The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-07-11
W A S HIN G I @ N.
THURSDAY EVENING. JULY IL. 1874.

THE GLOBE AND Mr.. CLAY'S SPEECH.
The editor of the Globe is endeavoring to find
something in the speech of Mr.. Clay, at Raleigh,
upon which to carp and cavl AS a specimen OF
the truthfulness of his comments, we make the
following extract from Mr.. Clays speech, toge-
Their with the distorted meaning which the Globe
attempts to give it. We cut the extract from the
speech, with the remarks of the editor, out of the
Globe, as they stand in the columns Of that paper
of Tuesday.
| EXTRACT FROM MR.. cLAY's SPEECH.
sin connection with the subject ON which am
now addressing you, 1.-THE New Jersey case the
manner of admission Of Michigan into the I'm on
| is worthy of notice. According to the usage
which had uniformly prevailed prior to the admis-
sion of the States of Michigan and Arkansas, a
previous act of Congress was passed authorizing
the sense of the people of the Territory to be ia
ken in convention, and regulating the election of
members to that body, limiting their choice to ci-
,izens of The United States residing in that Ter
ritory. Michigan, without the sanction of pre-
vious act of Congress, undertook, upon her sole
authority, to form Constitution, and demanded
admission into the Union. In appointing members
OF that convention, great number of aliens, as
well as citizens Of the United States, were allow
ed TO vote, against the earnest circumstances of
many resident citizens. Under these crcumstan-
ces she applied to Congress to be admitted into
| the Union. No one questioned or doubted that
she was entitled to be received whenever she
presented herself regularly and according to law.
Buf IL ioas objected against her admission that she
had assumed TO act against all usage, scithout the
authority IF Congress; and thai, contrary 10 The
Constitution and i0s0s Of The United States, she
had permitted aliens to partGke Of the electlre
franchise"
REMARKS OF THE GLOBE.
What deadly sin against the Constitution the
Democracy committed in admitting Michigan in
to the Union as State, notwithstanding Mr.. Clay
and his friends "ot1ectsd against her admission
that she had assumed TO act against all usage,
without the authority Of Congress! :! twill be
observed that the CRIME here alleged is ''an act
against all usage" (not against the Constituton.)
1t seems "Michigan, ,ohout The sanction Of an act
Of Congress, undertook, upon her sole authority,
to form Constitution, and demanded admission
| into the Union"
| It will be seen that Mr. Clay objected to the
procedure of the Locofoco Congress, in reference
to Michigan, upon the ground that it was contrary
to usage, and that the Constitution presented by
| Michigan had been framed in violation of the Fee
deral Constitution in reference to aliens. But
| the editor of the Globe, with Mr.. Clay's words
staring him in the face, declares that Mr.. Clay
condemned the conduct of the Locofoco Congress
upon the single ground that it was contrary to
| usage. Of course, the editor of the Globe, as is
his custom, has been guilty of wful and pal
pabe perversion of the truth. the evidence of
which he has unthoughtedly placed within the
reach of his readers.
But the willy editor had the precaution to cup.
make little capital by distorting and classifying
what Mr.. Clay said in reference to foreigners,
and, therefore, he cut short his extract We
here continue it to the end of the paragraph, be-
ginning where the editor of the Globe leaves of.
Mr.. Clay said further:
"1'he danger was pointed out Of allowing aliens,
unnaturallzed, and without renouncing their al
legiance to foreign sovereigns and potentates, 10
share in that great and inestmable privilege
But all objections were unavailing the dominant
party, under the hope of Strengthening their inte-
rests, in spite of all rregularty, and in contra
vention of law, admitted Michigan as Stale into
the Union"
So that Mr.. Clay objected to the votes of un-
naturalised foreigners-to aliens who owe allie
glance to the crowned heads of Europe, and who
owe no allegiance to this Government Such is
the doctrine of the Constitution al the law of the
land and they who, like the editor of the Globe,
are IN favor OF giving the elective franchise to
foreigners before they are naturalized, wish to
trample upon the Constitution and laws--the ve-
ry charge made by Mr.. Clay against the Locofo-
cos. The mean, despcabe perversion and gar
bling of Mr.. Clay's language by the Globe, is SO
common with that print as not TO deserve parti.
cular mention. 10 show how reckless is the
Globe OF Constitution and law, we make one other
extract from the same article in which Mr. CLAY
is censured for maintaining the constitutional
ground that aliens-that is to say, unnaturalzed