The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1846-11-12
MIR. CLAY.

A correspondent of the Philadelphia
North American, who recently visited
Ashland, thus speaks OF Mr.. Clay:
"Mr. Clay still looks forward with deep
anxiety TO the triumph of wing principles, and
views with infinite regret the destructive pol
icy of the present administration, as it affects
the industry and interests Of the nation.
His conversation on public affairs was mark
ed by spirit of calm and dispassionale judg-
ment. minute acquaintance with all The po,
litical movements, and the absence Of every
thing like partzan bitterness. He does not
hesitate 10 avow, that taking the aggregate OF
Measures, passed at the LAST session of Con-
gress, it was the most disastrous that ever
assembled since the adoption of the const
tuition.
81 was happy TO find his views upon the
Tariff question conceded with the great mass
of the wing party. and his advices in this re-
spect deserve to be inscribed upon every
protective banner in the Union Speaking
of his constant and unremiting efforts TO
protect The labor Of the country, of The eff
fects produced by the why Tariff Of 1912,
and the practical results 10 follow from the
bill of 1916, when it came TO be fairly test
ed, though our opponents were endeavoriDg
to deude the agricultural interests by repre-
senling that the temporary advance in bread
stufs was produced by the influence of this
measure, when it was notorious. the failure
of the potato crops in Dngland and Ireland
had been the operating cause, he said: 'Let
the question be betreen the Whig Tariff of
1912 and the democratic Tariff Of 1886
One is positive good athich they hare
| felt--the other aciu as surely prone q posi-
the eUiI, rhicb they haze get to realise.
Let your cry be REsToRATIoN;' and so in
Gods name say |, and so hope will every
whig, from Maine to Texas, until our stand
ard is once more unfurled in victory from
the East portico of the Capitol.
s.We want no modhcations-no cOmprO-
mises-no half acay schemes. The true and
fair policy of Protection is 10 assist the an
fant manufactures that are now struggling
for exstance as they were when the firsI
act OF Congress was passed. We know that
old established institutions with large capital,
immense resources and the ability 10 apply
every improvement in machinery, can, on a
particular class Of articles, submit 10 slight
reduction, which, if applied 10 other branch
es of industry, would not only overwhelm
them in ruin. but lend TO fix monopoly in
the hands of wealth. Let US therefore have
no notifications.
''Let us have fixed and tangible idea,
such as the comprehension OF the working
man can grasp-such as he will understand
bv the difference in the price of his daily
labor under the two systems. That is 10 be
found in our wing Tariff, which the locofoco
Administration that Pennsylvania put into
power has uprooled. Let our cry then be
restoratioa-r restoration.
"Mr. Clay entertains full confidence, if
our whig brethren will unite zeaIously and
tremendously upon the fundamental prlnci-
pies of the party, and not separate upon the
local issues which designing men endeavor
to cngralt upon every canvass, or court fac
tious isms which in themselves are unimpor-
tant and often injurious, deserving neither
respect nor countenance, the day of certain
success is not far distant"