The State guard., 1847-07-27

votes Of those people for Congress- Let the Southern patrol' now dare de> ny that Capt. Dauis is gioen 10 change Let tht people of Alabama remember those changes on tie first Monday in August next.
 CAPT. NICHOLAS DvAls' LETTER
 Manners with fortunts, humors turns with
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 Tenets with books & principles aUith Hines.
 The su5joined letter of he Whg Flee. tor for lhe Slaie at large, Capi. N. Da, wis, appeared in ife Democrat of the 29th May, '29-when he and Gov. Clay were competitors for seat in Congress. The letter was read by the latter during his reply to the formers speech in A'h ems, al the last Circuit Court. His friends must urderiake his defence against Ihe charge q ncon sstsncy, or of inexplcablly; for surely his views of men and measures hen and nou are widely different and irreconcliab Be il rsmembe' 'ed, that lh,s letter was educ ed by his old ftiend CA0tham, who dtnied that the Capt. was unfriendly 10 Gen. Jackson's Administration, or friendly to H. Clay or his measures, or aDcu'd ad oocate his election he,eatter to the Pres adency or was friend to the Tariff and declared he (C.) would oppose him If these charges against him were tr"e. The Capt replied promptly, and, 10 prove his words by acts, referred 10 cer, lain resolutions introduced into the Sen. ate, by Matthew Clay, of Lawrence, of '29, of whom, although distant relative of one ot the editors of this paper) as he is now dead, it may be freely, as well as truly said, never was there bolder or better Democrat. Would that he were now living, for the sake of Law, renee county. Mark ,he points of the letter and the resolutions. Observe Capt D's position nov. Look on that picture and on ihis,-and you will look m vain for the likeness. The complex. ion, the expression, the features are wholly dissimiar. They are not twins, lorsoolh or second cousins. His polt. cal opinions of that date and the present are as antagonisuc as the French and English, as anli2odal as north and south poles. Look at his letter and he resolutions for which he voted, and le there assumes the character of Jef- fersonian Democrat; look at him no ", m the livery of Henry Clay, Hamll,o, aian Federalst. Never was there 3realer metamorphoss. Capt Davis object then was to prove,
 l That he was friandly 10 Gen Jack- son, for whom he had voted in '2S tBy he way, we have heard he voted for him acath iears in lis eyes) Noo, he is opposed to him and hIs principles.
 ? That although once a supporter of Il Clay, he had forsaken him, as dld other republicans, after Clay desertion of John @ Adams, and did not desire or contemplate contributing 10 his eleva- ion. He is now for Henry Clay against the world.
 8 He advocated the relief of purcha sers under the old credit system, who had forfeited their lands and pre-emptiop rgEts 10 settlers on public lands, and wished to go 10 Congress for the pur> pose of securing those interests. Now, he goes for Henry Clay, who has been the bitter opponent of the measures and he implacable enemy of such settlers, denouncing them as iawless trespassers and intruders, no better than those who would seize on the public treasure, upon our vessels of war or our forts and ar> senals!!
 4 He was then opposed to the Amer. ican System,' because its effects were to take money out of the pockets of one class of our c;tizens and put it in those of another. He doubted the constitu- uonality of the tarff, yea. declared by his vote for the 3t Resolution below, and by reference in his letter 10 ii, that the imposition Of taxes and duties by Congress for the purpose of protecting and encouraging domestic manufactures, Is an unconstitutional exercise of pow CTS, and is highly oppressive and partial in its opeSalions1 Now, he goes for the father of the American System, inc great champion of an unconstitutional tariff, Henry Clay, as the embodiment of Wbis (his) principles
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