''-'tiirtti' . 7lktltti. • • . - CLAY'S TARIFFFA'S, • Wu invite the wittiest attention organs smilers to the fel-swirl letter from %Ir.- Clay t 3 Mr. Merritoelker. It completely Shows hit "Southern face" on the sub• jectt • Extract from Mr. Clay to 11 r. Merrirrelher. Asatsno. October 2, 1843. "You are right on far as the record, is concerned, in your statement THAT 1 DID NOT VOTE for the tarifa in 1816 and 1321; hut 1 supported their prin ciples, and have ulwa)s admitted that I was in favor of them. ". did not vote for the tariff in 1828, for which, how ever, Mr. Van Buren, Col. Benton, Col. Johnson, Mr. Wright, and others of our present opponents did vote. And it is remarkable that from that period my exer tions in Congress have been directed to the reduction and moderation of the tariffs. Thus in 1832 1 sup ported that tariff a tacit greatly modified and reduced ate tariff'of 1828, insomuch that it was supposed by rea sonable men that it would or unght to satisfy the nullifi ers of S Ctrolica. The next yen r, 1833,1 'brought for ward the compromise. In 1841 I suppotted the tat- Tiff of that year, which was limited to the free articles. • "I never was in favor of what I regarded as a high And my present opinion is in perfect coinci lotdenoe with that of the whole Whig party of the United 7. 'flitates, including Georgia, as I understand it. We be lieve that the revenue from the General Government should be derived from the foreign imports. to the ex clusion of direct taxes and the proceeds of the sales of .pablic lands, and that no more revenue should he levied than Is necessary to an econime cal administration of the/Government ; but that, itri