“ Have you decided to imitate the glorious example of the great and good Washington—to give your vote for 'PRINCIPLES and not for MEN?' If you have not, or do not yet so decide--then we think you fail to perform the most sacred act of duty to your country--and for which you must one day render an account! ”

“ After him comes Judge Douglass, Joseph P. Hoge, and others in the West—unwilling to favor Protection, and afraid to advocate Direction Taxation,—have hit upon a most admirable sort of 'go-between' policy, which they have christened a 'Revenue point Tariff.' To ascertain correctly the principles of the party at any given point, we must, like the mariner on the trackless ocean, first take a reckoning, and ascertain the latitude.
How different from the Whig party! The Whigs go for a Protective Tariff everywhere! ”

“ In the course of a few weeks the voters of the 6th district will be required to exercise the invaluable right of suffrage in favor of a candidate for Congress. On the first Monday of August next that important period will be here, and, in view of its near approach, and the momentous bearing, for good or evil, its result may have upon the public welfare, it becomes all who feel interested, and who entertain correct views of National and State policy, to banish every disposition to sluggishness, and, at once put forth their utmost energies to secure a favorable issue. ”

“ Let us select from the roll of patriot statesmen whose names have been presented to the public consideration, the individual who shall concentrate the voices of a majority of this Convention, inscribe his name on our banner, and then fearlessly give it to the breeze. Free be it flung. Let it float, and float gallantly in the coming strife. Plant it on your mountain heights, unfurl it in your midlands, and fanned by the winds of the ocean, let it wave in triumph over your Eastern plains. ”

“ We have already seen that the destruction of manufactures would drive those now engaged in that business into agriculture; and by the loss of the home market, and by the increased competition in agriculture, the prices of the products of the former would decline to a ruinous extent.
The farmer has as direct an interest in the protective policy as the manufacturer. In the first place, he enjoys as much protection upon his products as the manufacturer does upon his fabrics. But the great advantage to the farmer arises from the home market which manufactures create. ”

“ Compared with the foreign, the home market is the most valuable, in every respect. A market in a manufacturing district, at home, is always more sure than any foreign market. The demand is constant, and may always be relied upon; whereas the foreign market is always uncertain. Suppose that one of western states had 100,000 barrels of flour to dispose of annually, and they looked to great Britain for a market. ”

“ The opposition are busily engaged in making preparations for that contest—they are marshalling all the strength possible to bring to bear upon it—and will doubtless put in requisition every art—every device—every species of cunning and management—deemed essential to success.—Consequently the necessity of vigorous counteracting efforts on the part of the Whigs, is absolute imperious. They have it in their POWER to triumph, gloriously triumph, if they but WILL, the most strenuous exertions of the enemy to the contrary notwithstanding. ”

“ We do not believe that, since the election in 1840, one vote, even, has gone over to our opponents. We do not believe that there is one man, who, on that memorable occasion, gave his hearty and unbiased support to 'Harrison and Reform,' but who will now, if he votes at all, give that vote in favor of 'Walker and Whig Principles!' The Principles of the party have undergone no change—whatever the party itself may have done. ”

“ In itself, it lays the very foundation, as it were, of the manufacturing, and, in truth, all the great business interests of the country. Independent of the operation of some such system, those interests cannot prosper—must stagnate and cause general distress and ruin. It is essentially American in its character—American interests are protected, American prosperity advanced. Now in existence the Whigs are desirous that it should continue so—while the Locofocos wish to repeal it, and thus favor foreign competition and destroy Home Industry. ”

“ There is an identity of interest between the manufacturer and the agriculturalist. They are not enemies, nor even rivals, but intimate friends. Viewed on a large and liberal scale, manufactures and agriculture are only different departments of the same great system of national industry; and whatever tends to give prosperity to the one, will give prosperity to the other. ”

“ It is only a stronger incentive to exertion. If we have been baffled in our attempts to restore the country to its wonted prosperity, by the treachery of those in whom
we have trusted, let us hurl the traitors and their sycophants and advisers to the dust! ”

