Southern pioneer, and Carroll, Choctaw and Tallahatchie Counties advertiser. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1842-04-15
From the Lynchburg Virginian.
RESIGNATION OF SENATOR CLAY.

The country has been for some time APP
priced of the intention of Mr.. Clay to with
draw from the public councils; and our late
papers bring US his letter of resignation.
"THe DictdtOr''--a term intended as one Of
reproach, but conveying the highest compl-
ment, though uninientionay bestowed by
those.who have applied il TO him--the Dictator,
4 if Dictator he be, like another cfurinnarus,
Hays down the badges of his authoriiy--ihe
moral influence which his gigantic talents.
combined with his proverbial frankness and
his fidelity TO bis principles, has enabled him
to WELD over men whom power could not ter
Irlfy nor spoils seduce, and returns to those rl-
raj occupations in which at last true happiness,
Ilf 1t yet llnger upon EARTH is 10 be found
lie returns home, not driven from office by an
indignant constituency, whose rights he has
betrayed or trampled upon, but voluntarily,
and against their wishes, TO be greeted by the
vaccinations of the people, whom he has so
long, SO ably, and so faithfully served, and
more beloved by many, and respected by all,
who have served with him in the halls of leg
islation, even by those who have felt the keen
ness of. his blade in the fierce and fiery debate
which have sgnalized the Senate Chamber
within the last twelve years. He returns
home crowned with honors as enduring as the
free institutions in the maintenance of which
they were won; hailed, public benefactor,
! by millions who have never seen his majestic
form, or hung enraptured upon that eloquent
voice which has so often commanded the APP
plause of slstening Senator's" admired even
| by thousands of his political adversaries, who
are constrained 10 admit, while condemning
what they conceive to be the erroneous char
acter and the dangerous tendency of his opin-
ions, the honesty with which they were enter
tanned, as well as the boldness with which, re-
CARELESS of their effects upon his personal des-
tiny, they have been avowed, and the match
less ability by which they have been maintain
ed. What is office, even the highest in the
gift of the country, to such MANI 1t can
add nothing to fame which is already cock
tensive with the limits of the civilized world,
and which must be as imperishable as the laws
and language of his country. Presidents will
be forgotten, as Kings have before them; the
elective principle, no more than the hereditary,
furnishing any guaranty that they who reach.
that high eminence are qualified to adorn the
station, or to illustrate it by great achievements
4 emitting them to Immortality. But master
sIspirit needs not the adventurous glare of pow
: fer TO stamp his name upon his age. Such a
; man is Henry Clay, of whom historians will
! lsay, that if he reached not the high elevation
TO which his ambition aspired, he lost it by re-
lfusing TO barter his principles for popular APP
s plause, preferring the consciousness Of endea-
voring to benefit his countrymen rather than
the ephemeral pleasure of securing their favor
by yielding to their prejudices or ministering
to their decisions; in one word, that he pre-
ferred to be patriot in retirement rather than
a demagogue IN power.
A Yankee T,ick.-A Yankee in the far
west, it is said, is destroying whole herds Of
wild bdifaloes by putting salt on their tails.