it AWecUy; Familr Newspaper Jwted ti RtlisioMwalitj, pitfes. Science, Ajrlenjtate and Ceiieral Intelliwe. ; VOl: HINUMBER Published weekly 7BYT TIirCHRISTV & -CO.H Emmas. J -; I aix monlli f, i nreo . I year. (S propeclo.) ! Jimiilj inacrted'at One Dollar per aqnar or tbe firat, and Tnty.FW Cent, for each calinuance. Court Order. will be.charfiisd twenty-fi P en'- sxlr. ' . ' , frlday. March IT. IS 13. mTAh i(M 'r um0 aim W his brethren and W ii Merf aits H 17 IX" htfim. and they bemoaned him and -Uri.A kirn oner all the evil that I he Lord had brought upon him: every man also gave kirn m pint fvaoney snd every one on r-ting of gold." Reader, you will find these words in iho lltb versepf the 43 J chapter of the Book of Job, and as you were probably hindered frani going to ehurch last Sabbath, we will call your attention W thera by a few re. marks. ' . . . " ' We shall not trouble you with apologies in our introduction, nor hem and haw and consume half an hour in complaining of our weakness and ignorance, and piling, what we will aay and what we will ot say, nor yet shall we be so particular as to divide " our subject" into first, second, third ana fourth divisions, and then 44 conclude the whole as we-shall have light and liberty," but stlempt to leach you a moral lesson from this scrap in the history of good old Jyb..- It commences by informing us that .V then came there unto him . all his brethren and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before," &C Then they came. When? Was it when "the news of his great losses and sore 'afflictions first reached Ihemth'c time that he moat need ed their assistance and sympathies T No, verily. It was not until his captivity had been turned, and the Lord had given him twice as much as he had teforc" ! In his poverty and affliction, they were very clear of going to him and bestowing their pre. scstV. Porlxpa lliey thought it would not be "respectable" to bo seen at tin house and administering to the wants of a poor man, or forsooth, tbey might have fuared being called on to pay some of Job's debts now that ho was " broke up," or thut he would want to borrow money. How much is this like the world was, and is, and is likely to bo! Let "the news but go abroad that a maa has failedia broken op and let him appear in a well-worn coat and hat, with coarse shoes and hardened hands, and though ho may then be an honester and every way a belter and worthier man than ho was before, his brothers and sisters (if they happen to have more money than brains) scarce know hirrj.nt all, and those who " hadbfeBoLhk,acoiiaint3ncebrc tako particular pains not to meet him in tho btrw-t or speak to him in co npany, lest they shoultf lower their dignity by associating witli noonle who were not considered re 11 spectable. But let tho same man but regain his fortune, and these are tho first whose ympathresovcrfiow in his behalf the first to offer him" their condolence to eat bread at his hou; to comfort him over the evil which had befallen him, and to give or lend him money or jewels ! Yes, it is tho way cf the world to make presents to those who need them least to lend to the rich and comfort a man when his distresses are fast and prosperity returned. Where is the use of such attentions then ? you in quire. Aye, that is what we should like to know ourselves; but we have studied the ways of the world for a -quarter of a centu-. if past, and are 4J ignorant of the where fore of this matter to-day J9 'w?ro a first but,, we suppose inasmuch as it is fashionable, in all refined society, we. must allow it to pass without further inresttga tion. If those who practise it cannot plead justice, consistency or propriety, they can certainly plead precedent of a very ancient date Job's brethren and sisters and old acquaintances, did it, and so may they ! Who indeed among the refined classes can be expected to pay any attention to a poor man T Ho may be what an English poet call the noblest work of God " an honest mao'" ho may be a Christian, with an earnest of a heavenly inheritance in his heart he may bear the moral image of his Divine Redeemerbe blameless in his conl duct and conversatioc-.hire great moral influence, and be of much real worth to those. around him but what does this avail him in the estimation of the refined while he is poor T No more than did the riches nd preferment of Haman while he saw ' i -..-- '- - : - . . 