Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1847-12-09
Correspondence Of the Indiana State Sentinel

week ago to-day, about hour after had maj led
my last epstle to you, laid my eyes upon the
utions offered by Mr.. Clay on the 18th inst, at his
mass meeting in Lexington, together with the very
brief synopsis of his accompanying speech, that
published with them. 1t would be afiectaton in me
to say that they had not been looked for with great
solicitude. On the contrary many had expressed to
me their abiding faith that they would be found to
contain more wisdom than had previously dropped
from the lips of an American statesman III all this
controversy upon the Mexican question. 1t would
likewise be afectation in me to say that it not
received here by the federasts with highly delighted
feelings; but it amusing in the extreme to note
the different degrees of delight manifested by different
individuals; for we have here, in the employment of
the general government, great many federalists
from every section of the Union, and of every ina
ginable phase and think it would have taken
thermometer with some 300 or 400 degrees marked
upon it, to have developed the different degrees of adj
miration with which many of my federal official
acquaintance received read and digested them. All
admit that they orthodox lchiggery but this is the
only point upon which there is uniSOn. The Taylur
wing "the resolutions certainly the very quint
escence of whggery but if we go battle upon them
in 1913 We are. to moral certainty, badly beaten
party" The Mclean wing say "the resolutions are
whg to the core; but they not dignifed and
clrcumspect might have been expected from so
learned man and so great a statesman as Mr.. Clay"
The northern wing, the calcuationsts from the land
of dOughnus and pumpkin pies, think the doctrines
of the resolutions irrefagabe, ncontrovertibe,
unanswerable, and unquestonably good whg doc
trines - but they "canno upon the whole. see any
thing in them that equals the talents manifested by Mr.
Webster in his speech at the last Massachusetts wing
convention" But it was still more amusing to OBJ
serve the temperature of the Clay column: al would,
most undoubtedly, have boiled Mercury, even if it
could have found limit there their expressions of
delight fell fast and thick, and for words seemed
TO have ransacked every dictionary extant, that
could not, for the life of me- catch take
note.
Now, quit large company, if it is all the same to
aud your readers will express my opinion of them.
The whole cf those words used to till up those eight
long resolutions take but two postions-one absolute
and the other conditional. The absolute Is that
the wing party is opposed TO any acquisition of terri
tory and the conditional that If do acquire
additional territory the whg party is opposed to The
admission of slavery into it; and this doctrine will
be, north and south, adopted by the wing politicians
no divisions, as such, will exist: individuals VINO
have heretofore supported Mr.. Clay, in the SOUTH may
drop him; but their number will not be sufficient to
constitute disaected portion Of the whig party. In
the non-slave holding states, the other hand, ne
will stand higher with his party than ever. say
these eight long resolutions take but these two pO-
sitions the remainder is nothing earth but repe-
tition Of the common low, parlzan slang that disl
cuisines the 1ederal press OF the Gay consisting DI
abuse heaDed upon the administration for not carrying
on the without money, and without the loss of
single man part, together with fair portion
of egotisn about what Mr. c. would do if the people
would only elect him President: the more full mean
ing of which is directly limited at in his speech,
where he drops the very modest remark that he will
undertake to end the war in sixty hours.
| have never observed any thing, since Gen. Taylor
wrote himself TO death, In the political horizon that
indicated to any other individual as the next wing
candidate for the presidency than Henry Clay; and
these Lexington resolutions confirm more and
more in that belief Upon the score even Of avaia-
the nomination Even before he put forth these
lutions, no man in his party emnently quail
fed in every respect, to be its candidate and he
is still more so. Gen. Taylor might run better in the
south, or Judge Mclean in the north; but where is
the in the wing party that get its full vote in
every section of the Union that MIR. Clay can! He
always has received this full vote, and always riA :;
and other man in the party can receive it. What
other why from the south receive the enthusiasts
tic support of northern wings that Mr. c. does None!
And think you that wings never weigh these matters
Far from it! These Lexington resolutions will,
repeat. elevate MIR. Clay with the wing party of the
nOnslave holding states, and procure for him, if he
lives and enjoys unmpaired health until the
ton meets, the wing nomination for the presidency.
And need say that eternal vigilance, union and har-
OF ever riR defeat him! When was the democratic
party dirded that it did not fall When was it unit
ed that it did not triumph G. w. K.