New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-08-15
Demagogues md various things in Penu-
syIvamin-The Statesman OF the West
mornaons, &c.
Correspondence Of The Tribune.

{ Your Philadelphia CORES pondent, n few days
since made mention OF our beautiful village in
neciion with The o. S. Arsenal in cur immediate
neighborhood We think he might have extended
his notice. fer there are several objects of interest
here which we think deserving passing remark
in The Tribune, paper that I am much pleased
to find extending its circulation even here as well
as in Philadelphia. Our perpetual comnunica-
ton with that place makes us almost part OF the
city itself.
We voters, whe are nearly to a man en;husi-
astic in favor of our glorious Harry of the West
are nevertheless linked the political fortunes of
as unprincipled demagogue as the dear people
were ever gulled by. Our polls form part of the
Third District and 50 our manufacturing, indus
trious, domestic population misrepresentcd in
Congress by Jared Ingerso, the same Janus-faced
pretender to Democracy who, you may recolect,
proved, most unequvocally to have made the
famous boast that if he had lived with Washing
ton, in the days of the Revolutions he would have
been Tory Yet this mar, opposed in princ-
pic and in soul to every thing like real Democracy
by profession a dcmagosue aud in hear; Tory
rank, heurtcss and unmitigated-is the chosen
cratic Districts in the State.
How has he done it do you ask Why it S the
easiest thing imaginable. a greasy hat, an old
coat kept expressly for eectioncering purposes,
with brazcn face and an oily tongue does the bu-
siness. These enable him to practice species OF
legerdcmain of which | assure you his dupes
becoming heartily ashamed. Yet don't suppose
that his greasy hat and old coat, which may tend
TO assimilate the prctendcr with tho easily duped
portion of his constituents, worn generally oh
by no means. The best of the joke is that at the
fashionable parties, given at his town house in
Girard street, no pretler gentleman presses his
polished foot upon the tutcd Wilton. His diamonds
arc then Of the first water. His gold chains GU
rious quizzing glass and brilliant baubles, contrast
with the satin broadclotli of coat made, not only
in the latest Partisan style, but actually in the city
of Paris itself This | assure you is literally fact.
When confronted, at the last election, with the
taor's certificate under oath, proving his under
valuing Philadelphia workmanship, did it abash or
confound him Z Not in the least. He stood up be-
fore large assenblages Of his fellow citizens and
said he had his clothing made in Paris in order to
show his constituents, by ocular demonstration,
that the Frenchman could make no better coats
than Philadelphian The contrast he thought
would be favorable and then slouching his old hat
over his forehead, to hide some Of the brass, he
laughed at the joke rs he called it. The :. dear
people" were little staggered at first, but some
half dozen threw up their greasy caps aud huzzaed
for Ingcrsol;" this Palpnble humbug and most inn
pudent explanation were passed off and actually
laughed at as good joke. There is nota particle
of exaggeration in all this | assure you for the
same ludcrous scene re-enacted at meeting
of the Locos in own village, though must do
our fellows so muck Justice to admit that the
dose did not go down without good many wry
faces. After that is it to be wondered at that such
man could toast the President to his face with
his Veto and ditto and go into the House with
thrift speech, to be nulli6ed by anti-tarf vote,
crying Yes and No with the same breath? Not a
bit: The man is capable of any thing
One of this Ingersoll's particular faverites, and
the brilliant star at his aristocratc parties, was
Mrs. Butler, the " divine Fanny" who as the
Queen of tragedy gained that brilliant reputation
which her Journal OF Travels so materially tar
aished. As her recent work on Georgia &c. shows
disposition to persist in the SANDERS, which it
was thought her American marriage might have
modified if not cured, [ will take occasion to
draw out some sketches and incidents, which may
serve to show what manner of man the Democracy
Of this State have allowed themselves 10 be fooled
by. His political regeneration is more remark
able than any of the made Democrats have
been guilty Of. True, our Senator Buchanan, now
the great gun of Pennsylvania Democracy, in ds-
clarng, at Lancaster, some years since, in a 4th
of July harangue, that, if he thought lie had a
drop of Democratic blood in his veins he would
let it out, made small mistake. But tmo,
which changes the physical may purge the political
nature The Federal blood which then nanted
the cheek at the mere imputaton of too rank
repubcanism, may flare with most purely
Democratic hue. An occasional mistake may be
forgiven, but an habitua indulgence in error shows
inherent defects that however they may be slossed
over will sooner or later, hang up the Demagogue
q fitting object for the finger of scorn.
Is it not wonderful that such impudcnt pretend
ers to Republican principles, whose lives have
been long libel on Democracy, should lord 1t in
triumph over the best interests and rights Of the
People, while such Elen as CLAY are suffered 10
be assailed and decried by these very dernagogues
and their tools-HENRY Clay, who for forty
years has stood the test, and always like pare
gold Why, from The time when as the most
popular Speaker of the most popular Democratic
House of Representatives, he stood forth the elo
ouent cham pion of his Country's rights, the most
powerful defender of her Republican institutions,
to the present hour, he has been the same patri-
otto, bold, unwa,ering friend and advocate of
sound, pure Republican principles. Whatever
temporary shadows may be cast over his path,
Henry Clay will still live il the hearts of his coun-
trymen He will flourish in the heart-warm az
lection of his real friends-the people-when the
hirelings who now assail him are forgotten. As
the great champion of the American System, indie
pendent altogether of his numerous and powerful
claims, he is entitled to the gratitude of the great
body of the people. For, let the tools of foreign
manufacturers and British capitalists and monop-
olisls promulgate what dognas and sophistry they
may, the people now feel and are beginning TO
understand their true Interests in this matter.
fair Protection for the honest industry Of own
country is the first principle of selfpreservation,
"a one of IN. frs. laws of nature We are sur