Oh! keep; q

For soon you'll hear the people,
All in great array,


SIng-''l ou can't come it Mattyi
''Stard back for Harry Ciay!''

Mr.. CLAWS principIes,
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Mr.. Clay's principles.


From circular signed by Senator Benton, frs,
published in the missouri nteigencef, Oct. -, '2l


"Thc principles which would goucrn
Mr.. Clay administration, ifelec,ed, are
well known to the nation. They have
been displayed upon the floor Of Con
gress for The last fourteen years. They
constitute q system Of AMERICAN policy,
based on the Agriculture and Manufac-
lures Of his own country; upon interior
as we'll as foreign commerce; upon in
tie rnal as well as sea. board improvement;
upon the independence ofthe New World
and close commercial alliances with
Mexico and South America. If it is said
that others would pursue the same svs-
TEN, we answer that the founder Of
system is the natural executor of his own
work; that the most efficient protector
of American Iron, Lead, Hemp, Wool,
and Cotton, would be The triumphant
champion of the new tariff, the safest
| friend TO interior commerce would be
the Statesman who has proclaimed the
Mississippi to be the Sea of the West;
the most jealous promoter of Internal
improvements would be"the President
who has triumphed over the President
who opposed the construction Of Nation
al Roads and Canals; the most success
lul applicant for treaties with Mexico &
Soath America would be the eloquent ad
vocate oftheir own Independence.


THOMAS HART Benton.


"Let me mol be misunderstood -aml I
intreat that / mag not be MIsREPREsENT-
ED. l am not advocating the rer,ual Of
high protectire Tariff. lam FOR ABID-
ING by THE PRINCIPLES OF THE coNPRo-
MISE ACT. am for doing what no South
ern man, of fair, candid mind, ever yet
denied-gicing TO The country a rerenue
,ehicA may procide for The economical
rants Of The Government, and a! the
same time giriag incidental protection
10 our home industry"-Speech Of Mr..
I Clay in the IT, S. Senate, March /, 1912


Cri Z. II, Johnsoa's opinion Of Hen.
ry Ciay.-''I have been in public life for
forty years, and in that time have been
associated with all the great men Of the
of the country. Leaving out Madison
and Gallatin, who were old men when
first stepped upon the theatre OF politics,
| 'ciH place Jefferson first, then Henry
Clay. He is a perfect Hercules in all
the qualities that can. adorn human ma
turc. Some men may excel him in n
single quality; for instance, Webster
may be a greater logician; or some may
be more renowned Tor deep researches;
but take Clay all in all, he has not an
equal in the Union, either in the North
or the South, the East or the West. In
moral courage, in physical courage, in
oratory, in patriotism, and in every no
bic quality, he is without superior
He is great man--a rery greet man.