New-York daily tribune., 1842-07-22

W The Courier g. enquirer deVete- 70 us
half column Yesterday. which We shall only
tice 80 far as 10 put the brand upon few Of its
positive untrIth. II IS untrue that we took the
Courier to task in February for avowins itself
unqualihedly for Mr.. CLAY. What We did or this
head was simply to repel the at,enpt. Of the Cou-
rier TO dictate our course or impudently csiech'f
Us with regard to cur future convictions and pur-
poses. 1t is basely tai.e that We hGs anything To
do with cheating NJ. Clay in 832. or tina, W.
acted 'treachcrously toward him. When W
became convinced that in the existing condition
Of things he could not then be elected President.
We on all fitting occasions avoved our CONVICTION,
and Get forth the ground. Of IT, Cur position wa
open, public notorious, founded on a conviction oi
duty AID W. believe respected BY tse real friends
Of Mr. CLAY We acted in 80 precisely a. We
should have done IN 81 and 30 had tic same cir
cunstanccs existed; precisely a. We should res
do Under similar circumstances. PriHcsP!e', Nof
Men, which stands forth 80 conspicuously at the
head Of the Courier. is rather broader than our
maxim: We stand for Whg Principles and Mea-
sures first and for Whg Men in order TO ensure
their triumph We preferred in 81 Mr Clay tor
President. but we preferred aaothsr Wing to
Loco Foco, and acted accordingly, without treach-
cry or cheating but in pursuance Of our con
victons and our rights AT American freeman.
The Editor Of the Courier was well aware OF our
course. as well as that Of more distinguished men
whom he is constantly accusing Of 'ucachery to
and cheating Mr.. Clay in his paper, while IN
- 81. f,;o nj and
supporter
If we were as influential a. III. Courirr hledses
in shaping the result Of the Harrisburg CoHvsn-
ton, We can proudly say that We never solicited
Office or favor Of any kind Of those whom We had 40
efficiently aided. as that Editor did who now de-
nounces their elevation a. the result of cheating
and treachery. But because We thought their
nomination the best that could be made, We can
not consider oursclf responsible for the visitation
Of God which took away Gen. Harrison, or the
visitation Of treachery which has transformed
John Tyler from rabid Clay Whig at Harrisburg
inte deadly Loco-Foco at Washington. We did
not in '39 attempt to see beyond the election of
two open, ardent Wings to the Presidency and
Vice Presidency and would have been very willing
to take ever men whom We less lsved to secure
that result
We have ever, from the moment Harrison and
TYLER were nominated, considered HEsRY CLAY
the proper and morally certain candidate of the
Whips for President ia 1914. We have ever pre-
ferred him to any other Since the detection OF
John Tyler and the adherence to him of Mr.. Web
.ter, we have hardly supposed it possible that any
other candidate than Mr.. Clay would be though,
Of by any considerable portion OF the Wings, or
generally voted for if nominated. Above all other
men we have for many years desired his election,
and for that very reason we did consider it unwi.e
to open the Presidential campaign more than two
years before the election. In the absence of any
immediate and strong incentive to action (Which
Presidential contest years OF does not present
to al the Wings cannot be brought in full force to
the polls. and we dreaded that the local reverses
which his friends are morally certain to encounter
in intermediate contests should be served up az
evidences Of the unpopularity Of Mr. CAY We
have reason to know that conviction of the inn
policy of opening the Presidential campaign OF
1914 in lS4S comedies with repeated expressions
of Mr. Claws view. and wishes. But others have
thought differently event. have ripened rapidly
since the year opened, through the spo'tacy of
Tyler, and we are in for Presidential campaisn
we strongly believe successful one, and that
the success will be richly worth ts the country the
agitation. and exertions Of so protrac;ed can
vass While we would have preferred years
postponement, We shall with hearty zeal do our
pnrt now ; and we never attempted (ss the COu-
rier .sinuaes) to dictate the course of that paper
the Rochester Democrat, &c. with regard - the
Presidency. Our differences with each arose On
other therses; with tie Democrat We have never
exchanged II ord on this, and all our discussion
Of it with the Courier has been forced, upon by
thu, paper. Whom does the Courier nope 10 benefit
by pro,racting 1t J