The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1844-02-17
PREAMBLE AND CONSTITUTION.
Submitted 10 a Meeting.
OF
THE RISING SUNsCLAY CLUB.

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February 9Th 1914.
At meeting of the citizens of the 9Th
Election District, held a, the Rising Sun,
on Wednesday the 7Ih inst, for the pur-
pose of forming a Clay Club, the commit.
tee appointed at a previous meeting, con-
sisling of DR. S. b. Slubbs, Thomas d.
Clayton, John A. Reynolds, Elijah Pierce,
Eli Haines, Job. fl. Jackson, Jacob J
Kirk, Barclay Reynolds and Benjamin F.
Kirk, to prepare and submit, to the meet
ing preamble and Constitution for The
Club submitted the following, which on
consideration, was adopted unanimously.
Vhereas, in country whose policy at
home and abroad grows out of the ex-
pressed wishes of the people. subjects
arise, Difficult and tedious in adjustment.
thus forming rational grounds for party
divisions amongst the people according as
their best judgments after due examna-
ton are found to differ upon the proper
plan of adjustmen,:-and
Vhereds, a. this time the question Of
the "extent, to which tariff shall be made
protective of home markets and home in
dustry"-the questions of uniform currep-
cy, and Its due amount,-and of the dis
'rlbullon amongst the states Of the pro-
ceeds OF the Public Lands, have for time
been agitated by the people of the United,
States, and are questions of extraordinary
Importance in their right adjustment upon
some permanent basis, so that future ari-
'a'lons shall not as in years past, so much
disturb and toss to and fro the business
and interests ola whole people:-and
Whereas, oflhe too leading parties into
which the people are a. present mainly
divided, and with one or the other Of
wh'c h,the influence ofeach citizen il like
~ 10 become united, ".he Wing Party"
Henry Clay at the lead in theory and N
practice, in power or out, have, as we be-
lleve, uniformly advocated tina, adjust
ment OF these questions which, it seems to
us, the permanent welfare II this nation
demands and which sooner or later, of
necessity will come to be adopted. We
therefore, entertaining such opinions.
conceive that duty to ourselves and to
our country's welfare bids US throw our
slender amount of influence into the
Wing ranks"-not because of the name
of Wing, or solely to promote the ambi-
lions views of any man, but solely be cause
what we understand to be their p,inci.
pies and policy upon these and other
minor questions, we conceive to be best
calculated to advance the welfare and
happiness, and restore the respectable
standing of the nation, and her righlrul in
s'''u'lons in the eyes of all the world.
10 express briefly our views in definite
language OF our own, what we conceive
TO be in accordance with the general po-
Icy of the Wing party, we reason thus
upon the subject of tariff. No nation
(any more than a single Individually ran
continue year after year to buy abroad a
large amount above the value of her es-
ports, and maintain, her credit and finan-
cial independence. Bonds and securities
may for while increase abroad, in post.
ponement, of the day of retribution, but
dislrust grows with their accumulation,
and over whelming embarrassment must
ultimately ensue to the nation las to the
Individually even whilst confidence abroad
is mistaken, the gradual demand of ex-
cessive importation, saps the basis of cred-
it, drains from the United States the gold
and silver emigranls have brought US, or
our scantv mines have yielded, ill we a,
length wake up PROSTATE and unclaimed.
The accumulated effects ofyear after year,
of excessive importation having not mere
ly drawn from the U. S. much of gold and
silver, leaving US but a scanty basis for
a currency, bu; created debts yet suspen-
ded ever US obscuring the rays of our
prosperity---in the hand of creditors rem.
dercd impcrlunato ir consequence of an