Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-06-12
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 the DICTATORS:
Tue NEXT PKEsIDEsT.-We begin to hear from vari-
Gus Quarters notes of preparation for the next Presiden-
tial campaign. Our rep0rt states that a paper is to be
started at Washington to advocate the claims OF the Hon.
John MLean TO the Presidency. We hope not, for
Judge Leans sake. Such a movement at this time,
would be pretty certain to kill him. The wings whose
opinions on THIS subject are known TO Us are universally
averse to any Presidential agttatioh at this time. They
cannot help chershing a secret but gIaddening hope that,
before three years will have elapsed, a spontaneous aud
irresistible call will be made on the man in whom the
Wings Of the North aud South, the East and the West,
repose implicit confidence, and whom they regard with
en- affection only not idolatrous, to take the station Of
chief executive of the American people. But they do
not name hin as a candidate for P~resident-they will not
give him IN opportunity to decline, nor will they subject
him to the chances of Presidential canvass. They will
not ask the use Of his name unless there be such an una
nimity and earnestness of desire as to Danish all doubt of
the result. They cherish, as we have said, but a hope
that such a desire will be evinced they only ask to be
excused for the present, from any considerations of the
claims Of aspiranis TO the Presidency and, in the pre-
sent state Of wing feeling, any such discussion can hard
" fail to prejudice the interest OF the statesman whose
name may be thrust before them. They cherish reace,
and il will not be well for those who invade it
Nothing can be more significant than this para
graph. Who can mistake the man in 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 idolairous 7" On him "a
spontaneous and irresistible cal riH be made by the
whigs" sto take the station of chief erecutire Of The
American people" Can any be surprised, then, that
the federal journals in the interest of The man-the
idOlized-Should d~eprecate the establishment OF a
new paper at Washington .'to ddrocdte the claims OF
Hon. John MLean? % and .'for Judge M'Lean's
sake !" Could any thing be more unfortunate for the
Judge than to have himself thrown in the way Of "he
irresistible and spontaneous call"
The editor of the Tribune knows well that to pro-
duce ''such a uRaRimity and earHestneSs Of desire as
to Danish all doubt Of the reyulf' at which he aims, it
is necessary that the federal party 'shoud be excused
for the present from the consideration of the claims Of
aspiranls to the Presidency" He knows that there
is but one aspirant on whom the party Is now cluster
ed, and he does not want another.
The federalists, who look to the establishment of
their principles-that Is, British principles-in our
government, have fixed their eyes on Mr.. Clay with
all the devOut hopes that filled Mahomet's early fol-
lowers. They think Mr.. Clay is the oily prophet
who can accomplish the rich prophecies which make
their faith immortal. If he once gets in, they consi-
der that a single extra session would open up to them
a paradise of which no human power could ever de-
prive them. Mr.. Clay would give them a vested
right In a corporation that never dies, which would
supply them for ever with money without digging for
it-with an assumption Of State debts, and the crea-
ton of a national debt, which would keep growing a
funding system and all its adiuncts of stock iobbqng
and speculation-with a distribution of the public do
main, which would give new impulse to the log-rol-
ling internal improvement system-with a voluntary
bankrupt system that would wipe out all troublesome
concomitants of the "blessed paper credit"-with an
alien law that would keep the sturdy Irishman end
German In subjection-with a tariff act which would
make a lordly monopoly for the capital enlisted in the
service Of the administrations a word, all that the
English aristocracy ~(whether moneyed or landed) en-
Joy as an inheritance in the laws, Mr.. Clay would,
with a bold hand. make an investiture of for the ben
eft of his political friends. The bank, once estab-
lished, could never be repealed the debts, once as
sumed, could never be repudated the domain, once
distributed, could never be recovered; and so of the
rest. Federalism looks to one four years of Mr..
Clay's rule as chief ma magistrate, with his ascendancy
in Congress, as worth a dynasty of twenty Hamil-
tons and Adamses. 1t would be, not the Saturnian,
but the saturnalian reign.