The Arkansas banner., 1844-08-14

I I oAAio OSGn tho union taken place, his election , nj bss sassil would have been certain. It;s aeS viction of his supporters, that 'ae'ls as nominating him, can only be attsis %s
 herring to him, that to aband"a d'salled abandon that object; and undo, ou Il m tion, they have adopted the rae, reso,l! ns here to him, as the dictate gf0lp'lol of patriotism.' 0' au9
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 among MT. Clay's friends aenassI asslad' cipal object in supporting him 9SnSisly e Ohio, the very " first,o was to an, II q' the Cabinet succession. To 1bs. R@aa Mir. Clay was pledged, as far as ,,,r. s.s could be, in his implied, if not eTns. S,s n to the political creed laid down shples hp fa as the basis on which he was s,: us
 PREPARES "To CONTROL Tss poAs
 From Gen. Jackson's populariity 5'Il n,I ern country, it became evident e,.i, ,ia year 1924, that he would carry ofrs % ton of the votes on which Mr Clas4 with great confidence, rendeune i, 4l whether he would reach the HoD,. ~ resentatives as one of the three I;el' didates. In one of his letters to t5s IS sss, the Western Argus, published ;e ,4i Isss Sss Clay, under date of February IS, 1SSs S Judging from present appea,,s.t. contest will be between Mr. Adams .s1
 In another letter, dated March 10 Sp N he used the following language, yi,.
 "New York continues to be 4. .,.. State. My decided opinion is that, Ss its support to MT. Adams or to me. o,, divide it between us; in that case N, N J e] ford cannotcome into the House. Nrgl are confident ill the belief, that fl | sr'l Houseas one ofthe three higest, nomassl what associates, shall be elected trary to all probability, Mir. Crawo1 ,l obtain the vote of New Y ork. tbeeon,sl an entry into the House, will probabIT1 tween Jackson and me. In NIarylsni N ware, and New Jersey, have reasons5s upon some support. Without ente1r) further particulars, my opinion is, 5a| friends have every motive for visoms mated, and perseyering exertiona
 This shows that, instead of a couts tween Mir. Adams and Mir. Clay, for n ton by the electors, it had now bsco1l the estimation of Mr. Clay, a struggebsl him and Mr. Crawford or Gen. Jacka, entry into the House.
 In May, 1921, two months after hej, Mr. Clay's letter to the editor of the Arga friends at Washington city issued aaal from which the following is an extsa.
 < If, contrary to all probability, Nli should not be returned to the Hou2 friends, having done their duty, will bs 5y concentration, 10 control tbs eeem will hold in their hands the balance will determine between the opposing aat fieting interests and secure to the toa Republican Administration"
 s.Under all the views taken, il is deter to recommend to his friends to adherf steadily and to await the issue now 4 ing before the people.''
 Tbe authorship of this address wasas to Mr. Clay himself. That 1t spokeh. ments cannotbe doubted, when it's rec ed that he was then in Washington, V wasissued, presiding oyerthe Housed sentatives as Speaker 4 design, sbyt tration to control He eveat,n in thel geney of his not being returnedto totbe of Representatives, is here ayowed policy of MT. CIay's friends.
 On the 18th of July following, the of Mir. Clay ill Ohio issued an add prevent defection from his support, in quence of the growing strength of Ga son, extracts from which have alrea mitied.
 In September, the Clay Committei lucky issued an address, expressing Il ion that there could be no election electors, that the election must dew the House of Representatives; and single candidate could in thatbody out the vote of Mir. Clay. They then m following declaration. viz:
 "In fine, MT. Clay considers himself in the hands of the people; and weash' and supporters, believing him worhy continued exertions, and that his pros success are still unclouded and bris avow our determination, and we bell speak the language of all his friends, l by our preference to the last. If hesE returned to the House of Representa- have little doubt of his final election,' appreciation and applause of the maj the nation, but if any untoward circu should prevent his being one of fl highest, his friends in Congress, by q their weight into the scale of the m l publican and National candidate, VI 1t in their power to defeat the ends Q cal management, and sec that the k sustains no injury.0
 The course indicated in the Wasl Ohio, and Kentucky addresses of lS' followed up by MT. Clay in person tober he met several of the Kentuchl bers of Congress in Frankfort. 0neC the Hon. T. P. Moore, made the iol statement in a letter to Gen. John Ness, dated March 1, 1928, viz: n
 !" In that month, Mir. Clay, Mr. ! MT. c. A. Wicklifle, myself, and perlaI members of the Kentucky delegatlon'c : met at Frankfort during the sessl0n Court of Appeals. There Mir. cay , first time, expressed to me an aPpfrnl n that he should be excluded from the ' Representatives; and observed, wlll' w,, carelessness of manner, that It wou'u 1 for us, in that case, to remain uhco' !