Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1844-05-03
From The National Intelligencer.
The Democracy i'm disc
Measure,

pleasure.
Had Mr. Cal houu visited Kentucky 1,
we are sure that Mr. Clay would have
led the way in every public courtesy to
him, not only through his known supe-
rority TO the mere personal rancors of
politics, but because no man has bet
ter feeling Ofwhati is due 10 abilities long
exer;ed in the country's service, and
because no man has higher interest in
extending to public desert the need Of "a
general admiration.
ln the honors aud hospitalities lately
offered 70 this distinguished citizen al
Charleston, we have seen, with great
pleasure, not only an exhibition OF the
elegant hospitslity for which that town
has always been famous, but something
better still willing and noble tribute
to merits that regard tho entire country,
and 10 talents which they are TOO gen.
erous not 10 acknowledge even in The
main adversary Of therpscuIiar politics.
Every flock, however, has its black
sheep; and even in Charleston there ap
pears 10 be soms persona who are Rsha
med Of public conduct whichShOuld be
The pride OF the city. While the gen
eral mind there was warm with the ur-
bane and honorable impulses which we
have described and which are native to
1t, this sort were fain to reprsss their
enVious bile; bu,no sooner was Mr., Clay
gone than they crept out Of their holes
TO abuse him for having dared 10 be q
great man, for being go culpable as TO
eXtort such testimonies Of the fact that
he has deserved we'll OF all parts Of our
and
There are, be il remarked in Charles
ton, as elsewhere, an upper and Meth
er "demOcrucy;" which is the true one
we are not connosseurs enough in that
strange dish 10 determine. The two
are not altogether the most harmonious
things in nature; and, soolh 10 say, hate
each other like two fanatical secls that
are only the bitterer because the points
Of difference between them are such as
must be wrsDgIed about, not reasoned
about, and have need of rancor to mark
them in the defect Of any sort Of defniY
tioD.
In the movement Of which we speak
the Van Buren, democracy, headed by
Messrs. Pnckney and MCGraw, uppsa
TO have been the ACTORS; while the regu
lar Calhoun party either forbore any
such envious demonstration or gave
way, we trust, 10 better feelings.
The wrath Of the followers Of this
portion of "lhe Democracy" seems II
have been kndled not only by the mer
its Of Mr.. Clay, but the eoquencs of Mr.
Preston, who appears (lhoUgh his speecl
has not been reported) to have sai,
some very good things (aS bo is vert
apt TO do) In addition 10 his fine ones
A friend gives US the following fragmen
OF his remarks upon the present Admin
} istration:
"Mr. Tyler, he said, had done hi
best, though mi quite Palinurus, t
steer his little bark into the Presiden
tiNl harbor He had struggled har
against the head winds that beat upon il
the counter currents in which he va
carried adrif,, the shadows and flats up
on which it had lhumped, the mud i
which il mad repeatedly stuck. He he
freghted it with all sorts Of principle
and manned it in vain with all kinds {
crews; and now, ss last resort, no be
: rgged Mr.. Calhoun for o iutymasI"