Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1844-05-30

only raised it to Undue his hands in the
blood of his fellow mortal. With such
a man as candidate for the high office
of the Presidency, we do not wonder
that there is lack of enthusiasm
The enthusiasm is now all on the other
side. After the nomination at Baltl-
more we will prove to the Wings that
there is enthusiasm in our soul: an en-
thusiasm that proceeds from the purity
of our principles; which is very different
from that caused by the sight ofa Coon
skin or cider barrel. ~. 7. Ple6eian.
ASe-
From tie PA J Democratic Union.
Il Dozen solid Reasons why Henry Clay
should not be elected President
Of the United States.
l. Because he is ambitious of again
fastening upon the country a dangerous
and irresponsible moneyed corporation.
Time and experience have conclusively
demonstrated that National Bank is
not required by the public exigercies.-
The country has no need whatever Of
such an institution. For the last eight
years we have done without one, and
suffered no public inconvenience in con-
sequence. Exchanges are as low or
lower than they were under bank domi-
nation. The last National Bank entail
ed ruin upon thousands opened the
fioodgates of decentralization, corrupted
statesmen and politicians, and peried
the very existence of public virtue and
liberty. In 1911, MIR. Clay himself
pronounced the power to establish a
Bank 'a wandering power which had
no resting place in any part of the Con-
stitution, and denounced it as hostile to
the spirit and genius of our free institu-
tons. The Constitution has not chan
ged, but Mr.. Clay has. With view of
mlnlstering to his own uncontrolled am
bitlon, he is now laboring once more to
fasten such a moneyed incubus upon the
country.
Q. Because he is in favor of the dis
tribution of the proceeds of the public
lands--a source of revenue originally
ceded to defray the common expendi-
lures of the nation. The revenue aris-
ing from the land sales is now indspen-
SADLY needed by the General Govern
ment; and, if squandered among the
States, will have to be supplied by d.
rect taxation. No longer back than
1882, Mr. Clay himself opposed, in the
Senate of the United States, the policy
OF distribution, and pronounced it both
unwise and unconstitutional. In this
respect, too. the Constitution has not
changed, but MIR. Clay has.
s. Because he is pledged to the dan.
gerous and alarming heresy of the as
of State debts This measure
is advocated chiefly by the agents of Eu-
ropean sharpers and spectators, who ex-
pect that thereby they may realize over
FIFTY MILLIONS OF DOLLARS
upon the advance of stock, which they
have purchased at half price from insol-
vent banks and bankers. Whilst as
would certainly enrich them,
it would inevitably entail upon as a Ma
TlONAL DEBT of over TWO HUN
DRIED MILLIONS, from which our
latest posterity could never escape, ex-
cept by the odlous process of repudia-
ton. The doctrine of the Federalists
has uniformly been, that "a national debt
is national blessing;' and Mr.. Clay's
election would 90 far towards bringing
such blessing upon the American peo-
pie.
4. Because he is acting the part of
Janus on the Tariff question-display-
ing high Tariff face to the North and
a no Tariff face to South. His equi-
voca ton on this subject is dishonest,
and unworthy the character
ola frank and fearless statesman. He
has different doctrine for each distinct
latitude, and blows hot and cold by the
same breath. TO US, in Pennsylvania,
he breaches protection, whilst at the
South he says the country needs no pro-
tecton;' and the Southern Wing jour
nails are portraying him as an avowed ad-
vocate Of free trade! Are the enlighten.
ed yeomanry of Pennsylvania, and of the
Union, content to be thus 'bamboozled:'
S. Because, after pledging himself in
1910, that his party would conduct the
operations of Government with less than
thirteen millions, he proposed in the
Senate an annual expenditure of over
twenty six millions. And the party he
controls have plunged the country into
debt, in period of profound peace, of
more than twenty millions of dollars,
the interest upon which, amounting to
more than million annually. is paid out
of the hard earnings Of the farmer. the
mechanic and the workingman.
6. Because he was the 'finlsher and
author of the late odious bankrupt law.
This was one of the relief measures of
the extra session. He procured its pas
sage, and boosted of the fact. He voted
for and supported it, in violation of the
declared wishes of the people of Ken
lucky, and is, above all men, RESPONSE
BILE for the gross frauds that have been
perpetrated under it. 1t was passed,
not as a measure of relief to the i1niGr-