The North-Carolina standard., 1843-05-10
From fhe Richmond Enquirer
WHEG LoGICt

The Richmond Wing gives. a cut s'represent-
ing H. Clay, as he actually was in early boyhood
la mill boy, riding to MILL almost literally in his
shirt tall" s(Who does recollect his actual fig
fure2 And, therefore, we presume, the Wing
most logically inters that Mr., Clay should be
elected President of the y.
The Pennsylvania notices this beautiful move
ment IN the Wing" and lashes it in the follow
ing indignant manner:
"Ihls Is, we presume, sample of the political
literature of sthe same old coon that was out in
1910" and probably is a specimen of the style of
electioneering which, in some parts, of the coun-
try, isto be adopted on behalf of Henry CLAW the
mill boy ofthe sashes. This sort ofthing is quite
complimentarytoth intelligence ofthe people very
fattering suppose that they are to be induced to
support candidate for a high Office, because he
rode TO mill with his unmentionables rather in a
fractured condition, Why how many of us who
have done precisely the thing in precisely the
same attire, and vet scarcely think it matter
for boastng 1t is like enough that Mr.. Van Bu-
rem and Mr. Buchanan, in their boyish days had
quite much Indifference to the comfort of patch
es as could possibly have been entertained by the
little Harry Clay, and yet this fact has never,
that we remember, been urged as giving them ad-
ditional claims to the Presidency 1t is rather a
curious thing, by the way that it is only the ars-
tocratic party in the country, who resort TO the
pItItul mode OF electIoneerlng to which we refer.
The great Whig politicians are the ones who rise
from damask cushions and luxurious lounges, to
go forth into the streets, and ask votes for Them
selves on the score of hard cider and diIapidated
pantaloons tits splendor alone which operates
IN such disguise-your great spectators, jobbers,
Ebankers-your jewellers in silver plate, cham
pagne, chicken, salad and terrapins-it is they
who masquerade, and have one face at the polls
and another for their other fields of operation. In
the, ,coonskin campaign, they were wagon boys,
log cablnites, hard ciderites, in tow garments and
hunting shirts, and now possibly they are all to
be "mill boys of the slashes," with such neither
integuments- as are described in the Richmond
Wing, Their only idea of Democracy ana de
mocratic principles, is made up of vague notions
about uproar and torn clothes, and accordingly,
when they would pass for democrats. they yell and
roar and frs about with tatters over their broad
cloth. True Democracy docs none of these things,
for it consists of defined principles and not of ex-
ternal appearance; and it knows we'll enough that
even had Mr.. Clay gone TO mill in his boyhood,
after the fashion mentioned above, something else
Is required to fit him for the administration of a
great republic. 1t is to be hoped that ouroppo-
nents are not about To. play off their old farce 1t
cannot again be successful and it would be mat
ter of regret, if another attempt of the same de
grading kind, as that of 1840, were to be pracis-
ed for though it must be useless as a political
engine, still its effects in other respects mis-
chievous by perpetr,atng the most pary species
of denagogucisn. u