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Day
6
Month
November
Year
1843
Copyright
Public Domain
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Some of the Whig papers,among which, we believe, is the N. Y. Gourièr, are proposing that Daniel Webster shall run on the Whig ticket as candidate for the Vice Presidency, in conjunction with Mr. Clay for the Presidency. This seems tobe a jndicious plan on the score of availability, if il be practicable. Clay being a slaveholder, can carry the South, while Webster's popularity in New England will secure the Yankee votes. It appears to us, however, that the order of the offices shouH be reversed; and Webster, who is intellectually much the superior of Mr. Clay, should be placed at the head of national affairs. But the slaveholders would not permit an Eustern man like Webster to be President. They could not trust his pro-slavcry orthodoxy. It is very doubtful whether Webster will accede to such an arrangement, by which he will be thrown out of all participation in national business, and become President over fifty Senators. Besides, Mr. Webster is not orthodox on two points of Whigs faith, which are material. He has pronounced a National Bank to be an "obsolete" idea; and he is for an interference with .the present Tariff by making commercial treaties, which, of course, will disarrange it entirely,and take the power of raising a revenue and protectingAmerican Industry from Congress, and vest it entirely with the Seríate and President. Also, if we have apprehended Mr. Webster rightly, he thinks the present Tariff rather high - too high to be permanent - ánd goes for such a modification as will secure ïts durabilily. These are serious obstacles in the way of such an arrangement, even supposing Webster should consent to it. We shall soon see the result. . . ■ r ti t 'John Q. Adnms, instead of making a Whig.. speech as the Clay Wliigs expected; in his address to his constituents took Liberty party ground. The Atlas says: "Although less was said upon the subjects of immediate interest, than was generally expected, it was listened to with intense interest by his crowded áudience. It treated principally oftheinjustice of the "property representation" of the South, allowed by the Consiitution - the rightof petition - the adrnission of Texés - the South Carolina law to imprison free colored seanien, and other topics of a similar character."

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