Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1841-01-05

POLITICAL.

POLITICAL.
ygo l. TO RE THE HEAD OF THE GoyERSMESrr FAN
"T,jr ..ry.r FOUR YEARS, AND WIG AoAllNch Nv
| THE sJCcESSioN IT., =; eth .on,r
The President elect is known, but there Is sun son'e
doub, as to the who is to weld tie ESecu'e ~
er Whenever is ascertaned who is designated ior
tho successor by Federal Whggery then the seciet -
E,od "a IN The influence which IS to controi zen
Harrison's Administration. Ihai MI Siay sens Al
succession and looks to the policy Oh tue coming -,
ministralion to secure 1t 10 num- ~ .a ,dr,ncc
II. bas already taken the inltiaory steps IN
| =. 80 The lead In the Administration IN tnaL o"ee
to5. The question is, was the consent VI ..o;ed
Harrison for the movement he nus ''aue' 80. 49,,
THE necessary inference, on inc suppo' a. rasnact
Mr. Clay is not utterly wanting III 80, from the
g. cnn HARRISON is that he has warrant run ."e
D. ;dnt IN take n course before his inaugufauoh
which shall control his Administrator
| MIR CLAW has proposed to repeai tue WI 5,d
T',sury-has declared that the people nave aenaNaeu
ileasun election and has proclaimed that unless
49,; ho dore a called session OF Congress WIN oe t"e
onnsomcnce Now all this involves the a"'nos,ty aiu
,;", &c ,he President elect throughout AS lie re-
nresentatye of the majority, by whose suni 80 IN
goes into the Presidency Genelai uents require at
hs hands He expressly stated, during ms ,s' a.iu
i.s c,nyoss for the Presidency, that he nciu va
tional Bank to be unconstitutionai esta's' p;
and assured the country that he wouia NOT 10 ~
Ant violate his oath of office and sign ciaf'ei' uh'
lee 10 found it absolutely indispensable to The manage
80 If The finances, and the people demanded H.
n, cIav would BY epealing the Constitutional rea
,nrv net leave the President no alternative out 10
choose between the State Bank system, which ne mas
4 -onnd;,ted as incompetent, and National BANK,
,vh;cb he has pronounced unconstitutional. AND ny
h,t robt does Mr. Clay undertake TO say that the
neonle Of the United States by the election OF Gen
Harrison have pronounced against the existing lfea
sprv 81 ter, and placed their Chief Magistrate eject
under the necessity of employing inefficient or uncon
means managing the nnance
Mr. CLAY has been chosen by the people OF the
IT, S. as the representative or exponent oil ther prih-
cipes or policy and the issue was made before the
neople in former elections upon the constitutional
T,cosurv aud was not made in the last would even
he stretch of presumption in Harrison himself, as
their representative, to assert that they had decided
against it in rectng him to the Presidency. Mr.. Clay
however seems 10 consider that the late election mas
mt CONGRESS- the Presidency, the public affairs gene
ray entirely at his dsposal and if we were to Judge
from, pregnant indications, we should conclude that
| Gen Harrison of The same opinion
The President elect had no received suif
cien number Of the returns of the late election to rem
der his election certain than he posted straight TO Lex
npton TO see Mr.. Clay. He took with him his old
| Kentucky aid. dc-camp and present especial editor,
Col c. S. Todd, devout ldolator of Mr.. Clay from
his youth up to the present hour ms gentleman
married the daughter Of the late Gov. Shelby, and
thus became close connection of Mr., Clay, whose
wife is of the same family The conferences OF Cen
Harrison at Ashland had something more than political
intimacy mingled with them. The understandings at
Ashland were fact but 10 carry into effect those pre-
yiorsly entered into at the Harrisburg Convention,
which secured tic cordial support Of Slr Clay friends
In General Harrison. And we have no doubt the de-
tails were much agreeobly arranged in the family
circle than were those with Mr. Adams which set aside
altogether the adjourned question OF veracty, and
mode the appointment Of Secretary of State preml-
nary concession doing away the impeachment of the
anpoinee questioned honur, and an earnest oil sup
porting him for the Presidency as being placed IN the
| line of s'thc safe precedent
The arrangements at Lexington, it is evident, con-
template different mode of directing the force OF the
machinery If Government Mr. Clay selevation, than
those Of l-25 Mr. Clay is 10 take no office under the
I President bu, one above him The silent acfnescence
of the President elect and those he may associate with
his councils in the Mr. Clay has taken, CON.
