Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1844-10-11

tive game once, don't you believe they would do
so again, if they only had the chancel Yes, bat
thaliss to the good sense of the freemen Of this
land, they will never, never have another oppor-
tunty of doing so. The people have risen in their
might, and the grave of Federalism has been dig
ged deep and wide, and now opens its yawning
jaws to receive it in November We call up
on every Democrat to be on the gr ound, and have
the pleasure of casting shovel.ul of earth up
on its loathsome carcase.
DupIicity---DOub Dealing of
Henry Clay On the Tariff cues
ton.
When Henry Clay, the Federal candidate, was
about to retire from tine Senate of the United
States in 1912, in of his last speeches in that
body, he thought proper to give to the world, his
very latest opinions on the subject of the Tariff.
We will give an extract of that speech, and then
place by its side, portion of his letter to Mr..
Cope in June, 1914, and ask our readers who hold
with US, that the man who aspires to occupy the
highest and most dignifed office in the world,
should be an HONEST MAN, what they think
! of the truthfulness the candor, yea the COMMON
| HONESTY of the Federal candidate for this of.
! fee Z:
" Let me not be mis-. In his letter to Mr. F.
understood, and let me ]. Cope, of last June, he
entreat that may not be, takes occasion to say
misrepresented. I en- that the Tariff of AZ
not advocating the revi- has operated most benef-
val of high protective cially, and | AM UT
Tariff. lam for abiding TERLY OP POSED
by the principles Of the TO ITS REPEAL
Compromise act; I am These opinions were an
for doing what no South nounced by me at public
ern man of fair and can meetings n Alabama,
did mind has ever yet de- Georgia, Charleston, s.
nied-giving to the coun. Carolina, N. Carolina, g.
try revenue which may in Virginia"
provide for the economi-
cal wants of the Govern
ment, and, at the same
| time, give incidental
protection to our home
industry. If there be here
single gentleman who
will deny the fairness
and propriety of this I
shall be glad to see and
F learn who he is"
Now, we who are plain, blunt sort of per-
son, scarcely bring home to ourself that the
same Identical Henry Clay, who only, some two
years ago. in the face Of the world declared, that
he was for abiding by the principles of the Com
: promise Act" can possibly be the same Henry
Clay, who wrote that letter to Cope, and who has
recently acquired for himself the sobriquet of the
=" complete letter writer" But we dare say, we
were to enquire of the Secretary of the Glee
a Club" in the Town of Wilmington, he would be
very likely to tell that he was one and the same
person. Voters of North Carolina, can you 70,
one moment, think of casting your votes for man
who is so utterly devoid of all principle, as is the
man who could, for party purposes, declare on the
floor of Congress. only two years ago, that he
was opposed 10 a protective Tariff,--that he was
for Maintaining his integrity towards the Compro
mise Act, which he himself introduced in 80, anl
which he then solemnly pledged himself to sup
port invioate; and who, since he has beer
put IN nomination by the Federal party, merely
through personal ambitious motives has eaten hi
own words, and goes the whole hog" fo
the 90 black act" of A. acknowledged by the Fed
- eralists themselves to be the highest protecti,,
, Tariff we have ever had could you think of vo
ting for man, for any, the lowest office who
because he thought it would subserve his interests
h would tell you to day, will protect you, / vii
:, stand by you will shield you fro the grinding
" plundering, yea robbing grasp of the Norther
% Capitalist; and who tomorrow, because he Nigh
r take it into his head that he could do a bette
is business" by selling you to your enemies and OF
~ pressors, would turn round and do so with as muc
ease, as if conscience, honor, principle, were wore
not written down in his vocabulary. Such, vote
of the Old North State, is the relation in whic
:: every Southern man. and particularly every Soutl
80 ern farmer, stands to Henry Clay. You cannot, ar
you will not vote for a man whose code of eth
teaches him that the bright star Of principle mu
ever pale before the lurd blaze Of selfish ambitio
You connot, and you will not vote for man wi
has visited every point in the political compas
not because he is of weak and vacillating disp
-. sition, but because place and power pointed Il
way thither.
he We will take the liberty of saying that it
,ry no fallacy" that the duty becomes part
=. the price of the article. out, that on the 9th
hand, it is uttery fallaci' US to deny that SUI
a. is the case.
raj Wilmington journal, Sept. 2Sth.
the sit is true, that when the duty is so ent
zen mously high "a 10 be wholly prohibitory, t
-, price OF the article is not always raised in pr
~ portion to the amount of the duty"