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On advocate aud friend o the Internal
improvement system, and those who
spoke against it were turned out ol the
polllicaI church
Before he was President Of The Uuiled
Sls'ps, he procIaimed no hoslillY TO The
bank; and while he ws0 in he Senate,
he voted for The most laiiDudnsrlan con.
sDrnclloO OF the Constitution In refer
ence to internal impfovemenrs--aD and he
won golden opinions IRON ali sorIs Of
mea.' HIS was system Of tactics the
most extraordinary. and developing re-
suits OF the most extraordlnary charac
ter. He was one Of the greatest polll.
cal Generals hat ever existed iD lhls or
any other country He attacked alI the
great institutions OF tho country 10 de
tail. He would kill them of one by one
-assulIng lhe weakest first, and after
sacrificing that, would assall the rest +,
un'il At Iengh he disposed Of them all
Mr. c. proceeded sul further 10 point
oUl the gross Inconsistencies which Gen
Jackson had beeo guilty Of when in pub
lie lite, and then co0i1nued:-- NrX'
came The attack on he TauG, as he had
already described, we saw whal must be
It's fate. As its friends, it was lmpossl
be to shut our eyes 10 the gigantic in
Auence which he would brlog to bear
against it, Henry Clay, acting The part
OF atrue parent in relation 10 his iavor'
lts policy. stretched out his hand 10 save
it. He (Mr CIsylOn) knew, indeed he
should never forge: the responsibility
they all incurred at the time they pass
ed the compromise act.
Mr. G. after relating some particular
Of conversation he had held with q
friend 10 reference 10 the passage OF tht
bill, SAID that while it was pending it
The House of Representatives such wa
the rapid acion Of Gen JacksoO's part,
at hat day TO carry out his suggestion
as contained IN his message Of The 4NI
of December, 1882, that on the 2Slh O
December, Of the same year-tweDl
four DAYS afler the message was sent t,
Coogress-Wr. VerpIauck reported hi
bill IN the House Of Representatives
vas important that the meeting shouI
know the contents Of that bill in orde
that they might understand Nr Polk q
, Tennessee Mr. Clay was chairman q
the committee on the compromise ac'
Mr. Polk was at The TAIL OF the COMM
ree Of WAYS and Means, who reporle
7 that bill for the destruction OF the hi
reducing The duties
Mr. Verpanck's bill laid duty
y twenty per cent on ready made clorhln
u, 1t, in short, levelIed blow al eve
- mechanical trade wirhou, exception.
y proposed -(remember Jas. * Polk,
farmers, mechanics and ohers)-a d.
1 ly OF twenty per cent on bacon; al
n beef was to be protected bv a duiy
a only 5 per cent Let him Mr. g Il
"a The meeting that Mr.. Polk is not Ia
/ mer in the true sense Of that word
:, and has no sympathy for farmers
N is a planter. That gentleman united
IA the support Of Mr., Verpsnck's bill, Il
Ie til it was killed by the compromise
lis ol Mr. Clay, thank God cloud and
le ierared cheers) Among the list we
es dprIes as low as five and ten per ceC
y, and twenty per cent, was the h,ghes ST
he 4 per cent above the average OF prote
nd tlou. if we might call it so, was given
,st that bill.
Ter He undertook to soy that il the
,te had passed, it would have heen mo
al destructive to lhe people Of the UNI
he States than if a tornado had passed o.
ed the land from Maine to Louisiana.
- it had been bill to set fire TO all
a. mannracrories end mechanics shops
in the Union, it would not have been mi
III, fatal to the interests Of the people
in Now. that was The character OF The
,ce proposed by Mr., Polk; that was the
a backed by The lorce of the ExecuII
in that was the bill crushed BY the RI
,Od measure Of Henry Clay.
10 Now, he would proceed to give a h
zen tory of The maonerln which the bill
"n DESTROYED by Henry Clay aud Fheod
Mr. Frelinghuyseo, on the 22d of Febru'
en- 1888, near the close Of the session
'ss' Congress Of that year. They w
we reco!lect it closed on the 4th OF Ma
we'd We'll, on the 22d February, Mr.
The planch's bill had actually so far prog
,en' sed in lis passage through the Hous
po- to have been reported from the COM
NY tee of the whole on the slate OF the
'uId on and tho House had decided 90
per- passage of The bill, On that day
re- Clay procured vote on the comProf
and act in the Senate. and it had Passe'
o'I' an overwhelming vote. and on Mon'
II II the 24Jh OF February, in the House.
ac'' Verpauck's bill was taken up Tor
Ilcy sderaion and on the motion oi
lSh LetChpr. the compromi So act was
sliluted in lieu o. it. The reason
.ion this movement was the opinion on
srk. taned by some Senators thal the I"
= h. ure was unconstitutional, IOnsmuCh