The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1844-08-21
From the Spectator
Law and order Parry.

Mr.. Clay, in his "great speech" at Raleigh, as
sumes for the whjg party pre-eminent devotion
to law and order. The Baltimore Republican
tests the correctness Of this pretension by
briefly recapi1ulating some facts on record. In
the Tippecanoe campaign they desocrated the
Lords day by violent party harangues; declaring
through Webster, there "were no Sabbaths in
Revolutionary times. They endeavored to or
ganize an armed body Of men to march to Wash
ngton to drive "OId Hickory' from the presiden-
tal chair, and some of them met in that city, at
Scou's long room, for that purpose. They tried
TO getup ten-cent revolution i'll New York and
Boston, because President Van Buren, would moi,
in defiance of law, receive for postage the notes
of non-specie paying banks. In Pennsylvania
they resolved to ''treat the election for governor
as if it had not occurred" and at the point of the
bayonet attempted trditorously to maintain Rlt'
ner in the executive chair, when Porter had re.
ccived large majority of the votes Of the people
In New Jersey, violating all legal authority, Gov
enor Pennington outrageously detied the voice
of the people in the election for Congressmen
and with usurpation and infamy unparalleled il
this country, gave to the minority candidates GER
tifcates of election, with the "broad sea'' of the
State attached thereto, to cover as broad fraud
as ever disgraced any nation.
At a dinner in Nashville, in August, lS40, du'
ring the convention, Mr.. Crihenden, the bosom
friend of Mr.. Clay, gave as toast: "The ballot
II box and the cartridge e-box." Mr.. Preston, oi
South Carolina, another devoted adherent OF MIR
Clay, during the same campaign said: "lf Mr.
Van Buren, cannot be displaced through the bal
lot-box in November next, |, for ono, am ready
to resort to such means as God and nature have
put within my reach to force change" This
reasonable declaration was received with shouts
of applause by the wings of Richmond, before
whom il was delivered. Mr.. Graves, who butch
cred Cilley, used the following language during
the same campaign: 'Ift were not for the hope
of redress, the hope of change through the bal
lotbox. would heie, so held me Cod upor
this holy altar take an oath this night to take uE
arms, and march with you TO Washington and pu
down the present dynasty by force"
John Bell, Mr.. Clay's prime minister in Ten
Inessee, exhibited his deep devotion TO law ant
order in the following sentiment: "The appea
lis now TO reason. ''No feelings but those of pat
riotism, love of justice, and equal rights, need b'
invoked as yet; though the day may come, whel
a sense of injury and oppression- indignation
IOl ulohohpOu oiiN N'N'
thrown, may call forth deeper passions and awake
, different energies. That time, hope, may no
, come; but if il SHOULD shall be ready TO do m
duty then as well as now"
, In addition to the sayings and doings of thes
lesser lights, reference might be made to som
striking passages in the career of the "Great En-
bodiment" himself, strangely at variance wit
his assumption for his party of being the pecu
liar friends of law and order, but, as these migt
d be considered rather personal, we forbear.