The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1848-05-19
Tao Viii, Presidential Tctcr.

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Tao Viii, Presidential Tctcr.
= :auple Of boys, on opposite ends Of
5iI1s, is centre resting uqCu a TX. engaged
sr;As delightful youthful g1s,.---z q. ;szsr.~g.
sIo,yi an exact illustrate Of -as ;cr:ss. cy-
tween Clay and T1y,.c s;r -:s leadership gs
whisgery in :1s isFrurlng 7rgsu-!u. q,
campaign. -iEEr P.@r, / Ur:r, G., AZ
friends ho.i 4 .rnEaut;un. uni u7 b.. s9Ss.
and down Cav CHr unia sgesc-, .ut
uphc goes, al5 5:9g -grl,r- Thus ~ and
down have been 1..- lIs,..t.I-.s 1..sas; hali
dozen of times during i-s sAs. SIX months.
80 high up had Taylor 20; 4: enc time dur
iag the winter, that bis friends could list
Gown with ceraint; states enough in his ia
vo- 10 beat all competitors in the national
convention, and Clay became so alarmed,
TIA, he found it necessary 10 make tour TO
TIE east Ton business" The tour was ac-
rsrnvllSAed and sure enough, down again
went Taylor, and up went Clay to pCrpen
tit-lIr notch. The old soldier was desert
a. Or every hand-even his first and stron.
Sf-; friends wavered; editors began to haul
ham down from their maStheads, and the
C.Ey wAi-s became so confident that they
xrsE l1so.eu:, and even commenced reading
t4.s friends out OF the party. So perfectly
Kl-l,6si was Clay himself that he now had
1V3sss thing" Of il, that he put forth sort
81 genera, order 10 the universal whig party,
2.suoas,ra.ing not only the certainty, but al
- tie ProPrety and necessity of his nomi-
1tt.-n, Illus rendering it little less than rank
treason TO the great whig party for any Of its
members 10 oppose him. But let them laugh
that win. Santa Anna felt no less certain
hat he had Taylor whipped when he fell
upon him al Buena Vista than Clay did when
lie returned from his eastern tour. Yet San
te Anna vas doomed 10 a terrible disappoint.
men', and Why may not the same be posi-
Die in the case Of Clay? The prospect, it
must be acknowledged, looks very favora-
bic, or rather unfavorable, for the Clay
wings. Bragg'S battery at Buena Vista was
scarcely opened more eileclualy on the
hordes Of Santa Anna, than the recent dou-
bic battery Of Taylor on the ClayiteS, from
Baton Rouge. We Published last week the
main portions OF Gen. Taylor's letter to Capt.
Allison, and we give this week the substance
Of another letter, written but two days after
the other, tothe editor Of the Richmond Re-
publican. An idea may be formed Of the
sreeHtioa these letters are doing, from the
following extract from Washington letter
TO the New York Tribune, written by Hor-
ace Greedy himself, probably the warmest
anl most ellicieut advocate Mr.. Clay has.
WAsmtScToN, Wednesday, May 3.
The letter OF Gen. Taylor TO his brother
h'law, Capt. Allison, which appears in the
city papers to-day, gives new strength 10 the
party OF his friends here. Orlate there has
been some lukcwarmncsS TO his cause.
BIZ from the feeling manifested to-day,
all the enthusiasm hitherto icl, for his Servi.
ces and for his character is destined 10
powerful revival, aye, and to an increased
strength.
The effect Of his late production is no bet
ter developed in the increased animation of
his friends than ia the increased apprehen.
sions of his opponents.
The Buffalo Commercial, also decided
Clay paper, the following comments
Gen. IAyLoR's letter of the I'D of April
published IN this paper last Friday ap.
pears to be very generally approved in Wing
quarters The administration presses, those
that have ventured any remarks upon il. gen.
orally aSsail il, bu, the Poughkecpsie Edgle
IL almost the only Wing paper tina, has done
so 10 our knowledge.
Th. n Y. Express that, heretofore, has
been very decided in its opposition TO Gen
TAYLOR asa Wing candidate, says his let
ter IS ewing doc,riuc," that il is ga good
enough Wing letter for us" and, farther
that II snow brings him before Whic Ma.
tional Convention as legitimate candidate, :"
and tina, It Snakes i, impossible for Dem.
"era'ic Convention to nominate him."
Weconld give columns of similar extracts,
but these. will suffice to show that TAYLOR
stock has decided upward tendency, and
unless Clay and his friends stir themselves,
the Taylorites, by the aid Of Thurlow Weed,
perhaps, and the lightning line, will vet beat
Clay in the philadelphia Cony cn,ion. Tim,
rouid be a joke.
We are indebted TO Col. OAK,ry far co.
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