The Whig standard., 1843-12-05
OLD MONTGOMERY AWAKE,

10 previous noilce, respectable meeting oi Tue
W higs of Montgomery county assembled in
Rockville on Thursday, the 10th inst, and were
duly organized by inviting c. d. Warfeld, Esq,
to take the chair, and John Braddock, jr, 10 act
as secretary.
Richard l. Bowie, Esq, one of the committee
previously nominated for that purpose, submit
ted the following able preamble and series oi
resolutions, which, after being prefaced by some
introductory remarks, were, on motion Of Mr.
" aite, unanimously adopted by the meeting.
The committee appointed by the Clay Club OF
Montgomery county, to prepare and submit to
| them the mode Of proceeding best calculated to
| accomplish the great end of their organization
| the election of Henry Cay-and as part of tha,
organization, TO take especial care TO devise ways
| and means of dffusing correct information of the
policy and principles Of their candidate and dis
| pelling the prejudices so sedulously cherished
against him, respectfully offer the following sug-
| geslions:
The election of Henry Clay to the Presidency
can only be effected by enlisting in his cause the
generous sympathies Of the people of the United
States; BY arousing their gratitude for his past
services, awakening their admiration of his ge-
MUS, and exhibiting the noble qualities of head
and heart, which challenge the respect Of his
enemies and win him troops Of friends.
Nor IN doing this, are we engaged in man
worship; but in " rendering unto Cesar the
things which are Cesar's." There have been
epochs in the annals of all nations, when the
greatest good or the greatest evil which could
befal them was the success or the defeat of indi-
ylduals--citizens, whose lives were SO identified
with the prosperity OF the State, that whatever
affected their political career, was blessing, or
q blight, TO the millions that surrounded them
Such is the candidate Of the Whig party. Cir
cums!ances have moulded the man for the crisis
which demands his calm and sagacious foresight;
ms energetic firmness; his incorruptiblc integ-
MY his enlarged experience and, above all,
his ardent patriotism.
Nursed in the lap Of the mother of Statesmen
lVlrglnla); inspiring the spirit of the Revolution
from It's surviving sages; transplanted in youth
to the valley of the Mississippi, The mother Of
States,) no narrow sectional impulse, 10 selfish
scheme OF personal aggrandisement has ever linz
lied the horizon Of his views; but expanded as
the continent, bold and majestic as the mighty
river OF the West, have been the scope and cur
rent of his policy.
He is emphatically The American Statesman.
Forty years service in the councils Of his coun-
try have matured the rich and varied intellect
with which nature endowed him.
Amidst the pcrils and vacillating fortunes of
war, his voice encouraged the weak and strength
ened the stout-hearted: never quailing in the
darkest hour OF difficulty and distress. In the
negotiations for peace, his broad American feel
ing, watched alike over the interests of the east
and the west; insisting with equal tenacity for
the rights Of the fisherman on the banks of New
foundland, and of the planter on the Mississippi !;
maintaining the inviolablity Of our flag upon
every sea making the stars and stripes the in
sigma Of freedom throughout the wortd.
When civil discord brooded DER the land and
the sword was half unsheathed by citizen against
citizen, his wisdom subdued the strife and ce-
mented with new bonds the antagonist interests
When American agriculture commerce, and
manufactures, languished and almost expired un-
der the weight of foreign competition and low
wages, his penetration detected the cause, his
sagacity suggested the remedy
hen an overfowing treasury tempted the
+ ederal Executive TO corrupt the people with
their own gold, his influence mainly restored II
to the States, its legitimate and proper guardians.
When the common property Of all the States,
| the domain purchased BY their blood and trea-
sure, was hawked by politicians as the price Of
popularlty-tendered to the new States as a Gift.
by his rivals-his justice and magnanimity, supe-
rior to the bribe, rebuked IN emphatic terms the
wrong and maintained the rights of the whole
| Union: Therefore
Resolred, That the object to be effected, de-
pending upon the will Of a majority of the peo-
pie of the United States can only be accomplish
ed by individual exertion, operating on masses
OF our fellow-ctizens through all those channels
by which the public mind is most readily SWAY.
ed; and The machinery by which these means are
most universally and immediately commanded
is that best suited to the purpose
Resolred, That the Clay Clubs, in the opinion
OF this committee, should be SO organized as tc
impose some active and positive duty on every
member, the regular and satisfactory discharge
Of which, however humble or simple its charac-
ter should confer honor on the agent; and the
neglect Of which, should meet with correspond.
ing disgrace.
Resolred, That when citizens are enlisted in
the cause OF their country, to defend and protect
1t from the rule of evil advisers, or the effects Of
bad councils or systems of Government, the OBJ
l'gation upon every man to do his duty, is moi
less solemn or sacred, than if he stood a sentinel
on the out-posts Of an enemy.
Resolred, That in the contest which is now
waglng Tor the ascendency in the national coun
CHS, between the Wings and their adversaries
neutrality In mind Of ordinary capacity and d
rectness, is impossible-so broad are The differ
ences which mark their political creeds; and
/ where neutrality is impossible inertness is nm