Herald Of The Times

The following article from the N. Y. Courier & Enquirer, of Saturday last, will give the reader an idea of the Clay Convention of young men, which is to assemble at Baltimore this day.

The Baltimore Convention.

The gathering of Whigs at Baltimore on Wednesday and Thursday next, will be one of the most glorious and magnificent ever witnessed in this country. For some weeks past we have received in our exchanges from every part of the U. States, most glowing accounts of the preparations made to send thither large and enthusiastic delegations, and we see in every quarter, mention made of hundreds and thousands of Whigs wending their way to that great centre of political attraction. From Arkansas and the remote west, delegates have already reached Baltimore in considerable number; and from the North and East, a deluge of true-hearted friends of Harry Clay and the American System, is pouring through the avenues of public travel into the great sea which will there be gathered. Vermont, always in the van when British bayonets are to be driven back or British machinations to be exposed and defeated, has already started off more than two hundred of her brave mountaineers for the tented field. Fifty come from Bennington, the county of Stark and of Warner, and the field where their bright though blood-bought laurels were won. The beautiful town of Burlington alone sends over thirty, with that staunch, true-hearted Clay Whig, Harry Bradley at their head; and from both sides of the Green Mountain chain, the best and the bravest of the sons of Allen are rallying in hundreds around the banner of Clay and the Constitution. From every section of the Empire State great numbers of delegates have already arrived and thousands more are on their way. All the Eastern States will be nobly represented, and from every section of the Union thousands upon thousands will come up, to give overwhelming moral power to the movement, that is to sweep corruption and misrule forever from our land.

The gathering at Baltimore will be one of the most interesting and impressive spectacles of the age. Widely scattered as they are in local situation, strong as are their attachments to their own States, and important as their sectional interests seem to be, the people of every part of the Union will here be gathered together, rallying around great interests which are thoroughly national, and therefore concern them all. The owner of the sugar fields of Louisiana comes to defend that great principle of Protection to every interest that is American, against the hostility of all foreign rivalry; that principle is as dear to him as it is to the manufacturer of the East, because it is a national principle and the support of everything American. The cotton planter, the cultivator of rice fields, in the Southern States, the dealers in pitch, tar and naval stores from the forests of Carolina, the tobacco planter in the Old Dominion, the trapper and hunter from Missouri, the lead digger of the North West, rich in mineral and agricultural wealth, the wheat grower in Ohio and the Western States, the hemp growers of Kentucky, the dwellers in the canebrakes of Arkansas, the miners, and substantial farmers of Pennsylvania, the manufacturers of every section of the Union, the merchants, artizans and laborers of every State, the representatives of every interest and of every class that glory in the pride of being American, will then be congregated in earnest, joyous, enthusiastic defence of their mutual rights, and their common interests and in vindication of the honor, the welfare and the prosperity of their common country. The friends of Law and Order from gallant Rhode Island will go there to protest against the infamous radicalism which would let loose anarchy and confusion upon the laws of the land. The great commercial and other business classes will then demand of the national government, the equal and uniform currency which is the very life blood of an enterprising nation. The friends of the Constitution will go thither to denounce and dethrone the unprincipled demagogues who have trampled upon its most sacred provisions, who have trodden under foot laws made in strict conformity with it, and done every thing they could to destroy its influence and annul its power. The Sons of Liberty go to check the progress of that Executive usurpation which is fast assuming to itself the right to dictate to the legislative department of the government, to veto its enactments at pleasure and to convert to its own base uses all the power and patronage which the Constitution has entrusted to its care. The several States of the federal Union go thither to demand of the General Government the share of the proceeds of the sales of the Public Lands to which they are entitled, and of which they stand in pressing need. The friends of peace and prosperity go to protest against the fearful disregard of the honor of the nation and the preservative of peaceful relations with all the world, evinced by the alacrity with which a chance for re-nomination to the high office, he has once accidentally reached and forever thoroughly disgraced, is seized upon by the individual who now occupies the Executive Chair, at the expense of a long and bloody war, having its origin in an infamous breach of national faith and looking to conquest of a foreign state as its ultimate object. Americans, who feel a proper pride in the character and integrity of their country, go thither to denounce in the most emphatic manner, the foul repudiation of public debts which Loco Focoism has encouraged in several of the States and defended in others; and to set in operation influences which shall effectually redeem our beloved land from the black dishonor which has thus been suffered to fall upon her and to place her again among the proudest and the noblest, as she is among the greatest and the freest, of the nations of the Earth.

The Whigs of the Union have motives enough to stir a nation to its centre. Every consideration of national faith, of national honor, of public and of private good, every thing connected with the position and interests of every section of the country, impel them to action of the most vigorous and determined character. We rejoice to know that they are fully animated by all these high and ennobling motives; and that the Baltimore Convention will, under their influence, give an impetus to the movement of the great Whig party which will result in the elevation to the Presidency of Harry of the West and the redemption of the American Union from the disgrace and blight which have fallen upon it.