Benjamin Watkins Leigh

This gentleman has astained some notoriety of late by having been the person who nominared Henry Clay for the Presidency, at theBaltimore Convention. He is a Virginian: and the follnwing extract from a speech of his in the Virginia Convention in 1829, wil! show thnt f he does not particípate in the sentiment attributed io Mr. Clay, that "white slaves" are necessary, he at least goes for disfranchising laborers, whatever may bc their colorí "J have as sincere a regard for that people (the laboring class) as any man that lives among thern. But I ask gentlemen tosny whether they heliere those who depend on their daily labor for their daily bread, can ordo evir enter intn poWical, affairs THEY NEVER DO- NEVKR W1LL - NEVER CAN."Beautiful Whiggery, sn't it7 Bot just such as prevails among the Slaveholding Whigs. We thought of cutiing off ihisarticle here.but lest the Democrats should think us partial ín our attentions, we will add the following piece of Democracy by Mr. Pickens,of S. C. in Congress. Jaa. 21, 1836. "All society settles down into a classification ot Capitalista and Laborers. The fokmf.k will OWN the lattek, eiiher collectively throurh the Government, or individually in a tnte of Domestic Servitude, such as exists in the Southern States of this Confederacy. If Laborers ever attain the politica! power of a country,iT is, in fact, IW A STATE OF REVOLUTION." Reader! Here is Democracy and Whiggery - can yon choose between these ""two evils'?