The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1844-08-08
THE PARTY PRESS OF NEW
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Its Talent, Decency, Power, and Enterprise
Demonstrated.
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| tions, spread Intelligence, illuminate. and ipsDire
the pubic mind, but the telling blows mow are to
Inc enemy must be hunted out His falsehoods
must be struck down-his dark ness dispel d--his
log cleared of The proclamations, the bulletins,
"a. arousng records are for us of the wing press
put an enemy such as we have to deal with, can
De met only IN the open held. It is no war or ink
alone, but OF man with man, face TO face Il is
WIN delight then, we see the whole wing intellect
OF the land awakened to aid the wing press Their
cooperation is irresistible for geod-for by those
two means, we reach the whole of the people, and
feel the whole public pulse
Il seems TO us, and we have had the most extend
ed means OF observation, the few weeks past, in ali
parts OF the Union-ihat upon principles, we have
nearly driven the enemy off the field Certain il
IS that ~ the great State Of Pen. sylvana we have
question. and in .early all Of all the central and
New England States, the like is also the facl He
yields 70 us-our blows have driven him from his
perpendicular In The central, Nerth- Western and
Eastern states, his Texas issue has been fatal
him., that he Is yielding there too-while IN tie
South, witaess Louisiana and North Carolina, ne
gam nohlng. IN the very region where the issue
was got up win the prepos,erous impression that he
could carry all before him. On the Sub-Trrasury
also, he ls dumb dumb as log He shirks and
shakes OIL from the issue with trsmulous appre-
henslon OF the return OF the fatalities Of 1910. Nor
IS he certainly not in many parts OF the Union
more successful IN his opposition to the dstr button
OF the proceeds OF the public lands Indeed, upon
all matters OF principles majority Of the people
so much so, that if he could sec, re victory, he
would have the hardest kind Of struggle with his
own party before ne could reap any OF the fruits Of
1t, "ihe spoils'' except.
But the enemy has abandoned principle only the
more 10 attack the man Of the Wing party, It's can
didac repre- sentlng its principles It 10 no security
Tor Henry Clay, that he has been in the public SER
wee OF his own State twenty-five or thirtygyears
and 10 the service of the United State in Congress-
and IN the administration OF public affairs as
memper OF the Cabinet, as well as minister abroad,
and that ne has held the highest Offices he public
favor could bestow upon him, the Chief Magstracy
except. always supported by his frie de and neigh
bo.s in his own hentucky-for under the ,etera-
ted assertions Of Locofoco demagogues and Loco.
loco orators, there are hundreds OF not well
informed voters, who really believe, Gas most Of
them believed 81 General Harrison,) that he is
= murderer" "a debauchee," "a gambler" ga
perurer," an aadacious criminal, indeed, without
OF these Locofoco writers and orators, the Wings
have put up for the Chief Magistracy man SO bad
that Penitentiary would be too good pace for
nm, the worst man probably, they could find in
people Of Kentucky have kept in Congress this mon
ster OF man over thirty years, and John Quincy
Adams made him member of his cabinet, and
Client
Now, these charges, awful,lor rather preposter-
Gus as they are, we can tell wing orators must not
bs passed over The good and the brave Gen
ran,ly believed him "a coward" ia seller Of
white men into slavery" nctorions debauchee, !"
the recipient of The present ii ga petticoat' from
he women q ChiIi'ohe, (Ohlo,) &c. &C., for the
wings too often proudly scorsrd 10 stoop to answer
snch charges. Having fought out now, success
fully rs we believe, the good fight OF principles,
We must turn our attention to Henry Clay. They
the honest nah Of his great public services, bu,
no matter tor. that. Their own assaults demand
and justify our eulogies, and provoke our enthu-
slasm hitherto, when we have convinced man
III ut "a IA unrln ptt.l.c f,r
the interest OF his country, it reasonable ex-
pect the enemy would give in, and let him vote
the wing ticket. Not SO, however, now-ior the
convert IS assai ed with the cutlery. that the wing
candidate is morser, very Beeezebub OF a
man. We mean 10 say, then, this has be come n
personal battle, as well as battle on principle.
We mean to say wing orator should show his au-
dit rs that he speaks Tor good man, as well as for
good cause. We mean to say, too, that If we
now concentrate our attention 10 this point, popu-
lar as wing principles are, Henry Clay has public
and private NE, ~ a long array q public servi-
ces, better calculated TO arouse and develope pub
&c enthusiasm than any thing else we can offer TO
the public mind. Contrast his services with Folks
Ransack The histories Of both. Compare man
al contest between Clay and Polk, Ask, who de-
serves public favor for public servcesl Hold up
the prolonged, the illustrlous services of Henry
Clay IN speech, in sony, and on the emblazonment
Of public banners-and mark us for false prophets,
it there be not then struck electric cord Of
thuslasm tar exceeding any thing we saw or heard
OF in 1910, and more sympathetic and thrilling, than
any thing said or done even Tor the gallant old hero
Of Tippecanoe
PUBLIC MEETING AID SpHAKERs.-We protest
against the bad habit some Of our wing friends
have Of calling up speakers connected with the press
whose duties compel them 10 appear at all public
meetings, more or less. Whig editors, who have
to toll report wing doings long after their fellow
citizens are In their beds, should be let of from
this labor, whenever they desire to be. We are
willing to bear our share OF work in the campaign,
night. Again, speakers ought to be procured, when
they are expected to address public me etDgs.
The fact is, our public meetings are got up too
carelessly. Speakers ought alweysto be forewsrn.
prompts do justice to himself, or to his cause.
Above all, public meetings should not be got up
without the certainty Of having speakers. Nothing
is more provoking than to lose time in calling vain
pie, than thus assembling of them, without provi-
ding them the means OF instruction or amusement
Marines Clay and Frelinghuysen Letter Paper
for Wing correspondence, goes like wildfre. II
can be purchased ri the store OF the inventor, and
at the Wing Club Reading rooms.
NEW YORK COURIER & ENQUIRER
Several of the locofoco papers are proclaiming
the falsehood that Mr.. Clay is an advocate for as
Stunning the State debts, and among others we un-
derstand the Pennsylvania In making that afser-
ton. We learn this through other journals, for we
do not receive the Pennsy lvanian, but we take i.
for granted that the fact is so, and say therefore
that the Pennsylvania ought to take shame to it.
self for il has some character TO look to, and
ought rot to trife with il by recognizing and rete-
rating the paltry Pigments Of the degraded portion
Of ,s own party press. Mr.. Clay has never made
any declaration to warrant the statement that he is
favorable to the assumption of the debts Of the
States, and those who started such story knew
il az well as we do. Mr.. clay is certainly in favor
Of distributing the proceeds Of the public lands,
and will, we dare say. be very happy TO the in
debtcd States using their share, to hasten the
payment Of their debts, but no man has the right
debts. We have no evidence OF his wish TO take
upon the Nation the privilege Of paying either the
debts oil our own States or those OF foreign coun-
tries. The Pennsylvania and its fellow laborers
or twenty millions Of debt owed by Texas, but