promttinr them in advance, will be an admission OF
this and we are prepared to expect II. Mr.. Clay
journals in Kentucky, and Gen liarr,sons mouth
piece ut Cincinnati, conducted by Col Todd, publish
declarations made bv the President elect to the people
of Mr. CLAY S immediate vicinity directly after leaving
Ashland, which show that the family compact there,
consumma,r all that the political managers agreed on
at Harrisburg.
The Lexington Observer and Reporter brings together
the different versions Of General Harrison announce
ment from he Cincinnati and Louisville Journals, hut
they all amount the same thing Some OF them at-
tempt to disguise the meaning to prevent the concu
sion that Harrison has presented Mr. Clay preferred
by him TO succession, to rally his party upon him.
but no read the several reports OF the speech,
reflect on the circumstances under which it was made,
and obserr. the consequences of il, i'll the direction
which Mr. Clay has assumed ofal the legislation which
necessarily controls the policy OF the coming Admins
traton, without perceivng that Mr.. Clay is Gen. flar
rison IS Warwick.
cExEt IL h f5ss:s ks FIFE 2S'si ION
The following article appeared in the Louisville
J Journal short time since:
ga public entertainment was given the other day at
Versailles, Kentucky, to General Harrison. In the
course of the President elect and gaze toast in
honor Of Henry Ciay In the eloquent remarks 1oih
,cich he accompanied the sentiment he stated as IRE are
informed b. of his auditors, THAT HE CONSIDERED
MIR. CLAY IuE fITTEsT MAN Is the NATION FOR THE
PREsIDESor, AID THAT HIMSELF WOULD RESIGN
THE OFFICE AT ONCE, MS ARRIVAL AT WASHING
TON, WERE IT POSSIBLE FOR HIM, BY SO DOING, TO
CONFER IT on THE DISTINGUISHED kENTrcKIAs.
The Observer and Reporter then gives us the ver-
sion of the same remarks by the Louisville CITY Ga-
zette They were thus down by the Gazette, as
says, after conversation with Gen Harrison:
"Gen. Harrison cempmented Mr.. Clay in his speech
at Versailles, aud remarked that, one OF the ends o. ms
political life had been time to elect Mr. Clay 10
RI The Presidencp He had been eector on has ticket but
he had ncrcr sad that he could resign The chee al once
could he confera0n Mr. Clay lie remarked haf 50 tar
his pirate feelings and desires rcre conecrnea ne ma
aehicred crery thing icing elected The people had
eircn him laundering certificate, and rsered him en-"
tireiy from the pboquy and rproaeh cast upon ms rep"
! tuition by his enemies.
The Observe; and Reporter then gives the remark as
b, the special organ at Cincinnati, edited
bv Col Todd The authoritative account OF the express
sons as now ayowed by the President elect, is follows
"GEs HARrrsos At vERsAILLEs-The Louisville
Journal, upon he authority of correspondent, who
was present the dinner given to General Harrison at
Versailles under misapprehenson as to the charac
ter of his remarks connected with the toast IN honor OF
Mr. Clay The declaration that General Harrison SAID
she considered Mr. Clay the ttest man in the nation
for the Presidency; and that The himself would resign
the Office once his arrival at Washington, were 1T
possible for him. ty so doing confer it the dstn
auished Kcntuckiin, not warranted by any thing he
said upon that OCCASION He stated that for many years
it had been his desire, and the object of his efforts, to
place Mr.: Clay in the Presidency. He passed high
euogium upon his character and remarked at the con-
clusion of his sneech that the result of the election
having vindcated his own character from the calumnies
with which he had been assaed-he re-afirmed what
he had said on other OCCASIONS that he would gladly
far his feelings were concerned resign the once