New-York daily tribune., 1844-02-13
~. .re members OF the Central Clay Com
a.atee OF the City of Nexv-Y Ork:

and have acted upon the convictions of my own
Judgment with an earnest wish to fulfill, IN the
best manner possible, the duties you have imposed
upon me.
1t may be proper, nay it Is proper, and my duty
besides, to accompany this call by few remarks
upon the objects Of your association, the events
which have transpired since you assembled, and
whet still remains to be accomplished.
The seventeen Clay Clubs of the City of New
York. one in each Ward numbering nearly ten
thousand enrolled voters, the German Clay Club,
nearly one thousand strong, and the Unlonlsts be-
longing to the Gid Guard, good men and true,
represented by you in the Central Committee,
were the earliest organization under this Title IN
the United States, and it was in imitation and
emulation OF the example thus given, that the
Wings Of other States proceeded to form similar
associations, which we now count by hundreds
in almost every section Of the Union.
At the time of your organization, there was
much distraction and some division in the Wing
party; more, however, among the politicians than
the people There were those who denounced the
retiring Cabinet, and haIshy assaied the Wings
in Congress for the noble stand they had taken-
They talked of third parties, of moderate parties,
oralliance with your opponents. They pronounced
your organizations, having for their primary
object the nomination OF Henry Clay as the can
didate of the Wing party for the Presidency OF
the United States, hasty and premature. But
thea talk thus no more You have seen the spirit
which banded you together spread far and wide,
until the Wings Of the Union are now with one
heart and voice congratulatlng each other upon
the certainty that the noblest and truest of living
statesmen will receive their united sufrages in
the autumn of the present year. To confirm the
nomination already made by the people, and give
it formal and solemn expression, not to exercise
any individual discretionary power, will the Wing
Convention assemble in Baltimore in May next.
Then and there, too, will assemble the Wing
Young Mems National Convention, to ratfy the
act, to mingle sentiments with each other, and to
pledge themselves upon the altar of their COM
mon country to take from that Convention the
CLAW Banner, and bear it with steady purpose
over mountain and valley, until the beloved Chief
whose name is emblazoned on its folds shall be
placed in the Chair of State, where once presided
in mature wisdont and paternal love the Father
of his Country; and surely if his beatltied spirit
might be supposed still to take an interest in the
land he assisted to enfranchlse he would look
down with an approving smile upon the pure, con-
sistent and patriotic Statesman who had been IN
Quoted to that honorable seat.
A great work devolves upon you in common
with the Wings Of the Union and especially as
connected with the Wings of the State. Be not
deceived or lulled into fancied security by the
present dissensons and differences of your oppo
nents. When did you calculate upon these and
fail to reap disappointment? They have still
the discipline and all the party machinery which
enabled them for years to curb independence Of
thought and action to bear down integrity and
exalt corruption to darken the whole land with
the shadow of their supposed invlncibllity, and to
Danish from the public service many Of the great
est and best men in the Union. They have still
the broad cloak of the abused and perverted name
of Democracy, worn thread-b bare at many angles
indeed, but yet sufficient to cover and protect an
immensity of tyranny and fraud. They have
still the remembrance of old triumphs, Of Office
and spoils, and their leaders and active partlsans
pant for more entire restoration to power than
their union with Tyler has given them Be as
surcd, then, that in spite of present appearances,
Won have desperate struggle before you, strug
ole. however, that will as certainly result ausp-
couslv, as that your sincere bold and manly ei-
forts will deserve success.
The present is "a period Of comparative polit.
cal calm in our own ranks, and Of doubt and in
decision among our political opponents. 1t is
therefore fit time to prepare for effective action.
Your clubs, already formed, will serve as the
basis Of effective operations. But this Is not ALL
A wider range of usefulness lies before you. From
Head Quarters in this city, you may invite, and
urge, and assist your brethren in forming similar
associations in every part Of the State, where
they do not now exist, until all who are opposed
to the election Of Martin Van Burcn, and in fa-
yor Of Henry Clay, and entitled to vote in Noven-
Der next shall be enrolled among the minute-men
of the true Democratic Clay army.
Through these associations better than by any
other means, may be conveyed correct informa-
ton of the principles, views and measures of the
Wings to every voter vino is willing to receiver it
through these associations every friend Of Henry
Clay may be aided or encouraged to take
Wing journal at least for the campaign; through
these associations may be distributed Wing docu
ments and tracts, which are now afforded 50 cheap
that few dollars will supply a ward or town.
Many will read one or more Of these who have
not leisure to read regularly even a weekly jour
nal In word, on the Clay Clubs, here and
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