Litchfield enquirer., 1844-03-21
THE LOUISIANA CONVENTION.


We have received the proceedings of the Louisi-
ana Mass Convention held on the cad ult. The
President of the Convention was the venerable pat
riot and soldier of '76, GEN. GEORGE P. THOMAS.
Msssrs. Barrow and johnson, the two United
States Senators, were appointed for the State at
large a. delegates to the Baltimore Convention, and
other delegates were selected from the districts
The following resolution was adopted with the
most deafening cheers:
Resolved, That the Delegates to the Baltimore
Convention be instructed to vote for Henry Clay,
Of Kentucky, the first, the last, the only choice
of the Wings of Louisiana for President of these
United States, and that in contingency whatever
except that of DEATH are they to cast their votes for
any other candidate.
The Convention, before adjournment, went in
body to pay their respects to HENRY CLAY, then
receiving the farewell visits Of his friends at the
St. Charles Hotel.
Says the Bee, 'The living thousands congregated
in the streets below whilst Mr.. Clay made his APP
pearance the platform of the portco of this noble
edi6ce. Every hat was raised, every tongue gave
utterance, every heart beat high, as he came for
ward between the massive Corinthian columns of
the building. He spoke but two or three minutes
said but few sentences, but they were words
that burned as they fell from his lips; nor could
his most captious political opponents have taken
exception at single word he uttered.
The following report of his brief speech we find
in the Tropc. Let the closing sentence ring in the
ear Of every Wing
"You call for speech from me, my fellow-citi-
zens; it 10 not proper that should make speech.
and sUiN not make speech. But this may say
to you, you are engaged in good cause, an honest
cause, glorious cause, the principles which you
II. -rAl-
perity of the Republic, and aciH tell you hGt
from all qmarters-JjrOm the farthest corners of
.M1iae to the EXTREMIST points Of louisiana, the
ssgNs Of the times pyOPitiOus. and not speck
Obscues the horizon. Go ON, THEN! Go AHEAD"
A COMMON SENSE VIEW OE"THE TARIFF
WING DOCTRINE.
The True Democrat, Locofoco paper published
at Chilicothe, Ohio, takesshigh ground against the
the leaders Of his party. on the subject of the ia
riff. lite views are so sensible and manly, withal,
% widely different from those usually expressed by
locofoco papers, that we cannot forbear making the
following extract 1t is plain, common sense
view Of the theory upon which protective tariff
il founded:
We lay itdown as common sense rule that an
individual should never emp!oysanother person to
do what he can do conveniently himself; that
family should never go abroad to buy that which
they. can conveniently make at homeland that
town or country stand in the same relation to each
other that individuals do in single family We
feel that every American citizen, native adopted,
Is near relative, constituting one great family Of
relatives mutually dependent everyone on the other
and as such we must rise or fallaogether. Now the
question 10, shall prefer the labor Of these rela
tves, before that of strangers: We say that it is
Ayery ones Cuty first to prefer his own household
next his own town and neighborhood. then his
state and the Union at large, always giving Ameri
can productions the preference to that of Foreign
countries. These our own feelings, and this is
our common sense view of the matter, and we are
free to declareit. If there are any among us, ma
tive or adopted, who feel otherwise, let US reflect
foe moment what would be theirs and our condi-
ton were we to be suddenly involved in war with
some foreign power like that Of Great Britain, a
thing which happened twice within the recollec-
ton Of some Of US, and may again happen before
the close Of another year.