The Woodstock age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1844-1845, 1844-06-13

u'CH pCHlyIcos anu nOuSeleSS, III q uTedTy
wilderness, full of savage beasts and savage
men.
But what said "the NIL boy" when the
RUFFLED BANKRUPT was in ques-
ton, who never put his hand to ploug h or
plane, type or trowe awl or anvil; who
ate the bread by others made, raised mon.
ey by borrowing or gambling, lost at his
game of speculation or chance, and asked
leave to wipe out some old scores and begin
again? A part of Mr. Clay's grand "WMg
System" at the Extra Session Of ls4l, was
Law to pay the debts of these gentry,
and turn them loose to try their luck at "A
new race of speculation, idleness, dissi-
patton and luxury, at the expense Of the
laboring millions. The people of Ken
lucky did not like this mode of paying
debts and cheating honest men and rising
up, almost to man, through their Legis-
lalure, demanded Of their Senators and
Representatives in Congress arepeal of
the law before it wen! into operation,-
What said Mr. Clay then one Of their
Senators, one on whose vote the repeal de-
pended? Hear his own words, as report.
&c and revised under his own supervision,
in the National lntelligencer and the Globe,
viz:
"And when is it that we are called
upon to relrace our steps, and to subvert
the whole system ofthe beneficent measures
adopted at the extra Session, by beginning
with the repeal of the bankrupt law and
ending with that of the law for the distribu-
ton of the proceeds OF the public lands!
Three days only before the commencement
of the operation of the bankrupt law"
"Their condition (he bankruptcy re-
sembes that of innocent and unfortunate
men, long and unjustly incarcerated in the
dark walls of a Jail, Its door is hafopen;
they are rushing towards it, pale, cmancl-
pated and exhausted; the light of heaven
has once more beamed upon their haggard
faces, and once more they begin 10 breathe
the cool and pure air of an uncontaminated
atmosphere At this instant of time, the
Senate is called upon to drive them back
to their gloomy and loathsome cells, and
to fling back that door upon its grating
hinges And am invited to unite in this
work of inhumanity and cruelty! | have
not the heart to do it! have not the
hand to do it! | cannot, will not do it!
And he did not do it, and by his vote the
law was saved, and thousands of honest
creditors cheated out of their dues!
No, Henry Clay has not the heart or
the hand to prevent the gentlcmm in broad.
cloth, mho Hres mith0m mOrk, the specula-
tor, the gambler, and the rogue, from pay
ing their debts by bankrupt law; but he
would have driven from their homes, thou
sands of their men in their hunting shirts
who work for their living, and never con-
tract debt which they do not pay! The
idle bankrup, is AN INCARCERATED
INNOCENT: the working settler is A
THIEF AND A ROBBER!
Such are the predictions and prefer.
ences of "Ae Mil boy ofMc Slashes."
But Henry Clay's preference for the
lord over the laborer is strikingly exhibit
ed by another branch of this subject. We
have seen him vote thrice against extend
ing pre-emp,on rights to foreigners not
naturalized. lie not only voted against
them, but he spoke, On the 9Th Janu.
airy, 1888, upon the amendment, of Mr.
Merrck, of Maryland, to exclude foreign
ers not naluralzed from presumption
rights, Henry Clay sad:-
"Thls domain was the public property
the property oIthc whole people of the
United States; and he thanked the Sena-
tor from Maryland for introducing pro-
position for comforting the bounty of the
Government on our own race, instead Of
holding ont general invitation to all the
paupers Of all the European, governments,
to come here and compete with our own
honest poor" Again:
"But the honorable Senator from Penn.
sylvana Mr. Buchanan) has aIlu ded eu.
to foreigners. Does he mean TO
compare the De Kabs, the Steubens,
The Layfayettes, the Pluaskis, with the
hordes of foreign paupers that are constant
y flooding our shores!'
"IIe thought this government had been
quite as liberal in its policy towards for
,igners as was proper or desirable; and one
Senator would vote against the proposition
Of the Senator from Maryland with more
pleasure than he should vote for it."
On the Goth January he said
"What, he asked, had they scent A
proposition was made by an honorable
Senator from Maryland (Mr Merrick) to
INIT the prescriptions to citizens of the
United States, native and natnraized; re.
ected And could any body say, after
hat naked vote of the Senate, that it had
rot become the permanent policy of the
country to go on inviting all the hordes
# Europe to come over and partake of
his bounty, derived from our ancestors,
md which we should perserve for our pos
erity!"
See Reports in Globe and Inteligencer
which in substance correspond.
Only prefix BARON, COUNT, MARQUIS.
" some title of nobility to a foreigner, and
lie becomes very acceptable to "hc Nil
oy ofthe Siashes" but the untitled thou
ads who come over to get living by
illlng the SOIL and leaving their offspring
:, , land If freedop, ,ro UIIOR DES or