Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1848-02-16

defy his greatest admjFer to tell us what he
might sSt do in his Adm; nstration, and not cos
,ravene his declarations. His friends may set
this down for a settled point: AZ at present
non committed he cannot be elected by the
Wing party. And also: Under an indepen-
dent nomination, he will not be elected by the
People. ~
The objection of being STAKEHOLDER, rests,
also against Taylor with unmitigated weight;
and if this objection was terrible in A it is still
more so now. -
The name that still rcuses the greatest num-
Der of faithful and tried friends, is HENRY
CLAY; The circumstances of the country, so
similar, though still more difficult than in 1914,
renders his denomination extremely appropriate.
We then wanted his exalted patriotism and tai
ents, and long experience, TO avert the evils
which we plainly saw coming with the Annex
alton of Texas: We want them now to re-
move those evils and avert still greater. 1t is
true there are other men in our ranks equally
competent, but in hun especially, is much the
ster, is an acknowledged great mantle great
Attorney of New Engand-and he serves his
client faithfully-and the Wing Party, and the
United States owe him much, and will one day
pay HMM gratitude. We doubt he would
strongly be supported and he might be elected
but there will never be such strong probabili-
| ties of It, as to Justify Convention in setting
aside man who would stand on such an a.
mount of ready capital as Clay.
John M'Lean; is a man whom almost any
| Wing would wish to see comfortably in the
Presidential chair, without much trouble to get
there. In time of profound peace and plenty
| (if the nation was entirely destitute of politi-
cal schemers and full of honest discerning men)
he might be so elected-not otherwise. He
must wait till there is ''new EARTH"
AS against Taylor the objection of being
Shareholder will restagainst Clay also, but with
many mitigating considerations. Clay is known
not to be in favor of its extension: and though
we doubt not the opinions of the two men do
not essentially vary, Taylor's place ofresidence,
in the extreme south, and Clay's in a compare
lively moderate Slave State, Taylor being a
chief instrument in the prosecution OF the war
begun to extend slave Territory, and Clay's &C
tive regret of the War, all continues to fix a
much greater degree of antisavery repngnance
on the former than the latter.
But, in the event of the inability OF Mr.. Clay
to lead the Wing hosts in the next campaign
there is another name that will come before the
people with all the prestige of military renown
won in the present, and a former and more pop
ular war, beside large share ofclvic and dlplo-
matte ability: A resident of Free State, and
| intact ffom the crime aveholdlng-aWng of
the right stamp as the prosecutions of the pre-
| sent corrupt Administration abundantly proves,
| if there were no other evidences: GEN. SCoTT.
Second to Clay, and Clay only stand the claims
| of Scott to the confidence of the American PEG :
pie: And we doubt not that those claims will
have their due weight in any contingency which
| NAV arise in the Convention. But we have al
ready overrun the space allotted to this article,
and must stop.