floe . ; in that spirit we hold that slatery
should be protected, where it exists un
der the regis of the Constitution, but
ought not be carried .by us where it nev
er existed. But, I repeat, am nitit pre
pared to call that a political question,
and I deny that you can call either this
or the opposite doctriimmere Whig doc
trine. No man has a.right to say that
the Wilmot proviso is a Whig principle,
or that its opposite is a Whig principle.
We repudiate the question altogether as
a political question ; and I say that,
whenever the members of the great
Taylor Republican party, which I hold
at this moment to be the great majority
of the country, shall descend so low as
to make a geographical party out of this
Wilmot proviso, with a view to Presi
dent-making or getting offices and pow
er in the country, they will ;use my res
pect, and I think that of every honest
man. An attempt is now being made
to force this upon us as a party question
tty -the extreme partizans of the North
and the South. But neither the one side
or the other of the question forms any
part of our platform ; and I hope there
will be patriotism enough among the
American people to keep the question
apart from party politics forever. For
myself, I am free to say that, although
I voted in obedience to the request of
the State I in part represent, yet so dear
is the Union of these States to me and
mine, that if this become a geographi
cal question, 1 shall resort to the remedy
adopted by the men of Delaware in an
other crisis and in other days—l shall
art in the spirit of the men who made
the Constitution, and compromise the
question if I can, on terms equally fair
and honorable, both for the North and
the South.
. .
Mr. FOOTE.-150 I understand the sen
atoras saying that he is not prepared to
inform us wiether Gen. Taylor would
veto the Wilmot proviso, as every Whig •
print in New England has said he would?
Mr. CLAYTON.—The letter of General
Taylor speaks for itself, and the gentle
man from Mississippi, has precisely the ,
same means that I or the Whigs of New.
England have of forming an opinion up-'
on this subject. If Gen. Taylor will
write to me and tell me what he intend@
to do, I will be able to inform the g
ticman. But for me to intrude my in i
vidual opinions on the Senator, the •
lic, or this august body, would be
The Senator will please now in his rn
take the stand, and inform me what'
Gen. Cass will do with respect to the
Wilmot proviso.
Mr FOOTE.—No doubt he will veto it.
He has announced his opinion that the
Wilmot proviso is unconstitutional, and ,
declared that lie will exercise the veto
power in all cases of unconstitutional
laws.
Mr. CLAYTON. --If the Senator is t ight,
then Gen. Cass stands before the coun
try as a sectional candidate—the head
of a geographical party. I hope Gen.
Taylor . will decline that honor. My
hope is that he will never lend his great
name• to either of these geographical
parties, but retain the power to settle
the question without taking part with
eititer.
To judge of the propriety of General
Taylor's position, let us inquire how the
Baltimore convention met this question.
They positively refused to adopt any
resolution denouncing the Wilmot pro
viso. Other democrats, besides the
Barnburners, when a resolution to repu
diate the principle contained in it was
offered, threatened to dissolve the party;
the resolution was stiPed, and the con
vention silent. The party expressed no
opinion on the dangerous subject—they
dared not do it. The . platform they
adopted did not recognize this gograph
ical question as a party question, and
this is in precise accordance with Gen.
Taylor's position. The anti-proviso
platform of Gen. Cass was manufactur
ed by himself, and he is welcome to the
position of chief of one of those geo
graphical factions, with which Washing
ton warned every American to have no
connexion.
Among the proceedings of the Balti
more convention I observe that Messrs.
Yancey, of Alabama, McGehee, of Flor
ida, and Commander, of South Carolina,
reported the following resolution :
.Re,•oteed, That the doctrine of non-interfer
ence with the rights of property of any portion
of the people of this country, be it in the States
or in the Territories, by any others than the
parties interested in them, is the true Republi
can doctrine recognized by this body."
Mr. Yancey desiredthis principle to
be incorporated in the Baltimore plat
form. Now will the Senator from Mis
sissippi tell me whether Gen. Cass con
curred in that report or not 1
Mr. FooTE.---I have no knowledge on
the subject. I have have stated what
must be evident to the Senator, that
Gen. Cass discussed the Wilmot provi
so in every aspect of it, in the plainest
manner, and my impression is that his
views will be sustained by the democra
cy in every part of the country. As to
Mr. Yancey, I havo not particularly no
ticed his views, but I think that his
course will meet the general reprobation
of his party.
