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Newspaper
Huron Reflector
Location
Norwalk, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1844
Page
2
Mic Crayton concluded his address as the audience cheered. The speaker urged vigilance against foreign influence and called for lasting independence, quoting Tacitus and stressing the duty to protect the nation’s liberty.
The article examines two tariff systems in the 1840s United States: a revenue tariff that discriminates to maximize revenue by raising duties on imported goods, and a protective tariff that shields American industry from European competition. It argues that Polk favors revenue tariffs and Clay supports protection, with references to British and European economic conditions, wool growth in the West, and political appeals around the 1844 election. It also notes public debates, editorials, and a controversial letter about Polk’s stance and Catholic relief.
In Newark 1814 a Clay Club secretary asks Rev Dr Bascom for testimony on Henry Clay’s private character. Bascom responds that charges are wholly false, noting twenty years of trusted public service and upright character. A follow up letter from Bascom confirms his support and permission to publish.
The Whigs of Old Huron plan a mass meeting on September 4 with Hon William Corwin and Mordecai Bartley likely in attendance. Delegates and committees are named for refreshments staging seating ground music and marshaling duties. Abolitionists also announce meetings on September 3 and September 19 to nominate candidates.
A Locofoco mass meeting in Huron County drew about 250 attendees with 163 counted in the Court-House. Candidates nominated for county offices included Auditor Lorenzo D. Conger and Commissioner Daniel Sowers, with remarks by T. B. Sturges and E. M. Stone criticizing tariffs and Texas annexation.
The Madisonian notes a letter from Cassius M. Clay urging Whigs to frame the 1840 election around Texas and slavery. He argues for a war cry on liberty versus slavery, warns that Polk’s victory would widen splits, and suggests Clay’s views align with emancipation, while Tyler withdraws from the canvass.
A local anti slavery lecturer Timothy B Hudson is accused of hypocrisy and lynching support. The piece, reprinted from the Elyria Atlas, blasts him for attacking Henry Clay while involved in alleged mob justice and moral misdeeds at Oberlin Institute. It questions his fitness to lecture on slavery and cites John Quincy Adams on Clay.
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