The Woodstock age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1844-1845, 1844-11-07
From the West Chester Republican.
WHAT THEY DON'T TELL THE
PEOPLE.


ty of the people Of the Unned States have
no confidence in the moral or political
principles of Henry Clay, and that he new
rr can advance TO the Presidency, by the
nc Of fair aud honorable means on the
part Of himself and friends, have been and
sill are endcavoring to seduce voters into
his support, by concealing his true charac-
ter aud his true position in relation to sew
eral important questions now agitatlng the
public mind. They don't tell the people
tjc rhOle truth, upon these poms:
IN RELATION TO HIS CHARAC-
TER.
THEY DON'T TELLTH PEOPLE,
that Henry Clay Is a confirmed DUEL
LIST; has five times, cooly and deliberate
Iy attempted TO take away the life Of his
fellow man, in dueIS; and although now
past 81 years Of age, his attachment to this
bloody code. is so strong that he refuses,
in reply tn a committee of citizens from
Weslmoreland county, Pennsylvania, OPP
posed to dueIIng, to say that he would not
again indulge i'll that practice which, in
the language Of Frcinghuysen, "scls the
laws of God and the institutions ola Chris
tian people at defiance"
THEY DON'T TELL THE PEOPLE,
that Henry Clay has been, from early yomh
down to the year 1914, A GAMBLER;
that he gambIed for money on the 4lh Of
July, 1913, and so late as August 1874;
aud that his habits ofGambl,ng have never
in fact, been abandoned Tile volunteers
deniaIs Of other charges-thls he has new
er deaicd)
THEY DON'TTELL THE PEOPLE,
that Henry Clay is man noted for his
PROFANITY, in public and private
(Ihis also is another charge which he does
not venture to deny.)
IN RELATION TO THE TARIFF.
THEY DON'T TELL THE PEOPLE
that Henry Clay in his original draft Of
his iam'uS compromise act Of 1888, pro-
posed, directly, to abandon duties orpro.
lection upon any article of domestic man
uiActurC; (ihis is proved to be n fact by the
written evidence of Daniel Wrbster
THEY DON'T TELL TIE PEOPLE
that Henry Clay, in 1871, rather than
touch his Compromise Act, proposed and
0droc0fcd duties to be levied upon TEA
AND COFFEE.
THEY DON'T TELL THEpEOpLE
that Henry Clay, IN letter dated Oclo-
Der 1913, addressed to free-lradc Merri.
weather, OF Georgia, said;
81 should have preferred TO the present
tAriIl,) that the compromise, in ALL IT'S
PARTS, couId have been adhered to-"
THEY DON'T TELLTIlE PEOPLE
that Henry Clay; just before he resigned
his seat in the United States Senate, IN
order to escape roi,ng onlhe tariff question
said
Garry ont, then, the spirit Of the Com
promise act Look to revenue alone for
the support Of Government, Do not raise
the question ofprotecllon, which ! hoped
had been put to rest. There is no neccs-
siIy OF protection, for protection"
THEY DON'T TELL TIE PEOPLE
that Henry Clay has said that, in his Judge.
ment, a tariff passed strictly in the spirit
Of the Compromise act, would have been
better tariff than that Of 1912; and yet
he did so say in one of his speeches for
his southern friends, made at Wilmington
North Carolina, on his last clectioneering
tour.
THEY DON'T TELL THE PEOPLE
that Henry Clay, although he says he is
opposed to a repeat Of the present tariff, is
also not opposed to notifications Of that
tariff, as is proved by his letter, dated
September lsl3, to Bronson, another Of
his Tree trade Southern friends, in which
he says expressly al there be any oxces.
SEES or defects in it, (or which have not
the means ofjudging, )lhey ought 10 be cor
recied."
THEY DON'TTEIL THE PEOPLE
that Henry Cay's leading personal and
political friends in Congress-,hose who
were familiar with his views and feelings
voted against and tried to prevent the
presen, tariff from becoming a law.
THEY DON'T TELL THE PEOLPE
that the Wings Of Georgia, with whose
opinion Mr. Clay told MIR Merriweihor,
his (Clay's) opinion sis in perfect coin
cdence," have, at one Of their meetings,
resolved that "IIenry Clay is PLEDGED
to abide the spirit Of the compromise
act" and that they, "us good citizens, are
ever willing TO pay any tariff for The pur.
pose orrcrenuc, but no, cent FOR prolec-
ton"
THEY DON'T TELL THE PEOPLE
that James X. Polk has never expressed
himself more strongly in favor of the com.
promise act than has Henry Clay-the lat.
ter, as has been already stated, preIerring
tariff based upon its principles, to the
present Tariff.
THEY DON'T TELL TIIEPEOPLE
that James X. Polk, so early as 1888, on
the floor of Congress, sustained discrimi-
mating duties, and particularly in favor of
the iron and other manufacturing inter-
csts.
THEY DON'T TELL THEPEOPLE
that lanes X. Polk is now pledged TO n