Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1843-11-11
From the New York Express.
THE WING CANDIDATE FOR THE
VICE PRESIDENCY

| Inc prOposltlon started IN tne Courlerto
run Mr.. Webster for the Vice Presidency
with Mr.. Clay for the Presidency, we have
looked upon as one of the numerous efforts
of that Journal, ITO sartle the public" and
we have not, therefore, deemed it worthy
of serious consideration, particularly, as
it has been seconded in but single journal
beyond The bounds of the city,-st least, so
far as our exchanges extend. The Jour-
mails friendly to Mr.. Webster, such as the
New Bedford Mercury rebuke the PROPOSE
ton as improper, while they naturally ex
press anger at the efforts made to drive off
Mr.. Webster such as the Richmond Wing,
express disgust and adherence at the pro-
Jet. Not journal in Mr.. Webs,er's own
State, Massachusetts, so far as we know,
desires such conjunction: nor can Mr.
Webster himself desire it, if we understand
his character or his position Alright. 1t
represents him chaffering as il were for a
place with Mr.. Clay, or if not so, as having
an amount of influence in the country at
Mr.. Clay's disposal, which Mr.. Clays
friends could have on condition that they
would take him into the cheerful conf
dence Of the Wing party again, and give
him the second office of the Constitution.
Mr.. Webster, if we understand him, can
have no ambition to appear in any such
point of view. or to arouse any such unjust
suspicious; and we have therefore, come to
the conclusion, that the projet was unde-
sired and unauthorized by him, and that
the scheme was one of the usual concoc-
tons of the Courier's teeming brain ever so
fertile in schemes and yet ever so ready TO
abandon them. The journals in the mme.
date confidence of Mr.. Webster, such as
the Commercial Advertiser, have neither
seconded nor needed the project of the
Courier. We say. therefore, the Courier
but speaks for itself, and it is unjust and un-
generous for anti Webster papers 10 make
use of such an unauthorized proposition to
represent Mr.. Webster as thus 'trafficking
to get back into the Wing party"
Nov, however, that we are upon this
subject we propose to examine the incom-
patibility of such ticket not that there is
any chance of having it in the present po-
sitions of Mr.. Clay and Mr.. Webster, but
to satisfy the few in the city who think of
it, that it is impossible. 1t is useless to dis
guise the fact that Mr.. Webster and Mr.
Clay are rivals in intellect, in political
character, and in political power. They
do not, and cannot love each other. Their
education is different: their preiudces are
different: the whole structure and organi-
cation of their minds are different. 1t
would be impossible, perhaps, to find in the
whole world, two eminent men, who differ
so much in everything that constitutes
greatness of mind, and yet who are at the
same time, SO remarkably great To ex-
pect two such men peaceably and harmoni-
ously, to administer this government togeth-
err is TO expect to have two suns in the same
sky. 1t is impossible; and everybody, who
knows anything of the secret history of the
month of March, 1871, during the Harrison
administration, knows full well that they
could not agree in single appointment or
scarcely in single measure. To give Mr..
Clay then the first Office of the government,
and Mr.. Webster the second, is to lay in |
the very foundations of the new admins
tration the elements of discord and of its
final overthrow. 1t must be, that Mr.. Clay
would consent to it only from high politi-
cal necessity, that does not exist, and tina,
| Mr.. Webster would shrink from it, not
only from personal pride, but from high
sense of honor that would not wish TO en-
barrass Mr.. Clay.
We are aware it will be said. the Vice
Presidency is mere formula of the Con-
sttuton, and that Mr.. Webster would have
no power TO embarrass Mr. Clay, even i'll
he tried. Mr.. Webster then, we answer,
is too great man to rust in mere formula
of the Constitution. 1t is no compliment
to him then to strive to place him there.
But is the fact so? A Vice President may
be President Mr.. Clay is an old man
now, and his constitution is already shaken
by his advancing age. A Vice President,
too, holds the casting vote of the Senate.
In the equal division of parties he deter
mines the fate of treaties of measures and
of men. AS presiding officer, his power
is great. AS the second officer of the Gov.
eminent, his moral force is weighty. The
Vice Presidency then, we see, if a mere
formula Constitution, that need not be kept
in it, is nevertheless, when kept in a sub.
stantive influence Of at times, prepondera.
ting.
But then, we are told, perhaps,a necessity
exists that Mr.. Webster give Mr.. Clay his
power-a necessity imperative before the
Wing party can hope for success. This is
all wrong reasoning again. 1t pre.suppo-
ses that Mr.. Webster is SO much bent upon
the destruction of Mr.. Clay, that TO COM
pass it, he will destroy the Wing party too!
This is impossible, we will show, if Mr..
Webster had the heart to do it. The wing
party is party of principle. 1t does not
belong to men. Mr.. Webster does not
oDn US, nor does Mr. Clay. We are, as
Mr.. Sprague of Maine emphaticaly pro-
claimed when in the United STATES Senate