Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1845-1851, 1845-06-11
clay again on the Track.


The New York Tribune (the leading press Of its
party in New York; opens this little glimpse to the
policy Of tie DlCTNrORS
TuE Nfxr PRrsipEsr-We begin to hear from vari-
quarters notes of preparation for the Pcsidcn-
tai campaign. Our report saIcs that paper To be
started aShngion advocate the claims OF the Hon
John NJ Lean to the Presidency We hope not, for
Judge NJ Leans sake. Such movement AT tins time
would be pretty certain To kill HIM. The wings whose
opinions on tins subject known 10 US universally
aveTSe To- Presidential agdtiod nj tins time. They
cannot help cheslng secret hut gladdening hope that
before three years will have elapsed, spontaneous and
irresistible call will be made ON The IN whom the
Wings of the North and South the Last and The West,
rcpose implicit confidence, and whom they regard with
affection only not Idoatous, 10 take the station of
chioi executive of the American people But they do
him a candidate Tor Presdent-they will not
give him opportunity to decline, will they subject
him the chances of Presidential They will
ask of his unless there be such
nmy aud earneS,ness OF desire Danish all doubt OF
the result. They cherish, we have said, but hope
that such desire will be evnced they only ask 10 be
excused for the present fiom considerations of the
claims of aspranis the Presidency and, in the pre-
Of wing feeling, any such discussion hard
~ tail prejudice the OF the statesman whose
name may be thrust before them they cherish peace,
and II will not be well oa those who invade IL.
Nothing be more significant than this para
graph. Who can mistake the man III whom the wings
of the North and the South. the East and the West,
repose implicit confidence and whom they regard
with an affection only not ldoatrouS = On him IA
spontaneous and irreSiStibe chi WH BE- mqde By The
rchieS .io take he station Of ciif trecuire Of The
American pecpe." Can any be surprised, then, that
the federal journals in the interest of TIE man--the
idollzed->lould deprecate the establishment of a
new paper Washington .'to adrocate the claims 81
Hon. J0ta " Leaa?' and ''for Judge M'Lean'>
sake - Could any thing be more unfortunate for the
Judge than to have himself thrown in the way Of 18th.
irresistible and spontaneous call"
The editor of the Tribune knows well that to pro-
duce .'Suct upaaimity aaa earHestneSs 81 desire
10 Danish al doujt 81 the reSut at VII ch lie aims il
necessary that the federal party Shoud be
Tor The present from the consideration 81 The claims %
GspirantS 10 tie PreSil ny" lie knows that there
is but one asprant on whom the party IS now cluster
ed. and he does not want another
The federall>ts. VINO look to the establishment o
their prneiples-,hat is. British prinriples-in on
government have fixed their eyes on Mr.. Clay witt
all the devout hopes that filled 1Ilomet's early fol
DIVERS. They think Mr. Clay IS the only prophe
who accomplish the rich prophecies which maxi
their faith immortal. 1t he once ges n, they cousl
der that single extra session would open up TO then
q paradise OF which no huinin power could ever De
prive them. Mr.. Clay would give them n ves;e
right in corporation that never des which woul
supply them for ever with money without digging f
It-wth an assumption Of State debts and the crea
ton of u national debt, winch would keep growing
funding system and all its adjunc.s of >tock-lobb
and spccuaton-wth distribution of the public d.
man, which would give new impulse 10 the ag-rol
linz internal Improvement systefn-wIth yoluntar
bankrupt system that would wipe out all troublesom
concOmitauts of the ''bessed paper credit'-Nith a
alien law that would keep the sturdy lrishman an
German in sublection-vsth tariff act which woul
make a lOrdly monopoly for the caPlal enlisted in IL
service Of the admnistratioa-.n a word, all that tn
Eng ssh arI>tocracy (whether moneved or anded) ef
10y i inheritance the laws, Mr.. Clay woul,
with a bold hand make Invesiture of for the ber
eft Of his political friends. The bank. once esfal
lisiled, could never be repealed; the debts.
suned, could never be repud aed the domain, on,
distributed. could never be recovered and of II
rest. Federalism looks to four years of II
Clays rale "a chef magistrate. with his ASCENDING
in Congress, worth dynasty OF twenty Ham,
tons and Adamses 1t would be, not the Saturnial
but the saturnalian reign.