Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1830-08-13

U The Va. tt'apquler) sGazettes of the 7th,
jackson paper, observes
Tie opposition candidate is Formidable one a
all times, and appears recently to have been cheerer
tysorn9s who have heretofore been found ID oppos
ton oliirn. Should Gen.. Juckson retire,st is moi
believed there is any man in the United Stnies who
would succeed aga inst Harry Clay q
"A Correspondent of the N. Y. Journal of Com
merce, who isI fspofted tobe an admuisixation man
has already pnblirhed hs estimate eff the probable
state Of The nofl in lS3Shs calculations can 30 nc
harnsoF good he sets down for Gen. jackson, the
votesS0f Ne& Hampshire, Pennsylyania Virginia
North csrolina. s9uih Carolina, Georgia, Alabama,
Mississippi and Tennessee, 145, whilst he allots to
Mr.. Clay, the votes of Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode
Island. Connecticut. Vermont New JERSEY, Delaware,
Maryland, Louisiana, Kentucky, Ohio. Missuor Hli-
noIs, and indiana, making I46. We have no evil
dence before to support this calculation, but
OF MfsCays friends il to be less favorable than
they calculate the resultS*to be. They state the
white populatIon of the u. States to be as to in
favor of.fhe American policy, which Gen Jackson's
Vetoes are IN opposition to, and that presunng
OF those who support the doctrine will look prn-
eptes anc not men, ii is fair to infer the majority will
! be- greater than thutset down. On the other hand
the friends of the administration challenge the proof
OF any material falling of from those who gave Gen
Jackson the overwhelming majority he received at
the last election
There has been meeting of Mr. Claws friends
In Westmoreland county, and they have nominated
hm for the Presidency. In Virginia he has many
personal friends, who admire his talents, and not
some time since to his prejudice, believe him to be
Jealous patriot, devoted to the prosperity and glory
CT his country"
The hberality Of the Gazette is as rare as COM
mendable Our contemporary will scold him for this
frankness, and if any little pap" is gong-any Post
oihcs' Navy Commissioner, Land Office adver-
tlsemcnt-he need not expect spoonful As to the
proof which the friends Of the Administration re-
quife--we must be content at present, with Offering
the case OF Observation-Disclosures Members of Con.
gress, Legislature, all for Clay--in month or so.
alter farther tests have been applied. we will cite
kentucky and OHIO, evidence of farther falling
Qt--in November, the Van Burenites will be routed
in New York, after which there will be general
rush to get into the Clay ranks Very possibly
there will be farther exhibition of consistency in
| certain quarter--a gradual cessation of abuse Of
Clay, an occasional quotation his favor, as evidence
of success rnutipies, finally another ''curse' con
verted into Patriot, Sage. and Father of his
Country. Nous Ferrous
u The New York Sentinel, (the organ of til,
Wright, Skidmore, and Agrarian division of th
wv erkIng Men--that IS to say of those followers
the PHILOSOPHERS of Parelellograms," Robert Owen
who have borrowed the coat of the Working Men t.
hide their Interior vews disclams deduction of Thu
paper, that the Working Men rejected Jackson, anc
would support Clay candidate of their own ant
III It's sinPerinEs, tyie of randeraion seems
to wonder that such conclusion should be drawn
against the evidence afforded by It's columns. 1t so
happens, that the Eoening journal is viewed as the
true organ of the true Working Men, and not tie
Sentine--and the victory in the 9Th Ward, and many
other circumstances establish its claim to the dis
tinction.
TIE Sentinel itself sustains our conclusion in part
son the contrary, says the Sentnel) it is their uni
versal opinion (the Working Men's) that they ,oiU
haze a Candidate Of their Dn" So they willard
that Candidate will be Henry Clay--the signs pro-
claim 1.-THE true leaders of the party are that way
and Clay is already the candidate OF the brethren
ofthe Working Men, in the West. Between Clay
and the w orkng Men. there is an nvincible sympa-
thy, which makes their support oil him inevitable
The enemies ofthe Working Mems party-the Re-
gency and it's satelhtes-Van Buren, and his tools
their sanderers and calumnators are the slanderers
and caumniators of Henry Clay. Interest sympa-
thy, community of purpose, and Of enemies, all con-
ctr TO grapple together the cause Of the Working
Men and of Henry Clay--and ito that complexion
the Working Men will surely "come at last
THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST IL, 1880.
- The Columbia Telescope repubsl,es the OBJ
servations of the Richmond Enquirer, giving asst
RANGES that ''the danger was over" in S. Carolina
and that statute of notification would be passed.
with the following remarks apparently from a
correspondent: