Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1844-02-08

WHICH occupied the iciHdtHuet vi the uay'
Only one or Two unimportant amend
ments had been made when the cormit.
tee rose.
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From the Globe.
GALL THINGS TO ALL MEN"
1t will be seen, from the paragraph OF
the Jeffersonian, that MIR. Clay means
to conduct his canvass according t.
General Harrison's tactics. He is 70 be
everything. and nothing in politics. In
North Carolina. paper conducted by
an experienced political tactician as
sumes to be neutral to help him.
The Mecklenburg Jelfersonian thus ex-
poses this neutrality, which goes fully
armed into the contest for Mr. Clay:
'He is neutral in politics-oh yes but
he very adroitly circulates the statement
that the views Of Mr.. Van Buren, and
Clay are identical on the subject of the
tariff; that the cOnstitutionality nf a ma
tonal bank is now admitted bv the can.
did and moderate men of all parties, and
is no longer a question for discussion;
and now and then thrust at State rights,
by terming opposition to unconstitution,
al laws, rebellion revolt &C.. &c.
Now we claim no right to make even
suggestion to the editor of the Indepeu
dent in regard to his course; but we
must say, that, in our opinion, these
things may very we'll suit an .indepen-
dent federal paper; but in a neutral pa
per, edited by an experienced political
tactlcian, they look very ugsy-yastlv
one-sided, and positively provoking. -
Better at once dOff the colors of neutral
ity. and run up the black flag of federal
ism. An open, bold opponent is to be
respected, at least; but your sly, Gun,
ming neutral, who picks his time to give
you a stab under the fifth rib, CRYING
peace. all the time, is to be dreaded
and avoided of ak men. We would be
glad to see the independent prosper, but
not at the expense of our party aud prin-
ciples.
of all the unblushing effrontery the
world ever witnessed, Mr.. Claws attempt
to palm himself off as mere revenue
tariff man is the most impudent. He
has been writing TO Georg ia that he did
not vote for the tariff of 1928; that that
was an abomlnable act; that he was al
ways for modifying and moderating that
act, aud has been constantly laboring in
that vocation down to the present time;
and now takes great credit for the com
promise act, &c. We have published
recently his propositions aud speeches Of
1882, when the tariff of 1923 first came
under consideration for reduction, on the
payment of the national debt. Mr..
Clay's resolution, under which he Tough!
the battle down to the day of the com
promise act, was predicated altogether on
the whole odious extremity
OF the tariff of 1923 in regard to protec-
ted articles, and to making free allogeth-
er all those articles used in the manu-
factories, with a partial reduction on
wines and silks, for the beneG. of the
rich. lie opposed, bitterly opposed, the
slightest retrenchment of the excessive
duties on foreign manufactures and
stood upon the ground of the protection
of the tariff as thing he would not resign
ta save the Union. We showed, by full
quotations from Gales & Seaton's Reg
lister of Debates, that, when two Of the
staunchest men. for the protective policy
(Mr. Wilkins of Peuns ylvania, and Mr..
Dickerson of New Jersey) assennted, in
the Committee of Conference, to yield
something to arrest the spirit of Eullif-
cation in the South, Mr.. Clay resented
it as perGdy to the manufacturers cause,
and quarrelled with Mr.. Wilkins on the
floor of the Senate for yielding little
boon TO the South. 1t was so little, in
deed, that General Ilayne, Colonel King,
Mr.. GRUMPY, MIR. Brown of North Caro-
lima, and others, the most moderate MEM
bers from the South, who sought relief
from the tariff of 1928, refused to ac-
cept it, and voted against il; and yet
Mr. Clay thought it was too much, and
bullied, and denounced, anG was ready
to fight, in resentment of the concession.
But the election of General jackson and
Mr.. Van Buren, as President aud Vice
President over himself and his colleague,
John Sergeant. changed his tone. Presl
dent Jackson and his colleague, and their
friends brought into Congress at the
same election, changed Mr.. Clay's tone,
and drove him into that compromise
which; the moment he obtained power
by the reyulsion in 1910, he was the first
to violate. He then distributed the land
proceeds-pushed the expenditures o:
the government-kept Congress 10 SEES
sion and travelling during almost its iull
term OF two years-proposed and estab-
lished funded national debt-opened
new sources of extravaganza in govern
ment loans-attempted to heap up the
debt still further. by making the govern
ment borrower Of fifteen millions Tor
the capital of national bank;-ln
word, did everything in his power to put
the nation in condition to compel Con-
gress to abandon the compromise act, and
levy a high tariff, in violation of its con-
ditions. Mr.. Clay effected this. The