The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1843-03-20

| HAT IL chCnantS my sense what Will III De,
when that the watry palate tastes indeed
Loves Intercepted nectar? death, fear
Swoonipg destruction or some Joy too fine,
| Too subtle potent, turnd too sharp in sweet
| ness,
For the capacity of my ruder powers:
lear 1t much -
Troilus & Cressida.
! How much truth and nature in this soliloquv
of the Trojan! And yet the fellow was ex-
pectlng his incarnate mistress How much
more "giddy" would any mortal be, if waiting
In anxious and immediate expe ctation of an
ideal and spiritual leman, which his heated
hopes had begotten, in the shape Of the Presi-
dency IAN idol he had sought, and wooed, and
sighed for, five and twenty years2 How wide
the contrast between the two; and how much
more must the Heir Presumptire to The Presi-
dency be-" whired round by expectation" than
the Trojan libertine. But we spare our own
homey COMMISSIONING can improve the
force and beauty of the text unless it be some
prophetic insi mutations from the Richmond
Wing, quite 'germane to the matter;" whose
classic editor must have had this passage in his
minds eve, when he penned them:
The Richmond Wing, on the last ST. valen-
tines eve, to wit, the 18th of February, in its
leader, headed THE VICE PRESIDENCY
OF THE UNITED STATES" wherein
after rejecting Mr.. Botts," as being {" from a
slave-holding State" as well as Mr.. Clay, and,
therefore suggesting SHE strong tendency in
the Vhig mind towards the Hon. JOHN M.
CLAYTON, of Delaware" (Which is also a
slave-holding State, by the by y proceeds to in
sinuate,-
Should PRESIDENT CLAY be struck
doun President Harrison uas, in the arms
Of pictory, he 1oould ledpe a constitutional sue
cessor uorthy 10 succeed him, and able to drdp
the boU Of Ulysses"
So the prophetic coryb ant already anticipates
Mr.. Clay's dissolution in his success! We
shall not pretend to judge what the oracuous
emotions Of the editor of the Wing are, whe-
ther hopes or fears, touching Mr.. Clay's being
. struck down IN the arms of victory;" but
whatever they are, we trust we can silence them,
by showing that they entirely groundess ;and
that if Mr.. Clay dies of nothing but being
President" he will live to be older than Me-
thuselah.
Firstly, we would remark that the victory
of 1910 was not Clay Wing victory: and
Secondly that Mr.. Clay is not politically the
resduary legaee of Gen. Harrison, or the Har-
rison party; and
Thirdly, that Mr.. Clay is neither executor
to the Harrison party, with the will annexed,
nor administrator de bonis non. And
Lastly, that the party is not defunct, except
a few of them have turned to-clay.
To show how groundless the ''hopes or fears"
of the Richmond Wing are touching the heavy
dispensation Of president CLAY's being struck
down in the arms Of victory" we beg leave TO
assure him, that his ioredoomed hero is not
likely 10 come within ''bow's" shot of vic ory
unless it be the victory that takes HIM captive,
as II has often done before, and released him 10
fight his battle over and over again.
We beg the editor of the Wing just to turn
to the Past, which is the best prophet of the
Future; and see how steadily and regularly
Mr. Clay has been marching from victory, in
stead Of towards it, since 1924.
In the canvass of 1924, Mr.. Clay, having dis
tinguished himself in Congress during the war.
Client, and enjoying also the great advantage
OF having been for a series of years Speaker of
the House Of Representatives, obtains but 81
votes and, being the lowest of the four candi-
dates, is not returned TO the House of Repre,en-
talives, for any chance Of the Presidency. This
is his first campaign; and this is the victory he
won.
In 1882, having been the Secretary of Slate
under Mr.. Adams, and thus placed in the line
of "safe precedents," what does he win with
all the popularity gained by patronage with
all the influence of Mr.. Adams party, (which
had SO votes) TO back him He wins Just
az votes, out of about 300 This is his second
campaign and this is his second victory.
1886, being rather ashamed of such victories.
and apprehensive, perhaps, that they might create
envy Mr.. Clay comes TO the conclusion, that he
will seduce an old Jackson man from his alleqi-
ance, and fight the battles of his third Presidential
campaign by-proyy. He distinguished Judge
White by the favor and honor of making him
his GeneraGssimo. The Judge and Generals
simo seduced over Tennessee and won over
Georga-two States out of twenty six, which
gave tweDry-sIx votes out of about three hun
bred This was Mr.. Clay's third campaign,
and third victory.
In the campaign of 1910, Mr.. Clay was only
an amateur-thougb his friends fought hard at
the Convention at Harrisburg TO procure him
commission of Commander-in-chec He had
been worsted in so many campaigns that it was
not thought advisable to intrust him again with
any command. With one accord they all seem
ed to say,