The Arkansas banner., 1843-09-16
MIR CLAY.


 The Democracy have cause to be proud of the ,,t of the late elections, and which show uner
 cly that if the people, sometimes led away by bmentary enthusiasm, support men and measures
 worthy of their confidence; they soon set them.
 yes right, and recur back with alarcrity to pure
 nocratic principles as their best safeguard
 These elections convey fearful admonition tc
 wretched mountebanks who figured in the la
 ntabe farce of l640, for the elevation of theil
 .lable candidate; and by appealing to the worst
 sons of human nature, they succeeded. Yes
 succeeded, but at what cost to the national
 racterl A country, the rival of the strongest,
 the equal of the proudest, was covered with dis
 ce-the most intelligent and moral people on the
 of the earth, appeared to all Europe to be ani-
 fed and led estray by the bufoonry of drunken
 ble. Abroad, the actors in it, as well as those
 o resisted, were cassed together as one people
 if to show that the abuse of the best gift of Di-
 ble Chieltain, whom they elevated, and whose
 ny virtues entitled him to respect, closed his ca
 h, ere the voice ofparty triumph was silent. The "a and joyous acclamations which had been heard
 moment before, borne on every wind to the pito were hushed in the deep solemnity of morrn-
 for the chief magistrate of the nation.
 Nh. Clay, the dictator in the Senate, stood next the line of succession, or rather has stood so for
 last twenty years, without succeeding and with
 the prospect of it Age is stealing upon him ace, and it would be an obdurate heart indeed
 ch could not feel passing sympathy for an hrm old man, who has survived the hope oi ching the summit of political preferment, and has
 rcely any thing left to him, but vaultng and ttless ambition.
 { As an orator and an eminent man. he has added \ fich to our history as a safe statesman, nothing ve that his political course, and the measures he planned and advocated, may show how nation 6ght be ruined, and a wise constitution perverted pm its legitimate purposes. He has done this 1nch good without intending it; and it is only fol lis accidental benefit, that he is entitled to breath praise.
 So overwhelming is the odium which has fallen bon him, that his presence and his eloquence only hem to insure the triumphs of democracy. Scan HS pilgrimage to Louisania-the 'spomp and cir mstance, with which he was received in the Cres- fnt City-a city preserved by the valor of ANDREW RcKsoN, while the other united with the Halls and artins of that day in reviling that venerable hero that noble city, the eloquence of 'Harry of the ! est' was heard; it was borne to the length and leadth of the State, and yet in few short months Puislana was democratic, and to rebuke him more snally, elected congressional delegation entirely TTnocFatic; triumph the more glorious, because it Ds unexpected, and for which in part the whgs
 n, doubtless, justly censure the fatality of his pre- lce He visited Alabama, and with what success he change the political complexion of that State Ddhe gain new adherents' On the contrary, i actually lost many who had humbly followed his operate fortunes in short Alabama became more Fnly fixed in her faith, and in that quarter he felved no consolation. He returned to his native ate and like ruined gamester, threw his character |d influence into the contest, and what was the |nsequence' Kentucky, which had so often echoed E wlll-"old Kentucky whose destiny he had |h'rolled by the magic of his name-on whose soil mad so proudly trod-fought his hundred suc- FSsiui battles, and withered political adversaries hls glance-even old Kentucky was not sso DOT as to do him reverence" MARIUs, amid the 'ns of Carthage, whilst the bright moon. beams iiieied over broken columns and placid waters, len'ly contemplated the ingratitude of Rome; but yen Tn that dread hour of his history, dreams of u- 'fe power and conquest burst upon his mind, and resolved that Rome should call him master, and 2 was not mistaken.
 HOW different must be the reflections of this broken Vwh politician. Deserted at home, to no quarter no possible contingency, can he cast his eye for ipport; all around him is desolation-and with very reasonable prospect shattered he is left in his ''h State, without majority of representatives to 'eer nm in this the hour of his diversity. If he 'oks to Indiana and Ilinois.it is still worse; and yen ih Tennessee, the whgs are in minority as tc |o'sressmen Tn the lower house. In sober truth Gr' Clay and Whggery are as lieess as if some ter ',e calamity had actually swept them from the face 'l'e earth, and nothing now remains to them but eh'oho the fragments with becoming decency |' sue Tor quarter To talk seriously of mal Such sualtened circumstances for the Presi f"cy oi this nation, is an insult to the understand -Vo say that he can be elevated to that high of ; IS 'he miserable raving of desperate maniac nv ID reduced to the lamentable situation, of delu |'s Ninself with the vain expectation of deludine 'e'a. MT Clay has '.strutted his hour on tn, [oe' anu now he ought to retire, while he can dc (,s. "iu' oeeehcy because if he still obtrudes him
 i'o tue pollucal arena, in despite of so many
 '"i''sss' ele tune will speedily come when he vii sn De deprived of his present meagre consolation ''' aii llls sins and corruptions thick upon him nay Seil partially hide them in the quiet of re
 'l'N'' n and justly claim what the people will no E0n ,@'n"ard Tn awarding-the tribute of admra H n to the misguided greatness of his mind, and thu Y'1nlnS charms of his elocution.
 may bury his sorrows, if he will, in the peace Ia N''S oi Ashland, as Nicholas Riddle, his politi
 'oh'emporary and associate. has in retreat aac lnr l.' -ne may enjoy that repose which has s,
 1 oee" 'lie burden of his song, and, surroundet 'oHlestc endearments, forget the rough storm
 s spiie' and the rude shocks of political life l.: "' iet imiiate our adversaries in savage exnl
 sD over 'i'e fallen; hn1 we speak of Mir. Clay a out misguided man; we speak ci him as in