34 Mordecal the JeW $4t'mg at the king's gate I and refusing tobow;down when he passed:,. But on the other ha nd i if he be nch-.though as stupid as any animal tUt ever wore a pair of long cars," or' hSs'wiltti "acquired by means that might darkejlthe brow and put to shamo even Lucife hlmselfne will liave friends to "eat bread In his house," to condole hfm for losses from which he has rtake liuemiofTers of services n oueded, and bcstovl presents td hopb of something in return, y i; Job's friends were aalduous in their at tentions after they founHa lad " twice as much ns 1crore." . Aid no let us say one word to those who by" their fellow! worms aro deemed rich : Listerand mark it well Tbo attentions which ae shown you arkl jour sons and daughters arc owing ofleo. times more to the fuci that you are cohsid. e'red weahliy than because of yourselves. Scores of thoso tvho,nov Soitiplimcnt your judgment, taste or bcarity who flaUer and "play tho. sycophant around ybuj in reality think you 9tupid,"vulgnr and'tigly, as pec haps you are ; and were 'you poof, ' they would not notice you fn the streets. Job hnd three' friends who came to him' in his afTliction, and ' by their bitter tears proved how keenly they felt for his condition. And now, reader, rcmember.'whilc in pros, pcrhy it is almost impdssiblo to tell who U reaHy and truly rMT fricD1 but uht advershr ihrows her dark and forbidding clouds around you, and then watch who speaks kindly mark who it is that weeps with you, aud if they have nothing elso to give, freely bestow their soothing' words and affectionate tears, and remember them ...they arc friends indeed friends worth having such as will not soon forsake you. lib who gives you a tear when ho has no. thing else, gives you alt he can, aud were it in his power ho would give you much. Reader with a most hearty wish that you jnav never want for a true fiicnd, we con chide our sermon. So moto tt be. '.OCT The doctrine that the preseiit pres. sure in the monetary affairs of ourcoynjry was primarily caused by tho distribiuion of thirty-seven millioiis of dollars among the States respectively, is now preached by a portion of tho D-imocratio papers of thu country! Thai is, the present hard times w ere caused by bo much good money in the Treasuries of the States 1 Well, what next, gentlemen ! FEARFrt 1SD FATAL EPIDEMIC. There is at this time, and has been for some months rust, a most fearful eplJomic raging.in some parts of Missouri, called there " tho black tongue' from the net that the disease is mostly characterised by swelling and blackness of the tongue, w hich usually proves fatal in a few hours. Some times, however, the infl;imation seats itself iu the joints, tie ancles, knee, or hips the side of tho head or face, and sometimes in one eyo, which swells, turns red, and a few hours before death, like the tongue turns black. A gentleman writing from Point Pleasant, Now Madrid co., under date of Feb. 4l'i. to the editor of the St. Louis Repubhcin, says that the epidemic hud then been n that neighborhood four weeks and was spreading fearfully. In eight miles roind him sixty-nine persons had died in that four weeks, and the disease increasfng! A large portion of tho victims in that neighborhood, were persons in the prime of life! Tho writer adds, that "no thing can surpass tho gloom and affliction" with which the country was overspread. The disease seemed to baffle the skid of the ablest physicians of that country.r-, In hearing and reflecting upon uch af. flictivc occurrences aslheserwe are natu- ratty ledlo oslt ourselves, why 4sit so What Is the caused From whenee . does"jt "4risol And in seeking for an answer we too often co everv way but the nsrhT one. Thai 0 w such epidemics are aggravated by local causes, we hare no sort of doubt but that they arc usually produced this way we do not believe, the jeers and scoffs of fools and infidels to the contrary notwithstanding. We believe that such are usually moat aw fu! visitations from the hand of an All" Wise God, for wise and holy purposes, known only to himself, and that it becomes men, every Where, to ponder well such , things, and solemnly remember that be has com manded men every where to repent, be cause he hath appointed a day in the which he will judge -the world in righteousness." 