Mobile register and journal., 1841-12-24
HENRY CLAY AND THE HON. THOS. MAR
 SHALL OF KENTUCKY.

SHALL. OF MEN II Okht.
 Sketch of the Hon. Thomas F. Marshall, of Ky at
 Browns Hotel, made on the evening of Wedhes- day the Sth instant, Tn presence oi forty or hity gentlemen, all of whom can verify the following
 remarks and particularly the Hon. Mir. iangun, of North Carolina, to whom they were chieily ad-
 dressed.
 MT. Marshall remarked in substance as follows s'I came to Congress with the purest feelings and most patriotic motives, thinking alone ot my country and her welfare, but 1 had the misfortune 10 come from district formerly represented ny MT Clay, and I soon saw it was expected that should be nothing but Cidg friag-there never WAS greater mistake -I was not the man to become thing of Ar. Ciay's friag or any body else fTing. had been the best friend he ever had, and came here with the same feelings of friendship for him. Well, went into caucus with my party, and such Tngs as saw there astonshed me mot a man Tn CAUCUS thought oi hls country or patriotism, but at it they went for Presii dent making. Mir. Clay proposed that the Whig party m Congress should begin by calling on the Executive Department for its plan of Bank. ] opposed this because l thought it wrong to ask Department to originate measure which 1t was he duty of Congress to originate. But the thing was determined on, ani when the Executive measure came, Mr. Clay woui not take it, but brought forward his own nieasure and being the leader of his party, he would not sultr an, body else to speak in the Senate, but Tor six weeks he daily held forth and harangued on the Banl bill All this time the House of Representatives lay low;-hey had the gag upon ileIr mouths, and not man dared say sBank' once. At last Mir. Clay, tnd- ing that he could not pass his bill and might make himself President by Il compromise, came oui and surrendered every principle that was dear to s patty he swapped his principles for his chance oi the Presi- dency-he agreed that lhe general government after passing it's laws, was to be sent round bowin. and scraping, cap in hand to each of the States for their consent. Gracious God. what Il compromise!-"hat a swappipg was that! He would swamp any thing on earth for the Presidency. He damned oii John c. Adams day, and praised him the next for the purpose of reaching the Presidency but it won't do- the American people won't touch Henry Clay with Il forty foot pole-hc can never be President during my natural life. Here MT. Mangum interrupted Mr. Marshall by saying-'sa IS all Hae, whatever you say about that compromise, but the subject is too painful and don't let us talk about t.' Mr. Marshall replied ''Bul will talk about--l like to talk about it. We'll sir, Mr. Clay got Tyler into what call fix ing, and then he thought his game safe. You might suppose Mir. Clay by his looks to say-''flave not done the pretty thing and kicked up dust!'' Why sir he reminded me of the inflated Indian, who struted about saying-'Whoop, Captain John, big man me-" (It is impossible to give any idea of the irresistably droll and comic manner of hr. Marshall as he represented Henry Clay in the swaggering oi the conceited Indian. lis enough to say, that the room ss ,as ,gs,.,gr aor he as, , ,yn",v n. vsss. I9e isis 1!l!ll ghead of every kentuckian, but have done with sdcn swappers and compromsers as he. And in saying this, may be putting period to my own political existence, for when go home expect to find such of my constituents as Mir. Clay influence rearing np against me- can't kelp It. am honest, and have personal ambition, though l take no credit myself for saying so, because there is not dog in Congress who does not continually say the same thing, Now look at Dan. of Webster- poor feow-Clay had hm taken out the Senate where his magnificent qualities shone in spendor for the last twenty years. Webster has not dared to look at Henry Clay and say his soul soas his own" Look at that man, the greatest that the Amightycreated with all those intellectual gifts which nature has so profisely lavished upon him-leok at hm-see him degraded and abused his character blasted and his hopes crushed, because he wants the great prin- ciple of personal courage to say, "hee am." As for John Tyler, l can only say, that we have made but little progress republic ii after of more than fifty years, we have descended from George Washington as President to John Tyler. If we go on in that ratio where will be fifty years hence?'
 Out of the numerous auditory who listened to those public and eloquent remarks of Mr. Marshall, there could not be who for moment doubted the hon- esty of the man. Wild and reckless as he may be, and indeed he acknowledged himself to be, there geans forth in all that he says the highest lusire of true chivalry, and the unquenchabe fire, of mind the traest the bodes, he ciearest in it's reasonngs. It is plain that his spirit is lofty and honest to fol- low the crooked ways ol willy politicians.
 '.The reed m storms may bow and quver,
 ''Then rise agan-the tree must shiver.''
 Upon the subject of the finances, the President has furnished the most satisfactory evidence, that there occasion for calling an Extra Session, in May last, to replenish the public Treasury, and that if the extra session had not been called, there would have been balance of some two millions of dollars n the Treasury, on the first Monday in January next.
 He makes the estimated receipts on the Treasury, for the whole year, with the balance on hand, on the first of January last to be ,512 80, and the estimated disbursements for the same period, to a. mount to $s32, ,025, ,070 so, leaving deficit on the