Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1848-04-27

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CASSlUS NJ. CLAY'S RESPONSE
TOHENRY CLAY'S LETTER.
New YORK, April Is, l84S.
Hon. HENRY CLAY:
S1R-ln the Tribune Of this morn
ing | find letter dated Ashland, April
10Th, 1S48, over your signature. The
letter is addressed, presume to The
American people. III did not know
you well. the intervening space OF three
days only between It's date and It's arrl-
val here, would lead me to suspect It's
authenticity. lfyour determination to
allow your name 10 60 before the Phil
adelphia Convention as candid.ta for
the Presidency had been in accordance
merely with your wishes and individual
judgment. l should have KEEP, re-
spectfnl silence. But as your det"rnl-
nation is ba>t'! upon the supposed in
'eres, of the Wing party, ! Shall VEN
ture unasked, to add my opinion 20
tina, of: he numerous Wings to whom
you refer. When tell you that royal
ty rarely hears the truth. you will
think, no doubt, that | repeat very
stale dogma, if no, altogether out Of
place in republic. Bat there are par
asi,es in republics as we'll as in despo-
tisms, and Of those you have a very
liberal portion jus, now. Were | TO
claim TO be your personal friend,
might better, perhaps. accomplish my
purposes; bu, as have never ayo"ed
one class of sentiments Wills, in reaIl.
~ holding another, ! tell you frankly
that. although from my earlies, youth
| had been something more than cold
adnrer of Yourself, so when you star
ted, on the l4'h of August, 1916, 10
the Virginia Springs. leaving your
friends and family t" murder me, IN my
sick bed, for vindica,ing those prinri-
pies which you had laugh, me, in your
speeches, at least, ] ceased TO be your
friend, and became, by the necessity of
nay nature, your enemy. What shall
Say 10 you now, then, will have the
more weight, because you will see that
it comes from an honest, ifno, AN I'M
prejudiced man; whiis, ! >hal! attempt
to divesi myself of the individual and
speak as The member of a grta, party.
| shall then take up your letter in
its proper order. In saying that you
had "a strong diSinclina,inn to the use
OF my [yonr name in connection with
that Office" courtesy leads me 10 con-
fine myself to the remark that you de-
ceive yonrseIf-bul no one else! So
soon as you were defeated in the last
election, committee Of your friends
from Frankfort waited upon you and
condo!ed with you on that melancholy
event You responded in a manner
that led me, almost with the power Of
certain,y.,o remark 10 some friend tha,
Henry Clay is candidate again for
the Presidency. Time at'esis my sa-
gaciiy.
90 Stf"HH "d" NY toII"N'''" 'n"'
you would BE- candidate, " hen letters
were read in the Convention Of "the
Wing friends Of General Taylor" in
the State House al Frankfort, from the
Hob. J. J. Criienden, Hon. Ch. S.
Morchrad and Hon. J. P. Gaines, beg
ging MS not TO nominate General Tay.
lnr, and thus push you from the tack,
and saying tina your would en ycur re-
turn home retire from the canvass, in
the presence Of The thousands there as
semble6, rose up and declared 'ha.
although ! respected these gentlemen.
had no. the least confidence that YOU
would in truth Withdraw. Time at.
tests my ssgacny. After you had gone
on to New York. and delegates were
chosen 10 the National Convention
whilst you were the city's guest, and il
was again asserted that you would de-
cline on your return home. said no;
yon refused 10 cote New York last
summer, you would no, have gone now,
unless sou had determined TO run for
the Presidency. J'ine attcsts the Truth