The North-Carolina standard., 1844-04-03

snimal2 Something dull that never learns il
the ass2 Something vieiousAis it the mule
Something stupid and hiding its stupidity under
1.-THE garb of seeming wisdom-is it the owl :
lSomething blind and that works in the dark-is it
the mole? Something thievish and nibbling in
its propensities s-isitt the rat2 No-none of these;
but nicely adjusted and fitting compound Of them
ala coon A fat, lazy, oily, thieving, coward
iy, skulking eoon--the hybrid, emblem of hy-
brid party. [Great laughter, tremendous cheer
ing, and groans for some minutesl The banner
Eof the wings is a coonskin. In the long night of
the middle ages, when armed Europe sent forth
her steelelad barons with their stout retainers
a pilgrimage to Jerusalem to rescue, the Holy
Sepulchre from the tenacious clutch of the Inf
del-and alas, to redden the sands of Palestine
with Christian gore-the banner that waved above
the bold Crusader then, as he fought and bled
| And died. the sword in his red right hand,
| On the holiest spoEof that blessed land, -
was, the banner of the Holy Cross: [Cheers]
When the Bourbons desired to call to their aid
the lances of imperial France, the Orihamme was
displayed and the Gallo chiyairy rallied round it
to conquer or to die. [CheersI In more mod
ern times the trfcolor Of the revolution and the
golden eagles of the empire have been carried ia
triumph into every capital on the continent
There is not a single breeze that blows in which
the meteor flag of England does not wave; and
Blenheim, Families, Seringa patam, Albuera, Sala
manca and Quebec, Acre, ,Aboukir, Waterloo and
Trafalgar, are eloquent with its glories. We ra-
iy under banner inferior to none of these-a flag
| loved at home and respected abroad-the star
spangled banner of our country. Tremendous
cheeringI 1t is familiar to the British soldier,
for he saw it on the plains. of Saratoga, in the
lines at Yorktown, and upon the breast work at
New Orleans. [Great cheeringl 1t is associat-
| ed in the mind Of the British sailor with the
names of Hull, Porter and Decatur. It streamed
from the mast head of the Constitution, when the
! Guerriere struck. [Cheeringl True-these are
the banners of nations-but this contemplate
skin is the emblem and the banner of party
which aspires TO control the destinies of nation
EGroans and hissesl And such nation, too-a
nation which doubles its population and quadru-
pies its wealth every two and twenty years-the
only free nation on the face of Gods earth-a ma
tion, the corner stone of whose greatness was laid
by him, in speaking of whom all language fails
and all dtterance becomes palzied Ransack the
records of all time. Invoke the aid of the genius
of the past Who is his peer? He is unap-
preached in the intellectual symmetry and moral
4 grandeur Of his character. George Washington
knows no peer-he has no parallel TLeud-and
enthusiastic applausel Let me call your atten-
ton to the startling fact that indirect and most
insidious attack has been lately made upon the
memory of Washington. 1t was made from this
very stand only eleven days ago, by one who stood
! here before the whole country as an acknewiedg-
ed mouth piece of the whig party. The nn-
guage of this whie orator was this: He tMr.
Clayl has made his OWE character the character
of the age, as Washington did in bis time. Wash
ingtou left the nation sober orderly, higkprinei-
pied and patriotic, but on the whole rather with
negative qualities, but the man of our time Ii. e.
Mr.. Clay) came to give the nation additional traits
of a positive and active character--to make it
while it yet retained all those Washington virtues,
still more enterprzing, bold, energetic, ardent, en-
thusiastic, aspiring, selfimproving, and selfpre-
tective" An honest political adherent. and ad-
mirer of Henry Clay should hang his head in
shame to hear such language. And yet It was ut
tered in the presence Of and listened to with ap-
probation by nearly 5000 wings, and not onegoice
was >Eaised against ii: 1t has been extensively
published in the whig press. Not one whig edl-
tor has passed structures upon It, On the contra
rv The Tribune" without reservation. pronoun-
ces the whole ofarion of which the aboveis part
as truthful" and {" masterly." The Courier and
Enquirer praises and regrets that it cannot pnb-
lish it. The express predicts that =" when publish
ed it will be the text book of the campaign; the
minnows Of the whig press follow in the wake of
these. their leviathans Now this whig, "text
book" exalts Henry Clay at the expense and
makes him the equal of George Washington
him who is degraded by comparison with any
man-whose fame should be eearer to US than our
\ hearts blood-who is our hther-for he is the
4 father of our country. Not content with this at
tempted parricide, this accredited organ Of the
whig party further says: :" MIR, Clay is not only
American, 6ut America Itself, the Republic per
4 soni5fcd." This is nought but man-worship It
has no foundation in truth. 1t sthe reckless and
destructive spirit of ultra. partizanship It is a
bowing of the knee to Baal What reasonable
and unprejudiced man would trust party who,
exasperated by defeat and mad with excessive lust
of power, are endeavoring to gain their end
by making an idol of Clay and falling down be-
fore it. To hear their orators and their presses
speaking of Henry Clay, one would suppose him
to be more than man. l am no calumniator ol
Henry Clay; seek not to detract from him his
/ fair fame; am willing and desirous to accord
him his true position. do notimpugn his pat
riotism. Ifreely grant,that he is persevering, en-
lergetic, eloquent and ndbraye--endowed with an in
describable magic OF manner, and pre.eminently
} fitted BY nature to what he is--a great partizan
leader In his democratic youth, before he was
fatiered and caressed into the ranks of the advo
Gates of special Legislation, he stood up manful
lv against the recharter of the u. S. Bank
and for Madison and the war. We honor him
for it. We gratefully remember his exertions ir
: behalf of the acknowledgement of the independ
ence Of Greece and the South American Repub
4ics At the same time we must regret that he
whose youth gave such glorious promise should
in the full maturity of his manhood forSake the