Arkansas intelligencer., 1844-06-22

TO BOB SNiPES REPORTER OF THE CLAY
CLUB AT FAYETTEvILLEE.
Nov AT FoRr TowsoN.l
Dear Bob.--When you left here promised to
write to you land give you all the news in this part
Of the country; and particularly, that which re-
Iates to our Clay Club, and when give you the
particulars of what we have been doing since you
left it will be sore news to you, Bob. Knowing
as do the interest you feel for club, for by it
you was elected unanimously, without dissenting
voice to the frs, office Of Importance or honor that
you ever held; namely, Reporter, &c. You know
when you left US, Bob, our club was in flourish
ing condition, every meeting brought crowd to-
gelher from country and town, and u host Of new
members subscribed to our glorious constitution,
but to our great modification, such is not the case
now. | have not heard Clay song sung for so
long, that have forgotten entirely the tune to
/" Shout, Shout for Henry Clay" We have tried
to hold several meetings Of late, and they resulted
in clear failure. AT our regular meeting in
May, VIC expected to make big show, and make
clean smash of these little locos about here; we
expected a great many wings in, from different
parts of the county, and we all turned too, and
made large preparations to accommodate them,
but the day rolled round, to our great astonish-
ment, the locos come pouring in, until the town
was almost full of them; really do believe that
every one of them that is int the county was pre-
sent, and there were scarcely any wings come in
at oil. So we consulted around while and come
to the conclusion thar if we attempted to call the
meeting to order, we would make such a small
show that the effect would not be so good, for you
know the way we expect to catch these green fel-
lows is by making big show, and pretend that eve-
ry body is joining us, and all they for is to be
on the strong side So we circulated it round that
we had adjourned until the 2Sth of May, and dur.
no at In,o vn rd to ohor
our club and told them to tell their neighbors and
the secretary stuck up notices under his hand 4
and how do you think it turned Out at last Not
single member attended but Piintan the Secre-
tary, Big Kihle, Fire Pound Ten, and myself.
Capt. Useens said he could not spare time from
selling Malakia Wine to attend any more meet
ings; and the fact is, | believe Major Bacchus is
about to drop the trap on the Captain, and take
him over TO the loco ranks after all for if he,
one of the Vice Presidents,) cannot find a better
excuse for not attending the club in time of a
pinch. than to sell Malakia, give him up as gone.
After waiting until late and finding that there would
be no more in attendance. Pillman rose up land
looked very mad) and said it is perfectly useless
for to attempt to keep up this club if the men,
bers do not attend. Said he, here is few of US
that expect no Office from any source, and here
we are laboring and toiling to keep up this club,
and those that expect to be benefited by it, never
show their faces here at all of late. Now, said
he. there is Roach, he was to have been here to
make speech at this meeting, and there is Capt.
Unanimous, Capt. Uselens, Domince Sampson, and
Reu'd Perpetual Motion all are absent, and they
are the very men that should expect to see here
without fail. Now, said he, want you all to take
notice who Of us it is that have taken active part
in trying to keep up this club, and who have been
in attendance on all occasions and who il is tha,
have taken it on themselves to circulate the noti-
ces of our meetings. Now, said he, want it dis
tincty understood, that evory member (or
at least the leading ones) take more active par.
and attend regular, if | ever attend another CLAY
club in this town, III gioe ny head for a foot ball.
and he walked right down from his seat and said
we will adjourn, and we all left. Soon after we
left heard a tremendous fuss near Pillman's of.
flce and started up 10 see what it was, and just
as got near, heard chap say you need no. try
to get me to vote for Clay after he has called all
of Us land robbers. Then SAID Lavender John,
for it seemed that Lavender had been prev aiIing
on him to vote for CIay,) my good fellow do you
know what you are talking about-do you know
that Mr.. Clay has cleared up that charge to the
satisfaction of every man of sense-did not Mr..
Clay say in his letter to Davy Walker, that he
did not recoect of making such statements; and
now what bettor evidence do you want to satisfy
you that the charge is false than the word of Mr..
Clay himself. About that time Lavender began
to get pretty angry, and tell you the fellow walked
off pretty quick, and was glad to get out Of the
scraPe. Lavender is going to be Of great service
TO US, in the county, this election. You sec he is
right straight from Kentucky; right from old Ash
land, and he knows all the Instructions by heart.
have not seen Sammy for several days; we
have started him out to distribute Davy's speech
IN reply to Col. Sewer, at this place last Summer.
You see, we got the items Of it from Davy, and
sent them down to Sabinus, and he wrote it out
for Davy and had it printed, and tell you il is
smasher, it lays the whig address perfectly in the
shade. You know when the sovreigns see it, they
will not know but what it was made BY the Hon.
DaVy Walker of Washington, sure enough. Sol
you SEQ il will answer just the same purpose as if
Davy had really made it, and they will think Da-
w the greatest man in the State. | think, Bob,
tnaf is decidedly the smartest trick that we have
played off on tho ocos since you left. We start.
ed Sammy out with about two bushels Of them,
and the last time we heard Of him he had onl
about bushel with him. We intend sending
tha Sfafo I mil