New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-09-10

yet been consulted and IT IN feared that some OF
them will feel constrained to decline. We earnestly
hope none will do co. The Wing cause needs the
use Of their names its representatives have de-
cided. Wbowill reject the appeal
ga Party II known by the Character of it's
Leaders.o
Under this title, the Ai6any hrgus is giving its
readers characteristic view Of the controversy be-
tween the Express and The Tribune, with the com
ments of the Evening journal thereon, especially
affecting Mr.. Clay and Gov Seward. After quot
ipg the Eve. Journals remarks on Mr.. Clay's Ala
bama letters, the Argus proceeds to say:
NO doubt Mr.. Clay's candid avowal Of his views on
he subject Of Aunexson--and that they were his
did opinions there can be question than that II
was but fair and above board that the public should have
them--dd essentially thwart the Wing game then
on foot this State md open the eyes Of many Wing
AboOuts to the consistency of their giving Mr. Clay
their But what To think Of the honesty OF
the psrtisans who complain OF this caDdor and fair
dealing With what face can they in the hearing Of
those who it IL admitted thus saved the chagrin
and modification Of giving mistaken vote, undertake
taun, Mr. Clay with indiscreton and sefimmolsoD,
bccsuse be- kept back nothing Would they have pre-
ferred tha, Mr. Clay had kept dark and that than
1000 honest electors Of this state had been betrayed into
hasty and III advised judgment at the bsllotboxesf
We thank the Argus for this uncx pected testi-
mony 10 the integrity, manliness and candor of Mr..
Clays course in the late trying canvass. 1t is MI
true, and the representa- ons Of the Argus and lite
allies last year that Mr. Clay was paltering, shuiiiing
equivocaing on this subject were base and iniam-
Gus Had Mr.. Clay been the man they represented
him. he might now have been President. But he
chose to be Henry CLAY, and, fearful the
Couniry's pers in consequence. we love and honor
80 = 4.
secured and little equivocation might have pre-
vented
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<tingy pronounce on ~ own u,cKy ana dastaiuiy
csndidst Mr. Folks position on the Tariff ques
lion was equally critical with Mr. Gays on An
nexation. yc was known to the intelligent
Free Trader aud secured the entire support Of the
Anti Tariff men every where. But these were not
enough-hc needed Tariff votes and Tariff States to
elect him. Accordingly, he was induced to write
one ambiguous letter to Pennsylvania, avowing him
self friendly to some kind of Protection. tThset
ter purported to be an answer to one from J. X.
Kane OF Phadelphia, but neither he nor Kane dare
show the letter which called it out--ve have cha
leneed Kane TO do it, but he will noL) Hercupon
his advocates in Pennsylvania and wherever else
Protection was popular, insisted that ne ~as FOR
Protcc'iou-in many instances they claimed that
he was even more SO than Mr.. Clay! Wilson
McCandless SO argued throughout Western Penn
sylvana. James buchanan declared in Towanda
that the Protected interests would be safe in his
hands as in Mr.. Clsy's Herewas n candidate for
President running on both sides of an important
question. 1t was nantes, that somebody must be
cheated. Mr.. Folks ncighbors in Tennessee sent
depuiation. asking him for some more specific in
dication OF his views on the Tariff question. He re
fused 10 gire any oRsner. Many Wool growers Of
Otsego Co. IN this State united in letter asking
his views respectirg the Protection of Wool. Their
letter was endorsed to him as that Of real and
worthy citizens of both parties lie refused 10 an
sper The cowardly reptile wormed his way to
the Presidency by the basest dishonesty and de-
ceit. lie knew ,ha; his refusal TO answer
would generally pass unheeded in the heat Of such
contest, and could even be denied If necessary
while any intellsbe answer he could give would
unmask the frauds by which his advocates We're
winning votes in some section or other. so he Sc
cured the votes OF both Tariff and Anti Tariff men,
and is now President of the United States. The
Albany Argus is his worthy mos,hpiece at the
Capital OF our State.
word more as to Mr.. Clay. We never sought
in any way TO 'entrap the Abolitionists or to win
their votes on any false view of Mr.. Cays position.
We never represented to them that Mr.. Clays hos
lility to Annexation was based on An,Slavery, nor
did he ever give a shadow OF countcnance TO the
idea We alwayasaid, Mr.. Clay is Shareholder;
e. a.
oes Of Annexation that you do nor that we do
But he has voluntarily pledged himself to oppose
Annexation so long as Mexico objects TO il and 50
long as any considerable and respectable portion
Of the States Of our Union. shall resist it. That 10
all that can be reasonably asked Of him-all you
'ough, to require If you sincerely regard Anne xs-
ton as great National wrong and evil" These
grounds were not changed by Mr. Clay's Alabama
Letters. but the OF those letters differed some
what from the Raleigh letter. because of the ms,a
ken identity which had been asserted in this quar-
ter between our objections to Annexation and Mr.
Clsys and The use made Of this by Loco ocoisn
at the South Those letters doubtless los, us this
State, not because they changed Mr. Clays position
but because the Loco Foco orators and presses in
SANITY and unanimously protested that such was
the fact. 10 vehemen,ly that many were induced to
believeit The Argus, now tina, i, has answered
its purpose admits that this "a falsehood but
that cannot undo its mischief Mr. Clay never aban-
doned any position taken in the Raleigh letter he on
!ysejected some unwaraned conclusions which had
been drawn from that letter. He stood throughout
the contest on simple. broad Wing grounds fear
lessiy avowing the doctrines common to the Wing
party Of the whole Union nobly maintaining them,
and only defeated by combination OF falsehood,
cslumny, double dealing rank cheating and fraud
ulent voting, such as never had parallel. The
history Of ihs, canvass when fully brought 10 hight.
will blast the memories of his leading advcrsaries,
Who while keeping their own candidate mum and