The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1844-08-28
SECRET HISTORY.

AuenuOu Is IC4uesiSu 10 tle HuulOlutu CA-
tract from the Madisonian Of Wednesday. The
political reader VIII find it very curious and IN
teEestng, as throwing light upon several points.
IL seems to bear out the Madisonian in its asser-
ton that Mr. Webster, while in the Cabinet, was
by no means unwilling to lend Mr.. Clay an ugly
thrust or two under the fifth rib aud thereabouts,
whenever opportunity offered itself II appears
to prove also, that Mr.. Clay did actually give up
the principle of protection in 1888, and propose
shorizontal tariff" notwithstanding his declara
ton while on the floor of the House of Repre-
sentatves last session, that it was 'lie" TO say
so, accompanied by certain expletiyes which it
is unnecessary and impolite to quote. The read
er will also discover other remarkable statements
in this article, when it is needless to particular
Iize: Post.
MESsRS. WEBSTER AND CLAY.
We take the following from the last New
York Courier g. Enquirer:
"The editor of the Madisonian intimated
few days since that he would do something
dreadful if Mr. Webster should venture to adyo-
cate the election of Henry Clay on the ground
of his friendship TO the tariff and we were (ot
course) exceedingly solcitous to ascertain what
sort of thunderbolt was to fall upon the head of
/ Mr.. Webster, if he should dare TO say anything
| in favor of the Wing candidate for the Presden-
lev. But it seems we mstook the meaning OF
the Madsonian man entirely He was not 60
| ing to do anything with Mr. Webster; it is Mr..
| Clay that he was going to blow into the seven
stars if Mr.. Webster dares to open his mouth for
him. The Madisonan is going to prove that Mr.
Clay has at one time "proposed to abandon all
projection on articles manufactured in the Uni
ted States"
Suppose we prove it now, and By Mr.. Web
ster.
About the time, indeed at the time (l842)
when bitter controversy was going on between
the Hon. Henry Clay and the Hon. Henry A.
Wise, in relation to the unfortunate Cllley duel,
Mr.. Wise being prevented from expressing his
views on the Tariff, by some rule Of the House,
announced his purpose to imbody them IN an ad-
dress to his constituents, which would be pub
Ilshed IN The newspapers.
4 Immediately after the announcement was
made, Mr. Webster, being then Secretary of
,I State, under Mr.. Tyler, and taking most active
part in the vindicaton of the Administration,
and in opposition to the assaults OF Mr.. Clay and
Ibis friends on it, sent to the Madisonian office,
where il was known the Address of Mr. Wise
would be published, the following note, desiring
5Iit TO be inserted in the Address, as a separate
and distinct paragraph, which was accordingly
done
II am informed and authorized, by one who
saw the manuscript draught of the act Of 1888
Ii = rtnfo 4l,atS SsTyyDn T.
CLAY drew the act of 1888, and showed it to his
friends in his own handwriting, after the clause
which provides that only such duties shall be LAID
as are necessary for an economical admlnlstra-
ton of the Government, after the 3Oth June,
4 1912, the following words, or other words pre-
cisely equivalent, were added, TO wit: land
such duties shall be laid without reference to
the protection of any domestic articles whatever"
1t may fairly therefore, be claimed that the great
author of what is called the American System
himself has, in the most direct manner, acceded
to this principle at least, that duties must be paid
primarily for revenue, and not for protection a
lone. This is the leading principle to which
1.-The faith of the nation has been solemnly pIedg-
ed, and one from which it will never be safe tor
1.-The great protected interests themselves to de-
part"
On the margin of Mr.. Webstor's note there
was P S in pencil mark, which ran as follows
"The words quoted beginning at "And," and
ending at 'whatever,' are literal copy from the
original draft in Mr.. Clay's handwriting. D. W."
Itmay be remembered that the Hon. ca. In
gorsoll stated last spring, i'll the House, that he
had heard that Mr.. Clay once agreed 10 yield to
the principle of Protecton-and that Mr. Clay
accosted him when in Washington, last May, on
the subject, and pronounced the statement
"falsehood,n and the one who had communlca-
tied to him the information "calumniator."
Will he pronounce Mr.. Webster calumnla-
orr"
We have more than once demonstrated that
some fifty of Mr.. Clay's nearest and dearest
friends opposed, directly and indirectly, the pas
sage of the existing tariff act; and have asserted,
on tenable grounds, that the Clay party IN Con
gress were opposed TO IFS passage. Mr.. Webster
i was undoubtedly in favor of the act, and while
striving TO array the manufacturers against 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 endurance
for Mr. Webster, after ''proyiding for ais family,
and his friends, by his laborin behalf of the Ad-
mnistration, to turn round and denounce it, and
become the advocate of Mr. Clay, because Of
!, his advocacy of the present tariff?