The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-04-15

The Why's and their Dictator
The most extraordinary Characteristic about Mr. Claws
Card or Letter. Petition for nomination or Poelama-
uon OF aeeeptance-cal il what you will-,he most ex-
traodInary feature OF TO be the matches
arrogance Of Us tone From all that appears the docu
lnent ITSELF no soul has asked him publish it, Doubt
less has friends wished him refuse nomination if
offered But no man, woman, or child in the country
who knew anything about him his history or has
Character ever thought that he road so refuse His
proclamation his signature, was mol only ut
terry uacaile fort was absolutely without any decent
Prste-ri whatever.
And coming thus npou u.s. what Is it on lis very face
IL Is Mr. Gays solemn assurance TO the wings, that
rather than see them broken up and defeated as they
must be without him, he viii forego his hitherto
carefully concealed preference for private life, Heaven
save the marx , and will even volunteer himself two
months beforehand the willing victim of their suage
heretofore SO often bestowed on him in vain! Ii is a
new spectacle of solicitation for the presidency For the
presidency, Yes; for any other Office in the popular
gt No parallel such step can be found since the
proud Paircans of Rome put airs of mock humility
and stood IN their white (canda to solicit
or demand the suffrages of the Pebeian Tribes
But Mr. Clay's 1s0desfg is not al all content with ar
guing at length his wing friends that they cannot do
without hm-at least IN the 'iree States" He is quite
wiing-mosi nlagnanimous that he is to pardon
those short-sighied wings whigngs who had, in an
unwary and l-adylsed moment, been tempted TO turn
away their eyes iron the wing Napoleon of defeat and
look tlnidly and askance towards other man He
will generously forgive their Doubtless they fell
INTO ii, because OF their despair of persuadng Inn to
run He has been very unwilling be voted for be-
lore, that they surely could expect be would consent
again! Besides when forced from his retirement to plead
cause-a most opportune cause-in the Supreme Court
at Washington, he kept himself so quiet on his way
home He Stunned the public eye so, and showed so
clearly that in the OF the melancholy Prince Of
Denmark man delights no. him; no. nor roman
neither" After many and such shrinking signs of
besotted devotion to privacy surely the mistake OF his
friends in supposing that he would be public man
again was most natural! Hear how generously be ex
them for it:
1t viii be from what have related thai there ,ei.
to aneplis that rod DECLINE giray "a eossen. to
the Of agsia candidate fur the presidency If
the Cated States. Oriag perhaps thus as other
eaHsss nany oil my friends and ieliowciizens have
ed preference for and directed their TO- the di
tig@fsea Of other cili-sa Of the United States
take pleasure ia truly declaring that Ihare rYe 10
prssao eogfiaini'so rePrO1eae make arcouat Of
aSsy ktct preference, winch uiiy persuaded
orally founded on honest and patriotic convictions
ASHLAND, April IL, lS4s, H CLAY.
Why, what absurd efronery is this Have things come
such pass that Mr. Clay feels bound 10 assure the
Public" that he has complaint q '.reproach q
to make, because wing citizens may hare thought
Of somebody else for the presidency Truly the wings
to be pited Awful, indeed, would have been their
plight had not their master been turned to mercy And
this is the party which dares aunt before the public
eye and play antc tricks of protest agans, wha, il calls
submission 10 the one-man- power
Well, the crisis is over now The edct has come
forth The fiat has been spoken Let the wing stray
glers be whipped in they bes. may Once more
let the wing party shoulder its bruised and battered IDOL
and tread again lis beaten and weary way of defeat The
Stree States demand il, and the Dictator says it OF
what can the wings of the south DO bu. sucea,5
And, meantime, the denocracy-warned ana stimulated
BY the humiliation OF their opponents-wil rally as OF
yore pronounce and register the doom OF free people
upon the worshipplng faction OF privilege, which
knows how respect itself, 10 preserve its indie
pendence from being tranplel under the insulting feet OF
IFS self-consituiei leader.