Columbus Whig. (Columbus, Miss.) 1843-18??, 1844-05-30

An address Of Ffelinghugsen. The great
| Wing meeting at National Hall on Monday
| evening, as we mentioned yesterday, on their
adjournment, marched in proce ssion to the re-
sidence of Theodore Frelnghuysen, the Wing
candidate for Vice President ON the til ct
with Henry Clay. They took him complete
lv by surprise. but were heartily welcomed.
Mr.. Frelnghuysen appeared before them, and
was greeted with the most tumutuous and
cordial cheering. He made brief, but elo>
quent speec',, defining Sc principles of the
| great Wing party, % aiming his unbendmg
adherence to them ,and eaking in the highest
terms of the great Wing champion with whom
he was associated on the national ticket. We
| find his speech reported in the Express, and
copy it entire. It is eminentIy worthy of the
cause and of the man.
My Fellow Citizens, thank you for your
| enthusiastic appropriation of the nomination
| lately made by the Wings ofthe United States
assembled in Convention al Baltimore. To
| be selected by such body of distinguished pa
triots, is.an honorlI most deeply and sensibly
| feel, anu the more deeply and sensbiy, that it
| is SO cheerfuDy ratified by my friends and
neighbours in New York. can only say,
| that such mark of kIndne IS: will strengthen
nv ATTACHING mt to Wing principles, ii srcl
Strengthening were necessary, and that it is
certainly calculated to make me strive to the
best of my abilities, if am ever put IN
| situation to Garry out your principles, so to act
| as to merit this kindness, and TO justify the
confidence you have conferred upon me-
| [Cheers.
| Gentlemen, the great principles of the
| Wing Party, for which you have SO long and
| SO nobly struggled amid periods of the gre t.
| est gloom, and moi outstanding the most cruel
disappointment, are my principles. (Cheers,
three times given, and three time repeated,
with cries. 1--WE know that" 1--WE made the
nomination for that.'0 | have long cherished
| these principles. l shall maintain hem here
after, as have maintained them heretofore.
(Cheers.) They are, asl understand them,-
| A sound National Currency.
A Just Limitation of Executive power
A Tariff for revenue, discriminating for the
purpose of incidental protection to American
industry: Loud Cheering.]
| An equal and fair distribution of the proceeds
of the Public Lands among the several States
| of the Union.
| These, as understand them continued Mr.
Frelinohuysen, are the cardinal. although not
all the principles of the Wing Party; and af-
Tier what have already said, l need hardly
add that they will find me humble but will
ling advocate in whatever position may be
placed. (Cheers.]
We need an Executive Administration of
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] will fairly and faithfully carry out the principles
of the Constitution, exercising Its full. powers,
where powers are given it, and keeping strict
| w within It's limitations, where powers are
limited, conCcedug when there ought to be
concession, but firm when concession would
result in inlury-lberally maintaining its COM
promises, but as independently carrying out
| its positive commands-and yet vino will take
| no other responsible ties upon himself but what
he finds there. is matter, as it seeras to
me, cfthankfulness, in distinguished citizen
of Kentucky all these principles are embodied,
| and that he is not only pledged to them by a
long public life, but that such is the truthfulness
and fidelity of his nature, that The people can
| well trust him with power to carry them out.
| [Great cheering,]
| Gentlemen, the political life of Henry Clay
for thirty years past has been only An illustra
ton of Wing principles, and the history Of his
| life for twenty years would be the history of
his country. Whenever there was n struggle
| for the protection of American labor against
| foreign industry, where but on the side of his
country was Henry Clay! Whenever there
i was struggle to limit the alarming and over
grown magnitude of Executive powers,wher
| hut on the side Of the people was Henry Clay!
| Or when the vast public domain was in jeopar-
DIV from being differed for sale in the political
market, where bucon he side Of faith, of hon.
/ or of Justice to all, was our illusrIous champ
ion and friends! Great cheering.l In all of
these great questions, his voice has been heard
from the first. In all ofthe combats concern
inc them he has led the van. (Cheers.) He
has never compromised the dignity Of his pos
Iition TO gain vote, on the momentary breath
j of popular favor, but with an eye ever steadily
fixed upon an approving public, he has fear
/ lessy discharged what he has deemed to be
his duty Cheers.] don't believe purer
patriot breathes on the whole continent OF
America-(c heers)-a I'd for proof l point to
1 long public life, passed in stirring scenes,
which has never conficted with probllIty or
honor-a life unsuIlied by meaness, or grovel-
inp appeal to improper ambItIon-in all OF
which his principles have been put forth with
I ardcr and as clear as hghi, whilst every
pulse beating within him, has been for the well
, fare and the true glory of his country. Ifsueh
a man does deserve the name of patriot, do
not know VITO does deserve the name, or who
, can. (Cheers) They say he is ambitious!
, dare saw he is. Be it so then. Buipolnt me to
, the time. when he has not sacrificed ambitioF
{ and hi.nselfyif what he deemed his duty called
al happened to know that on that greatsquestlor
the public lands, the question was thrust upoI
> him by an adverse Senate, to make him UT
: popular in the West. He entered upon 1t witt
a zeal characteristic of himself, and gave il thu
j whole power of his mind. He never though
{ of what W as to become of himself. AS a Yves
4 tern man, he bad tempting field for poltiea
4 !! traffic in the whole public domain. He nigh
have used it for the purpose of ambition. II
j might have held it out as attempting bait &c
!. the whole West. But his heart was as larg
4 as his country { heers.) He studied the titl
; out of bis pubic domain. He knew where
! came from, and justice told where it belonged
d Fearless, then, as his nature, be flung out h
= banner, redistribution of the proceeds anon
# the States and he nailed it to the mas
), E(Great cheering and cries of "that is good
/. have said OF Mr.: Clay, continued Dir. FRI
n linghuysen, that his heart was as large as b
=. country. A signal instance of was his cand1
:, on the Tariffin in the arduous session ofI64
q. Perhaps no man living could more tender
in cherish conception of bis own brain. or !
IS offspring of his own creation than he who h
= been caileds the Father Of the American sy
+, Item. The principles ofpEOtectipn to Anne
N lean industry embodied in the Tariff law, D
= CLAY has cherished as he has his life. b
y; -, in TG91.Q an fllaftlraI excitement was