The North-Carolina standard., 1844-09-25
Honesty IS ala0ays the best Policy.
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! We were told the other day ofa respectable
! Wing farmer, who had voted the federal ticket a
the August elections, but now openly ayowed tba
ne could not go for Clay inzNovember for Presi
dent. He gave the following unanswerable rea
sons:
FsTst cannot support a man who will no
speak the truth. Mr.. Clay asserted in his speech
at Raleigh that he came to North Carolina on SO
cial and friendly purposes, and 'not on politica
errand, d,"-this he did when he mado the speech
but he afterwards deliberately wrote it down and
sent it forth to the world in his published speech
Nert: In his April letter he avowed the mos
determined opposition to the annexation of Texas
on all and every account whatever, and tried to
show that it would be ruinous policy ever to
take Texas into the Union; but now, or very re-
Gently: since it has been understood that the cause
OF annexation was gaining popularity at the
North, he has turned about and written. another
letter to Alabama, stating that he is personally IN
facor of annexation. ...- s--- - s,-.
Neat In October, l843, he wrote to Mr. Meri-
wether, of Georgia, Just the State elections
were coming on, that he mecer.10as IN tzror of a
high tariff, 6usonly a tariff for repsnus and
that he should haze preferred that the. .COmpro-
mise in all Its parts should hare been adhered to.
Now in his late letter to J. NJ. Clayton, of Della
ware, he is wnegpivoeatly IN favor Of tie tariff
act of 1912 which act not only broke the Com
promise of 1888, but taxes some necessaries Of
life at the enormous rate of 800 per cent.
Nert: He lately published letter in which he
,Ir1., III IL. J.. I III
CiILey duel, DIT that he did so to gretent the
tight, and that he tgGce~ the Information to The |
,oIice oFeers that The parties might be arrested
Now it turns out that he had written a previous
etter to Mr.. Wise. dated 28th February, 1912, in
which he stated thGt he could NOT interfere to pre-.
snt the,fght, 1y haUimg the parties arrested be-.
anss he a00s acting as the friend of Mf. GrGyeS
Nert: We all know that Mr. Clay was writ.
IN to by some gentlemen in Pennsylvania, and
ne question putto him, ."would you now give or
ccept challenge to fight a duel ?nsand he wrote
ack that he was opposed to the practice of duef-I
ng, and that he could not conceive of a case that
,ouid place him in that situation at his advanced
ge; but that it was question of too much per. q
NAL detacacy, and tie should not ousacer IT one {
@y or tie other. The meaning of which is a
at ne dsllkes dueiling in theory, but approvesI /,
in practice, and has notthe moral courage to do c
ght. What fine father toeraise sons, and to Il
oVern great people c- II II
Nert: He said he was opposed to Gen. Jack. v
ms being President because he was a e military n
lleftan," and yet he went strong for Gen Har. 4
son, who was as much so as Old Hickory. - D
Ne1t In 1911 he went against Nationalt
ank, declaring it an unconstitutional and dan fl
'rous Institution and now it is one of his most II
ring measures Eli
Neat And did he not in his speech in Con D
ess in 1884, say that it was the most absurd I
d ridiculous policy to give away the. public p
ads, and that we ought to keep them for iays C.
trouble, when war comes, which must. soon.] "
or later and now he is for giving this.yer 81
nd away, to empty the treasury, SO that he NAV I'll
ppy by taxing the necessaries of life for the j
neft of northern manufacturers and capitalists In
Nert Did he not always claim the chief cred. 1tst
or having having fixed the Compromise Act as mea- et
re re OF peace to, the Union and justice 10 the Al
uln. and denounee in advance any person who ii,
ouid propose to violate it and does he not in this ad
Ief 10 MI: clayton; now boast that The Compro- p
Sc Actac0s only a trickon has part to place the tn
'tecta0e otlc qcitdout tie reach and bev0na the in
m Of Gen. Jackson's administration so thai !, ar
ghl be put in full force upon the country when m
wings should get into poWer2 And was not Eor
! s. 9. Inc most dIsPlcable fraud on the South ?
lVelf' has not the way in which he made John Bs