The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1844-08-10
THE PARTY PRESS
UNITED STATES.
It's LiCentiousness and immortality.
From the saratoga sentinel ]

AIn OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES anu xIuuUA dA4Iys
From the Saratoga Sentinel
ALMOST BLAsPHEsy."T The trumpet tones Of his i'm
suffering humanity have swept across the hills Of Greece
- and at their sound the despairing
her tears and dreamed Of future siadaened with the
Sta Clay club.
What infatuation! Can we be SO led captive to
parry strife, as TO be entirely unndiul OF the pasli
Mr.. Greeley is very unhappy in his illusions PIu-
dence would teach him to say nothing OF the = dis
pairing widow!' II awakens burning rccollectlons
with that idea is the pale, bleeding PROSTATE torn
of the dying Cilley! Go, Mr.. Greeley, before you
repeat this passage, and wash the crimson from The
hands of your candidate The blood Of " her mar
despairing widow" "her mattyred husband"
the murdered Cilley. Let the tears OF these DESC
late orphans be dried" And tell your CORY ora
tor to /" gladden." the lone abode Of that despair
ing widow" with "the sunlight Of glory and tree
DOM" before you place another encomlum upon
the character of Henry clay.
TAKE WARNING We learn from the Chicago
Journal thar number OF silly locos at meeting
good joke TO ram their cannon with Clay. The
gun burst with a terrible explosions. dangerously
wounding the foolish fellow who fired it,. just the
way Clay will serve the whole PARTY in November
blow them sky high.-Bufalo Gazette.
CHARACTER OF Mr.. CLAY.-Jackson's Opinion
of Mr. Clay.-"Under such circumstances how
contemplate does this demagogue appear, when
he descends from his high place in the Senate and
roanls abou. the country retailing SANDER upon the
| living and the dead
Webster's Opinion Of Mr.. Clay.-"Henry Clay
has too many heresies about him ever to gain my
support"
| Jefferson's opinion of Mr.. Clay.-"Henry Clay"
said Mr.. Jefferson, sis merely splendid orator,
without any valuable knowledge from experience
III political science, either practical or theoretical"
Harrison's Opinion Of Mr.. Clay.-"l will do my
duty, even if Mr.. Clay is to be benefited by it,
treatment, in reqtal for years Of devoted service"
.Randolph's Opinion Of Mr.. Clay .-"He is talent
ed, but corrupt. He stnks and shines, and shines
| and stinks, like rotten mackerel by moonlight"
-Nashvile Union
ther James X Folks grandfather WAS not a Tory
| in the American Revolution? 2. Whether James
X Polk is not the owner of great number Of
slaves whom he hires cut through the State of Ten
nessee, thus pockeng all the earnings Of men,
except what suffces tor their bare and miserable
maintenance 8. Whether he did not on. five
several occasions vote against bills for the relief
the surviving officers and soldiers Of the revolu-
ton? 4. Whether he did not speak and vote
against the bill for the occupation OF the Oregon
territory? 5. Whether he did not vote against a
slave trade! 6. Whether he did not, during the
sessions of 1927, 1928 and $780, repeatedly vote and
speak against the protection on wool? Z. whether
The customary resolutions of thanks to the speaker
has discharged his duties" was not in his case o-
posed the ground Of his Partially and unjust de-
cisons, and for the first time in the history of Con-
s. Whether he was not, in ls4i, defeated when a
candidate for Governor Of Tennessee, by some
5000 majority? 8 Whether he was not again de-
teated running tor the same office, IN lS43, by
about 5000 majority? 10. Whether he was not, in
| 1910, presented as nuisance by Grand Jury OF
| his own State! IL. Whether he has not recently,
last year, avowed himself in favor Of reducing The
xl.t.v rs and. fhsA
| steady opponent Of distribution and a protective
| tariff? II Whether he is not in favor of the i'm
| mediate annexation Of Texas? l3. Whether he
was not, in 1925, an advocate OF the cons tuition
atty of the general government making internal
mproven1r nts IN The States, and afterwards an op
ponent! ii. Whether he was not, in 1870, an
opponent OF the Sub Treasury, and afterwards al
| advocate tor II ?-NeUG'k Daily ddrertiser.
"THE FARMER OF ASHLAND" THAT COULD NOT
MAKE BOTH ENDS MEET AT TWELVE DOLLARS PER
Day The Westminster Republican says lin
1916 an act Was parsed by Congress changing the
compensation OF the members from SIX dollars per
day to 81, 500 the session, which, the session
then scarcely average one hundred days each, was
| upwards Of fifteen dollars per day. Mr. Clay
warmly advocated the passage OF this law, coming
| down from the Speakers chair TO make speech
in its favor II is to be observed that his wages as
| Sleaker was then twelve dollars per day. A
sketch Of his remarks was published in the Lexing-
| ton Reporter OF May 2lst, 1916, paper which has
always been warmly devoted TO his interests, from
| which W. extract the following notable sentences.
| "Mr. G CLAY said, his own personal experience
! determined him In voting tor the bill. He had
and at other times with part ofit and although his
| &C mpensenton, vi ilst he had enjoyed the honor
Of presiding in this House, double thar Of other
| Members, he declared, with the utmost sincerity,
| that he had never been able 10 make both ends
meet at the termination of Congress.
| Think Of that,ye hard-fsted farmers and me.
chanics This is the farmer OF Ashland, the mill
boy OF the Slashes Couldn't make both ends
me- af Tuyal naut V,,of ,kas
kind Of farm it wouldtak to keep him going with
\ champagne and cologne water in the day time,
and high low Jack, al night Il was just about the
| time he made this speech that Mr. Clay discovered
| the conslitutonaIity and great necessity Of 4
National Bank -Havisburg (Pa) Union.
| Polk IN ANOTHER LIGHT-We YESTERDAY pub.
lished letter from Gov. Polk to Mr.. n ane Of Phi
ladelphia, which was evidently designed to convey
| the idea, to the friends of domestic manufactures
that he was in favor Of protective tariff No per-
son could mistake the import OF that letter, or be
in doubt as e the object Tor which it written.
i was papably the design OF Mr.. P. also to induce
the people to believe, that in all bis Congressional
| career, he was governed by desire to secure, by
the laws Of the land, "fair and just protection to
all the great interests Of the whole Union, EN-
bracing agriculture, manufactures, the mechanic
arts, commerce and navigation" Upon the
strength OF this letter. further, il IS claimed by Mr.
Folks friends IN Pennsylvania, and elsewhere,
that The 10 as much The friend OF The American
! manufacturer as Mr.. Clay is"
! With these facts before them, we ask our read
| ers to peruse the following paragraph, which was
| the introduction to q letter which Mr. Polk adj
dressed to the people OF Tennessee, during the aet
canvass for the gubernatcrial chair Of that State
WlrcHEsrER, May 20, ls43.
| To the People Of Tennessee:
The object which had in proposing to Governor Jones'
at Carrollve the 2th Of April last that we should
each write out and publish views and opinions on the
subject Of the Tariff was, that respective positions
might be distinctly known and understood by the people
| That my opinions already fully and distinctly
| known, could not donbt ] had steadily during the
ntattv in
'. NAV oecn
speeches prove Since retired from Congress had held
the same opinions In the present for Governor
had avowed my opposition to the tariff the late
i Wing Congress, as being highly protective in it, char
acter, ard not designed by s authors revenue msa
sure had avowed my opinion in my public speeches
that the interests Of the country and especially Of the
producing and exporting States, required hs repeal and
the restoration Of the principles Of the compromise tariff
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