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MR EDIToR,-I have noticed for some time past that the Editor of the 'sGazette,' y and other kindred spirits have labored, and are still laboring hard to convince their readers, that HENRY CLAY is an honest politician; with but one set of opinions for all latitudes, Sc. l propose in this number to give such evidence of his consistency, and the consistency of his wire-workers, on the subject of the TARIFF, as have been able to collect. Twill head 1t

 ssMoDERN wHIGGERY EXPOSED"

 The Editor of the Gazette, in his paper of the 20th December, 1S43, under the editorial head, says that .Mr. Clay is the ''champion and father of protection; and charges Mir. Van Buren, with being an out and out "Free 1rade man." Now let us examine the tes- timony and facts, and see how far they go to sustain the assertions of this ''champion'' of fClay-coonism in Arkansas, who hypocritic- ally contrasts the principles of the Whig and Democratic parties, upon the subject of the Tariff.

 It is time this falsifcation was fully eX- posed, and it's authors exhibited in their true colors The deception has been allowed to 20 on long enough The matter must be sci right before the people. They demand the TRUTH. Demagogues are seeking to suppress it; Democrats should make it known; l, therefore, for that purpose present the follow ing facts. They are taken from authentic sources and cannot be controverted

 deny that the Whig party are i'll favor o PROTECTIVE TARIFF, so far eS concerns tue honest industrial interests of the country This is shown by their support of the pre- sent tariff law, with all its inequalities anc imperfectons. That law imposes duties O from 50 to 600 per cent. on many articles o necessitv-such as cannot be dispensed WILL by the people. For instance, on the ya.ion' qualities of iron, there is a duty ol from 4! to 112 per cent; upon glassware of from lot to 600 per cent; upon sugars, moiasseh a'ie salt, of from 50 to 100 per cent; upon cot ton goods of from 100 to l5O per cent. &e Now these high duties amount to proelot ton of importation of the articles named, an' secure monopoly of the naarket to Inc hom manJacturer Foreign competition in thos' articles cannot exist, and thus the manuiae turers of New England gre enabled to exae their own prices for the goods; and they ar not slow in improving the opportunity. Tn rise in the price of wooilen manufacture ] goods, cotton goods iron, Ssc., generally, Q