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of the Virginia slave, For the summer,
it would be too warm-for the winter,
too cold; still, if you can improve the
fabric by putting little more wool in
the filing, and mixing liltlc with the
warp,.l do not know but it might be
found adequate to all our purposes.
You ask my opinion of the American
system? Relative to that somewhat alb
solbing question, should no pc that the
whole ofmy past life and policy had Civ
en- satisfactory reply. have always
been of opinion that the people of this
nation should manufacture all the fabrcks
that their exigencies demand, if they can
do so, and that they can do so without
applying to the workshop of England,
France and Germany, who will double
Cottons AID woollens we make in ra re
abundance, and of a quality quite good
enough to answer all our wants and de-
mands; why then should we travel to
Europe for our silks and fine linen;, we
must for some time to come go to the
workshops Of Europe; hut apprehend
that the day is not far distant when even
they will be manufactured by native in
dNsry.
You ask my opinion of the merits of
Mr.. Henry Clay and his policy for the
protection of domestic industry and man
ufaclures. These are questions which |
feel some delicacy about answering, first
because Mr. Clay Is now candidate for
the Presidency, and secondly, | never yet
fully understood to what ends his policy
extends; and although will advance my
opinions relative to the questions you put
to me, must beg that YOU will not at
this lunc!ure give my views to the pub
lie though the press. A, for Mr. Clay,
! consider him to be one of the mos; tai
ented and brilliant men and statesmen
that the country has ever produced, and
should live many years longer, hope
to see'him hold the place Of the chief ex-
ccutive OF the American republic. His
career, thus far in life, has been a career
OF glory, aud he has achieved that for his
country, whilst engaged in her cause,
which would ornament the brighuse,
place in the escutcheon of the most favor
ed statesman Of any aye or nation. SAY
'Huo ihuNH III i'H't w oui iHtOiio9a-o-
res, but. as said before, do not wish to
have my remarks given to the press, for
the simple reason that this country is in
volved in political excitement, OF which
! AM not disposed to take part, as have
long since resolved no! to take part in the
politics of the times. My wrist, which
is quite lame, adnonishcs me to discon-
tinue this hasty mole. With assurance OF
the most perfect respect,
| am your obliged fellow citizen,
THOMAS JEFFERSON.
The manner in which Mr.. JEFFERSON
here speaks of Mr.. Clay would lead one
to suppose that the Kentucky Statesman
was regarded as good democrat by the
head of the democratic school. 1t is
true that Mr.. Clay was so regarded; he
was one of the leaders Of the Democratic
party, and the foremost champion of the
war under MADISON. He was promi-
nent leader Of the Democratic party when
he upheld the Tariff of lSl6-when he
advocated the National Bank in tbs same
year-he laboured for the Cumberland
road and judicious system Of Internal
Improvements by the General govern
ment. Mr.. CALHOUN went with him in
these measures. How happens it that
Mr.. CLAY, the most consistent, we had
almost said the only consistent statesman
in the country from 1916 to the present
time, now denounced by the party which
calls itself democratic? How happens it
that every prominent measure which
marked the democratic policy Of MAoI-
SONS administration is now denounced
by the "democracy''2 A protective sys-
tenn for sustaining domestic industry, a
national institution to give an equaole
and sound currency, supported and car
ried by the democracy of 1916, are now
reckoned as denominations in the eyes Of
the democracy of 1S43. How is this2
Mr.. CLAY, labourng in the same cause
which called forth his gallant efforts as
democratic leader nearly thirty years
ago, is no longer to be deemed demo-
crat, while Mr.. CALHOUN, who has aban-
doned every principle of Madisonian de-
mocracy which he once supported, is
now democrat and an aspirant TO the
Presidency under that name.
wen, this Is strange 10 say the least oi
it, The democracy of the present day is
so different from the old democracy Of the
last war that any one adhering to the lat
ter is called Federalist for his consis-
tency. Modern democracy dates from
the Jackson era. 1t signalized itself by
destroying every thing which the demo-
crazy of Jefferson and Madison had es-
tablished. Is there a single measure OF
policy which it found in existence that it
did not disturb? Great must be the po-
tency Of name and wise must they be
who wear it, lift is to be regarded as
sufficient reason 70. inconsistencies and
absurdi'es as gross and palrabla as ever