Mr. CLAYTON.—Gen. Cass, then, repo•
diates Mr. Yancey's sentiments 1
• Mr. FOOTE.-I do not know.
Mr. CLAYTON.-1 supposed that the
Senator thoroughly understood all the
opinions of Gen. Cass. The honorable
gentleman has travelled with the candi
date, and was said to be a part of his
body-guard.
Mr. — Fool E.—That particular point was
not warted. (4 laugh.)
Mr. CLAYTON.—Then here is another
subject about which Gen. Cass has no
platform. Now all these doubts and
ambiguities, and, irreconcileable incon
sistencies come from the party which
daily assails Ge4i. Taylor, because, as
they say, "he does not speak out." "He
has no platform." So they spoke of
Gen. Harrison, until he beat them 146,-
000 votes. They called him "General
Mum ;" and now, as then, the complaint
is made that those who nominated the
Whig candidate had made "no plat'Orm."
Sir, they knew that Washington had no
platform, and they had more respect for
Gen. Taylor, & for the intelligence of the
people, than to put their candidate in a
straight-jacket, or seek, by manfactur
ing professions of political faith for him,
'to deceive the voters of the country.
They intended he should be free and
untrammelled, as the President of the
whole people. But who is there among
its that has not long since felt, and, pub
licly or privately, expressed his con
tempt for these "platforms ?" Look
back to your democratic platform of
1844. Then, the democratic conven
tion passed a resolution to re-annex all
Oregon, avowing that the title to it was
"clear and unquestionable up to 54 40."
At the sound of the party bugle the
partizan editors of the democratic press
throughout the country shouted "clear
and unquestionable." A thousand dem
ocratic meetings echoed back the sound.
"Oregon and 54 40" were painted on
party banners and party walls, and
printed on party handbills. Mr. Polk's
Inaugural Address also declared the ti
tle "clear and unquestionable." His
message, in December, 1845, repeated
the same folly, and threatened war to
the knife', and the knife to the hilt,
against the English claim above 49, all
the little, and nearly all the great politi
cians of the party, standing ready to
make fight on this platform. The par
ty leaders afterwards occupied the atten
tion of Congress for six months with
this Oregon question, disturbing and
distracting the nation, embarrassing
trade and commerce, alarming the busi
ness men with the apprehension of a
war with the most powerful nation on
earth, with which we have more corn
mercial relations than with all the world
beside. The price of insurance rose so
high at one time that no shipying mer
chant could venture on any distant voy
age. Gen. Cass stood in front of the
whole riot. He declared war to be ine
vitable. His belligerent propensities,
displayed on this as well as on all other
subjects, covered the whole platform. I
, never believed that this cry for war was
sincere on the part of the wire-workers
behind the screen, though I never doubt
ed that the worthy General was perfect
ly sincere, and was completely duped
by them. I advised my friends here to
vote for the amicable notice to England
—to "pay out rope," and test their sin
, cerity about this platform. The result
' precisely answered my expectations.
When we refused to hold them, they
refused to fight, and the result was, that
the whole pretentious to fifty-four forty
were abandoned by themselves, and they
fell back to the British line of forty nine
upon which a settlement could, at any
moment, have been made without a
word of all this unjust and insolent bra
vado. The platform was abandoned ;
those who had adhered to it moat vio
lently, among whom was Gen. Cass,
were prostrated in the dust. The
chairman of the committee on Foreign
Relations, (Mr. ALLEN,) under a deep
sense of his humiliation, instantly re
signed, and the present Chairman, (Mr.
HANNP.GAN,) declared in his place, that
Mr. Polk had, by surrendering the plat
form and his own pledges to adhere to
it, " sunk himself so low that the hand
of resurrection could never reach him."
When put to the the test, Mr. Polk'
treated the whole platform of 54 40
with contempt, and gave up the whole
country above 49.
Mr. FOOTE, (in his seat.)—He was
wise, and acted by the advice of the
Senate.
