The Democratic Whig. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1842-1843, 1843-06-01
uwHAT,s I'm THE WIND,''

Ever an annon, we find mysterious hlnts
,hrovv out in the Democratic papers, that
Henrv Clav is not, after all, to be the Wing
Candidate that he is ultimately 20 be put as
de as unavailable that the Harrisburg ex
nerinoent of 1910 will be played over again
When these surmises come to be scrutinIz-
ad and examined closely, they vanish INTO thin
air. No evidence is adduced to support them
bevond bald assertion here, or an unau:hor'
;zed s,lpposion, there. In truth the Loco Fo-
co ,ois that Henry Clay may not be the can
didate of the Wing Party is father to the
whole strategy by which the Loco Foco
party are endeavoring to shuttle Mr., Clay
out Of the positiod which he fills with the uni
ted concurrence OF the Wing party of this
country.
.'Down, busy Devil, down"
Mr.. Clay is not thus to be whistled down
the wind. and the great Wing party is not by
| such shallow expedlents as these to be chous
! ed second time out of their privilege and
| their preference. They are for Mr.. Clay with
| in fraction of unanlmity, and with and ardor
and heartiness that will tolerate other Wing
candidate, and brook no second disappoint-
iaent. Already have they yielde enough to
a patriotic spirit of compromise, and found
themselves rewarded for 1t by John Tyler
introduction into the Presidency, and by Fate
itself becoming their foe They will com
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either to win triumph which will be wort by
of the name and productive of the proper re-
suits of a civil revolution, or they are prepared
in the other alternative to sustain conclusive
and final defeat.
No more compromises No more temper
ising No more cowardly capituIations wit
expediency CLAY. IF HE IS ALIVE, fo
the next president, or else let the WhiG
party disband, and despiring of the direct &C
comphshment of their patriotic purposes, in
corporate themselves with their victories ad
versaries to temper as far as they possbl
can the cruelty of the conquerors, if they arr
so disposed, and to promote indirectly villa
they believe sanitary for their country.
We do not believe that my WING medi
tates the exchange of Henry Clay for any 9th
er man. Ifthere be such an one, calling him
self Wing, we would not give pinch of snui
for his Whiggery. We have never seen sue
/ Wing, and never expect to see him, No
either, that the Wings ale addicted to tn
idolatry of man worship! They revere MI
Clay in certain sense indeed but it is as pa
trioism venerate the valor which has rescue
the country from slavery, or The wisdor
which has made it great and prosperous A
the Athenians venerated Themistocles or A
{ fristides as all rational creatures are boun
to venerate him whom the Creatcrlhas rndow
RI ed with a superior intellect, and with publ
virtue correspondent to it. Thus the Wing
: think of Henry Clay, and thus thinking, the
are altogether unanimous in the purpose
supporting him for the highest station who
best qualified to adorn 1t, and throu' his instrr
mentality; to promote the happiness and glor
) of their country.
) All these shallow Devices" of the enem
to create suspicion and to detatch the WIFI
party from Mr.. Clay will prove unavaing.
New York Tribune.