The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1844-12-21


ruer in This It's adversitv, because they
feel that new it invokes a still more ear
nr-t proof af their attachment to the coun-
try. Never has there been a more vi>i-
bic demonstration of lie hazards to " irh
popular representative government is tx-
pose than that exhibited in the eleva-
ton of James K PpIk, with all the imp,>
dmenls Of his undisinguishtd history,
and OF his equivocaI principles, which no
zeal of investigation has been successful
10 explore, over Henry Clay, the mos,
eminent of living Statesmen. the puresl
and brightest ornament of the Natiun--
that man who, Of all others, has most
thoroughly identified his name with what
ever, IL the public annals Of his time, las
made oar Union powerful and happy
community. When such man as The
ffst is deliberately preferred 10 the latter,
we may cease to boast Of .hat distinctive
excellence IN onr scheme of our govern.
ment which attributes to The selection by
suffrage the certainty OF an ADLER Chief
lhan he who succeeds TO the Magtstracy
by tie accident Of birth.
The history of dis canvass las proved
to us that, in all unhappy emery ucy,
men of renown, of known service, Of ac-
cnmuIated hunors, aud of long avUwed
p"lllcal sentiments, must needs be thrust
aside for one whose whole strength IS
found in his dcs;lInion of all these, and in
The un"Spored medocrity of his fame
and talents. In the entagonism between
these two opponents the wiser and the
better has been overthrown. What true
lover ol his country would not count TIA
greater honor to fall with Henry Clay
dian to rise wilh such an adversary? 70
fall wiin all those who have striven to
promote the great American aims embu~
4ened upon hi. banner, than Use with the
shifting equiyocaIlpns which pn The orpu-
nent flag, have Hullered IN the not Iass
variable breeze 10 which ii has been llurg!
Ashamed OF It's false preteHces, its cun--
cealments and its di,cor,!.. LpcnIuco,m
made no proc ama,lon 20 the people a: Ils
drsigrs. is May Convention prac}Scd
The rnsr O. appointing Conu,ilce Ia
prepare all address Of exposition OF prin--
clplrs, bat y uvemher came without that
document. No committee had the har.
d!hood to venture upon the ordeal Of such
a proclamation The abUrs OF the can-
vass were found to be more pror,abiv
directed to the coinage Of local leuets d.
dapted 10 prevailing local opinions, aud
still! more effectively, to the task OF cat
umnialIng, by the hasesl compos, of false
hoods, the most illus rous man "'t,cR
public BY such arts we have lost The day
Glorious defeat, honorable DISASTER How
| much more proudly may we take It's bur
den upon MS. Ihnu suffer ,le blight If
victory which las won nothing but the
day!
Happily, ii is not often our lot to wit
ness poiiIcsI contest which leaves be-
HAD l. more lian remembrance of its
excitements. 1t is the misfortune of the
late Struggle, above all others that our
country has ever engaged ill., that the vic
tory leaves no space for the cancellation
Of lhe good VIII Of The vanquished. II the
slrite lad been 10 establish system Of
administration which was opposed from
ii difference OF opinion as to lts value; II
:
mad haen contested against the effort to
elevate another set; if II had been, in any
! point, war Of conflicting principles. the
| popular judgment nigh and would have
chalIsnsed Difference and respect, and all
asperiry would have subsidized with the
substdns ardor Of contention. But his
has not been the character Of The fight -
Oar opponents have found motive tc ex-
ssperere the public mind agaius, tie
Wags BY sharper devices than ar2u-
menls. They have ASA led, as | have
said, with unparalleled maIignity, the
honor and virtue of that great name
whom we have chosen to represent our
cause; they have made it their chiefIabor
to convert that name into the touest re-
proach which can be heaped upon the
most infamous; they have essayed TO
! strike down that precious fnmc which,
earned in long life Of devotion to his
country, has become rather the property
Of The nsIlon than of it's persona subject.
This insult we resent aud must ever re
sent.
LISA rare compliment to the virtue Of
Henry Clay that they who are so expert
in The use of the weapons Of SANDER
should find il necessary to supply their
magazn. with SO much freshly distilled
venom, and to tax their skill to such M
usual efforts, as they have employed in
this contest In less degree, the whole
Wing party have heen made the object Of
similar assaults. They, too, have been
,hickIy assaled with ISLANDERS as poig-
nant as the arrow that fieh by day and
AS insidlous 'as the pestilence that walk
eth in darkness Open war has been
waged against every substantial interest
in the nation with which The Wings could
in any manner be connected Poverty,
owe Womb infsr from The manu rssnlus