The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1844-05-23

promised the dignity of his position to gain
a vote, on the momentary breath of popular
favor, but with an eye ever steady fixed up
on an approving public, he has fearIessly dis
charged what he has deemed to be his duty.
(Cheers) don't believe a purer patriot
lives on the whole continent of America
(cheers)-and for proof, I point to a long
public life passed in stirring sciences which
has never conflicted with probity, or honor;
a life unsullied by meanness,or groveling ap-
peal TO improper ambition-in all of which
his principles have been put forth with ordor
and as clear as light, while every pulse
breathing within him has been for the well
fare and true glory ofhis country. If such
a man does not deserve the name of patriot,
l do not known who does deserve the name
or who can. (Cheers) They say he is am
bitiousi | dare say he is. Be it so then
But point me the time where he has not
sacrificed ambition and himself, if what he
deemed his duty called. | happened to
know that on that great question, the public
lands, the question was thurst upon him by
an adverse Senate to make him unpopular
in the West. He entered upon it with a
zeal characteristic of himself, and gave it the
whole power ofhis mind. He never thought
of what was to become of himself. As a
Western man he had tempting field for po-
litical traffic in the whole public domain
he might have used it for the purpose of am
btion. He might have held it out as a
tempting bait for the whole West. But his
heart was as large as his country. (Cheers.)
He studied the title out ofhis public domain.
He knew where it came from, and justice
, told where it belonged. Fearlessly, then,
as is his nature, he flung out his banner,
distribution of the proceeds among the
States," and he nailed it to the mast.-
Great cheering and cries of"that is good.'')
l have said OF Mr.. Clay, continued Mr..
Frelinghuysen, that his heart was as large as
his country. A signal instance off was his
course on the tariff in the arduous session of
1882. Perhaps no man living could more
tenderly cherish a conception of his W
brain, or an offspring of his own creation
than he who has been called the father of
the American system. Tie principles of
protection to American industry embodied
in the tarifflaw, Mr.. Clay has cherished as
he has life. But when in 1872, an I'M
natural excitement was got up in SouthCaro-
lima against a law, in the enactment of
which lie did not participate, he saw it was
necessary TO save his country from peril,
even to make a sacrifice of what he loved
SO much. He looked for time to instruct
the whole country in the necessity and utili-
ty OF protecting home industry, and he was
willing 10 have a truce of eight years to
give that time. He SAID to his friends in
the Senate, eve CANAL see how an Execu-
tive can lead US into a f~raternal war, but how
he can get US out, that we never can ~foresee.
Dear as the tariff is to all, he said, we must
give it up for the moment to save our coun-
E trymen from shedding each others blood
to preserve the union and cause of human
liberty throughout the world. shall rejoice
, my friends, if you can 60 with me, but dc
, what you will, | must offer myself as a vic.
: tim up to peace" [Cheers.] He became
/, the great pacifcator of that alarming time
= and "blessed are the peace Makers says
i, the highest authority that addresses man.
lCheering and loud applause.] Thus, gen.
, tlemen, in every view l can take of my 20.
sition, | have reason for gratitude and thank
fulness to you and the country, that my name
. is connected with the name that reflects
e honor even upon so humble an associate
t and it shall be my pride and my qualification
repeat TO merit the confidence your kind
y ness has bestowed upon me. [Applause.]
One word, gentlemen, for my honored
mother, the State that gave me birth-where
repose The ashes of my ancestors-and te
which am indebted for many marks of re
n gard prior TO this of late. l assure you
: gentlemen, New Jersey will be true TO al
e the principles of Wings. Whatever may be
$ her temporary vibrations from the Temporal
: ry ~inaction of her prosperity, OF from local O.
n transitory ambition, she is Wing TO the hear
and core. loud cheers. We can neve0
e be any thing else but Wings, Wings first