Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1844-02-03

laithless public officers, purchased by the
merit of their party services; a new brood
of defaulters of The HOyts and Harrises--
race the entire disappearance of which
since 1910 is one of the proudest proofs
of the justice and necessity of the change
then decreed by the voice of the people.
But 1t were vain 10 attempt an enumera-
ton of the teeming abuses that must ever
attend the fundamental heresy of Mr.. Van
Buren's political system, which, instead of
regarding government as high and holy
trust for the good of the country, sees in
it nothing but job to be administered for
the benefit of party, of which the Presi-
dent is the head and grand alnoner.
Now, l would ask, what is there TO be
apprehended from Mr.. Clay's election.
which ought TO have the weight of feather
in the scale, when compared with the fatal
and destructive evils, poisoning the vital
elements of republican freedom and virtue
as well as the essential sources Of national
prosperity and happiness, which we have
every reason to believe would inevitably
follow the restoration of Mr.. Van Buren,
We shall, doubtless, have paraded before
our eyes, in stereotyped horrors, the old
and threadbare apparition of the Tariff.
the Bank and Distribution. On the sub
jecl of the tariff do not hesitate to say
that Mr.. Clay's creed. developed in his re-
cent letters, is in every respect as just, as
sound, and unexceptionabe as that of Mr..
Van Buren,, and his practice infinitely bet
ter Mr.. Clay did not vote for or approve
the tariff of 1928, consigned to an odous
celebrity, under the name of the bill of
denominations, which Mr.. Van Buren, and
his friends carried by their votes. II is
rather an unfortunate coincidence. consid-
erng the professions of Mr.. Van Buren,.
that all the tariffs which have been most
complained of in the south owe their ex.
istence upon the statute book 10 the votes
of himself or his friends.
1t is no want of charity, then, but the
result Of the most candid and deliberate
consideration, when express the decided
opinion that Mr. Clay is far more to be
relied upon for practical adjustment of
this delicate and complex subject, on terms
. just and satisfactory to all sections of the
Union, (harmonizing their various inter-
ests by the golden rule of moderation
which is the only pledge of permanence
and stability in any arrangement that may
be made) than Mr.. Van Buren,. The WISE
and temperate spirit so strikingly exhibited
; in his letters which have been recent,
given to the public, sustained by his well
known influence with his friends, and his
own high and unqueslioned character fol
: frankness and decision, is guaranty which
no portion Of the nation will lightly re.
gard.
With respect to the Bank, if the country
shall be reduced TO choice between the
= odious and grinding Sub. Treasury Scheme
D and a National Institution of Finance
I properly guarded against abuse by the
J jealous restrictions of its character, a.
J well as by vigilant supervision and con
: troll, | do not believe that the sober judg
ment of the people. under the pressure o
such an alternative, would find any caus
! of quarrel against those who, free from
j constitutional difficulties on the subject
r should 60 for the latter in preference to thu
= former. And as to the distribution of thu
: proceeds of the public lands, that stand
! necessarily and evidently adjourned. as
: practical question. until the revenues o
e The nation, compared with its expenditure
J. and engagements, shall be in a very differ
y ent situation from that in which they nov
n are, or are likely to be for years to come
j. My own individual opinions on these sub
n ects have been so often and fully state,
s that need not repeat them here. What
# mean to say at present is, that these are
r issues either hypothetical and speculative
IS or neutralized by equal and opposing con
It siderations on the other side. and shoul
}. not divert the mind for a moment from ihos
l. higher, and more urgent and vital ques
II tons, which are the true tests of SCUM
$ and correct decision in the pending Pres
s, dental election. Those tests | have al
d ready adverted to. They are such as ar
I, lnseparably connected with the purity
is character, and preservation of the Govern
r ment itself, and in my humble judgmen
if are overwhelmingly conclusive against tn
If pretensions of Mr.. Van Buren,.
If As little shall we permit ourselves,
is trust, to be enlightened from our propriety
by the old and hollow expedient of a sens,
Mt less and arbitrary use of party names
III Those who are so prone TO ring the chang,
IN on the nomenclature of Federasi and r,
es publican would do we'll TO remember ihi
- they have men, reading and enquirir
n men, to deal with, and not children. TT
81 Mr. Van Buren, and Mr.. Clay by any tie
of derived frum the authentic history of pr
" lllical parties in this country, or by Il
'e standard of those great principles whit
Sc, exist in the essential elements of our pop
he lar institutions, and Mr.. Clay stands b
n fore the world the far better Republic;
he of the two.
re In that great array and struggle Of Il
ry two parties of the country (among q
IN, most memorable in our histOry) whit