The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-03-18
THE HEIR PREsUMPTIvE!


the breach in defence of liberty.
THE HEIR PRESUMPTIVE
T,oiius. am gddy; expectation whirls me round
The imaginary relish is so sweet
Wt il t6Rss h tss my sense as what s VIII os'
Loves Intercepted nectar! death, fear
Swooning destruction or some joy too fine,
Too subtle potent turn'd too sharp in sweet
ness,
For the capacity Of my ruder powers:
Troilus & Cressida.
How much truth and nature in this soliloquy
of the Trojan! And yet the fellow was ex-
pectiDg his incarnate mistress How much
more "giddy" would any mortal be, if waiting
in anxious and immediate expectation of an
ideal and spiritual leman, which his heated
hopes had begotten, in the shape of the Presi-
dency AN 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 Presumptipe to the Presi-
dency be, "whirled round by expectation" than
the Trojan libertine. But we spare our own
homely commissioning can improve the
prophetic insnuations from the Richmond
Wing, quite "germane 20 the matter y whose
classic editor must have had this passage in his
mlnd's we, when he penned them:
IT,, Richmund Wing, u the last 81. Valen-
un''s eve, to wit, rhc 18th of February, in its
lead Z, eadei THE VICE PRESIDENCY
OF THE UNITED STATES" wherein
after rejecting E" Mr. Bo,ts," as being "from
slave-holding State" as well as Mr. Clay, and
therefore suggesting "ths strong tendency in
the Wing mind towards the Hon. JOHN NJ
CLAYTON, of Delaware" (Which is also a
slave-holding State, by the by , proceeds to in
sinuate,-
Should PRESIDENT CLAY be struck
doun as President Harrison uas, in the arms
Of pictory, he nould ledre a constitutional sue
cessor northy 10 succeed him, and able 10 drdp
sne oow II ssy"ve..''
SO the prophetic corybant already anticipates
Mr. Clays dissolution in his success We
shall not pretend To Judge what the oraculous
emotions Of the editor Of the Wing are, whe
ther hopes or fears, touching MIR. Cay's being
" struck down in the arms Of victory;" but
whatever they are, we trus, we can silence them
by showing tina, they entirely groundes' ;and
that if Mr. Clay dies of nothing but being
" President" he will live TO be older than Me-
lhuselah.
Firstly, we would remark, that the victory
of ls40 was not Clay-Whig victory: and
Secondly that MIR. Clay is not politically the
residuary legatee 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 Jonis non. And
Lastly, hath party is not delunct, except
few of them have turned to-cay
To show how groundess the ''hopes or Fears
Of the Richmond Wing are touching the heavy
dispensation Of "PREsIDENriCLAY's being struck
down in the arms Of victory" we beg leave 10
assure him, that his foredoomed hero is not
likely 10 come within ''bow's" shot Of victory
unless it be the victory that takes him captive,
as il has often done before, and released him 10
fight his baue 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,
having been sent abroad as commissioner to
Client, and enjoying also the great advantage
OF having been for a series Of years Speaker OF
the House of Representatives, obtains but 81
| md h,tn fhol tNS Al,
dates, is not returned TO the House of Repres en-.
,aiives, 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 State
under Mr.. Adams, aud 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 jus
40 votes, out of about 300 This is his second
campaign and this is his second victory.
1896, being rather ashamed of such victories
and apprehensive, perhaps, that they might Great,
envy Mr.. Clay comes to ne conclusion, that h,
will seduce an old Jackson man from his alleg
ance and fight the battles Of his third Presidential
campaign by-proyy. He distinguished Judg,
White by the favor and honor of making him
his Generalissimo The Judge and Generals
smo seduced over Tennessee and won over
Georgia-rwo States ont of twenty whlci
gave to' y-srx vot out of about three hun.
dred b., wa, Mr. Clsy's third campaign
and ltird victory.
"a, campaign. Of 1910, MIR. Clay was only
an ma ru,-tbocgh his friends fought hard al
the Convention "a Harrisburg 10 procure him a
commission Of Commaoder-In-chie lie had