Independent Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1842-1844, 1844-03-23

Capers, OF South CarOllRa. 1t Is too TIcf
to pass unnoticed. The wing paper
have characterized it as zone of the mos
sublime and teaching things ever read
a specimen Of more 81 y rhapsoalcal rant
we have never seen. This Rev ID. d
seemed 10 have d scarded the cross Of hi'
divine and all.revera ed master VINO said
"go We and preach the go,pel - all ID,
world" and to have ,akrn ~ that OF lh(
farmer of Ashland Or alher he seems
to have conIounded the two; be rejects tht
truth ofthc ascension, e. appears 10 'hnl
that the august being whose awful mission
on earth was consumnated 1900 years
ago, is still incarnate, and engaged ii
horse-racing, dueIling, gambling and com
promising difficulties created by his own
misdeeds. This TO some may look impi
Gus. The impieiy, if any, exists in the
Rev. gentleman who instead of "goins
and preaching the gospel to all the world,
goes about pronouncing eulogies upor
one, who, whatever may be his geniu:
and his great renown, has done more 10
Yitiae and corrupt the youth of the nl,i N
than any man in it. We have never been
! ia the habit Of mixing any allu.i on to Mr..
Clay's private character, and We Certainly
intend now no attack on it, we nerly
meant to point out the incompatibility of
clergyman eulogSlng one whose life has
been in continued hostility to the chris
tan creed. Mr.. Clay knows well to soft.
soap the innoceatS, but it is not he who
puts on long face and dimes ilinerant
missionaries in order TO have silly and
truthleSs letters written about his gNlli.
ness and obedience to the "church. going
bell" who is the friend Of the Christian
system, but he who revcres and Observes
the prccep's of that system.
1t is often the case that an empty rhet-
orical flourish is made the vehicle TO steal
facts into a community. Such is the case
IN the present instance. Mr.. Clay i. rep.
resented as Mercury just "alighted on a
heavcn.kissing hill" and excaiming save
the union!' Who had endangered the
union? Who had been the active instru-
ment iE originating and fastening on the
county that very system which was now
threatning the dissolution of the union.-
THIS very man who is now S, disinterest-
cdly commng forward to save it. After
driving p 'rtinn Of the people Of the
union to desperation, after grinding them
to powder, after violating their const,u.
,onal privileges piundering their proper.
", and goading them 10 the las, mode of
resistance, he comes forward with the
hypocrillcal ciy d "saye the union" We
know Of No more palPable in lance Of
"stop thief" ty the tniet himself
The .gnorant or caniirg churchman OK.
c!ains, ":he genius Of democracy reigned
IA he temple II liberty, and instead of an
a'rr.atIce, the Bloody Force Bill passed."
Who 'aaeat this "Boody Force BinP-
The trends of Mr.. Clay. 1t is true he
did not g1te for 1t, he skulked The question,
5ui when pressed upon the point he was
compelled 70 acknowledge that if present
nc would have voted for it, but he adroitly
shrInk from this respon-ibiIty thath
nIgth with the better grace propose com
proaaise. Go save the union" indeed,
ne told The manufacturers his OBJ. cct was
10 rave the protective sys en-. Suppose
this great sentence Of canring decIama-
ton vas converted into "save the protec.
tive system, 1t was purchased by the plum
der Of the sJuth," it would be something
les. rhetorical, and something nearer the
truth. Well is this Rev. "ora,or Henlyn
called "Capers" for some fantastic capers
does he cut. We vii go on to this delec
table extract:
81 have insinuated, sir, that the temple of
liberty has been shaken to its very base,
by the genius of this thing called democ
racy. And who doubts il! Who has for
gotten the scenes of 1912, when the
sound oil the drum was heard in Carolina.
her plains covered with armies of Andrew
the Great, and her coasts lined with his
trlgales ofwar. What patriot heart beat
not with painful anxiety, when The issue
was suspended on an appeal to Congress9
The appeal was made-it was rejected
The genius OF democracy reigned 10 the
temple OF liberty. and instead Of an a,miz.
tIce, the Bloody Force Bill passed. The
tocsIn of war sounded thro'out the canit,l