Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1848-11-17
RICHMOND,V VA.
Thursday Morning, November Is. ls4s.
Mr.. CLAY AND GEN. TAYLOR.


Mr.. CLAY AND GEN. TAYLOR.
Mr.. Clay did not vote for Gen. Taylor-ar
the Lexington Atlas attempts to explain the ma
Ter as follows:
Weregret TO learn that MIR Clay has been ver
seriously indisposed for several days. so much $
thai he has mol been able 10 come 10 town."
The Louisville Journal says that il was tee
tainly Mr.. Clay's wish and intention to vote te
Gen. Taylor" Why, then, did they mol pursu
the plan adopted in The case of Gen. James TaJ
lor a, Newport, KY, who died on the day OF cleo
lion, but still gave his vote tor Gen. Taylor II
was vailed on al his own house by the Judges c
election, who received his dying vote. Was nc
Mr.. Clay's vote as important as that Of Gen. ia:
Taylor
II is more than probable tina. Mr.. Clay was nc
anxious to endorse in any way the nominee o
Greeley's National slaughter house" al Phiia
delphia. Since The election we have some GU
rious revelations, which throw light on this sub
jec,. The N. Y. Mirror, the original Taylor or
gan in the Empire s,ate, has recently come GU
with an article, making war upon both Cay ant
Webster. II says, that "neither has rendered u:
any assistance in the great contest which has re
suited so gloriuusly for the nation" Mr.. Clay
according TO this Taylor authority "has logged.
ly maintained sullen silence towards the public
while he has been indus!riously writing private
~ TO his idolalrous friends that The Phadel phia
nominations were degradation 10 the Wing
party"
"Mr. Clay's refusal TO acquiesce openly, and
lend his cordial support 10 the candidate nomina-
ted BY his own party, will make sad chapter in
his biography. He virtually rebelled against the
act of the Wing Convention, and if we were
speaking as pariizan we should henceforth re-
gard him as voluntary outlaw from his party.
President Taylor owes them nothing the coun
hand in accomplishing its last and grandest lri-
umph. Webster's speech al Marshfeld, which
il is said, he made, as lawyers defend "hard ca
ses," for The fee, and not from the heart, was
most perfectly damnatory so far as il had any in
fuence at all; and the Free Sellers in Massa-
chuset,s and Ohio went 10 The polls with Web
sters and Greeleys words OF "cold support" up
on their lips. And when the honest farmer talks
against q candidate he rotes against him also.
Ii lakes a,fimming, shutting, double dealing,
hypocrilical politician 10 denounce a man as a
cut-throat TO day, and eIalt him to the skies To-
morrow-and all for the sake OF honor and office.
We have already heard Cay and Webster NAM
Ell as candidates for the new Cabinet But, thank
God General Taylor knows his friends, and
what is still better, he never torgetS his woun-
ded. He knows the difference between the vete-
rams who have suffered 10 his cause, AMI The pc
litical hypocres who have made both his cause
and his friends suffer by their Brulus slabs"
The same Mirror praises Messrs. Rives, Stu
art and w. B. Preston and says that Gen. Tay-
lor has lost his native Stale "by the treason OF The
ultra Clay men in that ancient citadel oil Demo-
cracy." Ii denounces them as "Clay lraitors."l
The above indicates with some clearness that
The old Wing Guard have very little TO expect
from the incoming administration. Before ma.
ny months OF the new regime shall have expired,
we may look tor some rich developments. 1t will
be curious problem how far the old Wings, or
the f" no party" availables, may have power and
influence a, Washington, when Old lack has
stand 10 her aims nm aud calmly watch The pro-
press OF events under the Mosaic Taylor Adml-
pistra,ion. The want OF the cement Of princi.
pies, aud The confused and heterogeneous ma
,erials which compose the Taylor parry, must
cause a splitting asunder, when the necessity oil
direct and positive action shall press upon them.
All will ye, come right, we are satisfied, II the
Democrats will rally upon their principles,
whose power and perpeluity no political events,
no parry mutations, can impair.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer thus humorousy
hits off the position Of the Taylor party and Mr.
CLAW, who ha, not yet, by word, letter or vote,
endorsed The Philadelphia nominee for President,
though he has vouched for Fillmore as no "Abo-
li,ionist," in the strict sense Of theterm.
"CLIFFoRD, WHY DON'T YOU SPEAK
TO MEAN who have witnessed The beau
tiful play OF the Hunchback, know the an
guish with which Julia pronounces these words
10 her apparently Indifferent lover. She IS
wrilhipg under a passion she dare no, in words
express, and is vainly striving 10 smother The
sha me of pas, ingratitude to him. He wit
pesses her agony, but deigns not word Of
relief until she calculates the above excla-
NATION through flood OF tears. How aptly
this figure applies 10 General Taylor and Henry
CLAW. Il is now seven months since the General
received the nomination at Philadelphia, and not
one word has yet escaped the lips OF Henry Clay
that he should support him, or cared whether,
with him, the Wing party succeed or not. Here
stands the "Great Embodiment" alone on his
plantation, sour and solemn al the farce ne sees
PLAYING around him: That great party oil which
he has so long been chief, now engaged IN eject
inc man 10 The Chief Magistracy who never
poted a Wing ticket in his life! well, says
sOld Hal, have been forty years 10 the pub
lie service, have seen great many strange
things in politics and men, but have never seer
ling so ridiculous as This. am ashamed o.
nv party and III have nothing to DO with this
mus"
OLD TACK IS COME. - As soon as i
was ascertained, beyond doubt, that Gene
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