0 We are authorized to announce T. i L. Clingman, Esq", as a candidate to re. nresent this District in the next Comzress. ASHE VILLE, N. C; LIFE OF HENRY CLAY. . (CONCLUDED. ' Another subject deeply agitated- iho pub lic mind .i this, tinw,' and was acted on at the samo session by Congress L lhi was iho recbarter of tho United States Bank. GenJ Jackson bad brouuhlthe aubiecV to the view of ihe natlonnj titislature and thus to the rjRtion itsell, in ins tirst annual mes. sage in. December, 1829V"subsecjUeily ih 1830; and agilih in 183K- ;-li3USt MeLnne, the Secretary of tho:TreasuTy;rec'emrniDBd. ed il. rechartQr .of iho, bank, ttqd atoted his reasons at large at tlie commencement of tho ses'sion of 1831-32. Mr.1 Dallus, then a member of thb Scnalo, brought for- ward the, bill to recbarter the bank,nd k was passtrbTT dcetded-fnajdrilies in both House of tionRress: u was, now. ever, vetoed by Gen.. lacksoi:, for a variety of reasons unsigned by him in his memora ble veto message. On this message Mr. Clay addressed the Senate, and commented with freedom, but with dignity ana lorce, npon the novel doctrines advanced by the President, and especially upon tnai wnicu declares every public ofneer who.takes an oath to support the Constitution, is at liberty to simnort it as as understands it; and that the l'reaideot.-m. tbk,respect, ia indeperi dent of tho Supreme Court, the tribunal established for the purpose of deciding uoon. and settlinc constitutional questions : a doctrine fraught,' as ho declared, with universal nullification, destructive of all subordination, authority and fixednci ad subversive of governmoni." " In this speech bo looked forward with the eve of a saeacioua statesman, and s'pokc the words of apropliet flo said, speaking of eertaio continizenctes, 44 Depression in 1J10 value of all. property. Bheriff'a sales and sacrifices bankruptcy roust necessa rily ensue ; and", with them, relief laws, paper-money, a prostration of the courts of iustice. evils from which we liave just cmerred. must again, with aH their tra'mof "afflictions, revisit our country, Have not these evils followed jn tlie train, of those measures which began the work of destruc tion by crushing the great balance-wheel of the currency f Already wo hava-4 4 depres sion in the valuo of all property." sheriffs sales, sue ri ficesrtankruptcics, nd 11 f e- lief laws! At the same session of Congress Mr, Clay first brought forward his great mca. sure of distributing the proceeds of the sales of the public lands apiongluc btales which has since found so much favour with tho people. of the United States, and be come a cardinal principle of tlie Whig parly, and ono of vital importance to tho country. ... Mr. Clay had been placed on the committee, of manufactures : to tnis com mitteo the subject of the Public Lands was referred by the Senate, a majority of whom were his political opponents, notwithstand ing there was a standing committee on tho public lands, appointed under long csta. Wished rules! 1 for what purpose a subject so incongruous is the public lands to those expected to occupy the minds of this com mittee, was referred to it, it is impossible to Conjecture, unless it was intended there by to embarrass. Mr. Clay, and.involve.lum in difficulty with ono portion ot the coun try, or another. Tlie reference of this subject to that committee was tho more ex traordinary, inasmuch, as there was not a single member from the new Stales upon it, and but one, Mr. Clay, from tlie west ern States. Ia noticing this novel prbce. duro in his speech, made upon the occasion of bis bringing forward his bill fo distribute, for a limited time, the proceeds of the public domain, he remarks: 41 We had earnestly protested against the reference, and insisted upon its impropri ety; butJwe were overruled by the majo rity, including a majority of Senators from the new Nates. I will not attempt an ex pression of tho feelings excited in my mind on that occasion. '. Whatever may have been the intentions of honourable Senators, I could not bo insensible to the embarrass ment iu whirl) the committee of maoufuc lures, was placed, and especially myself. Although any other members of that com mittee would have rendered himself, with appropriate researches and proper time, more competent than I was to understand the subject of the public lands, it was known that, from my local position, I alone was supposed to liavo any particular knowledge of them. Whatever emanated from that oommittC3-was-likelyr tUercforeJoieas. cribed to-mo, If llwi