Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1852-03-10

rlStlcS which attract the eyes Oh al shS
world TO this new, this young, this grow
ing, powerful and most successful country
Where shall we find such another instance
OF. our age and our land as the life OF this
great statesman offers He whom we
saw a few short years ago in his shirt
sleeves at carpenters bench making so
fas and bedsteads. now charms with his
eloquence and impresses with his pro-
found sagacity the first deliberative body
in the world What splendid illustra-
ton is here of Republican institutions
every American who regards the great
fact must rejoice that this land Is the only
one upon the globe where thus much may
be attained by labor and an exalted Pur-
pose. Where else could this occur FL
What a guarantee is given to mankind
that merit will ever be rightly estimated
here when we shall see the great Democ.
racy lead this humble citizen to the high
est Office in the gift of freemen? Do
you not know that the heart of this peo-
pie will thrill when by the power OF It's
sovereign choice it shall take man from
the carpenters bench and render him
the equal of kings-aye, apotentate more
powerful than king? Will not every
man who hopes and tolls feel the cause
his own Which shall be represented so?
Should this great and good man be-
come the choice of the Democratic party,
the people of the United States will de-
mand his election as landmark in their
history,-eYer hereafter to be shown
as proving in practice that they carry out
their professions of political equality and
of free access to the Office by the most
meritorious.
The cultivators of the soil are termed
the bone and sincw of the country; but
when this is done, the artizan and the
ploughman are COMPOUNDED in the general
phrase. Were the distinction drawn
when such expressions are used, it might
well be questioned whether the agricul
turst's exclusive claim to that distinction
could be sustained if contested by the
mechanic. But Agriculture is the col
league, not the rival, Of Mechanic Art
And as the Plough represents the one, let
the Jack plane stand for the other and for
| it's multitudinous followers. IL is the
great element of our country's wealth.
1t builds oAr towns and villages, and it
| lights their streets-it links them together
by the rail, it covers the oceans with our
shipping, it prepares our food and delights
our eyes. Whatever there may be of
personal comfort, all that there may be
of intellectual food and refinement is due
to the Jack-plane and the Art it repre-
sents.
1t plays with the lightning and makes
it administer to our wishes it evolves
from drop of water power which ami
hilates time and draws the uttermost ends
of the earth together. What does it not
do? The shoes on your feet, the hat on
your head, the clothes upon your limbs,
are the work of the Jack-plane--the gift
of Mechanic Art. If you ride it must
accompany you, and if you lie down you
must ask its help. Its benefits are not
numbered, it is of universal necessity, it
is present everywhere, it does only good
continually, and its sole demand is work,
work, work.
This instrument is to figure in the CO.
it nor sorry for it. On that canvass de-
ponds the future prosperity of this coun-
try, That prosperity is mainly owing
to the Jack-plane, and by it the cOuntry's
future veal shall be we'll secured. To
the Sword we will oppose the Jack
plane. Give us the Jack-plane against
the Drum and the Fife and the rum-a-
dum-dum Of the one, and the shrill
piercing notes of the other, are silenced
forever.
One of the first principles of moral, re-
ligious and political warfare, is this that
it is lawful to fight the devil with FIRE; and
since the embodiment of Whiggery shall
be the Drum and Fife, and the desolating
Sword, we shall propose the first states
man of the day, a man well worthy the
highest Office in our gift, who is also able
to drive the Jack-plane. Upon our ban
ner we will fly the Jack-plane-it shall
be the emblem of our cause, and the har-
dy sons of toll shall leave their workshops
and their forges, and leave the labors of
useful and active life to gather around
that standard and to bear it on to victory.
They will swarm in the cities, they will
pour from the manufactures, they will
come up from the mines of the earth, and
claim their share in the battle for practi-
cal Democracy.
Then let Wing orators in vehement
discourses, talk about Scott and his battle
fields, and pour forth torrents of blood
and thunder, and cripple the eagle, and
kill the lion, and pierce the American flag
with thousands of balls, and smear it with
gore still from the busy haunts of in
dustry, unchecked and undismayed by
these visions of fancy, will there come up
daily evidences that the great Wing prin-
ciple ofDrum and Fife is defeated-made
.naught, and rendered less useful than the
wind which fills the hollow cavities of
decaying gourd. The hammer while it
rings upon the anvil, will in every blow
resound for Douglas and the busy shut
tie, as it fits across its track, will imprint
his name in the fabric which it weaves.-