ONWARD! Tune.— Rory O’More. Onward! — speed onward! and spread to the gale, The time-honour’d banner our fathers once bore, And fast to the mast-top the star spangles nail, ‘Till our country’s great conflict is gloriously o’er! They fought for that freedom, so long our proud boast — They perill’d their fortune, their honour, theirContinue reading “Patriots for Clay”
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The More Things Change….
FACTS FOR THE PEOPLE. The Tariff question is now a settled question with the people. The Whigs have always espoused the cause of American agriculture and manufactures. The mass of all other parties are favorable to the Tariff; and, it is only through the deep, plotting designs of a British faction of Southern demagogues, thatContinue reading “The More Things Change….”
Alas, the Alarm Clock Had Yet to be Invented
Written for the National Clay Minstrel. WAKE UP WHIGS, ALL COME ALONG FOR HARRY CLAY. Tune. — The Cracovienne. Ye voters all throughout the land, For Clay and Freedom nobly stand, In the brick-bat Tyler’s place, Clay must rub out our land’s disgrace. Wake up Whigs, all come along, (Repeat) For Harry Clay we’ll goContinue reading “Alas, the Alarm Clock Had Yet to be Invented”
How I Brought the Good News from Aix to Ghent
TIT FOR TAT. The following anecdote of Mr. Clay, at Ghent, is worth repeating. Being on a tour through the Netherlands preparatory to the negotiation, Hon. Henry Goulbourn, one of the British commissioners, procured and sent him a file of London papers, containing accounts of the burning of Washington by the British troops, with aContinue reading “How I Brought the Good News from Aix to Ghent”
The Clearest Case for Jury Nullification That I’ve Ever Seen
The person (or one of the people) who exposed the Steubenville Rapists has been charged with computer hacking, and faces ten years in jail. The indictment was handed down a week ago on Thursday, the 7th of July. The two convicted rapists got one and two years, and both of them are already out andContinue reading “The Clearest Case for Jury Nullification That I’ve Ever Seen”
JAMES D. MACDONALD 