The New York herald., 1844-10-03

The Caledonia Is now in her fourteenth day.-
her news, OF course, ought TO be here. An EXTRA
HERALD as soon as il arrives
Presidential Contest-Continued Growth or
Whig Hope.
We learn IRON the best sources of information
Principally from the Whig committees, clubs, and
leaders IN this city, that the hopes Of carrying Mr.
Clay's election, are still rising, and that strong
pectations are formed of the same spirit being very
rapidly extended all over the country, in sufficient
strength and force to bring out all the whig voters
at the ensuing election. A part Of this revival in
the whig ranks, undoubtedly springs from the ex-
tensive arrangements made in every school district
in this State to bring every voter that can be
approached, or who will come out to vote for the
whig candidate. The wisest and best managers of
the whig clubs and committees are now satisfied
that their policy during the last summer has
entailed upon their cause nothing but mischief and
that the various movements and effects made by
them at the mass meetings and on other public oc-
casions have been of very doubtful tendency with
respect to the election of Mr.. Clay. Now they
clearly perceive the necessity and wisdom Of
another course of policy, and are starting into it
with new hopes and new vigor.
The recent very large meeting in Philadelphia,
which Mr.. Webster attended, has contributed in
some measure to thisrevval of whig hope, together
with the efforts that many Of the wings are making
10 carry New Jersey, in opposition Io-as they call
1.-THE monopoly candidate. The belief also that
Maryland has gone by large majority for the
wings, which we will know in day or two, will
also encourage the rising hopes Of the wings, and
give renewed energy to all their troops throughout
the country.
Thus the wings are encouraging themselves with
the most brilliant anticipatons of the future yet
the locofocos, though some of them have been
somewhat desponding, do not seem to give up at
all. They have spirit Of buoyancy that nothing
appears depress, and they are rejoicing in the
recent letters issued by Mr.. Clay, the movements of
Mr.. Webster in Pennsylvania, and particularly the
movements Of Cassius M. Clay in New York-ex-
pecting from their contradictory operations that the
whig cause will receive great damage, and the in
terests Of Mr.. Clay be much damaged as respects
the neutras and the abolinonists. II will be seen
that Mr.. Webster has only commenced career Of
public speaking in Pennsylvania, and that he was
to make his appearance at Valley Forge, and after
wards at Potsvlle and perhaps other places, for the
purpose OF rouslng up the deadened energies of the
whig party there, and OF bringing as many to the
polls as possibly be brought to carry the pre-
lmnary State election. The democrats are under
the expectation that the movements and speeches
of Mr. Webster in Pennsylvania will have con-
trary tendency. A week will determine which are
right. In the meantime, Cassius M. Clay has CON-
menced his peregrinations in this State, starting at
Albany, where he recently delivered speech in
order TO smooth the way for coalition between
the abotionists and wings in united support Of Mr.
Clay. We think this is Of the most doubtful
points in the policy which the wings have adopted,
and we are rather of opinien that the view
taken by the locofocos OF this movement will
turn out to be correct. We have watched
with a good deal of concern the movements
of this Casslus M. Clay-his letters and speeches
as they appear in the whig newspapers-and
we have pretty nearly arrived at the absolute
conviction that he is Marplot-that he is
vain egost-and that, in fact, he is doing more in
Jury to the cause of his lustrious namesake than
any ten locofoco leaders could possibly effect by
the outpouring of any quantity of personal vtuper-
alton against the candidate of Ashland.
The effort of the Wings TO conciliate the aboli-
ton party in this State, or the otherfree States
party that is founded on iron fanatcsm of the
hardest character-a party too that has been TO-
mented by the Wings themselves during their
course in Congress-a party that was very properly
and justly denounced by Mr. Clay himself in 1899,
In the Senate-we say that any efforts made on the
partjof the Wings to concliate such a party, must
and will be found to be utterly unavaing, frutless,
bootless, and utterly thrown away. Ifthese men,
and il this Cassus M. Cay-whom we take TO be
a vain fool-would only hold their peace, and stay
at home, allowing the intelligent wings themselves
in the several districts throughout the country to
60 from man to man, by personal application and
exeron to bring out the GREAT ARMY OF NEUTRALs,
whom we have shown to be nearly EIGHT HUNDRED
THOUSAND strong throughout the Union, and in this
State seventy or eighty thousand-there would be
an infinitely better chance than there is just now Of
seeing MIR. Clay elected to the Presidency next
November II is very evident that the whole force
OF the abolitionists will amount to nothing if the
wings can prevail upon the neutrals to come to
their support. But those neutrals, who have not
heretofore voted ARE the very persons who detest the
mummery of professions and mass meetings, and
song singing and coonworship, and all that species
of humbug, which the wings, in imitation of their
opponents, have introduced into the canvass. II
Mr. Clay is to be defeated, he will be defeated by
his own friends and supporters and not by the To-
cofoco forces There is strength enough remain
ing, amongst the great neutral mass who have not
heretofore voted, to save Mr.. Clay's election, if
the proper means were taken to approach these
neutrals-to conciliate them-to invgorate them
to inspirit them-to bring them out. But
never can Mr.. Clay's election be secured by
blockhead's perambulatng the States by such men
as Cassius M. Clay, undertaking to speak for his
kinsman, Henry Clay, strongly afording handle
to the opponents Of the latter IN the South and
West, to present him in false light.
On the whole, the presidential contest is at this
moment in the most interesting position magina-
BILE We satisfied that only in the case Of close
vote between the two great parties, 1t be pos
sible for the abolltonists to exercise any influence
We satisfied that If either ofthe two parties take
particular pains TO bring out the neutrals-to ex-