The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1848-05-09
CAsSlLlS MI CLAY TO HENRY CLAY
.Nsw NoRR, ApiIl l3, ls4s
Hon. IEENRy sCLay. ss-

sf-5iR--An tue ttibunc- -1nf THIS mnrnfug ]
find a letter dated Ashland, April 10Th.
ls4S, ovcriynur signature GTheSlelter is
addressed, lpresume, 10 The American peo-
pie. iftdid not know you we'll, the inter
vening space OF three days only between its
date and lis arrivalsherc, would lead me 40
suspect its authenticity. Ii your determine
lion To allow your name TO 90 before The
Convention as candidate 70,
the Presidency had been id accordance
merely with your wishes and individual
should have kept re. pectiul
silence. But as your determination is based
upon the supposed interest Of the Wig
party, shallvcnture unasked, 10 add my
opinion 10 that of The numerous wings 10
whom YOU refer. When tell you that roy
ally rarely hears The ruth, you will think, no
doubt. THAT ! repea, very laic dogma, ifnot
altogether oai Of place in afcpnblic. But
there are other parasites in republics as well
as IN despotIsrns, and Of those you have
very liberal portion just now. We're ] TO
claim 10 be your personal friend, might
better, perhaps, accomplish my purpose; but
as have never avoved one class Of scnti-
ments whist in reality holding another |
tell you frankly thai, although from my ear
liesi youth | had been something more than
a cold admirer Of yourself, so when you
started. on The 18th Of August, lS45, 10 the
Virginia Springs, leaving your friends and
family TO murder me in my sick bed, for vim
dicating those principles, which you had
taught me in your speeches, at least, ceas-
ed TO be your friend, and became, by the ne
cessity ofMy nature, your enemy. What |
shall say to you now, thcI, will have the
more weight, as you will sec that ii comes
from an honest, if not an unprejadlced man;
whilst sha! attempt TO dvesi myself of the
individual and speak as the member Of a
great party. I+-'
| shall then take up your letter III its prop
er order--in saying that you had "a strong
Discrimination to the use Of my [yourl name
in connection with that office,'' courtesy
leads me 10 confine myself to the remark
thit you deceive yourselt--but no one else!
SO soon as you were defeated in the last e.
lection, committee OF your friends from
Frankfort vailed upon you and condoled
with yon on that melancholy event! Yon
in manner that led me, almost
with the pow er Of certainty, to remark TO
some friends that Henry Clay is candidate
again for the Presidency. Time attesls my
sagacity.
So strong was my conviction that you
would be candidate, when letters were
read in the convention Of the "Whig friends
of Gen. Taylor" in the State House al
Frankfort, ffom the Hon. ]. J. Crittenden,
Hon. Charles S. Morelead and Hon. J. P.
Games, begging US not nominate Gen. Tay-
lor, and thus push you from the track, and
saying that YOU would ON your return home
retire from the canvass, in the presence Of
the thousands there assembled, rose up
and declared that although respected these
gentlmen, ! had not the least confd nee
that you would in truth withdraw. Time at
tests my sagaciiy. After yon had gone on
to New York, aud delegates we're chosen to
the National Convention whilst you we're
the city's guest, and ii was again asserted
that you would decline on your return bome,
said no; you refused 10 go TO New York
last summer, you would not have gone now
unless you had determined TO run for the
Presidency. Time altesis The truth of my
prediction. You say that your friends rep
resent that s'the withdrawal of my [yourl
name wonld be fatal 10 their success" Ii
they SO speak TO you, they speak q different
language elsewhere. ] have been told that
all the members Of Congress from our own
State but one, told you that you could not
be elected, and that divers others whom
could name, told you the same thing. But
if these reports be untrue, allow me 10 tell
you that l have heard almost universally that
your name would again bring us defeat. 10
that opinion | concur, and will gye you
my reason. Because ! am not gulllless my
self, and because of the bad taste of the
thing, viii not urge objections to your pr-
vate character. Neither will / press you
prestige of iHIuck, in saying that all The
which you have urged upon the
people, except the Missouri compromise,
have been erased from the statue book
For we lament in common, the fall Of the
Tariff, the bank, and internal Improvements,
under your lead! | shall confne myself
hen, TO the question of availability. Three
lines have we run you and three lines your
name has brought us defeat! So soon as
Gen. w. H. Hlrrison had brought US up
rom a miserable minority, where you had
eft us, to large majority, you hurried on
0 Washington, when Mr.. Tyler under Mr.
Webster's lead was doing good service 10
Ihe country and the party, and by attempt
ng 10 force on him and us the "obsole,e
Bank" which we had purposely surred in
The canvass, you brought US 10 speedy mi
aority! VA e..g ems..F ia, seo adp
A '.long time ago." being too old to per-
orm '''lthe the comparatively light duties Of Sen