Mr. CLAYTON.—Oh ! yes he was
wise. The folly was in having a plat
form ! In this case, an irresponsible
cabal, called a convention, like the last
one at Baltimore, many of the members
of which were appointed at a tavern or
a cross road meeting, assembled and as
sumed the • duty of directing and con
trolling the whole legislation of Con
gress on questions of peace and war.
They did not devote ten minutes to the
title of Oregon, which they decided,
and not one out of fifty of them had
ever read or known any thing about it.
The platform thus formed deeply endan
gered the peace of fifty millions of hu
man beings. We were at one time, by
all the blundering and blustering of the
Administration, driven within an inch
of a war with England.
There was another platform—that
made by the famous Kane letter. In
that precious document, your President,
according to the construction of some,
avowed himself to be in favor of the
Tariff; and according to that of others,
opposed to it. Unquestionably the mass .
of the people in the Northern Statep be
lieved that in that letter, he avowed
himself to be a friend of the tariff. It
is as true as scripture, that in the State
of Pennsylvania .and other States at the
North, the were flying with the inscrip
tion, "Polk, Dallas, and the tariff of '42,"
and when we assailed those who prac
tised these impositions on the people,
as we repeatedly did, and accused them
of duplicity, the reply was, on all occa
sions, "we are the true champions of
the tariff of 42," and in proof of the as
sertion we were referred to the Demo
cratic vote in the other House, without
which the bill of 1842 could not have
passed, and -told that, therefore, the
Democrats were entitled to the whole
merit of the measure. Now again the
politicians have published one life of
Gcn. Cass to suit the North, and anoth
er to suit the South, in regard to the
Wilmot Proviso. Thus, by platforms,
they ever palter with us in a double
sense—" keep the word of promise to
the ear but break it to the hope"—at
one time deluding our honest people in
to a vote for Mr. Polk, which he never
could have received had he then avow
ed himself to be what he has since pro
ved to be, the champion of free trade;
and at another, representing Gen. Cass
as a man of Northern principles in the
Mirth; end a man of Southern princi
ples in the South.
There is another platform : It is that
of an honest man, who says he is a
Whig, but that if elected to the Presi
dency he will not be the tool of a party
—that he will be the President of the
people—that he has no enemies to pun
ish, no friends to reward—that while ho
will do his duty in removing corrupt,
incompetent, or unfaithful men from of
fice, he will not be the supporter of that
infamous system of proscription which
distributes the public offices of the coun
try as the spoils of a victory—that he
will, on this and all other subjects, en
deaver to restore the Government of the
country to the principles of the Consti
tution. His PLATFORM IS THE CONSTITU
TION; all others are utterly unworthy of
respect. The patriotism of mere politi
cians which explodes in deceptive par
ty pledges, is understood to be, as Dr.
Johnson defines it, "the last refuge of
a scoundrel." There is little difficulty
in finding mottoes and illustrations to
suit the title page of the whole volume
of political platforms. In the action of
some of the Presidents of the United
States we can find enough to remind us
of the old saw—
" The Devil was siekthe Devil a monk would
be--
The Devil got well, the Devil a monk leas
he
The honorable gentleman also attacks
Gen. Taylor on the ground that he lacks
qualifications. In justice, however, to
his own noble heart, the Senator admits
that Gen. Taylor is a pure, honorable,
high minded, and patriotic man. But
he finds fault with Gen. Taylor' on ac
count of what he supposes to evince a
'want of great learning. He reasons
from Gen. Taylor's confession that he
was not a pnlitician, that he is not com
petent for the Presidency. That is, I
think, his chief objection. The gentle
man certainly did also. find much fault
with one or two of Gen. Taylor's letters.
I shall not deny that his letters,lke
thoie of other great military command
ers, written in the hurry of a camp, and
on a barrel, a box, or a drumhead, have
not the beauty of finish and the rotun
dity of period which the gentlethan so
well 'knows how to give his own letters.
But for strong sense and appropriate
language to convey it, no man can ex
cel those letters of Taylor in which he
found it important to attend to the man
ner as well as.the matter of his compo
sition. On every court martial on which
he has served for the last twenty- years,
the other members of the court, al
though often scholars of high character,
have generally seleeted Taylor to draw
up the sentence of the court, on account
of his superior qualifications. We laugh
at the story that he cannot write his
own letters. That from his enemies is
a new tribute to their excellence! Gen.
