Holly Springs gazette., 1844-08-24


other ofthese individuals will in the or
dinary course of human affairs be held out
to the world for the next four years as the
legitimate criterion to Judge of American
wisdom, and craftsmanship, and capacity
for selfgovernment; as the standard of
what we think the Chief Magistrate of
great and free nation oug hi to be. would
not fiflc with your patience, sir, TO in.
stitute com parisons between them. No sir,
as soon would think of comparing the tow
ering Chimborazo- "whose bright sum-
mit'' is lost in the very heavens, with this
mole-hill elevation which raises US above
the surrounding plain. AS soon would |
compare the ma es:ic Condor, the monarch
ofthe feathered tribe pitching from his clou !
DIV home 10 the Andes, and soaring higher
and higher yet toward the source Of light,
with the noisy Jay, that frisks about the
garden hedge and commits his depredatlons
upon the eggs of other birds.
Forty years Of his life Mr.. Clay has spent
in the service of his country. Most ot that
period now belongs to history, and by lis
verdict we arc willing to abide; and most
confidently do [ assert that there breathes
not upon the continent of America the man
whose recorded evidences of devoted patti
otism, comprehensive wisdom and practical
craftsmanship can compare with has None
who has left upon our institutions so VIVID
an impress of his own individuality. nor en-
tailed upon tie country so rich and lnnum-
cradle blessings:
Twenty four years Of his life Mr. Polk
has passed in scrambles for place or in en-
loving the snoils of Office, & with equal con-
lidence do | challenge his warmest admirer
TO point to one single act of his whole pub
lie career that exhibits ,he qualities of pa
tIiot or a statesman, that entities him to the
present favor Of his countrymen or to the
gratitude of poserlty.
We fnd him now the candidate OF par
ty which, in order to retain that much abus'
ed and portentous veto power processes to
sickle for the constitution as 1t IS, when a
| mon the very first acts OF his public HE
was an attempt to change that constitution
! In a most material respect
! He is the candidate Of this Anti Bank par
/ tv. when no one was more VIGOROUSLY and
! oAiciously instrumental in fastening upon
the country that system which under the IN
couth cognomen of the PR BANK" sys>
tern has become a bye-word of reproach.
He is the candidate of this Sub Treasury
nartv. when no one has been more unquali-
| fed in his denuncations ofthat odlous and
thrice rejected measure than he.
He is the candidate of this Anti Internal
Improvement party, when he has publicly
avowed both the constitutionality and expe'
diencv Of that now repudiated system.
He is the candidate of this Free Trade
nartv. and as such his nomination at Baltl-
more was formally ratified by the Plenipo-
tentiaries from South Carolina, and now,
when that fantasy has become unpopular,tr true
TO the instincts of the Jay we find him poa
ching upon the nest of Mr.. Clay and claim
inc 10 be the advocate of a discriminating
protective Tariff.
He is the candidate Of this Oregon party,
after devoting one of his most prominent
speeches in Congress to opposing the occu-
!, patton of that Territory by our Govern
ment.
He is the candidate of that party, which
makes lavish professions of exclusive devo-
ZION to the interests of the poor as class IN
society, ana thus seeks to arouse their preJu
dices s. enlist their sympathies, when, IN
1927 he voted against an appropriation OF q
r. r. njttance of few thousand dollars to miti
gate the extreme suferings of the poor II
Alexandra whose houses and substance hac
: been consumed over their heads in the hear
of winter; and in 1881 opposed the do
D nation of few cords of wood from the sup
: erabundant supply of Congress TO the poo
: of Washington city, who were buried IN
E snow-storm of unexampled severity, am
were forced to strip the planks from ;hei
u garden>fenc es and consume the necessa RE
. Of life to minister to the common wants c
nature.
o He is the candidate of that party whis
q would monopoIize all the patriotism OF tn
n country, when in 1928 he voted against tn
bill for the relief of the surviving officers
g the American Revolution,-men who ha
E. stained our glorious baltle-felds with the
l0 blood
In short the only oasis which even b
own party can discover in all the bleak sol
y tude OF his public life. is. that be is an Il
u MEDIATE ANNExAToR l-and here pc
y y nit me to remark, by the way, that he
: : not the only noisy politician in our countr
= :; who has oil of his capital invested In Texas
- But even here, Cuckoo like, having no nc
ao of his own. he has artfully squeezed himse
~ ~ into the filthy receptacle of an uncle'
~ bird and is found sitting side by sl
He with Mr.. Jonn Tyler
,r These sir on the recorded votes. and pu
. lie acts of Mr. Polk. Farther than this
m sccsn to 90, and pray the day may nev
II. come when a whig shall be found wagi'
he AGAINST an adversary that predatory W
- If Cossack politicians which does not SCI
81 nle ia its ruthless rage to violate all |
of privileges and decencies ofprivate and
,ut mestic life.
ide IInon wha. ground then, sir. pray "
co. does sthis political Jack-ofalltrades exp
1 to foist himself into the highest office up