Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1844-06-08

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they announced TO the world as their own
reliance and as the presage of their ultimate
success that important declaration. sour
cause as Just, our Union is perfectl' We
have duty TO perform, less dangerous and
less glorious than fell to the lot of our faith.
ers. We are not born to create an indie.
pendent system; we are not born TO erect
durabl and free government, which shall
spread the light of civil liberty all over
earth; but we are born with an Inheritance
composed of a constitution, and institutions
of civil liberty; and we are charged with
the high remaining duty of their preserva.
ton, and therefore, in the discharge of this
duty let us borrow not only their language
but their sentiments,-their patriotism, their
devotion. Let the declaration go forth from
this immense assemblage to the Gulf of
Mexico, to the Falls of the Missouri to the
extreme North and the extreme East, and
let it 60 in a tone and with a vgor that
shall encourage every Wing heart, and
strengthen every Wing mind in the sonti-
ment, that sour cause is Just, that or Union
is perfectP-( Loud continued and enthusias.
tic cheerS.)
The Convention has presented as n can
didate, for the Presidency of the United
States, Henry Clay. [Chcers.1 For thirty
years and more, Mr.. Clay has been emf
nently and prominently in public service.
He has served his country faithfully, use
fully and honorably, at home and abroad.
Tremendous and protracted cheering
His long career of service, the position in
which he has stood before the country, and
all the indications of public sentiment in all
quarters, have shown that he was the man,
on whom above all, popular preference had
concentrated. And under these clear indi.
cations of public judgment and the public
VIII, i, for one, do rejoice with the truest
sincerity, that there has not been found
dissenting voice. not a doubtful voice to
break the unanimity of the result. APP
plause. 1t is true that in the course of a
life, not short one, passed in the public
counseIs with Mr.. Clay, there have been
questions of practical administration, some
of Their .iestions unimportant, on which
we have not agreed; and there have been
occasions when we have taken different
views to ensure proper action in public
councils. On those occasions we have
differed, and we have acted on those differ
ences with equal conscientiousncss, and |
trust with an equal degree of mutual res
pect. know of no great national consti-
tutional question:; know Of no great inter-
est of the country, still less do / know any
question touching important political rela-
tons, in which there is any difference be-
tween the distinguished leader of the Wing
e party and myself And even under present
!, circumstances it might be more becoming
o in me, instead of expressing any personal
= respect for him, Applause and n voice
!. good it might be more becoming in me
s. to have confined myself to say that he is q
l. VINO, that he is the selection Of Whe
G Convention,-that he is pointed to by al
q the Wings of the country-and that 1 an {
VI WING, and that a voicc--"Daniel, yol
d shall be our next Presdent"l with rcgarC
o to the part which am to act, there is M
o more doubt, trust, of my disposition thar
&c there is of my duty. [Tumultuous and re
g peated applause.
=, The same Convention, gentlemen, ha
~ presented a candidate for the second olfic
-, ~ in the country. 1t was not to be expecte,
- that the Convention would come togethe
~ with a previously settled opinion in thi
- respect, as was found to exist, and knO,C
- to exist with regard to the first Office.
~ ~ Several most worthy gentlemen had bee
- - proposed by their friends of the severG
r States of each, and all of them well desel
:. wing the public regard, and fit for the ofiic
. for which their friends designated then
~ Among them a selection has been made
.. ~ which in my judgment could not have bee
~ better. Great applause) There is not i
- the country man of purer character, of
~ - more sober temperament, of more access
a, bic manners, of more fine. unhinchirg =, VI
~ bending Wing principles, than Theodor
- Frelinghuysen. tremendous cheering
~ Not only does he enjoy respect and regarc
~ but such is the purity of his life, the ami;
81 bleness of his character, the ease of his il
"a tercourse, that he has as strong a hold
~ any man know, not only on the regar
~ ~ but the love and affection, and fervid attac
Nv ment of all who know him.
of The State of New Jersey needs no pas
nd ing compliment from me; but we all kno
no her character ancient and recent, for p
cd triotism; we all remember her Revolutio
lie airy services, and her Revolutionary suffe
M ings. We have heard-we all know tn
he patriotic revolutionary dust lies at Prime
ire ton, at Trenton, at Monmouth! Some
no us have heard from our fathers lips, we
tu- know from the history of the country, tn
nv, at the season of the deepest gloom of 4
ION revolutionary war, that little army
ing Wings which was the only support
I'VE Washington, and the only stay against t
ost enemy from overwhelming the country
our the torturers Of New Jersey tracking th(