Cass is, we shall admit, a knowing and
a learned man ; but Gen. Taylor is a
wise man. I agree with the poet, that
"Knowledge and wisdom fur from being one,
Have oftimes no connection. Knowledge dwells
In heads replete with thoughts of other men—
Wisdom in minds attentive to their own."
Gen. Cass has great erudition, and
has written books. But in the great es
sential qualities of wisdom, justise, in
tegrity, humanity, and moral as well
as physical courage, Taylor approaches
nearer to the character of Washington
than any man who has occupied ..the
Presidential chair since his day. And
with regard to the champion of the gen
, tleman from Connecticut, (Mr. NILES ' )
who has indulged himself in a sly
fling gt Gen. Taylor, I will give my opin
ion with equal frankness. Mr. Van Bu
ren is a cunning man and it has often
been observed; that no cunning man
was ever yet a wise one. Exception is
taken to Taylor's qualifications, because
he has been compelled, in his country's
service, to pay more attention to the
cartridge than the ballot box; and in
his letters has modestly expressed his
own diffidence of his ability to discharge
the duties of th President of the United
States. But let me call the attention of
the Senate to what Gen. Washington
said of himself in his inaugural address.
He says to Congress :
"The magnitude and difficulty of the trust to
which the voice of my country called me, be
ing sufficient to awaken in the wisest and most
experienced of her citizens a distrustful scruti
ny into his qualifications, could not but over
whelm with despondency one, who, in inherit
ing inferior endowments from nature, and un
practised in the duties of civil administration,
ought to be peculiarly conscious of his own de
ies;"
Taylor is the man of modern times
who has rivalled this admirable modes.
ty, and his friends so far as regarding it
as a fault, view it as one of the bright
est among the features which adorn his
heroic character. if Taylor has stulti
fied himself by that confession, to which
the honorable Senator has referred, the
wisest, the purest, and the greatest of
all American Presidents, had taught
him by his example.
Mr. President, a paper is put into my
hands, which I am requested to read to
the Senate. In 1840 Gen. Harrison was
charged by our opponents with the high
crime of having signed a law, about fif
ty years ago, while Governor of the
Northwest Territory, for selling poor
whitemen into bondage. That, if I un
derstood it, was a law to punish crime.
It is a fair reprisal on an enemy that
could make such a charge, to refer them
now to a law signed by their present
candidate while Governor of Michigan,
of so late a date as the 27th of July,
1818. The law, which the Senator from
Michigan (Mr. FaLcii) will acknowledge
to be an authentic copy from the terri
torial statutes of Michigan, is in the
following words:
"AN ACT. for the punishment of idle and
disorderly persons.
“SECTION I. Be it enacted ho! the GOVerllOr
and Judges of the Territory of Michigan, That
any Justice of the Peace, on conviction, may
sentence any vagrant, lewd, idle, or disorderly
persons, stubborn servants, common drunkards,
common night-walkers, pilferers, or any persons
wanton or licention, iu syeerh, indecent beha
viour, common railers or brawlers, such as ne
glect their calling and employment, mispend
what they earn and do not provide for them
selves or families, to Le se/ripped not exceeding
ten "tripes, or to be delivered over to any con
stable, to be employed in labor not exceeding
three months, by such constable to be hired out
for the best wages that can be procured : the
proceeds of which to be applied to the use of
the poor of the county.
"Made, adopted, and published at Detroit, the
27th day of July, 1818. •
"LEWIS CASS, Governor.
"A. B. WOODWA RD, Presiding jeer/gr.
" " T ' IVIT " EnA "'t lodges of the Territory.'"
