The Woodstock age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1844-1845, 1844-09-19
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sonlan, as the most powerful evdcnc,
that has yet been adduced to prove HEN
RY CLAWS hypocrisy on the Tariff:
MESSRS. WEBSTER AND CLAY
We take the following from the New
York Courier and Enquirer
1.-The editor of the Madisonian intima,
ted lew days since, that he would dc
something dreadful if Mr. Webster should
venture to advocate the election of Mr.
Clay on the ground of his friendship to the
tariff, and we were (of course) exceeding
ly solictous to ascertain what sort Of a
thnnderbot was to fall upon the head OF
MIR Webster, if he should dare to say any
thing in favor Of the wing candidate for
the Presidency, But it seems we mistook
the meaning of the Madsonian man en-
tlrely. He was not going to do any thing
with Mr. Webster; it is Mr. Clay that he is
gong to blow into the seven stars if Mr.
Webster dares to open his mouth for him,
The Madlsonlan is going to prove that MIR
Clay has at one time proposed to aban-
don all protection on articles manufac-
turcd in the United States"
Suppose we prove it VOW and BY Mr.
Webster.
About the time, indeed at the time u.s.
42) when bitter controversy was going
on between the Hon. Henry Clay and the
Hon. Henry A. Wise, in relation to
the unfortunate Cil!ey duel, Mr. Wise be-
inL prevented from expressing his views on
the Tariff, by some rule of the House, an
nounced his purpose to embody them in
an address to his constituents, which would
be published in the newspapers.
Immediately after the announcement
was made, Mr. Webster, being then Sccre-
tary of State under Tyler, and taking
most active part in the vindicaton of the
Administration, and in opposition to the
assaults of Clay and his friends on it sent to
the Madisonian office, where it twas known
the address of Mr. Wise would be publish,
ed, the following note desiring it to be in
inserted in the address. as a separate and
distinct paragraph, which was accordingly
done:
81 am informed aud authorized, BY one
who saw the manuscript draught of the
act of 1888 before it was offered, to state
that "when Mr. Clay drew the act of 1888,
and showed it to his friends in his own
handwriting, after the clause which pro-
vides that only such duties shall be laid
as are necessary for an economical adj
ministrarlon of the Government, after the
3Oth of June, 1912 the following words, or
other words precisely equivalent. were adj,
ded,t wit: And such duties shall be laid
without farenre to the protection of any
domestic articles Whatever! 1t may fairly,
therefore, be claimed that tie great author
of what is called the American System him,
self has, in the most direct manner, acced-
ed to this principle at least, that duties
must be laid primary for rcrenue, and not
for protection alone. This is the leading
principle to which the faith ofthc nation
has been solmcnly pledged, and one from
which it will never be safe for the great
protected interests themselves to depart"
On the margin of Mr. Webstcr's note
there was P. s. in pencil mark, which
ran as follows "Thc words quoted be-
ginning at And and ending at what
yer, are literal copy from the original
draft in Mr. Clty's handwriting.-D. W.
1t may be remembered that Hon. c. ].
IngersoI stated last spring, in the House,
that he had heard that Mr. Clay had once
agreed to yield the principle of protection
and that Mr. Clay Nccostcd him, when
in Washington, last May, on the subject,
and pronounced the statement "IaIsc-
hood" and the ono who had communica.
ted to him the information "calumina-
tori"
Will he pronounce Mr. Webster a cal
umniator;"
We have more than once demonstrated
that some fifty of Mr. Clay's nearest and
dearest friends oppose, directly and indi-
rcctIy, the passage of the existing Tariff
act; and have asserted, on tenabc grounds,
that the Clay party in Congress were op-
posed to Its passage. Mr. Webster was
undoubtedly in favor of the act; and while
striving to array the manufacturers a.
gainst Mr. Clay, lost no opportunity to
reconcile them TO Mr. Tyler Some of the
seeds he sowed have taken root.
Was it not too much for patient endur-
ancc for Mr. Webster, after "providing for
his family" and his friends, by his labors
in behllf of the Administration, to turn
round and denouncc it, and become the
advocate Of Mr. Clay because of his advo-
cacy Of the Tariff
But we have other witnesses, and among
them is Mr. Marshall of Kentucky, with
whose testimony we will pause for the pres
.en.
We make the following extract from
Mr. Marsha's letter published IN the Ma
tional Intelligence:
al will appeal IRON the Press to the
People. From the leaders to the troops
j will not be cashiered or drummed dis
gracefully ont of camp for having first in
dicaled the path to victory, lin advocat-
aug the tarifi,) while others, who watched
the course ofihe battle in prudent silence,
or were found actually on the othcr side
dpnouncinr me till UNEXPECTEDLY the tide