Communications: For The Signal Of Liberty: The Bone Of Conte...

Messrs. Editors:- What is now the bon of conienlion between the whigs and locofo cos? Is it a National Bank? By no means It is true that the Hon. Mr. Howard says h is in favor of an old fasbioned U. S. Bank.- But, does his primary, Mr. Clay, eny an about a bank now-a-days? Has he giv en any recent intimations that he intends t hang li is chance for the presidency on an in stituüon of tliat kiüd? Not he. Mr. Cla has too mucli sense to supposo the people ar desirous of having any more "tinkering of th currency" for a long time to come. H knows full well that it is as sound, to say th least, ai this moment, as it ever was in th besi days of the old Bank. And he knows too, that the pcople understaud it, and huv no desire for a change. To attempt to make a perfcctly sound cor rency better by officious ntermedling, M Clay, very well knuws, if Mr. Howard doe not, would b? like the quack doclor who, al althcugh in the enjoyment of complete healtl had a notion to be better, and took inedicin which destroyed his life. And it is to b hoped that Mr. Howard aod all others wi have the good sense tobe warned by the un lucky doctor's Epitaph- "I was well- 1 woul be beiter, T took medicine- and here I am. Does any body supposethe locofocos hav the least thoutrht of resting thejr side of th question on au Independent Sub-Treasury? - It is a mistake. Tliey have no such Ihought Tliat short li ved of&pring of Mr. Van Buren' udminitílration received its last burial in 1841 Tt lies still side by side with the old whig Bank, in John Tyler's Ceraetery. "Peace t its ashee," say it pro genitors. "LetMl neve be disturbed1 The only thing which is harped pon, i these Jatter days, as a fit object for rallying the parties and ever bringing thern into conflic with each other, is the Tariff. And this, af ter all, proves to bfe a one-sided question. - The Whig and Locofoco candidatos for Con grcss in this District, Messrs. Howard anc McClelland, if their own testimony is wortr any thing, are both Clay-Tariif men . And the latter gentleman tells fhe people o Washtenaw that Mr. Calhoun and Mr. Van Buren, and Mt. Buchanan, and Col. Johnson and Gen. Cass, are all Tariff men to the baci bone. Even the great nulh'fier of South Carolina, it seems, from recent developments, habeen belied by lus fnends and his enemies.- Every body called him a free trade man which necessarily implied that hc was n favor of direct toxation for the 6upport of Go vernment. But he eays in a letter to his frienc in Louisiano, "I am, and always have been o cpinion that the duties on imposts, and the proceeds of the sales of the public lands, are the legitímate source of the revenue of the Union; and that it will prove a severe trial to the Federal Government, when it shall be forccd to resort to internal taxes to meel its ordinary expense.;' It secms, then, that the whole routine o: Ihe locofoco leaders are Clay-Tariff men. - And how do they diiïèr from Mr. Clay himeelH Po they diner at aJl? Ah! Ihe fë is a shadow of diflerence; and it is for this shadotc that the parties are to be marshalled againet each other on the sixth of next month, pre - paratory to the great and final battle of 1344. The difference between the whig and loco foco Tariff men seems to be based upon th" proceeds of the public lunds. While the whig-s would have a Tariff sufficient to cover all the expenses of the Government, (about SO miülftis, according to MrHoward.) the loco focos would have about twb millions less 6upp!ying the deficicncy with'the proceeds of the sales of the public lands. The real question, then, befween the parties, the questien which is to produce the contest in 1844, á foretaste of which is to be enacted on the eixth of November, is simply whether there ahall be 28 or 30 millions of dollars raised annually in the United States by imports? Most truly, the great battle of 1844, between the whigs and locofoco?, is to be fought for the shadow of their "great meapures," the subslance having disappeared. Whigs and locofoco?, who amon you will have the weakness to gird on the armor, and prepare to batile each other, as you did in 1840, for such a trifle? Remember, you are to fight for the shadow, and not for the subBtance; and that your leaders are the only pereons who have an interest in the issue. Thev want yon to help thein tohe "Joaves and the fishes" of the Government. Will yoa be foolish enough to do it? We shall see. T, for ene, ehall not degrade myself by joining in your fight. A higher and a nobler object engages my nttention. Instead of fighting for shadows, it shall be my aim to carry out the principies of '76. When 1 come to the ballot box I intend to carry reinember that "all men are created free and eqnai," and vote accordiugly. "Go, and do thou likewise.''