1 "TOWN GRIFFIN,
This act was passed by the authority
given in the ordinance of 1787. It pro
vides that "the Governor and Judges
shall adopt and publish in the district
such laws of the original States, crim
nal and civil, as may be necessary and
best suited to the circumstances of the
district, and report them to Congress,
from time to time." In the year 1818,
Gavernor Casa adopted and passed this
act, as one of the Legislators over the
Territory. By it a "common night
walker,"or any " idle person," or any
"stubborn servant," or any "person li
centious in speech," or any "person of
indecent behaviour," or any person who
should " mispend what lie had earned,
and not provide for himself or family,"
might at the discretion of a justice of
the peace, be whipsed ten lashes or de
livered over to a constable, to be hired'
out for the best wages that could be
procured! (Laughter.) If the General
should remain of that mind hereafter,
what a prospect of whipping and hiring
out does it present to all who may have
a fancy for night walking, for all idlers,
such as may, in the judgment of a jus.
tice of the pence, be " stubborn ser
vants," or "licentious in speech," or
happen not to spend their money as the
justice shall approve ! (Great Laugh
ter.) There is nothing in the old sedi
tion law,_ or in the blue laws of any of
the old States, to exceed this precious
specimen of the , Governors' legislation
in 1818. I commend it to the especial
consideration of the modern Democracy
in their future progress.
Sir, I have done. Let me only say in
conclusion, that I hope that my friends
on the other side now have enough of
plarforms ; and that in future all genu
ine Republicans may rally together un
der the standard of Taylor, which is
wide enough to protect and shelter ev
ery true friend of his country, whether
a native or a Naturalized citizen, no
matter what may be his party designa
tion. Let all such men stand up boldly
together in the battle for the Rights of
Man, as secured to us by the great char
ter of American freedom, the Constiti .
tion of our country, and the REPUB
LICAN PARTY of the country may
triumph over all opposition from the
self styled Democracy, to the end of
time.
Gen. Taylor—Another Slander Ite-
fitted.
Some time ago, a story was fabricated and set
afloat, that Gen. Taylor was the owner of •a
large tract of land in the disputed territory be
tween the nieces and the Rio Grande, and that
an agent of his had recently been in Washing
ton City purChasing negroes to stock it! Col.
Mitchell, of Cincinnati, wrote to Gen. Taylor
refrring to the allegation, and enquiring as to
its truth. We annex the reply. It puts this
vile slander at rest, as an unmitigated falsehood.
Read and judge
BATON BOUM, La., July 14, 1848.
MY DEAR COLONEL :-Your kind letter of the
13th ultimo has been duly received. In reply
to your inquiries, I have to inform you that I
have no land on the Rio Grande; nor have I sent
$lO,OOO, or any other sum, to the District of
Columbia to purchase slaves ; and I trust that if
I had such a sum in my possession, I could put
it to a better use than buying hinds on the Rio
Grande, or slaves in Washington. Among the
many accusations brought against me by my op
ponents, I should be much gratified to learn that
they have succeeded in substantiating the chtirge
that I have in my possession so large a sum for
any purpose as the one above mentioned.
I beg that you will not put yourself to any
trouble to meet the objections urged against me
by those opposed to me, if they are as ground
less as the one in question, for when they see
fit thus to disregard the obligations of truth, it
is useless to contend with them.
With my best wishes for your health and sue
eess, I remain sir, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
Z. TAYLOR.
Col. A. . 1. Minnna:LL, Cincinnati, 0.
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Extra Copies of Clayton's Great
Speech.
We have, at considerable expense, inserted at
length, the great Speech of Senator Clayton, in
this number of the Journal. As it is the most
important political document of the season, and
one that should be read by every citizen of the
country, before depositing his vote, we have
printed a large number of extra copies, which
we will furnish at the low price of TWO DOL
LARS PER HUNDRED. Clubs and individ
uals, anxious to advance the cause of the glori
ous old hero of Buena Vista, and thus do their
country some service, can more effectually do
so by circulating this speech among the People,
than in almost any other way. Single copies at
THREE e.rs.
COUNTY MEETING.
Taylor Men! don't forget the County Meet
ing on Wednesday, (to-morrow) evening. Let
there be a general rally.
Take a Paper.
To every body we would say, take a Newspa
per. And above all, take your own county pa
per. The benefits resulting to a family from
having the privilege of weekly perusing a well
rhgulated paper, so far out-weigh the paltry
sum necessary to secure it, as to make the latter
consideration sink into utter insignficance in com
parison with the former. The county paper
should be first patronized, and then, if persons
can afford to do so, it is all right and proper to
get a paper from abroad. We will furnish the
"HUNTINGDON JOURNAL" until oiler the Presi
dential election for the low price of FIFTY
CENTS per copy ; and to clubs of six or more,
at $1,50 per year. Single copies, $1,75 per year
ih advance. $2,00 if paid during the year.