rnmmitteo8hould propose a measure. of. great liberality to. ward the new States, the old States might complain, ft the measure ahauldjecm To lean towards the old States, the new might be dissatisfied. And, if it inclined to net iher class of Slates, but recommended a plan according to which there would be dis tributed impartial justice among all the States, it was far from certain that any would bo pleased." ' But the subject being thus thrown upon him by those who sought to involve him in difficulty, be brought to it all the powers of his understanding, and, after a thorough investigation, matured the plan and bill, which be reported to the Senate. The at tempt made by a majority of the Senate, composed of his political enemies, to em barrass him, now recoiled upon their own heads. But if the reference, in the first instance, of this subject to the committee on manufactures was unprecedented, the disposition made of Mr Clay's able report from that committee was still more; so. This was hardly read ia the Senate be. fore it was violently denounced, and with- MARCH 17, 1843. out Winff considcred by the Senate, wa referred to committee on fuDiic juanas tho very committee to whcq Mr..vay had, in the Gist place, insisted the. subject ought to be referred, j Alter some days this conirftit.too made a report and recommend, ed reduction of tlie prico of tho public lands iopmed.ately to one Hollar per acre, and $ventuuliy to fifty cents per acre and the irrant to the new States of wlecn per cenW on thu pel proceeds of thfi snksj io-; atead of ten per tent,, as. proposeu oy uie committee of rxanufuctures, and nothing to the old Slates. . . ; : . At the' lime Mr. Clay brought forward his proposition to distribute tho proceeds of the public lands among all the States, after giving tho new States ten per cent.v various proposntBDS suy ciuiuis m return iu mv u had Ven made pf'a very exlraordinary character, which Mr. Clay took occasion to notice. Iho first was that of Mr. lien. tun, t cede, tho 4' refuso. lands" to the SliitesSn which they lay., 44 Refuse lands, refue lands," 4 refuse lands", was tus tune.il The next was that of the Governor of Illiiois, who asserted the absolute right of that State to all tho public lands lying within her limits.-. Alien came the propo sition ftom thfk Sertrf yirgliMr, Taiewel! j to'-cedo and surrender, to tlie States in which they lay all tho lands be. longing to th United iDiaics, upon cenain indefinitb coittk-ns. , . Ho thus exposed the attempts that had boan made, tnd were making, to rob the old Stales ortheir interest in tho public domain, and, he came forward with a mca sure that muted out justico to all, to the east, and to the west; to the north and to the south : lo the o'd btates, and to tho new. Speaking of the right of tlw wliolo to the oublic lands, ho said ; ."The rght of tho Union to the public lands is intontestablu. It ought not to be considered debtitable.. Jt never was ques tioned but by a lew1, whoso monstrous here sy, it was Probably supposed, would escape animadversion from the enormity . pf trie absurdity, and ihe utter iinpracticabilily of tho succcis ot tne claim. 1 no rigiu 01 ine whole is tealcd by the blood ol the llevolu tion,foudod ujon solemn deeds of cession from sow-reign Slates, deliberately execut ed iiMho facttofJteworkl, or restingupou national treaties conclued with foreign pow ers, or ample equivalents contribuled liom the treasury of me people ot the United States." ... Fortunately for the country, from .that time he has Aiken a deep and lively iuterest in this great and important subject. The Secretary of tho Treasury," even had, in his annu;!, report to Congress, recommend ed tlie ctiing of the lands fo too States in whoso links they lay; and wo have seen that oih-s advocated tho same measure Mr. Clay looked upon this as an unjust djs pop-il ef ;homr being a fraud upon, tho old States. Mor was this all 1 the proposition thus to depose of tho public domain, could Dot but La considered as public bids for the political uipport of the west and souli-wesU Undeubudly he might have come into the niarl&t too, and purchased popularity of ouo norUin ot the country bysurrendorinz up to it tho public landd, and of another poj-tjju by. the advocacy of a protective TuriT a measure with which ha was, and evef has boen, peculiarly idealifitd. But Mr. Clay never yet inquired what measure was popular, but