New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-01-29
THE TRIBUNE.
MONDAY MORNING, JANUARY 80.
FOR PRESIDENT,
HENRY CLAY
Personal Matters.

N. - 90 tnow something OF the per-
a.:.l n,a,acter;stcs Of the Editor OF the fipu'e'
The nenc;l;ngs of friend are always uisu
| -. ,bosa ofan adversary are not iiapie 10
10, obec,iop: and so, the leading articie IN te
Courier &. Enquirer of Saturday emDodles al tii"l
the sourtempered and not prescriptions Military
Editor of that paper can bring against us we nave
concluded to give it a place, with comments. III
will therefore be found in the preceding column
And now to the comments:
The Courier is struck with the prescription OF
the Editor of The Tribune in assuming that what
ever press ventures to differ with that sheet Is
of necessity wrong, and NEEDLES with what does not
.conccrn it's this just7 Did we complain that
the Courier differed with respecting Postage lie
form? Was not our regret entirely based on the
fact that the Courier had chosen to make this per-
so,az difference ITO assai our motres and ridlcue
orr zeal in behalf of this Reform Ito sheer at our
snodestv.' disinterestedness, and 'Patr'0tismF
Was this within the bounds Of gentlemanly discus
sion? Was itconsistent with the proper attitude OF
two active Wing journals Of the same great City
word as to merits Of this controversy. we
think ne qreieht is the main element OF cost IN trans
mittinp Newspapers and Printed Matter by MAIL
,bot oil Printed Matter should be charged by welsht
ond carried nj a reduced rate where payment Is
,,,oda IN advance. We have two reasons tor this
s.ondard-frst its intrinsic and obvious accuracy
ond ;ust;ce: secondly, its inevitable tendency 10
1;o1ieu tbe Mails. Charge every thing by weight,
and only half as much if paid in advance as other
wise. and all Periodicals will be mailed dry, instead
ofwet or damp as now, and the weight of the News
noner Mails will be reduced one-half. We do not
see that the Courier oyerturns this important con-
oh,
be charged on q hundred pounds OF lrlbunes as on
four hundred pounds of Couriers forwarded to the
same destination. Look into this, reader. Onr
interest. or the Courers interest, is light matter
but Justice and Public Economy are y0ur interest,"
and everv body's interest.
And now to Political "reminiscences:
The Couriers memory is short one; it seems to
90 back only to 1889. But we remember, boy
though we were, how deeply our feelings were IN
volyed in the great contest of 1928, when the pure
the able, the successful, the unproscrptive, the
economical and just Administration OF JOHN GUN
cy ADAMS and HENRY CLAY was put down-licd
down, we thought-by the most atroclous personal
imputations on those lofty Statesmen. We cannot
take Political defeat so much to heart now then;
but we then most keenly felt that ever rascas de-
served the pillory or the cell, they deserved it who
rung the charges on Bargain and Corruption,
East Roem' Billiard Table, Sunday riding,
and all the monstrous tales of extravaganza and
prohigacy on the part of that severely simple and
infexibly just man, JOHN Quincy ADAMS. Among
these deccivers, noted as particularly unscrupu
lous and outrageous two named MoRDECAI NJ
Moan and JAMES WATSON WEBB, who conducted
Jointly or severally, two or three National Advo-
Gates the Enquirer, the Courier, and ultimately
the Courier and Enquirer.'-And their ISLANDERS did
not cease with their overwhelming triumph butcon-
tnued down to late in 1882, when Mr.. CLAY was
the candidate for President, and was assailed as
grossly, unjusty, as he had been in 1828.-Yet in
that year '32, after the public mind had been
thoroughly poisoned and Mr.. Clay's defeat secured,
these men Tor the Military one, at least made a
sudden smmerset into our ranks ON what in
ducement we will not say. But this we can say;
that if the sum of $4,000 twas there or was there
not an odd $975?) will send him back to Tammany
Hall and ensure his staying there, the money will
be raised promptly and cheerfully; and it will be
the best expenditure made for the Wing cause.
we come now to 1889.
1t is lamentabe that too many Of those who bow
ed TO the whitening curse of Jacksonism, that for
time Frustrated or condemned to obscurity all indie
pendent thought and manly dignity, will continue
TO talk though its yoke were still on the neck OF
the Country. Thus the Courier makes devotion
not to the great Principles and benefcen Measures
of the Wing party, which will endure and be worth
fighting for long after all OF us are dead ana forgot
ten-hut to the person of Mr.. CLAY, the standard OF
Political orthodoxy. The Courier supported Mr..
CLAWS selection us the Wing candidate for Presi-
dent in 1889; the Editor OF the Trbune-(the as
ever private citizen, and not then connected with
any Political journal did not, but, loving his
Country more even than Mr. CLAY, whom he knew
and admired while he had never met or written 10 ell
Their Gen. HARRISON or Gen. SCoTT, came TO the
conclusion, during the summer OF that year, that
tae nomination of MIR. Clay at Harrisburg would
not be best; that the Wings would probably he de-
ieated on him. and could succeed with another
didate. So believing, he acted accordingly open
ly publicly stating his convictions and their
to such friends as chose to interchange ideas with
him. and taking journey with no Political pur-
pose, but that matters not to Detroit and back dur
ing the summer. He went also 10 Harrisburg,
when the Convention met, as any body had right
To do and there expressed his CONVICTIONS to those
whom he knew or who sought discussion with him
on the subject. So much he did, as ne has always
admitted and justified. Educated in party which re-
CARDS Principles as more important than Men, he la
bored to secure the triumph OF the Principles he
IDENTIFY cherished, at the expense of the Man whom
he would have greatly preferred, had he esteemed
the chance of success equal with him. Gle did not
kill Gen. Harrison, select that noisy Clay man.
John Tyler for Vice-Prssident.) He may have
erred in judgment-admit that he did-what then ?
Very many of the wisest and purest Wings
in the land entertained tn. same convictions
and pursued the same course. The remendousvic-
tory which followed and ratified the Harrisburg
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