The Arkansas banner., 1844-03-13

COMMUNICATIONS.
 To the Editor of he .7r7tansas Baaner:
 DEAR SlR-Ifyo will open your columns to d novice, will give you my first impress sions of Clay Club. Inever saw one until to night, and consequently every thing was new and interesting to me; but came to the conclusion that Clay can't be worked into Ck9bs--no amount of labor in kneading will make it answer. Surely, if any labor could manufacture, from the material, any thing like a serviceable club, we would to night have had a first rate one In the first place, the bell that summons the faithful few, was rung long and loud enough to awaken the dead or those ''not dead, but those who sleep Tn the faith ;' however, despite its importantly, but few came, and the majority oi the audi ence seemed to be composed of stragglers, drawn like myself, by curiosity. It IS true that few seemed to be jealous, but 1t was evident from their countenances and then pockets, that they had speeches to deliver and they were delivered of them, indeed, with perfect tempest of passion, and fury of oratory. Never before have ] seen the air so beat, or the floor so pomelled They conclusivdly demonstrated that Martin Van Buren is a devil and Henry Clay a saint, and while doing il, they looked like persons possessed; indeed, perhaps one can hardly praise "Old Harry' properly, without the aid of some of his ministering spirits. But the audience, alas i-
 ..Upon the impassiye ice helightnings played were as cold as if the speakers were show ering upon them snow flakes, instead of vo- miting coals and Lucifer matches, don't know what was the matter with them-per- haps the recollection of New Orleans ''sat heavy on their souls to night''-perhaps they were counting eonvention's cost, but at any rate, they showed that they couldn't be kick ed into an excitement. They manifested their consciousness, that somebody was ma king speech to them, only by stamping now and then. at regular intervals ol 9 minute and half, without regard to what was said. Al the conclusion. after the speakers had said their say, and deseanted to their hearts con tent, on the necessity of making Henry Clay President, because he was always at his post, Tn the hour of danger, (when was Henry Clay ever at dangerous post? What field ever saw him fighting against the enemies ot HIS COuNuN J tilG lTSibCiit tiiue the services would conclude, hy the singing of a Whig song He requested a brother to raise the tune, and accordingly, the broth CT marched forth, waiving his hat, and sing ing to no tune at all, or the tune the old COW died of, some words that sounded like,
 "Hurra fer Clay, hurra,
 '.Hc's the man for Arkansaw,
 s.He's the greatest man that ever was,
 'sAnd will be President, because
 'Hurra for Henry Clay, hurra, &c., &c. But it wouldn't do; either the Clayites didn't feel like singing, or they couldn't catch the hne-so the Club broke up with shoutthat showed it's end was welcome, and its pro- ceedings '!more honored in the breach than in the observance.n The whole affair was a most miserable failure. and had 1 entered the room without being told that 1t was a Clay Club, would have thought 1t burlesque on the Harrison meetings of 1S40, got up oy waggish democrats. All of the trickery and absurdities of those meetings was attempted, but there was no enthusiasm to make 1t pass off, and so every thing ''died i'the pip.''-
 What particularly struck nie was the iml- tation of the proceedings of religious meet ings, by ''all the deeency and all the order" party Surely the cause of Henry Clay can not be advantaged by by his followers bur lesquing the tme-honored ceremonies of rell- zion The Clavites have too much need of. religion to mock its forms in this way; for religion implies charity, and charity 'whlch covereth a multitude of sins" must be stretch ed to the utmost, ere an intelligent and moral people can take Henry Clay, with his intrigue and treason to republican principles in 1925, his aristocratic and tyrannical denunciation of the 'ssquatters," his dissipation and his profanity, his guilt of Cilly's death, and his responsibility for the last and most prohgate acts of that most profligate institution, the late U. S. Bank NIATOR.
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