raised by taring our o,rm people. If we
have no tariff, then the paupcr labor of
foreign countries will completely super
ccde home labor-will desolatc our man
uiacturing districts, and throw thousands
Of American citizens out of employment
and into starvation. All, therefore, who |
wish to ward off an odous system of
direct taration, and encourage American
labor and American enterprise. will attain |
their desires by sustaining MIR. Clay.
9Th. By the elevation of the Kentucky |
statesman, we shall strike a dealh-blow |
to the ONE MAN POWER OF THIS GovEaN-
MEyr. He is Indignantly opposed to the
abuses Of the veto power, and is deeply !
committed to the great work of modify
ing that odious feature of The constitution.
His motto is "the will of THE NATION, I'M
controlled by the will of ONE MAN" Hen
ry Clay would never arrogate TO himself
the KINGLY POWER of substituting his sim /
gle voice for the voice of seventeen mil
lions of free people. Under his admins
,ration, the national will would be the
law of the LAND. We should not be cur
scd with weak-minded abstractIonist-
a perverse and silly tool Of faction-wield-
ing the veto power for the destruction of
liberty; out we should have noble demo-
crat indeed, mighty nation as the source
of all polilica! power, and as possessing
the legitimate right to enact laws for their
own government, through their legal re-
representatives. in Congress. This consid-
Grafton is all-important. Unless some
check be interposed 10 stay the headlong
march of Executive usurpation aud Exc
cu,ive tyranny, the American people will
inevitably be destroyed. Those powers
of government, so wisely distributed a.
mongst seperate departments by the fra
mers of the Federal Constitution, no Ion
ger flow in their destined channels, but
are all gradually tending to~ards the head
Of the Government The effect Of such
perversion, in system of government
professedly democratic, will prove as dis
astrous to the body polite, as does the
concentration of blood towards the head
in the natural system. 1t behoves the I
good people of the United States 10 insti-
tute vigorous measures for restraining ,
the grasping tendencies Of the Executive |
Department Of the Government-They $
cannot more affectually do so, at resent, 4
than by voting for Henry Clay-a states
man who is known to be thoroughly OPP, I
posed to the shameful abuses of the veto i
power, as practiceJ by Mr.. Tyler, and in .
favor of permitting the people to govern {
themselves. h
Slh. Mr.. Clay is an American states | j