The State guard., 1848-05-09
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Ala, ]
 May 4, lS45.

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 May 1, l945.
 To THE HoN. HENRY CLAY.
 My Dearest Sir: In justice to you, and to prevent doing violence to my own feel ings, take the liberty of addressing you on the subject of the present, past, and fu- ture.
 During your stay in the city of Mont gomery you may recollect that l was iu- troduced to you, by Mrs. Larert, as a warm and ardent friend of the whig cause, and friend of yours of course but since you were with Us 1 have reflected nature ly on the subject of the position of the two great political parties, as well as your own position before the American people as candidate for the Presidcncy-the highest office in the gift of that people, and, contrary to my own expectations. (and no doubt to yours,) discover that can not longer support the whig cause, inas- much as l cannot see what the whigs want beyond charted monopolies--alias, Corpo- rations-unless it be as good excuse to find fault with the present government and the present auspices, under which we labor, which auspices, when compared with any other government whatever, are certainly the very best in the world. Yea, to compare the condition of the American people, and the ease and abundance with which we are surrounded, naturally con- clude that we must be the most ungratelul people to a most kind Providence that ev- CT disgraced the world by the tread of their feet, not to be more than contented with our condition, and in that case we would certainly fall under the adage of Memo sorte sua conteniia riri. Now sir, you must not think that have taken this un- expected course prematurcly, for l can as- sure you that much lament the circum- stance of our political separation, from the fact that you are not only whig, as have heretofore been, but that you arc also a member of our church, which is great additional regret attending this unfortunate separation. You may no doubt recollect my congratulating you that you were in a truly whig district when in this district, but Inow have every reason to believe that assertion erroneous, as know of ma- ny whigs in my neishborhood who have gone over to the democratic ranks. This change has been produced by a combina- ton of causes, and particularly these two: Your speech at Lexington, and your oppo- sition to the present war.
 Many of your most talented friends in this county admit your great talents, but they say you lack the philosophy which teaches us that we must take the world as we find It, and not as we would have it, and act accordingly. Although the idea is new to me, I think I can discern the moral conveyed by the remark, and atten- ding the various vicissitudcs under which we live.
 The position assumed by you in your Lexington speech has exerted great in- fluence over your future prospects, not on- ly in the South but also in the North, which position, fear, will prove suicidal to you, to greater extent perhaps, than your enemies have even had right to hope or wish for. I received a letter from a female friend of mine, who has re. gently arrived in Boston, who writes me that you have lost many friends in that city, and no doubt in Massachusetts, by your apparent harmony with that brawling and fanatical set of Abolitionists, which unfortunately inlest the more Northern States of our Union, to the great annoy ance of all those who love peace and good order, and the Constitution and laws of our much favored country. Why, place such an estimate on the correctness of this lady's opinion, arises from the circum. stance of her past high opinion of your talents and politics, but who not unlike myselG thinks she has just cause for re- grctting her former partiality and prefer. ence for the whig cause.