Henry Clay,
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As his Gdusrsories knoo and regard him.


JAMES BUCHANAN of Penna. in speech bebs
the Van Buren, State Convention of Pa. on the
5th of August, l840, said, (referrng to the pre-.
ference at that time of Gen. Harison,)


fhe Wing party had, in Dir. CLAY, Il candidate
of whom they might have been justly proud-a man
Of n bold and fearless heart-a man Of high and
commanding elcquence, and man of distinguished
ability. Although opposed TO his political principles
yeti have ever felt or him the hig CHEST regard"


Col. RICHARD NJ. JOHNSON, in letter published
in the St. Louis Mil Boy July 90, 1874, says


81 have beeu in public lif. for forty years, and 10
that time have been associated with all the great
men OF the country.


~ will place JEFFERSON first, then HENRY CLAY.
Tasc CLAY all in all, he has not an equal in the
Union. either n the North or the South the East OF
tue ''cs:. In moral courage, in physical courage,
III ora'oN, in patriotism, and in every noble qualify
he IL without superior"


THOMAS II. BENTON, in an Address to the Peo
pie OF Missouri, 1924, says of Mr.. Clay;


The principles which would govern Mr.. Cars
Administration, ii elected, are we'll known 10 the
ton. They have been displayed upon The floor Of
Congress for the last seventeen years. They con.
slitule system OF AMERICAN Policy, based on The
Agriculture and Manufactures of his own country
upon interior rs well foreign Commerce-upou
internal as we'll as sea. hoard Improvement-upos
tEe Independence Of the New World, and close com
mercal alliances with Mexico and South Amcrics.
II IT il said that others would pursue the came sys
tein We answer, that The founder OF 81 stem is The
natural executor Of his own work; that the most
efficient protector CT American iron, lead, hemp
wool and cottoo, would be The triumphant chempo.
OF the new Tariff"


So wrote Thomas X. BENTON twenty year
ago The principles We contend for are precisely
those he 60 forcibiy commended in 1924; our
candidate is the same BgssY Clay, Who shall
dorb. his Triumph