The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1842-05-05
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Wings were less able, or less willing than
before to carry out their principles Let
US examine. 10 Name, for instance, the
election took place Immediately after the
/ Veto. There, as elsewhere, the people
were suffering from all the effects Of dis.
/ ordered cUrrency-ibis Bank Bill was look
ed TO by them as great measure Of relief
and, al the very moment when they ex
pecied It's adoption, they are informed that
It has been destroyed By one they supposed
friend. And without opportunity for con-
sheraton, or time to rally from the effects
Of such a blow, they are forced into an
election. Did they 90 over 10 the enemy!
No Sir, they remained at home, and per-
ml;ted the election to 20 by default; aud,
though not excusai..e for this resul,-for no
/ man IS excusabe for lnaction, when the
great Interests Of his country are at stoke
yet the circumstances offer satisfactory
solution Of The causes Of defeat, there and
elsewhere. Such being the state Of things
with one at The head of the Government,
who has now thrown of all dsguse--who
no longer claims TO be " hig, either 10
principle, practice or name aud from
whom we have now just reason to expect
an octire agency against Wing success
what ough, the great Wing party to DO
As the eloquent gentleman las, up mir.
(herTyl had saJd-lhis Is 20 time for On.
certainty or indecision. What was ever
gained by il by honest men, united for Just
purposes! 10 1896, the v higs were de
! ieaied for the Presidency, and why! Be.
f cause, they were split up into fragments,
/ sustaining one candidate in one State, ard
different one In another, and by thus d.
! vldlDg their strength, as might have been
, expected, were bafilsd and beaten. But,
} when Harrison was nominated at Harris
burg, every man laid aside bis personal
! predictions, buried minor differences of
opInlon, inscribed hls name upon The Wing
banner, and uniurling Il TO the breeze, in.
e yoked the people TO rally and drive the
d spoilers from their prey The people of
+. The United States gathered under that go.
@ nous banner, and in $780, achieved vic.
. tory, which astonshed themselves. And
n SO II viii always be for never was there a
3 greater mistake thnl this idea Of waiting
r The lido Of events. While timIdity is care
fully calculating the chances OF failure,
, holiness moves forward and conquers sue
IS cess. We are not like men setting sail
. on the high seas; delaying for PROFIT.
m lous wind. The mariner must watt but
r. what events wait we for If our minds
g are fully made up, IN the name Of common
d sense, and Of the disastrous results Of our
" former short sighted and weak policy, and
n in view of our glorious success before, let
II Us proceed 10 act, and that promptly
e Why should we wait? Do We expect that
our Loco Foco friends will come to our
I support? Or will they wait too, aud relax
their vigilance, and say" They sleep
let Us not engage IN a cOutes, against sleep.
ing men," Experience has shown US, that
, they are ever actIye-inca ssently engaged
! by night and by day, no, only on the great
theatre of pubic action, but IN the little
circles Of neighborhood association, and
even in the private intercourse of life,
where The kludIler feelings of cur nature
should alone be cultivated.
Under all the circumstances of the case,
then, i, is idle to talk of delay Action is
dictated BY every consideration of policy
! and duty. No wise man should hesitate for
} a moment II then, we are TO act, and as
J once, what ought we to do The Report
recommends the nomination of Wing Can.
ddate for the Presidency. Who shall that
candidate be! To this question, if asked
IN any assembly of Wings in North Carroll.
ma, there will be but ere response. Not
one man can be found, who will not answer
HENRY CLAY, of Kentucky. No
Sir, no, Henry Clay, of hentucky-nor
Henry Clay, of Ftrgi1ia-he was not born,
) nor does be live for any one portion of this
wide spread coutlnen;-his patriotic atfec-
tions, enlarged and elevated beyond every
} low and narrow, sectional prejudice, are
wide as the whole country, embrace all its
parts, and are given up with intense devo-
ton 10 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 aud his residence, instinctively
hail him as Henry Clay Of the United
States. True, he has been assalled-no
man acting such part as he has on the
theatre of his country, could escape the
restless detrachon which always follows
eminent men. But be has ouillved, and
lived down all the asperslons TO which eth
err ignorance or prejudice has given birth.
His own prejudices, said Mir. b. once be.
heved him capable of the only act of politi.
cal baseneSs ever charged upon him amid
the multiplied cnIumnies with which he had
been pursued charge originated by an
atrocious conspiracy, scarcely paralleled in
the annals of politics, and now, happily for
the country, for the cause of truth and pa.
triotism, dsrelIed, disproved and by all in
genuous minds, thoroughly disbelieved and,
his elevation to the Presidency is due to
him, if for no other reason, as the only ad.
equate reparatlon for the most cruel wrongs
ever inflicted upon distinguished public
| benefactor. IL OArer CrompePs rule, to
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