hIE. CIay's PRINCIPLES,
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From circular signed by Senator Benton, frs,
published in the Missouri Intelligencer Oct 22 "a


"Thc principles which would goucrn
Mr.. Clay's administration, ifelected, are
well known TO the nation. They have
been displayed upon the floor Of Con-
gress for the last fourteen years. They
constitute 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
teinal 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 a
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 States man 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
Gu1 applicant for treaties with Mexico 81
South America would he the eloquent ad-
vocate oftheir own Independence.


Thomas HART BENTON.