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the aboltionists, TINS speaks OF Henry Clay
as a candidate for the Presidency;


"Ifhe will but 90 to Liberia, that Para
disc of the whole earth, he may there exer-
else his Office in all its minutia; but if he
stay here, MGrtin Van Buren, BEFORE


Henry Clay"


Mr. Calhoun and his faction are now busl-


ly denouncing Mr.. Clay as an enemy to the


South. In 1888, just after Clay had saved


Calhoun's neck from Gen. Jackson'S halter,


the poor fellow was grateful. What he then


thought of Mr.. Clay as a friend of the coun-


try and Of the South, may be inferred from


the following extract from a speech deliver


ed by MIR. Calhoun, in the Senate, April 8,


1884, on the bill to repeal the force act


Speaking ofhe condition Of the country and


of parties in the midst of the notification


struggle, Mr.. Calhoun says:


The moment was portentous. Our polit-


ica system rocked to the centre. Whatever
Diseases existed within, endangered by long
corruption and abuse, were struck to the
surface. The proclamation and the mes
sage Of the President appeared, containing
doctrines never before officially avowed-
going far beyond the extreme tenets OF the
federal party, and in direct conflict with all
that had ever been entertained by the re-
publican party; and yet, such was the cor
ruptIon, such the subserviency TO power,
that both parties, forgetting the past, aban-
doning every political principle, however sa-
cred or long entertained, rushed TO the EN-
brace of the new creed-suddeniv, instant
ly-wihout the slightest hesitation. Never
did free people exhibit so degraded spec
tacle; give such evidence Of the loose at
taehment to principle, orgreater snbserVen-
cy TO power. AT this moment the current oil
events tended towards despotic authority in
the person of the Chief Magistrate, on one
side, and to disuniOn on the other-on one
side to clothe tue President with power,
more than dictatoral, in order to maintain
the ascendancy of the protective system
and, on the other, to resist the loss of liber-
~ at every hazard. Fortunately for the
there tcas at the time in tte councils
of the nation, an iRdiridMdI lDho had the
highest freight of authority Nth the supper
terS Of thai system-one who had done more
10 Gdpance il than any oher--tcho ,cds the
most Intimately identified NTH IL, and to
lrhom, Of course, the task of adjustment most
APPROPRIATELY BELONGED. Fortunately, |
also, he had the disposition and the fortitude
to undertake It, AN ADJUSTMENT FOLLOW
ED, THE CRISIS OF OUR DISEASE WAS PASSED;
THE BODY PoLITIC FROM THAT MOMENT BE-
CAME coNvALEscENT; THE TENDENCY TO
DEsPoTIC POWER IN THE EXECUTIVE WAS
wEAKENED-BY ENA-
BLING THOSE WHO HAD BEEN so LONG WASTING
THEIR STRENGTH IN MUTUAL CONFLICT, TO
UNITE IN RESISTING THE UsURPATIoN OF
THAT DEPARTMENT.