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….”
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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”
Georgia On My Mind
The Calhoun and Van Buren factions of the Democratic party in Georgia have been quarrelling about their late defeat, each charging the other with being the cause. They may as well have contented themselves with the true cause, namely — the magic name of “H E N R Y C L A Y,” and the noble and patriotic principles of the WhigContinue reading “Georgia On My Mind”
Our Country’s Hope
SAINT LOUIS CLAY CLUB SONG. Respectfully dedicated to the Clay Club of St- Louis. Tune — “Rosin the Beau.” Come all ye bold lads of old ’40, Who rallied ’round Tippecanoe, And give us your hearts and your voices, For Harry the noble and true. Come show the whole world that our spirit IsContinue reading “Our Country’s Hope”
JAMES D. MACDONALD 