County COnyentlon.
This body assembles to-morrow. From the
sentiments of the delegates, so far as we have
heard them expressed, we have no doubt the in
terests of the party of the county will be care
fully attended to. All are properly impressed
with the importance of the political campaign
in which we are engaged, and all appear deter
mined so to act as will best advance the com
mon cause in good old Huntingdon. Let this
spirit be carried out and all will be well.
Organize.
We must again impress upon the Taylor men
of tbis county, the necessity of immediate and
effective organization, by forming Rough and
Ready Clubs in every township, and frequently
meeting together for consultation. This matter
is important. Let the Taylor men of every
township engage in the work at once. The good
results which will flow to the country from the
election of honest old Rough and Ready, will
more than compensate you for all the exertion
made in his behalf.
PENNSYLVANIA CULTIVATOR. -The first num
ber of a new Monthly Agricultural paper, with
the above title, published at Harrisburg, Pa., by
Fosrmt & Co. , has been received. It is em
bellished with numerous appropriate engravings,
and is tilled with a large quantity of highly in
teresting and useful matter to agriculturalists,
mechanics and others. We have the pleasure
of a personal acquaintance with the enterprising
publishers and have no hesitation in commend
ing the work to the patronage of the Public
generally—to whose interests it will be devoted.
The price is 11,00 per Annum.
The Slander Admitted.
The following wilful slander t;;;;; private
itizen appeared in the Huntingdon Globe of the
Let mat :
"HEAR IT IRISHMEN AND GERMANS."
, 6 You were culled idle and ignorant foreign
ers because you oppose Gen. Taylor and his
Native American allies by one of the most
prominent Federal speakers, Mr. A. W. Bene
dict, on Saturday evening last."
Mr. Benedict having given the above a public
denial, the editor of the Globe thus admits in
his last paper, that he above was a wilful and
deliberate slander. He says :
_ _
A. W. Benedict, Esq., has denied in a pub
lic speech in the Diamond, that he denounced
the foreigner, as idle and ignorant. Will he
be kind enough to explain, in his next speech or
otherwise, what portion of mankind he had ref
erence to in the following sentence;
The Loco-focos, for the purpose of ent rap
ing the idle and ignorant, are endeavoring to
connect Gen. Taylor with the Native American
party."
Now, we ask every honest reader, to compare
the first charge of the Globe with the last, and
honestly answer, whether the editor is not guilty
of just what Mr. B. charged him with—delib
erate falsehood and slander 1 If Mr. B. used
the words " idle" and " ignorant" in any con
nection whatever, we presume he meant any
body verdant enough to believe the silly and idle
stories weekly published by the Globe.
ALEX. L. Russtu, of Bedford county, has
been appointed Deputy Secretary of the Com
inonwealth.
The Taylor Platform.
We give in to-day's Journal, to the exclusion
of much of attr usual variety, the masterly and
unanswerable Speech of the Hon. JOHN M.
CLAYTON, U. S. Senator from Delaware, in
vindication of Gen: TAYLOR. We call the
especial attention of otir readers to the unan
swerable argument embodied in this speech=--it
is a faithful exhibition of the Taylor Platform.
Those who like 'this broad and well founded
platform are invited to come and stand upon it
in safety. The principles of Gen. Taylor are
not like those of 4, Progressive" Locofocoism,
which are rapidly tending to MONARCHY and
TYRANNY ; but they shine forth as the pure
and primitive principles of our Government and
Constitution. Upon this platform Gen. Taylor
stands, not as the candidate of a mere party—
not trammelled by party schemes—but as a. else
great champion of the right of man to 4elf.gor.
rrnment." He maintains that the majority have
a right to govern.
Upon the subject of the Tariff, the Currency,
the Improvement of Rivers, Lakes and Harbors,
he holds that the WILL OF THE PEOPLE, as
expressed through their representatives, ought
not to be DEFEATED by the ONE DIAN
POWER—the. Executive VETO. All who are
in favor of these principles, get you upon the
Taylor Platform.
