Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1844-06-06

of it-repealed his thanks, and gave his
reason, to wit: Because it took from
Martin Van Buren, the last dollar Of bor-
rowe6 capital, which he had left, 10 do
political business on. He said Van b.
rem had drummed upon the dead hide of
the United States Bank until it could no
longer return an echo. He alluded TO
the practice ofparty prescription in his
own State, by both parties, very compla-
Gently. Said they ,rent IL there, pretty
sharp, and when a revolution in party
ascendency took pIace,the victors brought
the official heads of the vanqu;shed indis'
clinlinaieIy to the block, the keen axe
descended, heavily aud briskly, the blood
! flowed freely. and there was no whining
by the victims on either side. lie re.a-
ted very amusing anecdote of an old
office-holder in New York, as an instance
however, in which fear to decapitate.
existed, without finding some cause of
complaint against him. He then adver-
ted to the arguments of the the opponents
of Protective Tariff, and SAID they were
all silenced wherever manufactures ex
listed, by the voice Of every hammer and
anvil, aud loom, and spindle, &c. &c.
which were in operation there. He adj
verled most happily, 10 the procession Of
/ the I'd inst, and said the Weaver, playing
his loom, in it, was, 10 him, The noblest
sight Of alI-the lairest of all the worlds
| fair. the AIDES in it excepted. He paid
Just and beautiful compliment to the
beneficial habit, virtue, aud public and
private utility and individual and National
happiness and glory, sure TO follow the
The general practice of every ones atten'
ding assiGuously, proudly and contentedly
TO his own business. He next paid a
beautiful tribute 10 Henry Clay. Said
his own head was a little silvered, bn;
he distinctly recoIlected that before he
was Is years of age, he first heard Mr.,
Claws voice IN The council of the Nation.
He spoke of him as identified, for over
forty wears with all The great events o.
he country first or snlong The foremost
always for the country, and in few word;
the very embodiment of Wing principles
He highly commended The distribution o
the proceeds of the pubic Iauds--bea,i
fully pronounced it the balance wheel o
I the Tariff. and said that Mr.. Clay con
sidered it the proudest monument of tn
i country. He paid a high tribute 10 tn
: worth of MilIard Fillmore. and Theodor
: Frecl;nghuysen, SAID that New Yorl
It greatly preferred the former, but pledged
s himself, for her, that every wing their
y would cheerfully defer to the preference
of the majority Of the convention, and g
!, Freelinghuysen TO the death.
. He said he had heard but one solitar,
objection to him, and that was that hi
!, name ,could not rhyme andIthat he wa
: about acquiescing in the truth of the re
h mark when he heard squad of boy
singing in the streets,
Don't you see the people rising
For Henry Clay and Freelinghuysen."
and thus even that objection was annihi
lated, almost as soon as made. He sal
that, in New York, they allowed no viii,
to growl. sullS, or muitny; if they bega
it, or showed symptoms of it. the,
promptly applied the dicipline, and pro
claimed to HIM, in plain terms, the maxim
of the Fisherman, to wit that Z" he mus
either fish, cut bail or go ashore :" HI
said the question had been asked him, OF
the stand, by Jerseyman, SHOW vii
New York 60, in November" AMI tina
he would answer it: that he pledged
> himself to the gentleman from New Jer
sey that the sons Of those scho drope tn
Hessians from their soil sOould find thu
descendants of the champions of Sion,
. Point battling Uah them side by side
? to a man, for CLAY and FREELINGHUY
3 SEN; and, this he would not say, posi-
tiuely, that New York was a certial
State, In November, for the Wings, we
this much he aoould say, that Van Burer
} had better look to himself. He SAID al
f the enthusiasm, aud more than all, o
! 1910 was up in his State; they wen
, the Cabins, the Clay Club houses. ant
all the paraphernalia Of enthusiasm, ant
harbingers Of conquest and patriotism
that ever. ever existed any where; tina
on the arrival Of the news Of the whii
I victory, up went the flag, on their hea'