wlwt was rigid ojpclaring on ix memorable occasion, when toldvthata certain; course might injure his popukriiy iliii he. would rather be rwht than Ihe Presdentof the United States, high as thai, statin) was. II'! viewed r and still views, the tublhi lands as an inheritance of incsli- mabb vdue, os an ..almost exhaustlcss treawrc. nnd one that ouijlu not to be squandered or given away. Its proposition to distribjtu tho proceeds of tie pjblic lands was no sooner reported to tie i-nate, and made known to tire country than it became triumphant, Tlie bill pasted ihe Senate nt that session, but was noi acted on in thcHouse: it wus cainini favour with tho country, howevor and so great was its popularity, that it passed it tho next session hy very large majorats, in bjth branches of Congress. It was then sent to tlie President, General Jackson, for his signature; but. insteatf of signing it, or reluming it with his reasons for wiihholdiog. his signature, w pocketed it! liud it been returned, there caunut be a doubt but it would have become a law, by. the vote' of two-thirds of both Houses; and of tliihe waiTutlyaware, It was a measure suggested by, one who shared no part fn theTresidenlV counsels or affcctionsxrfjpLjlthough he had himsttlf, in his annual message, rccommehtfed a similar measure, he did not hesitate to change bis ground - -hi order to thwart the vicwiof its author. rersonai hostility in. duced him to resort to tho novel mode of killing Iho bill by smothering it in his pock. ell Before another session of Congress commenced, the command went forth the measure was dcnounced--tha faithful were required to surrender their own opinions, and sustain their chief, and lol it was done! From that day forth to the present, those w bo claim to belong to the democruiie sheep- fold have been required to eschew the dis tribution of the proceeds of the pdolic lands among the people of the States, its rightful owner;, as a "jeaerai measure, is 11 possible for a nation to have the benefit of benien measures, when those which are calculated to promote Ihe general good are defeated through mere personal pique or prejudice towards thd individual with whom they originate, and because their adoption would so leaf to the chaplct that adorns nu onw 1 w wise peupn.wiH um. iHu..c wAoricinated c measure, but whether the measure itself -js likely to prove beneficial or otherwise And that nation has parted with bet own dignity and self-respect , which Llhf adopts or rejftctseoufso of.policy simply because it originated winronc inan, or. was opposed by another. . ; .. ' It was undoubtedly the fact that for many years; as Mr. Cloy asserted, various pre. tensions had-bcen put forth concerning tho Eublic. lands, ono of which was, that they elonged of right to tho States, in wliosc limits they wero situated ;-another,thatthey should be ceded to these States by the U. States; another, that their price should be graduated down to almost nothing; and all bud in view either their actual or virtual surrender by tho general government Mr. Clay saw that if not secured to the old States, -L .- . H! j : .. ..,..M mcir vnieresi in 1110 puunu uutiiaiu uuw sooo be gone forever, and the plan of dis. tnbution which he brought torwara was designed, but only to settle our policy in re- card to this immense national interest, but to settlo it upon the Immutable principles ol justice even-handed justice to oil, Uut no sooner was there a prospect 01 his plan being adopted, than the very men who bad clamoured for 44 tlie lion's share" of the public domain, who had sanctioned scheme after scheme for wanting and sqan dcring the lands, and had protested against their being considered as a source of reve nue by. tho government, turned around and became equally clamorous against die pro- ceeds of the sale beini; taken from the treasury, and distributed equally and im partially to the peoploof all ;'e States! Such U tho consistency of mero dema gogucs! In his speech 00 the distribution of tlie proceeds of the public lands, deliver ed in the Senate, on the 28th January, 1841, Mr. Clay thus notices tho con tragic tory and inconsistent courso of his oppo nents: 44 All at onco theso gentlemen seem 'o bo deeply interested in the revenue denvt bio from the public lands. Listen to then now, and you would suppose that heretofore they had always been, and hereafter would continue to be, decidedly and warmly in favour of carefully husbanding tlie public domain, and obtaining from it tho greatest practicable amount ot fnvenue7tor the ex clusive Uio of the jeneral government You would imagine that none of them had a . 