The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-04-14
MIR. CLAY's ASPIRATIONS.

benefits likely 10 enure " niiheeii anu ''is soeA
try from Mr.. Clays election to the Presidency,
should such thing occur. We have now a
word or two to say about the probabilities OF
such an event.
We must premise, by once more adverting to
the fact that Mr. C.. has now been regular
candidate for five elections, and defeated, either
BY the People, or in convention, in every one
Under whatever favorable auspices the Wing
PARTY began the canvass, with whatever advan-
tage of position, whatever popular feeling and
excitement in its favor, whatever well founded
topics of complaint against its opponents, the
adoption of Mr.. Clay, as candidate, has proved
invariably fatal to their cause.
The inscription Of his name on their stand
ard has been the signal for general dispersion,
and the sure harbinger of total overthrow
Like the Carmach Dell 10 the McIvors, Mr..
Claws appearance to the Wings has been the
certain presage of impending destruction. A
conviction of this, Boon Upas-like property of
his, was the potent cause OF his REIMBURSEMENT
BY the Harrisburg Convention. All telt that to
sustain him was to court defeat.
In 1887 '3S, and '39, curious scene was
passing in this country Mr.. Clay's friends
were moving heaven and earth to make him the
Wing candidate for the Presidency; but they
were not the only persons DESTROYS OF bringing
about that state of things. In different way
and under the operation of far different motives,
the friends Of the late dynasty necessarily la
bored 10 produce the same result. Mr.. Van Blu
rem spared no means which he could employ,
and he is man who can work by many lndi-
rectons, to keep Gen. Harrison out of the field,
and 10 reduce the controversy to contest be-
tween himself and Mr.. Clay The late Mr..
Grundy, man Of some talent and great shrewd-
ness, and Mr.. Silas Wright, man of shrewd-
ness also, and whose self-possession has some
times enabled him, in the Senate, even though
on the wrong side, to foil the great Wing lead
er Of the present Congress, are known to have
desired nothing, and to have sought nothing
more than that Mr.. Clay should be the Wing
candidate nor did ever any thing inspire gen
tlemen of their politics with such thorough fear
and dread, as the announcement from Harris
burg that Mr.. Clay was not the candidate, and
that General Harrison was. From that mo-
ment, and never before, alarm spread itself
through the Locofoco camp.
In short, the sober truth, Of which Mr.. Clay's
friends can never be convinced, and of which
he is less likely even than they to be persuaded
is, that with no inconsderable striking reputa
ton and always put forward by his jealous
friends, he has yet no hold upon the confidence
ctho af IL
years have proved this The People of the
United States, not undertaking his talents and
abilities for certain objects, yet do not see in
him that mild, moderate guardian and parental
character in which they love to contemplate the
Chief Magistrate. Mr. Clay is dogmatica
even the most attached, there is no intercourse
of independent mind with independent mind
there is no mutually of respect and Difference
nothing like confidence upon equal terms
Years have not softened these repelling quail
ties, and when his supporters approach him, he
expects and will admit nothing but feallty and
homage. All this is not said loosely and incon-
sderately There is not one of his friends who
will not admit its truth. With these charac
teristics, however he may draw admiration, he
cannot inspire love and confidence. The feel
ing is general and it is true, that he has nc
sympathy with the great body of his country
men, but that he builds his hopes of success up
on brilliant Achievements, on political manGu-
vres, on compromises, of which he has as ma
ny, and is generally as successful in them as
Sir Hugh Evans in the Merry Wives of Wind
sor and on the INSCRIPTIONS devotion of his up
holders and partsans.
Even, then, if Mr.. Clay were to be supported
now once again for the seventh time, by thu
great Wing party there would be, there coult
be no hope of his ultimate success, unless, in
deed, within the last few months he has him
self wholly changed for the better, or new light
have broken in upon the People. Of The fat
of the Wings, should they put Mr.. Clay:
name forward, let the recent events in Con
necticut foretell. The very suspicion tina
he is to be the candidate, joined to the know
ledge or his late movements in Congress
and his conduct during the last six months
has been sufficient to changes triumphant Har
rison Wing majority into well-beaten Clay
minority Connecticut prefers even Mr.. Nile,
in the Senate to Mr.. Huntington, if the frient
Of Mr.. Clay. Every where will the result b
the same. Every where will thousands o
friends disappear and thousands of enemies
spring up.
To raise Mr.. Clay is impossible. To slnl
with him, if the attempt is made, inevitable
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