New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-04-20
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The Presldency-Mr. Clay.


There are some conspicuous journals-we avoid
personal controversy b. not naming them-whIch
reason With regard 10 the Presidency in manner
by no means complimentary to their associates In
the Wing cause. They say in substance. You
Will effect Mr.. Clay's nomination, bat you can
never elect him--he will be defeated In other
words. The Delegates whom the Wings are send
ing TO their National Convention do ut know how
70 select a candidate-tbey should come TO Us and
he enlightened Why is this so readily as
sumedi IL II not the fairer presumption that the
Delegates understand public sentiment quite as
we'll a. their volunteer instructors II the People
do not con6de their real sentiments to their Dele
gates to whom will they intrust them The ven
cradle book OF Job speaks Of q set who easily as
sumed that they were the People, and that Wis
dom would die with them; and though the men ne
had in bis eye are dead their race seems to be by
no means extinct.
For our own part we do not know OF one Clay
Delegate land we believe no others have yet been
chosen from our State WHO does not go to Phila'
delphia in the full conviction that Henry Clay is
tho choice Of his District and can get more votes In
IL than any other man who has been named for the
position. Such being the state OF things among
thsir immediate constitute nts, they go to Philsdel-
phia resolv ed to support MIR. Clay. Suppose ma
Iority of the Delegates should come together thus
instructed or prspossessed, will not the presump
ton be very strong that he 10 the very man who
should bs nominated Who would dispute this
conclusion II the object Of preference were any
body else than Henry Clay
Do 80 spoak unrossonabfy ls there any thing
L. tx hats lar
Suppose majority Of Delegates shall prove favor
able TO some one else than Mr.. Clay, will not that
one be fairly entitled 10 the benefit OF the presump
tisn we have indicated How are we to deter
nine who Is our strong candidate If not IN this way
ff the Wings Of two.thirds OF the Union shall send
Delegates to say that they want Henry Clay for
their candidate, and can poll mere votes TOR Inn
than for any other Wing. how could candidate
he proved strong if that does not prove him sol
There are few journals, and we deeply regret
u which have seen fit To speak Of Mr.. Clsys late
Card cons enting that his name shall be submitted
with others to the Wing National Convention in
terms at once disrespectiul and unjust. Mr. Clay
asks nothing. soicits nothing at the hands OF the
whig party He has done nothing, and will do
nothing, to promote his own nomination He had
hers o. mott respectable and eminent Wings met
him and said Mr.. Clay. this must not be- We
shall fall into disunion and confusion II you leave
the Geld. We can elect you President, and no
other Wing You must stand by US Thus urged,
Mr. Clay has AMPLY said, Well, gentlemen, l
will submit the whole matter unreservedy to the
action aud decision Of the Whig National Conven
tion' ls not that the right course He claims
nothing. assumes nothing, dictates nothing. He
simply refuses 10 decide whether his name is
wanted or to withhold it IL wanted. He wields
no official power or patronage in bis own behalf or
otherwise. He simply stands st;ll, while others
decide Should another be preferred, see If that
other has q hssrter supporter than Henry Clay
And should he be preferred what Wing can more
deserve the hearty cooperation of other candidates
and their friends 2
Tho Cleveiaad Herald lOhio-we name one
assailant in spite OF our resolution has surprised
ls. II has a column which it says is dictated by
no aukind spirit toward Mr.. Clay" II 50, We beg
IL 70 try to b unkind next time, and 30 stab the
man outright instead Of hacking him to pieces with
a dali Ratchet. 1t charges Mr. Clay with losing the
last Election by writing his Alabama letters re.
spectiog Texas, says that MIR. Clay would lose
Ohio BY being a STAKEHOLDER, aud that none but
Northern man can be- chosen. 1t decides of hand
that Mr.. Clay canno, carry one of the newly admit
ted States nor Georgia. nor Indians, nor Pennsyl-
vsnia, nor even New York IL says that there are
$ 10. IS. and even 20 Whig votes in each township
Ohio that will pot vote for asaveholder under any
circamslances" This may be true of the Western
Reserve, but it 10 not true OF the State. We are
sure the maoy Counties which have declared for
Mr.. Clay would no, have done so If his nomination
were likely " prove so disastrous And il We are
to reject the most acceptable and least obnoxious
man by far that the Soath could present, on such
xsoands a. these. how we fairly expect any
votes At al fromthe South for Northern candidate
we submit the whole matter to the Convsn-
ton and mean hereafter to say little beyond chron-
icling the developments throughout the Union Let
IN be oonsiderats, fOrbesring and just We shall
como together at last, aud s unwise TO stray too
fsf apart now.
A TsIsgrE To SiLAs WRIoHr.-The idea
sss bean started Of erecting novel Monument TO The
memory Of the late sss wIish. BY founding in Middle