The Cecil Whig

FROM THE VILLAGE RECORD.

But we are told that Mr. Clay has two sets of principles—one for the North and one for the South. The slander is nailed to the counter, base as it is, by his very last speech delivered at Charleston, South Carolina.—The North is well satisfied with the creed as above laid down. Now to those who assert that he has a different one for the South, we commend the Speech referred to. It will be found in the Record to day. If at any place in the U. States, Mr. Clay could be tempted to violate or compromise his principles, it would be at Charleston,—the hot-bed of free trade, nullification, opposition to a Tariff and National Bank. This speech was delivered in the face of those who are at antipodes with almost his entire policy Read it and point out wherein it sustains the base charges which assail him on all sides. You will search in vain. There—in that free trade city—among the advocates and supporters of Calhoun and Hamilton and McDuffie—he stands up in defence of the American system, of a protective Tariff, of a National Bank! In the integrity of his character, he pours out all the powers of his eloquence in the very presence of the most violent adversaries of his principles. The example is truly sublime! His support of a Tariff and of a U. S. Bank, are as distinctly avowed as they had been in his general speeches, or as they would be before an audience of Pennsylvania or New England farmers.