“ Cyrus Walker, the Whig candidate, has within the last few weeks been busy cultivating the acquaintance of his fellow citizens throughout the district, and making a candid and explicit expose of his political sentiments. We certainly do not transcend the bounds of truth when we say, that he has honestly and attainments in an eminent degree—that, accomplished as a public speaker, he is a strong and eloquent advocate of whatever cause he may espouse, and a sound political economist. ”

“ Fellow-citizens—Democratic Whigs—honest voters of the 6th district, without distinction of party!—we have given you above a fair representation of the characters of the two gentlemen who ask your suffrages for a seat in Congress. It is not a difficult matter to choose between them. The one one is the ardent, sincere friend to your true interests--the other would adopt a policy calculated to destroy those interests. ”

“ We are anxious that the people should correctly know and understand his position.—Let it be distinctly understood that, while he would tear down the structure the Whigs propose erecting—would crush in the bud every Whig project designed for the National benefit—he suggests no substitute—no cure for the disease affecting the entire body politic.—This is an important consideration and ought to weigh heavily upon the minds of all who duly regard the country's welfare. ”

“ I am proud to say that I am in favor of domestic manufactures.—Experience has taught me that manufactures are now as necessary to our independence, as to our comfort."
From Gen. Jackson's letter to Mr. Coleman, in 1824, on the subject of protection, written only seventeen days before he voted in the United States Senate, for the high Protective Tariff of that year:
"What is the real situation of the agriculturalist? Where has the American farmer a market for his surplus produce! Except for cotton he has neither a foreign nor a home market. ”

“ Plato, speaking of passionate persons, said they are like men who stand on their heads; they see all things the wrong way.
PRINTER'S PROVERBS Pay the printer in the day that thou owest him, that thy food annoy the not, nor thy rest be disturbed by the night-mare, For like the troubled ocean must be the dreams of him that oweth the printer. The tailor covereth thee with raiment, the butcher furnisheth the fat of the kine, and they receive their reward. How laboreth the printer to store they mind with the fat of knowledge, and enlighteneth thy understanding with the glimmerings of science! ”

“ They have check the corrupt and unblushing use of Executive patronage, have reduced the annual expenditure of the Government by a retrenchment of some ten million of dollars, and have passed many wholesome laws, whose effects are gradually developing themselves. Having done this their appeal is now to their political associates, by whom they were deputed, and never in the annals of history, has any body of men exhibited the same steady firmness and resolute adherents to principles which have been displayed by the great whig party throughout the Union. ”

“ Truth, soul and injustice, are embodied in the following beautiful remarks from the Hartford Courant:
'If humanity presents a noble and sublime spectacle, it is when a pure and lyfty patriot regardless of self and devoted to the good of his country, even in the midst of calumny and reproach, persues the path of duty, and patiently awaits the approval which time must at length bring. ”

“ He presents himself to the people as an ardent uncompromising democratic Whig—as a politician of the Jeffersonian school—and as the friend and advocate of all those questions which promise to secure the "greatest good of the greatest number." ”

“ Hoge wishes to inflict a fatal blow upon the public interests—we hope he sincerely desired the people's prosperity—but as the course he would pursue is of evil and destructive tendency, we are justified in bringing the charge against him. ”

“ In case of hostilities with a great maritime power, like Great Britain, whether our commerce were with her or with any other foreign nation, it would be in a great degree cut off, so that the foreign market would fail. ”

“ The retirement of such a man has greater power than all the seductive patronage with which the weak, the treacherous, and the evil minded, may attempt to purchase a mercenary support.—While crowds impelled by curiosity may throng to gaze idly on the man of the hour—the man of the age! ”

“ The truth is, the hostility evinced by the locofocos towards the tariff, originates in mere party pique.—Every one must see that its effects have been in the highest degree encouraging, and that under its beneficial operations the country is fast recovering from the lethargy which has enthralled her. ”

