The Arkansas banner., 1844-10-30
From Me Boston Post.
PRO AND CON; OR HENRY CLAY vs.
 HENRY CLAY.

HENRY CLAY.
 To follow Clay in all his windings IS no easy matter. His political track has no slm- ilitude among sensible objects, unless 1t be the railroad of Thaddeus Stevens, known as the Tape Worm, which was represented as commencing in the woods and ending mo- where. Stevens, however, has the advantage of MT. Clay he did not cross hls own track as Mir. Clay does, and herein the simllltude fails.
 Mir. Clay is, perhaps, one of the most sig nal examples of political degeneracy Tn ex- istence From democrat he has sunk docn to modern whig-whose self-acknowledged type is the despised coon of the cornheld '- There was a time, even after hls great apos- tacy, when he had the reputation of frank ness and consistency For his own honor, and for the credit of human nature, we could wish he had maintained that character. This, however, has been lost in the strugg ge for power In order to show this clearly 1t IS only necessary to refer to his numerous let ters and speeches written and made within the last few months. On the tariff and the Texas questions particularly, his inconsis- tency and demagogueism appear lamentably conspicuous. For the special benefit of our whg friends, in proof of our charge, we will call the "emBodyment" to the stand he shall l be convicted on his own testimony And first, of the Texas question
 In Mr. Clay's Raleigh letter, dated April 17th, 1914, his whole object IS to show that the annexation of Texas to he United States would be unwise, mpolitic and dangerous. He denies that Texas Is an independent na- ton de iure, regards her as still part of 1 Mexico, and suggests that foreign nations so regard her; and to show that he has no de- sire to incorporate her territory with that of the existing Union, he says:
 '.In the future progress of events it is pro- bable that there will be voluntary or forci- ble separation of the British N forth American possessions from the parent Country. l am strongly inclined to think that 1t will be best for the happiness of all parties, that in that event they should be erected into a separate and independent republic. With the Cana dian republic on the one side, that of Texas on the other, and the United States, the friend of both, between them, each could advance its own happiness by such constitution, laws and measures, as were best adapted to its pe- cular condition"
 This is what Mir. Clay said in that letter Without stopping to show how disastrous such state of things would be to the best interests, happiness and we'll being of the United States, we may say the extract is con- elusive in proof of Mir. Clay's opposition to saying
 "ln conclusion, consider the annexation of Texas, at this time, acuhou Me cOnscnt ot .Merico, as a measure compromising the na- tional character; involving Ills certainly in war with Mexico, probably with other for eign powers dangerous to the integrity O the Union inexpedient in the present fnan cial condition of the country, and not called for by any expression of public opinion''
 Such was Mir. Clay's opinion in April last In July following, Ae embodiment writes another letter Iii reply to one from an Alabame whig In this letter he informs his Southeri friend that
 PERSONALLY HE COULD HAVE NO OBJECTION TO TIE ADMISSION OF TEXASo
 In April he had all sorts of objections In July, as an individual, he was in favor O it. In this same letter of July he furthe says
 "H (the scheme of annexing Texas aca, c bubble biorn up by .M. Tyler in mos erceptiondble manner for sinister purposes.
 And yet MT. Clay, in the same breath wishes this bubble success. It was mere bubble got up for bad purposes, but ''person I ally" precisely what he approved This i .l,o ment was in doubt whether he had gone fal enough. In order, therefore, to make all surr, another case, made 10 order, was go up by Thos. M. Peters and John M. Jack son, to whom he replied on the 27th of July last. In this letter Mr. Clay says
 ~ haue no Hesitation m saying that far from haring any personal objection to the annexation of Ieras, SHOULD BE GLAD TO SEE IT,"
 And to this declaration he adds, as if anx- ious to cover the whole ground
 ~ do not think Aat tte subject of slapers ought to a6ect He question one acay or he other. Whether TcraS Dc independent or incorporated in Me United !States, do not belieUe u aciH prolong or shorten Me dura- lion of that institution. ' acould De u,l- acise to retuse C permanent acquisition, which ciH enist as long as he globe remains, on account of temporary institution"
 This is what we should call a whirlwint gyratlon. The embodiment, in April, was deadly hostile to annexation for reasons ol ''perpetnal .force," to use the language ol Clay-whig Slade, but on the 27th of July following, he desired it, and undertook to argue down the one great obstacle to its ac- complishment! His friends must place him under keepers, apply the paddock, and see to 1t that he acrite no more letters.
 On the tariff MT. Clay has been equally tape-acormish He has been constantly speak ing and writing on this subject; plunging first one way and then another, to suit the views of his sectional correspondents Al first he was in favor of the principles of the compromise, and wrote so to his southern friends. In his letter to Mr. Merriwether oi l n