Holly Springs gazette., 1844-02-02

promised US as the fruits of NJ Van Bu.
rem restoration A return 10 the glorles
aud blessings of the Sub Treasury system
aie newed war upon the currency. COM
merce and business ofthe country Jus; at
me moment when. by the mere fact of the
withdrawal of the hostility of the govern
menl, and that ris medicatri1 nature which
IS inherent, IN the energies of Tree. enter
1pris:ng and industrious people, all the busi-
ness pursuits of the nation are regaining
their prosperity and activity. and the cur
rency and exchanges ofthe country are fin
ding their proper and natural level. every
Thing Is to be again thrown into confuslon,
/ wild and pernicious experiments. simply to
signasize remorseless party triumph, in
THE consummatlon OF measure openly at
war wi.h every great practical interest of
the community. Aud TO this would be ad-
Ged, by natural and necessary connection.
all that long train of congeniaI abuses
which so ingloriously illustrated the era of
Mr.. Van Buren's former administration
multiplied schemes for extending Executive
power. and Presidential patronage-pro-
fuse and proaigate expenditures of public
monev-the Impuniiy and protection of
faithless public officers, purchased by the
merit oftheir party servces-a new brood
of defaulters, of The Hoyts and Harrsses,
race, the entire disappearance of which,
since 1910, is one ofthe proudest proofs of
the justice and necessity of the change then
decreed by the voice of the people. But it
| were vain 10 attempt an enumeration of the
teeming abuses that must ever attend the
| fundamt ntal heresy of Mr. Van Buren's no
! litcal system, which instead of regarding
| Government as high and holy trust for the
good of the country, sees in j. nothing but a
| Job to be administered for the benefi. of a
party ofwhich the President Is the head
and grand atnoner.
Now, would ask, what is there to be
apprehended from Mr. Ciay's election.
which ought TO have the weight of feather
in the sca.e, when compared with the fata |
and destructive evils-polsoning the vital
! elements of Republican freedom and virtue.
as We as the essential sources of national
prosperity and happiness. which, we have
every reason to believe would inevitably
follow the restoration of Mr.. Van Buren,
! We shall doubtless, have paraded before
our eyes, in sterotyped horrors, the old and
threadhare appariiion of The Tariff. The
Bark. and Distribution. the subject of
the Tariff do not hesitate to say, that Mr..
Clay's creed developed in his recen. letters
is in every respect. as just, as sound and un
, exceptionable as that of Mr.. Van Buren,
. and his practice infinitely better Mr. Clay
did not vote for,.o approve The Tariff of lS-
%. consigned to an odious celebrity, under
2 the name of the Bill of abomna:ions, which
J MIR. Van B1ren and his friends carried by
, their votes 1t is rather an unfortunate CO.
incidence. considering the professions of Mr..
Van Buren,, that all The Tariffs which have
been most complained of in the South, owe
their existence upon the Statute Book 10
: the votes of himself or his friends, Il is no
want of charity, then. but the result of the
most candid and deliberate consideration,
when express the decided opinion, that
Mr.. Clay is far more to be relied upon for a
S practical adjustment of this delicate and
complex subject, on terms just and satisfac-
tory to al sections of the Union, harmonis-
l ing their various interests by the golden
rule of moderation. which is the only pledge
: of persnanence and stability in any arrange
t ment that may be made, than Mr.. Van Bu-
rem. The wise and temperate spirit so
2 strikingly exhibited in bis letters which have
: been recently given 20 the public. sustained
. by his well known influence with his friends
! and bis own high and unquestioEsd charac-
: ter for frankness and decision, is guaran-
} tee which no portion Of the nation will light
! ly regard.
4 With respect to the Bank, ifshe country
! shall be reduced to a choice between the
f odious and grinsling Sub Treasury Scheme
, and National Institution of Finance, prop
erIy guarded against abuse by the jealous
r restrictions ofils charter, as we'll as by a
= vigilant public supervision and control. I do
: not believe that the sober judgement of the
: people, under the pressure of such an alter.
; native, would find any cause of quarrel a.
: gainst those who, free from constitutional
r difficulties on the subjec. should go Tor the
! latter. in preference to the former And as
2 to the Distribution of the proceeds Of the
e Public Lands that stands necessarily and
9 evidently adjourned. as practical question
e until the revenues of the nation, compared
y with its expenditures and engagements, shall
5 be IN very different situation from that IN
i which they now are. or are likely TO be fol
!! years to come My own individual opin
e ions on these subjects have been SO offer
5 and fully stated. that / need not repeat then
], here. What mean to say, at present, is
a nIthat these are issues either hypothetical AM
speculative. .oz neura!ized By e9uaI and op