Independent Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1842-1844, 1844-07-20
THE WING CANDIDATES.

! sen. The portrait OF Clay, especially VIII
: be recognised at once as Just and accu'
rate; Frelinghuysen, Or Frelinghewson,
! (there seems to be some doubt as to VIVA
bis name ISL is not SO well known. The
charge against Frelinghuysen Of being ia
yorableto the Union of church and state is
! founded on a pamphlet written by that
: gentleman, which contained sentiments
such as the following:
ALIAS it not become cant among us,
that as electors we have nothing to do with
mems religious sentments-no right even
10 inquire about them? Twenty gods or
no god, or the God that made the worlds,
is quite Indifferent; PapistS and Protcs-
tants are all one; S0cinians, JewS, and
epdagelicat believers are all one; yes,
81 the tattooed cannibal ofhe South Sea,
were he to honor our asylum OF liberty by
seeking q lot in lis blessings would enter
at once into the same family circle of I'M
Distinguished and indlstinguishablc unity !;
free alike to live among us and 10 rise
above our heads; for the doctrine is, tina.
whoever is entitled 10 sit in the shade Of
the constitutional tower, has right also
TO scale its walls"
This Frelinghuysen is the man, whose
sanity piety was intended to leaven the
rather questionable morality Of Henry
Clay, and whose name, some wing at the
Baltimore convention, exutingly announ-
ced TO be Theodore, which being interpre-
ted, meant he said, "the gift Of God"
thereby inlimating that he was godsend,
and great man raised up for the occa.
sion. We think it might also imply, that
it required nothing less than miracle to
elevate Henry Clay to the presidency,
and that nothing less than an actual saint,
direct fom the hand of Heaven, could
serve 10 purge the fragrant character of
the "cmbodiment.' We will not longer
dctain our readers from the extract:
"Messrs. Clay and Frelinghuysen re-
present what we may term ultra whigism.
Mr.. Clay is unquestionably a man of
ability. He Is splendid orator; he has
great power over the men with whom he
Games into immediate contact: but he is |
no statesman. lie is ambitious, but short. |
sighted bold, daring, but incapable of
general principles, or of per-
ceivlng the relation between effects and
their causes, when those causes are not
near at hand. Yet he is abashed by no
inconsistency, disturbed by no contradic-
ton, and can defend with firm counten-
ance and without the least misgiving what
every body but himself sees 10 be poll.
teal lallacy, or a logical absurdity. Re.
flute him, demonstrate with mathematical
certainly that his proposition is false, con-
front hun with names, dates, figures, and
he stands unmoyed, unconscious of what
you have done, reiterates his proposition
in holder tone, re-asscrts it with growing
and pours forth the full tide Of
his rich and suasive eloquence in its de-
fence. You stand aghast. What can
the man mean? His insensibiIity con-
POUNDS you, and you almost begin to dis
trust your own demonstration against him,
though as certain as the demonstration OF
a problem in Euclid.
SIN regard 10 right and wrong he man
ifests the same singular selfpossession.-
He is no more disturbed by being convict
cd of moral insensbiIity than of intel
lectual absurdity. He sees no moral abb
surdity in determining right and wrong by
parallels of latitude, and in declaring
Thing to be right on one side Of given
parallel, and wrong on The other. A man
of rare abilities, but apparently void of
both moral and intellectual conscience,
who finds no difficulty in withstanding,
when necessary to his purposes, the eter-
nal laws both of logic and morality, and
therefore man whom no power under
that of the Almighty can restrain, he must
needs be the most dangerous man TO be
placed at the head of the Government it
is possible to conceive. There is no fore.
seeing what he would do, or would not
do. Not few even of the wings feel that
he is an unsafe man; even the manufac-
turers themselves support him with fear :
and trembling; the noblest of all the
wings has denounced him on more occa- .
sions than one, and now only damns him
with faint praise L
g Mr.. FrelinghuyseE is quito different
man and while agreeing with Mr.. Clay !
in all obnoxious measures TO which MIR.
Clay himself stands pledged, he repre-. I,
sents certain other elements of the whip
parity from which still more evil, if pos :
slble, Is 10 be apprchended Mr.. FIRE. },
Ilnghaysen is not only wing in the worst !.
sense of the term, bat he is also the verv ,
of arrow-minded, igno-
rant, concerted bigoiry--a man who bold :
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