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In the days of mo principle for the public eye" the eleetioneering operations of coon- ism were comparatively easy. It had little local, sectional doctrines, which were used according to the company 1t was in. It was anti-slaRery here-pro-slavery there-an ul- tra-proteetonia at one point, and an ultra free trader at another. When asked for its broad banner of political faith, 1t merely said 'slet Us go fora change72 and settle other de- tails after the victory, and when its distinct i've features were looked for, 1t assumed a baechanalian leeg, and pointed to 'sthe hard cider0 ofits party Wigwans, toits proeessions, its excitement conventions, its big balls and its other bu1fooneries These dexterous tricks, however, being somewhat worn out, they will scarcely answer for the campaign which Is now commencing, and we observe that the journalists who once found in the use of the mystic word .Echange,D an avaiIa- ble substitute for argument, are somewhat Pefplexed, atthe very outset, with 1Ir. Clay7s letter to NIT. Bronson, of Georgia, on the subject of the tariff, which is a shuffling en- deavor to occupy the democratic ground in this matter, leaving number of the federal electioneerers completely in the lurch. If Nr. Clay is right in this, they must also ad- nit that Mr, Van Baren, Mr. Buchanan, Mr. Wright, and other prominent democrats, are also correct in their views, and, likewise, that Mr. Clay is not altogether as they repre- sented him. The coon which got along so neatly in l840, when it had no principles, finds itself awkwardly hampered in 1843, when 1t endeavors to wear principles.

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