The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-09-09
MIR. CLAY.

We spoke, yesterday, Of the benefits likely TO
enure TO Aimsef aud The country from Mr. Clay >
el, c.ion to the Presidency, should such Thing
occur. We have now a word OF Two 10 say
abJut the probabilities Of such an event.
We must premise, by once more advering 10
the fact that Mt &. has now been regular
candidate for five elections and defeated, either
by the People, or in convention in every one
Under whatever favorable auspices the Wing
party began the canvass, with whatever advan-
iage OF position, whatever popular feeling and
excitement in its favor, whatever apparently
well founded topics of complaint against it, OPP
ponenls, The adoption Of Mr.. Clay, as a candi-
date, has roved invariably fatal 10 their cause.
The inscription of his name on their stand
ard has been the signal for general disper ZION,
and the sure harbinger OF total overthrow
Like the Ca-mlch Dell TO The McIvors. Mr..
Clay's appearance to the Wings has been the
cerain pressge Of impending destruction. A
conviction of this Bo-on-Up as like property OF
his, was the potent cause Of his r,linquishmenr
by the Harrisburg Convention. All felt lha, to
sustain him was to court defeat.
In 1887, '3S, and '39, curious scene was
passing in this country. Mr.. CLAWS friends were
(asnow) moving heaven and earth to make him
the Wing candidate for the Presidency but they
were not The only persons DESTROYS of bringing
about that state of things In different way,
and under the operation of far different, motives,
the friends Of The late administration necessarily
labored 10 produce the same result. Mr. Van
Bur,n spared no means which he could employ
and he is a man who can work by many indi-
reclions, to keep Gen. Harrison out of The field,
and TO reduce the controversy TO contest be-
tween himself and MIR. Clay. The late Mr.
Grundy, gentleman of great shrewdness, and
Mr.. Silas Wright, man of shrewdness also,
and whose self-possesson has enabled him, in
the Senate, more than once, 10 foil the great
Wing leader Of the last Congress, are known
10 have desired nothing, and 10 have sought no
Thing more than that MIR. Clay should be the
Wing candidate; nor did ever any thing inspire
gentlemen of their politics with such thorough
fear aud dread as the announcement from Har-
rsburg, that Mr.. Clay was not the candidate,
and that General Harrison was From that mo-
ment, and never before, alarm spread i,s,l
through the Van Buren, camp.
And so, at the present day, the belief tina, Mr..
Clay IS IN be the Wing candidate, is inexpres-
sbly gratifying to some of Mr.. Van Buren,.
friends.
In short, the sober truth, Of which Mr.. Claws
friends never be convinced, and of which
he is less likely even than they TO be persuaded
is, thatwit no inconsiderable striking reputation
and always put forward by his jealous friends,
he has yet no hold upon the confidence of the
great mass of the community. More than TWEEN
~ years have proved this The People of the
United States, not undertaking. his talents and
abilities for certain objects yet do not see in
hun that mild, moderate guardian and parental
character in which they love TO contemplate the
Chief Magistrate Mr.. Clay is dosmatcal,
opinlonated. Between him and his friends,
even the most attached, there is no intercourse
of independent mind with independent mind
there is no mutually Of T. specl aud Difference
nothing like confidence upon equal terms
ears have not softened these repelling quail.
ties, aud when his supporters approach him, he
expects aud will admit nothing but f. atty and
homage. All this is not said loos ,y and incon-
sideralcly. There is not one Of his friends who
will not admit its truth With these charac-
teri,ticS, however he may draw admiration he
cannot inspire love and confidence. The feel
ing is general and IL is true, that he has no
sympathy with the great body of hi. country
men, but that he builds his hopes Of success
upon brilliant achievements, on Political manpu
vres, on compromises of which he has a, ma
ny, and is generally as successful in them as
Sir Hugh Evans in the Merry Wives of Wind
sor, and on the unscrupulous devotion Of his up
holders and parisans
Even, then, if Mr.. Clay were to be supported
now once again for the sixth time, by the Wbig
party, there would be, there could be no hone of
his ultimate success, unless, indeed, within the
last year or two he has himself wholly CHANGED
for the better, or new lights have broken in upon
the People. OF the fate of the Wings. should
they put Mr.. Clay's name forward, let @ recent
events in twenty Of the twenty-six States tell
The very suspicion that he is TO BE- the cand-
date, join, d TO the knowledge of his movements
10 the last Congress, and his conduct during his
retirement, has been sufficient to change tr-
umphant Harrison majority, in twenty States.
into welbeatcn Clay minority. In 1874 the
result will be the same.
To raise Mr. Clay is impossible. To sinh
with him, II the attempt be made, inevitable.
LOUD VOICE OF THE PEOPLE,