1 t. ever e)ousU or sanctioncu any scneme for wasting or sq.indering the public lands; that they regard them us a sacred and mvi olablo fund, to bo preserved for tho benefit of posterity, as well as Uhs generation. 44 It is my intention now to unmask these gentlemen, aud io show their real s stem lor the odnuniitratiou of the public lands wnbraces no object of revenue, cither in the general government or thu States that their purpose is otherwise to dispose of them; that tlie fever forrevenue is an intermittent, which appears only when a bill to distribute the proceeds equally among all tho States is pending; and thai; as soon as thnt bill is got rid of r gentlemen relapsr intoiheir old pro- jects of throwing away the public lands, nnd denouncing all objects of revenue from the public lands as unwise, illiberal, and unjust towards the new Slates. ' I will make all this good by tho most incontroveitible testimony. . " - ' . 44 1 proceed to the documentary proof. In .his 'annual message of December 4, 1832, President Jaokson says: - 44 4 As the lands may now be considered as relieved, from thil pledge, (that is, the expenses of the 'Revolutionary war,) the gbji-cl for . Which they were ceded having Is. . . 1; l .1 i . f I .t.i . ' - . i- 00c n occqinpiisui, H is m xiie uiscrcuon 01 Congress q dispose-of, iheni in sucliWny as best to conduce to tbo quiet, harrnony, and general interests of the American peo ple Aic-xlt scent to me to be our true policy that the public lands shall crate, as soon as practicable, to be a source of revc- BKtf.'" . . ' - . .J,, From tbo rcporf of Mr. King, chairman of the committee on public lands, to whom his (Mr.Clny) report was referred iu 1832, Mr. Clay read the following ; 44 This committee turn with confidence from the La nd Offices to the Qustom I louses , and say, here arc the true sources of Fedc ralrevenue ! Give lands to the cultivator ! and tell him to keep his money, and lay it out in their cultivation : 44 Now, Mr. President,1' couliiiued Mr Clay, 14 bear in mind that this report, made by the Senator from Alabama,, imbodics the sentiments of his party; tlie measure for distributiJii whiiu came from the com mitteo on manufactures, exhibited om as tern for tho adTrrfrifstration of the nublic larkfs,- and that it was referred lo the com. mittee on public lands, to esabifrthat com mtttce to make an argumentative report against it, and to present their system a counter-antagonist system. 44 Daring the whole progress of the bill through tho jSeoate, tho party dominant then and now acted in conformity with the doctrines contained in the report of tlx ir organ, (Mr. King.) Nevertheless the bill passed both houses of Congress by decisive majorities. 44 Hear bow President Jackson lays down th law in 1833: . 4 On the whole, I adhere to the "opinion expressed by me in my annual message of 1832, that it is our true policy that the public bods shall cease, as soon as practi cable, 10 be a source of revenue, except for the payment of those general charges which grow out of the acquisition of the lands, their survey, and sile. I do not doubt that it is the real interest of each and WHOLE NUMBER 138. all the States in the Union, and particularly of the ne'v States, that tho price of these lands shall bo reduced and graduated; and that after they have been offered for a cer. lain number of ..years, ihe refuse, remaining unsold, shall be abandoned to the Stales, and the machinery of our land-system entirely 4 It was-'4uT0io pthgtJaywe beard the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Sevier) ex, press soma of . theso .sentiments. What were wo told by that SenoioM we win havo tho public land. -iWe, must hava ihein, and wc wilt TAKE them in a few years. : r Mr. Sevier said, 44 So we winV'l 44 Hear him! Hear him! He repeats it Utters it in the ears of tho revenue pleading Senator, (Mr. Wright,) on my left. Aud yet he will .vote against distrlbu. tion." ' V '( : ' It will be seen by tho foregoing extracts from Mr. Clay's speech, and the documents referred to by him, that it liaTTwen for mauy yenrs tho avowed purpose of those who oppose distribution, and now insist on the lands being considored aa a source of revenue, to