And how do these principles compare with
those of Lewes Cass I Mr. Cass stands pledged
to carry out the principles of a mere party—
the COUNTRY is to him nothing—Paarr in ev
erything ! Instead of letting the will of the Peo
ple pass into the form of Laws, Iris own will
must rise up as an insuperable barrier. Upon
all questions, as well of expediency as of con:
stitutionality, the ONE MAN POWER may
rise superior to the POWER OF THE MAJOR
ITY of his constituents, and defeat the will of
the People. This was not.. the design of the
Veto Power, but such is its operation in the
hands of a mere party President.
It was clearly not the intention of the Fra
mers of the Constitution to give the Executive
the Power to Legislate ; but in modern times
the Executive does inreality exercise a powei
of legislation equal to two-thirds of both
branches of Congress. He recommends laws
and dictates terms, and whenever Congress pas
ses laws differing from those prose ribed by him,
he defeats them by his VETO !! It matters not
by what name a government is called if the
power to make laws and to execute Mont . ,. r•esNd
is the ware roan, it is MONARCHY and TYR
ANNY in its worst form. This is therefore a
question of the most vital importance to the
American People, and one that rises far above
all others. The name and the form of a Re
public may be retained, but Locofocoism, if not
arrested in its course, will end in MONARCHY.
We have not room to notice the great speech
of Mr. Clayton any further at this titne ; but
we hope that the speech itself will be read by
every one who feels an interest in the welfare
of his country. READ IT yourselves, friends,
and then hand it to your neighbors. By all
means get the honest portion of the Locofocoe
to read it—it is high time that they should get
their eyes open. And whenever a Cass man
asks, what are Gen. Taylor's principles 1 invite
him to read Senator Clayton's speech.
That "Screw."
We suppose the editor of the Globe observed
in our last, that we gave to our renders the
" Screw drive," of Mr. FrtaNcis P. BLA/li,
fur
nished by himself. If so, how do you like the
way in which he "screws" up his position in
relation to the nomination of Gen. Cass, and the
part he intends taking in sustaining that nomina
tion, neighbowl We are satisfied with it, and
if you are, it is more than some of those who
sent him a delegate to the Baltimore Conven
tion appear to be. For, we observe that - at a
meeting of district delegates of Anne Arundel
county, Maryland, recently held, they unani
mously absolved Francis P. Blair from any ob
ligation incurred by attending, as a delegate, the
National Democratic Convention, and recom
mended that the other district delegates of the
Congressional district do the same. This was
done in consequence of the recent avowal of
Mr. Blair that his sympathies are with Mr. Van
Buren, and that lie will vote for Gen. Cass as a
matter of "ptinctillio."
Can the Globe give the "screw" another
turn 7
COMPS Patent Galvanic Battery.
It affords us much pleasure to inform our
readers, that Mr. P. Coso, of Philadelphia, is
now in our town, and will stay a few days only,.
at his rooms, at the house of Mrs. Bampson, to
operate on patients for the cure of all nervous
and various other diseases, with his patented
graduated Galvanic Battery, and to sell patent
rights of this highly valuable apparatus. Mr.
Coact has the highest testimony that the world
can produce, with respect to the great import
ance of this instrument. We believe it will be
highly the interest of Physicians and patient*
to avail themselves of the use of this instru
ment, which is said by the best authority, to he
the most powerful remedial agent that God has
given to man.
We have seen the testimonials of Rev. Wm.
J. Clark, Rector of the Episcopal Church of
Williamsport, Lycoming county ; Rev. John
Tonner of Bellefonte, of the Methodist Episco
pal Church, and several others in our own vicin
ity, testifying to the powerfully beneficial re
sults from the use of Mr. Coad's patent Galvan
ic Battery.
HENRY CLAY.
All reports to the contrary notwithstanding,
HENRY CLAY, is now as ever, on the side of the
Whig party and the country. It appears that
he was absent from home previous to the late
election in Kentucky, and a despatch from Lou
isville dated the 9th instant, says :
Mr. Clay travelled fifty miles for the par
pose of voting for Mr. Crittenden, which, it is
said, increased the vote in Fayette county con
siderably, some say upwards of 200 votes.
re Gen : Scott is now at his residence