The Arkansas banner., 1848-10-03
Letter from Jshn N. BOItS---Pnbiished by Of.
 der of thr Clay Committee.

RICHMOND Sept. c, 1SfS
 Mg Dear Sir: received your letter yesterday, by which l was delighted Co hear of the fired par- pose--not an Albany Aash-in-the pan--of the de- terniined friends of the whig cause, and of whig principles, to nominate Henry Clay; for. matters now stand admitting Gen. Taylor to be Thtg cam dda:e, (which utterly deny,) the party Is doomed to certain inevitable and disgracefui defeat, and every man not wilfuIiy blind must see it. It was was an inexcusahle blander to suppose that from million and quarter to million and ahalf of free, independent whig voters could be wheedled into line at the word of command from some fifty or sixty Washington politicians tmost of whom had scarcely shed their pin- feathers in poities for a candidate who never filled civil station and who had not for forty years. and perhaps in his life given vote for man measure; without experience or knowledge of the practical operations of any of the doncs tic questions about which he had differed; of no ac quaintanee with our foreign reations who had sad to the people, .'f ou must take me on your own sponsbilty'-"I will not be Inc candidate of party" nor twill be the exponent of your party principles nor look the doctrines of your party The rule of my sction and while he professed to shrink from no responsibility, steadily refused to give h='epinion on any one question, except the practical use of the veto power and declared his determination not to be governed by the action of convention, but weald be a candidate matter who might be nominated; and in my judgment his Dan@ never should have been considered fn that cauyea~ ton after he made that declaration.
 f1uf fhlS faSt 0bleGklON, " Was EHtd Dau JefH re- moved by the pledges made for him by Judge Sauu- ders in behalf of the louisianu deegloH which lie su hseauently aaopted by a card wlttcu by his thority and published by Bailie Peyton Ballet, Ac. and this declaration was held up by the Taylor and whig presses of the country as sufficient to neeoacile all wings 10 his election. fIba. Peyton card and Lis cordial acceptance of tie nomination had placed him upon the whig p9tiorm; and just at the moment that many of us had brought minds to the conclusion 10 vote fer him, however re- luctsntiv, he writes another letter in which he says he would have accepted the nomination from the Baltimore convention on the same terms which he accepted the Philadelphia nonination! What be- comes then, of the Saunders plcdgel What be- cones of the Peyton cartl And if il be true that there were no terms expressed or implied in the Philadelphia nomination that wouil be inconsistent with an ace ptanee of the democratic nomination al Baltimore, in what attitude does if place the whig party. selecting az iAeT candidate one who could with equal proprjety have 5eeoms tiis candidate of their opponents! And if not true, in what posi- ton does ii place Gen. Taylor.
 But what desire to learn is this: If Gen Taylor is not boundby the action o the Philadelphia com vention, who is1 And if he may disregard it's re commentators. who may not And if he is bound by their setion, what right has he to lend the ntu- ence of bis ,o the defeat of Mir. Fillmore who was associated with him, by the same body Of men, by accepting q nomination with Gen, Butler, To- cofoco whose election he thereby assists in promo
 
 suing to the whig party, and especially to all those who participated in the proceedings at Philadelphia. and if they had any whig split left in them, they would resent fl.
 If it is ascertained that the purpose of that con vention was perverted from it's original legitimate objects of ascertaining and giving expression toPub lie sentiment; by smotheriDg it on the one hand, and manufacturing t on the one, or in othoT words, if it has been ascertsined, (of which there Is no doubt,) that the nomination was made through the instrumenlaty of politicians without the slightest reference to the public will, and that the interests of the party likely to be sacrificed by It. then
 hod that the error ught to be corrected promptly hy the people themselves. and trust in God, the meeting you oiify of, may put the ball in mo to h. that may roll and gather as Il rolls. until the wbig party shall have its eyes opened to its true con di,ion. and uniting as one man, the only who lives embalined the hearts of his eouairymen, we may copmand triumph, that our real strength en- titles us to achieve. l shall be in New York very
 JOHN M EDITS.