The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-05-05
THE BENEFITS OF MR.. CLAY's NAME
From Me Richmond Wig Of Monday.

From The Richmond Wing Of Monday.
We continue such returns have been received
since our last publication. The Wings have sus-
tanned defeat in counties where neither they their
adyersaries expected it, How far these reyerses may
affect the result in the State we cannot decide They
are not conclusiye-but they are certainly omnous oil
Wing defeat. A few days will determine, and we
will not do such violence TO feelings as 10 antlcl-
nate an unpleasant result. 1t will be bad enough
when it comes and until then we are content TO en-
ioy all we can by living in the hope that we are not
so badly beaten as we might be. But, whether vc'o-
rious or vanquished, we have an abiding CONVICTION
that the majority Of the People of Virginia are Wings
and will prove it whenever benefits adequate to the
labor of accomplishing it will result fromii
The above is from the Richmond Wing Mr..
Moseley confesses to have been defeated where
neither the Wings nor the Loco Focos expected
it: does not Mr.. Moseley begin TO perceive the
reason2 Have we not again and again said
that the name of Mr. Clay was ruin, sure, inev-
table, complete ruin to the Wings? Have they
not experienced such fate from such cause,
time after time? Does not the result In the
counties of which the Richmond Wing was to
secure, plainly enough presage the result every
where? And yet Mr.. Moseley and others like him
will go on, as they always have done. The
Wing cause is nothing to them. The country
is nothing. The People are nothing They
know see, hear, feel nothing and nobody but
Mr. Clay. They care for nothing but his sue
cess A Wing victory not enurlng to his be-
neft, is to them a barren trlumph-no better,
perhaps more unwecome, than defeat. From
him, should he eventually attain the object Of
his wishes, they expect every thng-oftice,
Il. IL hat
scrupulous and proscriptive have they been to-
wards all others of the Wing candidates, that
they have little to expect either Of confidence or
preferment, should any but Mr. Clay reach the
Presidency.
With them, therefore, il is a last desperate
push. They say, with Macbeth,
"Seyton, say, this push
Will cheer me ever, or defeat me now
They therefore fight for Mr.. Clay, and Mr..
Clay only. Cause, country, and principle, are
naught the man is ALL
That the People view things differently is
We have an abiding conviction" says the
Wing, ''that the majority Of the people of Vir-
GINA are Wings and will prove it whenever
benefits adequate to the labor of accomplishing
it will result from it,"
Like enough but it is pretty clear that the
Wings of Virginia do not think Mr.. Clay's
election, or a Bank Of the United States,
obenetit adequate to the labor Of accomplishing
it;' victory, we suppose-that is, the proof that
the Wings are majority-but the Wings
English is none Of the clearest.
We hope and believe that majority OF the,
people of Virginia are true Republicans and true
Patriots, whether Wings or Democrats, and
that they will always be ready to prove it; and
we shall consider them none the less to be such
as we have described them, because they prefer
their country and their principles to the eleva-
ton Of any one man.