“ Should not then every subscriber to a paper—do as he would be done by, and thus fulfil the golden rule—cancel at once his printer's account, be it more or less—that he may not be the one of the thousand, or the five thousand, or even the fifty, who may think that because the debt is small, it is of little consequence to the printer. ”

“ A party betrayed by its leader, and furiously pressed by its adversary has refused to yield an inch, but standing to its arms, awaits the expiration of armistice limited by the Constitution, eager for the renewal of the conflict. The note of preparation is heard on every side. Our Whig brethren throughout the Union are busily employed in mustering their forces, in selecting their leaders, in arranging the plan of the campaign, &c.
One division of this patriot host is committed to our peculiar care. ”

“ Audubon is in no respect the agent of the government and his expedition is wholly unconnected either with the politics or commerce of the country. It is purely scientific, and at his own private expense. The government, as is usual in such cases, affords his party a safe convoy from one military post to the other, and such protection and assistance as are consistent with the military department. ”

“ The privilege of presiding over the deliberations of a body of freemen as intelligent as patriotic as those I see around me, might gratify the ambition of any man. To me, certainly, it will always be a source of pleasing and grateful recollection. ”

“ It is a curiosity to find a lawyer who pleads a cause successfully for you, and then docks off a portion of the fees.
It is a curiosity to meet with a man who thinks less of himself than other people think of him. ”

“ But there is need of energy, of vigilance, of ACTION. There is need of unanimity and concert. A failure to achieve the glorious results which the great victory of 1840 promised us, affords no reasonable ground for inaction now. ”

“ The grand measures of public policy he is in favor of, oft enumerated, and ably sustained by himself, will, as we conceive, bear the test of the most rigid scrutiny. They have frequently been discussed and pronounced sound and of whole some tendency by the most talented and distinguished men of the age. ”

“ He is tall and strongly but elegantly built; his features, however, and hands are small to effeminacy, and his countenance, it must be confessed, shows traces of age, particularly about the eyes. Lady Blessington is still a beauty, though she evidently has seen her best days. ”

“ Opposing parties may for a time retard his upward progress, but where is the opponent who dare assail his honor? While magnanimity, and courage, and truth, are admired among men—while falsehood and selfishness and treachery are despised—the name of Henry Clay will be honored throughout the world. ”

“ It is supposed that the Americans are held in more favour in the Celestial Empire than the English, and, should Mr. Cushing be received as Minister, there is much reason to expect arangements between that Government and ours, as advantageous as any which may be entered into with Great Britain. ”

“ The Examiner, alluding to this disgraceful affair, says--There seems to be but one opinion, one feeling, as to the insult offered to the American minister at Oxford. At no pot house meeting of the lowest rabble, could worse manners, worse taste, and worse feeling have been exhibited. And to crown the decency, zeal for religion is the plea put forth for the rude breach of all the rules of hospitality and courtesy to a stranger. The defence, bad as it is, is untenable, for honorary degrees have been conferred on persons not even professing Christianity ”

“ We are confident that a large majority are in favor of them, and will any refuse to support Mr. Walker as the faithful representative of those measures? Doubtless they will not.
Of Joseph P. Hoge, the Locofoco Candidate, we are not inclined to say much, because, politically, nothing of a favorable nature can be said. We believe he sustains a fair reputation as a lawyer and a citizen. It is not our wont to speak of the private character of candidates for office; its sanctity we never invade ”

“ The following document will show that the public debt on the 4th of March, 1841, the time when the Van Buren Administration went out of power, amounted to $7,480,692 18. Beside this there were outstanding demands against the Treasury to the amount of $35,577,325 20; and to meet this vast indebtedness the Locofoco Administration left in the Treasury the paltry sum of $862,055 81. Thus it it will be seen that the public debt has been created by the Locofocos, and the the attempt of Mr. Hoge to charge it upon the Whigs is vain and futile. ”