The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-11-23

wing quarters hey nave Iouu du ccho anu arc pP0OaDly
destined to rally strong party to their support We
lay two evidences OF this feeling before our readers
The one the proceedings OF Clay meeting at Trenton
on Saturday last the other is the language of the Albany
Journal, of the leading wing papers the State Of
New York.
This is no wonder. Mr. Clay has long led the
whig party He has been run three times for the
presidency; and two occasions he the candidate
OF his party, he the champion OF their principles
He is indeed, extraordinary man. Rising from an
humble beginning by the force of his talents the power
of his eoquence and the energy OF his character, he
has won his way the highest Offices in our legislative
councils to the head OF great party, and to disn-
guished fame in the eyes Of the world. He is still
traordinary man. Age has not dmmed his intellect,
eytngushed his ambition. Though in the list year OF
his life (haying been born on the 18th of April l7770
he is still capable of great and almost wonderful efforts
How many men, at his time of life, would have been
able TO 70 through the which he realized the 9th
instant! Let us hear what partial but intelligent friend,
the editor of the Lexington Observer" says of him
the 18th:
The whole scene to of imaginative turn, was well
calculated to create striking emotions. But duties
limit the simple chronicng of events The weather
the very The day before, and on the day,
that Mr. Clay spoke Under this of the case it
wonderful 10 such crowd, of which large number
ladies, assembled ut the Lower Makehouse at III
o'clock, to hear Mr. Clay We will not pretend to estimate
the thong that listened with GREATNESS attention the
greatest and statesman of the age When say,
however, that majority of the States of the Union
represented the occason by persons who had
presy hear this speech, do exagger
the truth. 1t that his friends get tired of
listening his voice. and his good sense
The speaker himself scarcely seemed be old man
and when it is known that he had, day before,
spoken between three and four hours in Sngeon's will
case certainly of surprise that he sustained
himself with such unlhng energy throughout his bri liant
speech.
Gas to his speech, it will speak for itself 1t will be be-
fore the world for for praise, and will derive
additional strength from any commendatory notice of
is enough say, that the hearest appreciation of
all whoheard it,"
"The resolutions having been all read by Mr.. Clay in
distinct and audible manner the president announced that
any other gentleman should desire address the
meeting, propose any amendment of the resolutions
division of the question them it would be in order then
do No person ntimang any such purpose DESIRE
and the question the entire resolutions being vocerous
y called tor the president then distinctly stated the ques
ton to be the adoption of the resolutions read and in
quired all present then ready for the questions and
there being other than reiterated call for the
question: he then emphaticaly restated the question
befe and observed that all who in favor the
adoption of the resolutions read would say aye
and, after hearing the ayes, said that all who were
against the resolutions Of them would He
then announced that the resolutions had adopted al
most nanmoasythere being only three negative
voices The meeting then adjourned
The Observer that Mr.. Clays speech would
certainly appear on Saturday last. We shall probably
receive it in the course of this week.
Whilst reading the revise of this article the northern
mail of tonight is put into hands; and among our
letters, find sealed paper containing an extra from
the Office of the "Norh American and United States Ga
zete" OF Philadelphia, issued this morning. for the pur
pose of circulating the autentc speech as reused and
corrected by Mr.. Clay 1t occupies about four and
half columns We have no time to glance over the
whole speech, much less to review it; but the eye
catches the following gross and unfortunate error which
we have already exposed in the first sketch of the
speech II runs thus in the revised speech before us
"But instead OF This pacific and moderate course whilst
Mr. Slide was vending his way Mexico, with his dipo
matte credentials, General Taylor ordered transport
his cannon, and to plant them warke attitude, OPP
posiie to Maamoras, the east bank of the Rio Bravo
within the very disputed territory, the adjustment which
to be the object of Mr.. Sdel's mission"
From the Trenton State Gazette
The Clay Meeting
On Saturday evening, agreeably to previous notice.
large number of the wings of Trenton and South Tren
confidence in the patriotism and worth of Henry Clay
The meeting was called to order by Abraham k Har-
ris and Robert Chambers esq, was chosen president
and Thomas b. Johnston secretary.
On motion of A. R. Haines, the following gentlemen
appointed to draught resolutions expressive of the
sense of the meeting Charles w. Jay William Boswell
Abraham R. Harris, Samuel Evans, and Thomas Mac
pherson. ,x
The committee retired and after short absence, re-
turned and reported the following resolutions, which
were unanimously adopted
Whereas it the duty of the citizens republican gov
delegated powers and to hold to sc, accountabitv the
n end that tho nj