Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1841-07-31
From the St. Louis Bulletin.
"MOTHER! CALL HER We FIRST"

nTA little girl in one OF the doubtful neigh
borhoods in New Orleans hastily impressed the
foregoing admonition upon her mother, in preceiv
ing by her language and bearing that quarrel
would probably ensue between herself and 6
neighboring lady, and it would seem that some
Of the leading friends Of Mr.. Clay understand the
tactics, and intend to practice upon them upor
the larger scale Of national politics. The Louis
vile Journal, for instance-the editor Of which
was the biographer of the distinguished Kentuck
ian, and who is assumed more than any other mar
to represent his feelings and purposes-holds the
following language in reference to the anticipated
action Of President Tyler, and his friends, upon
the Bank question:
"There cannot be doubt that ambition is at the
bottom of all this trouble at Washington. The
Presidential aspirants have resolved that the peo.
pie shall be disappointed, simply that Mr.. Clay may
not have the honor of having executed their wishes
Mr.. Clay is the acknowledged leader of the Whig
party and representative Of Wing principles; and,
occupying his present position, the triumph of
Wing measures would be his triumph. This, it
seems, must at all hazards be prevented. His bill
to establish National Bank must be defeated
though it is precisely the kind of bank the people
expected, because he would be entitled to large
portion of the credit of its passage Such is ambi.
ton. We trust that Mr. Clay, and those who act
with him, will stand immovable as rock, BY the
principles of the Whigs.''
Aye, too well, and too truly may il be said that
"ambition is at the bottom of all this trouble at
Washington" but it is the ambition which promp.
ted HENRY CLAY 10 his overthrow in 1924, and
which Is destined if he refrain not in time, to again
place the seal of reprobation o., his aspirations
and his plans-aad foreUer! Was it, or not, the
ambition OF HENRY CLAY, to be the Caesar OF
the Wing party, which prompted the contcmeli-
Gus rejection OF the admirable compromise PIE
scented in the bill he himself had called forth from
the treasury, but the adoption OF which would have
Injured too much to the honor and advantage OF
THOMAS EWING and JOHN TYLER? And is it, or
is it not, to the same compound of jealousy and
ambition that we are indebted for the declaration
which occurs in previous paragraph Of the ar.
tlcle from which we have quoted, that rather evea
than have the single amendment Of Mr.. Rives
in the bank bill Of Mr.. Clay, the editor of the
Journal ''should infinitely prefer none!"
tbs evident from the foregoing, and everything
else we see and hear around US, that il Mr.. CLAY
has thrown aside his "bullets, and braggers," his
bographer and friends have inherited enough OF
his mantle to leave the country in NO doubt as to
the game they intend to play for the succession.
We are not adept enough in the 'science" to
know precisely whether or not to "brag back
again in reference to that part of the article
which assumes that "Mr. Clay is the acknowledg.
ed LEADER of the Wing party" but we desire to
assure all whom it may concern, that while we
hold "the same hand which extorted and won the
compromise at Harrisburg, WE CANNOT BE BLUFF.
Ed"
We will, therefore, "see" Mr.. Clay, or, rather,
we will see those in our own quarter, who play
his cards; and in this we pretend to no proficiency
in the game beyond knowing how to "count it and
keep it,"