Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1842-07-19
The Statesman of the Ivo,,

Henry Clay has taken mot wH take) the field for
the next Presidential campaign, by reclamation
lie mas taken 1t as the freewl offering of the great
WING IhtF. No extraneous effort lin factno effort
atal) has been made to thrust him or his claims for.
ward for the renewed consideration of the people
no early confguration of political elements has
been prepared to result in placing him in the front
rank sort of speechiesS 5eggar or accidental no.
tgee, who could not easily be got rid Of under the
supposition that party, the party will accept him
as party favere. But this universal DESIGNATION
of Mr. Clay for the Presidency in 1874 universal as
IL IS, is the result of a oneness in sentment-a one
ness in preference-throughou the Wing party,
founded upon the proofs Of his ability and suitable
ness FOR The high station, abuHdany furnished in
long, an arduous, and an rreproachabe political
life
After the great Wing victory and the subsequent,
misfortune ofthe party, and the ascendancy of an
anti-democratic Chief Magistrate. temporary par
oxism of despair seized upon the whole party, and
each member of it seemed for the time to have buri
ed his bright visions in the DUST and bid an everast
ing adieu to hope. During this sagnation of inter-
est to the great questions of political controversy
the Opposition made quick work of rallying their
shattered forces, which, few months befDIv, had
been SO snpletely dispersed that scarce wretch
vantage to the utmost of these untoward circum.
stances, prepared TO lead the van in another contest
by securing to an astonishing degree, their ascen-
dancy in State elections State after State Whig to
the core, was passively yielded to the assailants,
until they had nearly swept the Union entire. Then
they began 10 look boldly forward to the next great
campaign, and calculated the certainty of an easy
conquest Meantime, the traorous beneficiary of
had tbo dam ;,1,
of his friends,-those very principles on which was
mainly dependant the restoration of the former pros
periy of the country, leaving them only pooerlsss
majority in the law-making branch of the govern
ment-with which they could neither carry out the
principles of the party or satisfy the narrow mind
ed and specifically reasoning of their own party;
that to misforiune-not wrong on their o,cn part
was to be attributed the continuing adversely of the
times. This, while it still farther widened the
breach in the Wing party, gave another impulse TO
the engeges of the sappers and miners at work un-
der the foundation of the Great Temple of American
Liberty.
When it became evident the president contem.
plated cutting himself entirely loose from his politi-
cal friends, and, either alone or in connection with
his sworn enemies to build up an independent hi
erarchy Of his own then, and not till them did the
sting of insult, added and superadded to injury,
touch the seat of sensation in the popular mind,
and lead them once more TO give expressions Of
returning consciousness, and returning disposition
to engage in another protracted struggle Natural.
ly the secret enquiry was present in every mind
"Who shall be the candidate for our suffrages I'm
whom, in this dreadful OF our civil history shall
we repose our confidence, and on whom bestow our
suffrage :" For months, no one proposed his aues.
ton TO another, but discussed and settled il in his
own nIind--no congregations Of inquirers and an
swerers--no ofcious medder to give poise to one
side or the other of seemingly irresoue and even
ly balanced decision. In individuals the mass of
mind was working for the ultimate benefit of the
great tShole and at its natural crisis, it began to
give tokens of decision and preference on a broader
scale. From neighborhood gatherings it progress
ed to town, county ard state Conventions, until the
whole country suddenly started, as from dream at
once into activity and vgor, and to have become
deeply, lasngly imbued with the sentiment that the
Statesman Of the West should be the confidant of
their trust. Every mail brings us intelligence of
the further progress of this hopeful cause State af
ter state in their mass conventions have passed and
are passing the most unqualified approval of this
choice ;embracirg not only those sectional portions
whose peculiarities of location occupation &C. nat
uraly create diversity Of interest, but embracing the
agricultural North, the wholesale traicking West,
and the difficulty conceded notions of the cotton
and rice-growing South. All give their voice for
Henry Clay, as the clear-headed and sound hearted
legislator, in whose competency may be reposed
that measure of confidence constitutionally invested
in the Chief Magistrate this glorious Republic.
We betiege that we preach Henry Clay will
take the field with scarce murmuring voice from
the Canada Line to the Gulf of Mexico, and from
the eastern British Provinces, the wilderness of
the great West.
| A Tylerism-Fresh from Jonny's Soon science.,
The below quoted paragraph occurs in Mr.. John
Tyler Esqr's Reasons for signing and NOT APP