cedo or otherwise dispose of them to the States in which they lie and that they have as strenuously maintainea that they ought not to be looked to for reve nue. Such glaring contradictions aod in. consistency need no comment 1 they speak 1 1 I r 1. ...! , Tue reiterated attacks upon the protective system by the advocates of the doctrine of 1'ree-trudc,, together with the fact of tho" cxtinuitdiment of the public debt and an overflowing treasury, had, in 1833, grwitly operated upon public opinion, and brought about a conviction that protective duties were not so necessary as they had been considered, and were, perhaps, as the south declared them tq oe, oppressiv to them, and unjust in their operation. South Caro lina had also undertaken to nullify trw tttQJ nue laws of tho United Slates, and threat ened open resistance) and .rebellion, should the general government attempt to enforce' them. Discontent bad been sown among tho people of tho south, who had been made to believe that they wero oppressed, and that their .wishes and interests bad been disregarded by tho national governmont. Theso discontents had been fomented, and tlieboj.es of Uie southern people encouraged by the course of the Federal Admiwstra. tion, which, at tho very moment that it threatened and recommended the use of the' power of the whole Union, proclaimed aloud tho injustice of the system which it was about to t-nforco. In the language of Mr. Cluy, 44 these discontents were not limited to th se who maintained the extra vagant theory of nullification ; they were not confined to ono State ; but were coex. cveo to tho northern Stales." A majority of the party then dominant, since defeated, was then, us now, opposed td the lariJ policy. Under all thefo circumstances Mr. Clay deemed that pulicy in imminent dn: gcr; 14 it w," said he, 44 in tho hind of tiio Philistines, who would strangle it;" and Ikj fltsw to its succour. The celobiatcd Gompronii?ie bill was introduaed, and after much debate, innllv p issed., Mr. Clay, wkh whom thia great niosstire of conciliation originated, and to whoso moderation, firmness, patriotism, and abili ties, its success was due, was, on this occa sion, bnilud by n very large portion of tho country, norih, south, and west, as 44 tho great pacificator and saviour of the couo try." IJy somo, however, he wus charged with abandoning his own system. In reply he saiJ, '' It was fur from the object of thoso who support this bill, to abaidon or surrender the policy of protecting tAroeri. can industry." . 44 Thclcondition of the country has impressed cvory public man with the necessity of some modified. as it di'pends upon high duties. Sir, I desire to be perfectly understood as t$Ahc motives which havo prompted mo to offer this measure. I repeat, that they are first, to preserve tho manufacturing Intc. rest, nnd. secondly to quiet the country. I believe the A met ienh system to bo in the greatest danger ; aod I believe it can be placed on a better and sofor foundation at this scssiun; tlmn at tho next." " Mr. President, it is not destruction but, preservation of the system at which we aim. If dangers now assail it, we have pot cre ated ibtni." I havc sustained it upon tho clearest convictions of its expediency. liiey aro unaltered. Tin compnmisci bill being .accepted by the souih ns " a concession ftvia the strong. er lo the we aker parly," it proved, as its jaiil hnraigui ;djL-fjioujajrs.ng1iLlj!?jPg measure, and secured to the country, and especially to thoso engaged in manufactur ing, a stability of policy for a number of years, far more important to them than hoary duties wiih uncertainty and fluctua tion. Mr. Clny has been, and ir, to the present day, murb censured for disposing of the larilf question as he did in the com promise bill : but if ever thcro was a mea. sure that originated in tho most anxious s . . . ?. . .. . . J It -! desire toao tnoi wihcd, unwr usm iif stances, was best for the country, and if a public man ever acted upon pure and disin terested motives, this was the measure and this the mao : and no unprejudiced perwn who knows those circumstances, and the imminent danger there lhi was of losing the protective system entirely, as well as of plunging the country into a civil war, can, it seems to mc, for a single moment, doubt the wisdom of that measure. Manyquesiioot the highest imporUnc

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