Sentinel Of The Valley

We resume the publication of our cheap paper for the presidential election cheered by the strongest hopes of a glorious result. Nothing is wanting to insure success to the democratic party in the coming contest, but a united effort in the nomination of the democratic convention at Baltimore. The federal party have met with but disaster and defeat wherever the democratic party have been united, since the eyes of the nation were opened by the monstrous measures urged on by Mr. Clay as a dictator in Congress, and who is again presented to the nation as an executive dictator to the country. In no State of the Union, except Rhode Island. has federalism achieved success since 1840, except where divisions in the democratic party regarding to their favorite presidential candidates,

have paralyzed its efforts, and suppressed its full suffrage at the polls. It is alone on our discontents, and divisions about favorites, that federalism counts. Can it indulge the hope that now, when its monstrous visage is fully unmasked, the true-hearted, intelligent, resolute people of this country, who have always hated tyranny in every form, will embrace it? Is a national bank, the crowning object of all Mr. Clay's designs, just at the moment when the dissolution of the last oppressor of this sort has made manifest its corruption, its abominable abuses, its attempt to suppress free suffrage, its success in polluting the legislation of the country, State and national, its interference with the elections, and utter prostitution, through its means, of the fundamental support of free institutions,--is such an incorporated government now to meet the favor of such a people? Is a national debt, to bolster up such a bank and support the government here in defiance of the popular will, as it does in England, already originated by Mr. Clay during his short reign in the coon-skin Congress, calculated to give him the suffrages of the nation for the presidency? Is the dishonest, fraudulent, and exorbitant tariff of Mr. Clay's Congress, levying taxes upon the people for the necessaries of life, 100 per cent. beyond the revenue duty, for the benefit of the overgrown capitalists. likely to promote his further political advancement? Is his distribution law, wasting the proceeds of the public domain, provided by our revolutionary fathers as a sacred fund for the defence of our republic, and. gradually to be extended as homes for actual settlers, as our population expands, after being consumed by the people, suddenly to increase the popularity of the author of the nefarious scheme, which he himself denounced in the earlier and better days of his political career? Is his bankrupt act, violating the obligation of contracts, stripping one man of his property, to give it to another, who had betrayed his confidence--thus extinguishing the very idea of justice in the popular mind, and making government itself the pander to every species of iniquity, perjury;, and fraud--likely to promote his success? In a word, what is there in all Mr. Clay's principles and measures, developed in a long course of artful management, which has at every step fallen under the ban of the people, to recommend him to a station which will enable him to bring upon their devoted heads a visitation of all his accursed measures at once? There is not one great feature in his policy that is not stamped indelibly with aristocracy. War upon the many for the benefit of the few, extortion from the poor for the advantage of the rich; oppression of the weak to give power to the strong, are the most striking characteristics of Mr. Clay's policy He looks to the powerful. the rich, the artful associates of the non-producing classes with his interests; to overwhelm, by concerted efforts, the great masses of the country, and give him the power to make them a spoil. Seduction, delusion, persuasion, mixed with overbearing authority, will all be employed to make those of our countrymen who look only to government for protection, consign it to the hands of a man who will make it what government has always been elsewhere--the means of the subjugation of the honest multitude to the yoke of the artful and interested few. We do not believe that the independent and intelligent spirit of this country is yet prepared for such a change. And so believing, we look to the result of the November election as another great triumph of the cause of democracy in this country. To promote this result, we revive the publication of our cheap periodical paper. And to increase its efficacy, we propose to publish it twice instead of one each week, at the same price as formerly. We propose, too, to add to its strength by inducing the ablest and wisest, and best men of our country to contribute to its columns - Our whole heart and mind, from the first hour of its appearance, shall be devoted to give it interest and usefulness; and, with God's blessing, we trust it will render some service to our country.

The publication will commence with the proceedings and address of the Baltimore democratic convention. It will embrace all the important discussions during the canvass, and conclude by summing up its results, giving the votes for the presidential candidates in every State in the Union. It will, in one word, be a brief history of the eventful period it embraces; and, as it will have an index for easy reference, will make a volume worthy of preservation

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