The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1844-07-24
From he albany .4tIas.
POsTPONING PRINCIPLES.

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POSTPONING PRINCIPLES.
! Whe whig party was formerly accustomed to
rest its fortunes on avowa of principles, which
were deemed "goOd enough till after election :"
They seem now 10 have reversed the rule, and
TO have principles which are TO be good for moth
ing till after election.
The Hon. Cassus NJ. Clay, for instance, has
become the advocate of the principles of politi-
cal -prospectively-alter the next cleo
ton. Hewill vote for Henry Clay for President;
but never thereafter will he support savehold-
er for hat office. His political virtue is to date
with Mr.. Clays election.
In the last session Of Congress, Mr.. Clay's
friends defeated the one day election law, the
object of which was to prevent fraudulent voting
bat gave out limitations that they would be will
| ling 10 promote the purity of the sulfrage--after
the aeTt election.
Senator Archer, of Virginia, writes to the Ma
tive Americans, of Philadelphia, that he is deep
| ly impressed with their peculiar principles, and
particularly admires the "temper" which has
been manifested in their behalf at the North
He will be ready g to set their ball in motion :"
after the nert election
We give below the epistle of the Virginia SEN
ator, who writes to the incendaries of Phadel-
phia, stigmatizing as "slang" the language of
Jefferson; and we cannot but point out the sin
gular choice of figures which the senator has
made, in speaking of recent manifestations of
g temper" of nativism at the North. He speaks
of flames and spreading fires, and of the work of
consecration, as if he could put theory Of per-
secuton into action as well as the best church
: burner among them.
We intended, however, TO allude to this let
ter merely TO show that Mr.. Archer postpones
the day of action TO the next Congress. His
+, fireworks are to be let off in celebration Of the
Clay victory, or in revenge for the defeat, as the
case may turn out. The odd spectacle is here
presented Of party in such an ncohcrent state,
that even success will be followed by immediate
dissolution. If the wings elect Mr.. Clay, and if
the leaders redeem the political postnotes they
Issued to the factions, payable on his success:
they must at once separate, and undertake the
, labors of abotionism, native Americanism, and
of all the other fragments of which that mosaic
party is composed, and of the antagonists of all
these. If they fail of success in the coming e.
lection, they will of course dissolve into their
original elements; but they have promised the
people, as all nducement to let them succeed
that, on the first moment ofvictory, they will dis
band and dissolve as a party. This is indeed a
new kind ofpoljtical bribery. The avowal of il
is somewhat mpudent, particularly the offer of
the wings TO purchase suffrages by the promise
. Of safeguard on the suffrage, should Mr.. Clay
be elected.
, Mr.. Archer's letter is as follows:
WASHINGTON, June l6, 1914.
=, DEAR SIR: have to return my thanks tc the
American republican association of middle ward
. of your city, for the complimentary resolutions
~ and invitation to me of which they have made
! you the organ. | had already replied, to a SINH
lar invitation from committee of the association
that Encouragement in my own State would
, deny me the qualification at this time of meeting
: the friends of our common object in your grea
+ city, to give personal expression and testimony
0 of my devotion to the cause.
I | confess had another motive for Withholding
myself from the wish of the friends of the cause
to meet me at the present time. ldesire before
4 presenting myself to receive marks Of favor a
n their hands, 10 deserve it by something more
{ than mere declaration ofmy zeal in a cause tC
=, which have been devoted long before any par.
Ity sprung up in its support, under the deepes
and most mature conviction that reform, such a
d you now propose, was essential TO the proserva
/, ton of the elective franchise, (the foundation
and only cectual safeguard to freedom from fal
;, ling into utter corruption. | have now, for th
first time, found season for laying the frs
stone in the good 1cork, in the temper manifested
!! recently at the North on this subject.
F.! was about to add, Oh, that this temper MAJ
# continue to b|n as fercely as it does now.' Blu
| it will. will not permit myself to despond 70
|. a moment in such cause, when once any par
/! of the public mind has been awakened to its i'm
portance. The fame ,oiH continue to burn, an
y to grow brighter and ,rlder, as 1t wiU be fec
: nth the faeJ Of further refcction md large
d experience Of the cpl to be consumed.
e At the ensuing session Of Congress L shall sc
j. oar ball in motion. 1t will be driven back for
time; for the slang of "assylum for the oppresse
of all countries" is just now ascendant, import
+ ing, as it really does in its results, that the op
l. pressed shall be received here, without a priv
e lege to become the oppressers without restraint
but we shall subdue this slang, as political mel
come to find that they may express their nause
for it with impunity. This lesson, you, the pco
! pie, must impress on them; for it is throug
If their instrumentality that our purpose and wor
~ of consecration is to be accomplished.
u. am with much respect
- Your obedient servant, &c,
o w. S. ARCHER.
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