Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1845-05-09

It6OiuLlOiio tx pIeFSIUB tleIG Sti-t OF Luc
faithful services OF the hon. Willis Green,
who remained at Washington after the ad-
journment of Congress last summer 70 di-
rect the dissemination Of tracts, papers and
documents throughout the campaign. The
following is the reply of this faithful whg
sentinel to the communication OF the COM
mittee.
WASHINGTON, March IA, l845.
SIR: have the honor to acknowledge the
receipt Of two resolutions adopted by the |
committee over which you preside, one ex-
pressing their thanks for my "zeai in the
wing cause, and for my arduous jabors at
Washington in the recent campaign" The !
other requesting me to be the beorero Of the
address of the committee to Henry Clay.
| pray you to accept, and to convey to
the committee my sincere acknowledge |
ments for this fattering expression Of their
appreciation Of my humble labors in the
cause which they advocated with so much
ardor and zeal with view to promote the
great and permanent interests Of the coun-
try by establishing the ascendency of whig
principles, and by placing the Government
in the hands Of that distinguished states
man and patriot in whose public life they
are embodied.
| That our labors failed to effect the great
object we had in view, cannot strike us
with surprise when we look back upon that
campaign, and consider the means resort
ed 70 by our opponents to accomplish their
purpose. Whilst we presented cur princi-
pies fairly and honestly to the sChoie Ameri-
can people in pamphlets and publications
intended for and circulated freely in every
section Of the Union, east, west north and
south, they represented their candidate in
one part Of the country as holding opinions
in accordance with those Of the people in
that section, and in other parts as holding
Opinions directly opposite, In the tariff
States it was boldly and audacously asser-
ted by his advocates and the organs of the
party that Mr.. Polk was better protective
tariff man than Mr.. Cay while in the an
ti-tarih States he was represented to the
people as the tried and unwavering friend
Of free trade,
That men having the least pretension to
responsibility, veracty, or honor, should be
tempted to resort 10 means so unfair, dis
I honest and paltry to deceive the people and
secure the triumph Of their party, is indeed
cause Of deep humiliation and regret; bu
/, unworthy and disreputable as they were
! they are bright spots in the canvas wher
compared with the unrelentiDg, savage anc
ierocious war waged upon Mr., CIay's pr
vate character, and the systematic misrep
resentations of his public opinions and acts
The history of political conflicts furnishes
no parable 10 the calumnies and tabricatons
invented and put forth against that emf.
nent citizen for the purpose Of blackening
. his good name in the eyes of the American
: people, and Of deprivlng him Of that fame
which he has won by 1, life OF devoted ser
vice to his country. | envy not the maj
i who can now, in q moment Of calm reheC
ton, look back and hot blush with shame
and feel the stings Of renorse when he re
fleets that he gave currency to calumnie;
a so foul agaInstone whose whole career from
g youth to old age, should cause every Amer
ican heart to beat with pride and eXuItation
and exclaim, This is my countryman o
whom have right TO he proud, and claim
as the common property of the nation"
But Notwithstanding all the articles re
sorted to to depreciate Mr.. Clay public ser
vices, and the base attempts TO blast his pri
! vate character, we may congratulate our
e selves that our abors and those of the no
bic wings in every part Of the country wer,
d not unavailing in resCuing the public anC
private character Of our great leader from
a the tangs of those who medtated his des
:, truction. As an evidence of the estimation
y in which the American people held him, WI
may point to the fact that he received thr
highest vote ever given to any candidate
for the MISUNDERSTANDING that Of gen
era Harrison (whose majority over Mr.. Var
Buren, was one hundred and forty five thou
sandy about forty thousand votes-recev
ing larger vote in all the States than am
local whig candidate, and in Pennsylvania
and some olherStat beating the successful
candidates OF the opposing party.
These circumstances, together with !ht
well known frauds committed upon the bal
lot-box, and the permitting of unnaturaII
zed or illegally naturalzed foreigners tC
vote, leave no doubt upon minds unpreju
diced and uncontrolled by party feeling,
: that Mr.. Clay received majority Of the lie.
gal votes of the United States for Presi.
dent. But though he was defeated-thus
defeated where is the true hearted whig
who does not point TO him as one upon
whom office can confer no additional hon.
or, or render more illustriousl His defeat
cannot erase from the historic page the re-
cord of his eminent and faithful services,
his unceasing devotion to his country's best
} interests through period Of nearly forty
years of public life, his self.sacrfces for
her good, and his successful interpositions
on several critical occasions to rescue her
from imminent peril. Nor can it impair
the love which the American people bear
him. True, he wields not the sceptre Of
power, but he sits enthroned in the hearts
of his grateful countrymen.
Though defeated, | trust the wings of the
United States are not disheartened. They
, have their principles to maintain, and soon.