Arkansas intelligencer. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1842-1859, 1844-03-23
WIG MEETING AT FAYETTFV=IIF

AT meeting of the citizens of Wasbinpto,
county, Arkansas. on the 2Sth day of February.
A. u. 1914: held for the purpose of ORGANIZING :,
"Clny Club, the following proceedings were had.
ne Hon. Geo. Cline, called to the chair,
Whereupon, the Hon. Alfred w. Arlington adj
dressed The meeting. for some hour. in his usual
Pa'hetic and thrilling manner, upon the claims of
riehry Clay,o Kentucky, TO the first office in the
s'it OF the American people. At the close of the
address, the following parsons were appoin,ed +,
committee TO draft Constitution for the Club.
VIZ; "A: W. Arlington. A. NJ. Scott. Thos. J. Pol
laro, Il. DAVIS. and Martin w. Thornberrv. who
reusea 10 the discharge OF the duties ussionnu
them; and after spending some time, returned and
presented to the meeting the following Cons,itu-
ton, winch was adopted by said meeting, and Or
deted to be published in the arkansas InteHigps.
Ger, news paper printed in the State of Arkan.
sas viz: "We whose names are hersunto sub
scribed, agree to unite ourselves into an ossocia.
ton 10 be denominnted the "Clay Club of Wash
Ington County. Our object in the formation of
tins ASSOCIATION, is such, as we are all willing
and ANXIOUS our fellow-citizens should all under
stand, and perfectly appreciate. We have moth.
ing or concehiment about it. And we hereby
state it fully, with equal satisfaction and pubci
ty, under an abiding assurance. that it is one,
that can never superinduce regret in our own
after recoileclions. or any other feeling but
respect IN any mind correctly informed as to its
details. We have united for the purpose of eli
citing truth by mutual discussion and by bring.
ing together the best lights. which our separate
powers may be able to furnish. We have united
to collect, and dffusc political Information among
our friends and neighbors, in relation to those
great questions of public policy, which ere our
forests shall have put on their richest summer
blooms, will have agitated this mighty Union, from
its centre to the remotest cottage Of its mountain
g!ens. We have united to contribute, as we
trust, most SUCCESSFULLY, our humble efforts and
influence to aid in the glorious work of reforming
abuses. which have cen gathering strength and
terror for years, and which now have become Sc,
enormous rs to menace the people of this great
Nation with misr,ile and the worst forms of an
archy, divisions, distress, and demo alization so
fearfuly wide spread and increas sing as to en- an
ger the stability of the Union, and engender a
we'll grounded apprehension in every rejecting
mind. that this country is fated furnish another
dreadful example, sad and OVERLOOKING with bitter
tears, of the ephemera! duration Of popular gov
eminent. We have united to aid our brethren
of the great Wing family, in procuring a curren.
for the Nation and to crush into the dust thos,
miserable swindIing, good for nothing local Banks
that rob our pockets, by legislative enactlnents
and light US on the road to ruin, with the torch
hIme Of legal precedent. We have united to cal
Tor Such Il lurilI, us supply EcV5uue 10 tue
government. fill up the empty boxes of treasury
! and put to shame, and silence forever the bodins
dscord, that surrounds in the outcries of those pc
liticp ravens, that croak SO horribly in favor o
that obsolete engine Of tie felest despotsm of tn,
dark age that first crude expedient of bar6arict y
rants to rake the hard-earned gold from the peas
ants. toil-worn fngers-direct iarafion. w,
want a tariff that shall operate, through the FIRE,
will the consumer, to support most plenteous
1 yy,be government. We aoiH not permit if GU
feeble strength may anything avail, our door-sill
10 be polluted by the hated footsteps of the ruth
less tax-gat!,erer. And we call for a Tariff, tina
shall foster with fathery kindness, our CROWNS
home industry. and render us independent alik'
of the gold and commerce Of the European Lord
Oft trade, A Tariff that may supplya market 70
our grain, at our own cities and villages, and rem
derIt no longer necessary ito brave the per'ls q
tho sea, to dispose of our flour, in the streets o