Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1843-08-03
Clan ia PENNSYLVANIA.

Clay ia Pennsylvania.
An immense meeting of the friends of Harry of
the West took place at Lancaster. PENNSYLVANIA
last Saturday The Philadelphia Inquirer saws
Thousands and thousands were in Attendance
The turnout surpassed any thing of the kind that
has been remembered in that county for wears. The
real ycomanry the country We're there. The
spectacle was magnificent one. The feeling was
cordial and enthusiastic in the highest degree
Pennsylvania is certain for Clay, in 1914, as
Kentucky. The people olthat State never had any
confidence i'll Van Buren,. They refused to vote for
him as Vice President; and like Ohio and Georgia,
never voted for him as President. As he is TO be
the candidate olthe Democracy, the people are GO
ing for Clay with perfect rush. Buchanan it is
supposed, could arrest the tide. if he were the De-
mocratc candidate. But there is no chance ofthis
and it is very great mistake to suppose that he
could carry the State He is not popular, and ne
Colonel Johnson is he strongest of the
Democratic candidates; but he is passc, and what's
more, is doing all he can for Clay.
Put down the kcy-!Stone for Harry of the West!
The bribery and corruption OF the People.
The Enquirer-thc organ oithc Democracy
repeats during the present week, for the hlndreth
time, the stale calumny that the people were brib-
ed and defrauded into the expulsion of Van Buren,
in 1910. 1t SAYS:
1--WE differ with a Virginan rs to the strength of MI
Van BuEcn. In 1910 he received votes enough To elect
him, had not the Wings pipc-lad sufficient 10 over
throw him by their frauds. great many of the people,
too, voted against him. because they were carried away by
the disgraceiu tricks and contemplate mummeres of the
Whigs-and by the vile msrcpre OF the Wing
Leaders, who resoried TO every expedient defeat him..
hnNa had l
tricks Of the Wings"
Now we demand, we have often done before
in vain, scina of proof that there was any
pipe-laying by the Wings, or any Democrats brib.
ed, or through simplicity tricked into an abandon
are susceptible of proof. And if the facts be as
charged, that the Democr0iS-the salt of the earth
were hlmbuggcd and corrupted-what becomes
OF the loud vaunt-that the people are capable Of
selEgovernment-ihat they not only sovereign,
but inialliblc! II they are thus dupeable and de.
PRAYED, what becomes of their boasted capacity
for free Government These foul aspersions
upon the integrity and Intelligence of the Ameri.
can people, when first made, in the autumn of
lsl0-aftcr the result of the Presidential election
was known, wcre seized upon eagerly by the Ab.
solutists of Europe, To COrroboTatc their position
that man is incapable of sclfgovcrnment With
such signal effect were they welded by the Tory
presses of England and the Icgitimists of France
To the prejudice of free institutions and of ours i'm
particular, that Gov. Cass, then Minister at Par.
is, felt called upon 10 step FORTH and in semi.of
fetal form, proclaim the world that the charges
were arraut llsehoods, and were made by heated
and disappointed partisans. The articles which
I had lppu IN relied a.,
Globe and the Enquirer: Gcnl Cass. who pro-
nounccd them base calrunnics, was then and is still
II distinguished characterization both of these
papers profess 10 be willing To elevate to the Prcs
dcncy!
The manly and noble rebukc of Cas-, coupled
with the early trcachcry of Tyler, had the effect
of arrcsting these hypocrtical prctcnders to De.
mocracy in their foul imputations upon the people
But recently with the view to restore Van Buren,
to a post which he abused a nd disgraced. and from
which hc was nobly driven by the free people of
this country, who could neither de inundated by
power nor corrupted by patronage;-thesc organs
ofthe pure Democracy have returned to their dirty
work. We humbly think they are mistaken in their
calculations i'm suppOslng that the people can he
brought to fall down and worship their idol, bv be-
/ ing called dupes and knavcs for rejecting him. If
/ there bc no higher virtuc--thcrc is some selfrc.
| spcct still left in the American bosom. Messrs.
Richie and Blair may be, and no doubt are, vastly
indignant that the people would not obey their or.
ders, and support man who proposed to establish
over them standing army, and then had the mean.
ness to deny II, and whose subordinotcs in office
made II an everyday business To plumber the public
Golfers. They may be indignant, and may vent
their wrath in copious discharges Of Billingsgatc
upon the heads Of the refractory people. But hcy
har'H restored Van; and until they prove that the
| people are tho abandoned pro1igacs and simple.
tons they represent them TO be, they cannot do il
\ virtuous pcoplc-conscious Of the purity Of their
motives and the patriotic ends they had in view,
cannot he driven 10y vfcation to abandon their
principles, or to succumb to the dictaton of rner
ccnary parzans, goadcd TO madness by their oxpul.
sion from the public crib.
p-r PLEASURE ExCURsION-CapL mitchell proos...
pleasure trip Saturday city Point The attractions are
sd n be q Tie 6rst order. IN addition woned charms Of
such dyeremen numerous Balloons made n ascend tn
/ Heavens.
The Norfolk, Petersburg, Fredericksburg and Washing
ton papers all acknowledge the receipt oopious and re-
ireshng showers las, Sunday and Monday We hope the
rain has been general II 30, IL will be worth many mil
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