Democratic banner., 1848-05-08

CLAf, REPUBLICAN AND
THE WHIGs.-It has been but a few weeks
since MIR. Clay published his manifesto
that he would be a candidate for the Presi
dency-placing himself fairly before the
people, and rebuking his peculiar friends
who have busted themselves in trying to
rule him off the track. This manifesto has
fallen like a irc-brand in the wing ranks,
causing elimination and re~crimination from
the two great wings of the wing party.
The friends of Gen. Taylor declared
that it was unfair for Mr.. Clay 20 thus rude
ly break in upon the quie: of the party,
while they were going on to nominate the
old General under the public impression
that Mr.. Clay would not be a candidate
The Clay wing charged back that Taylor's
had wrongfulIy made that impress
sion, by publishing without authority that
he would not be a candidate, thereby fore
ing him to this course. Whereupon a fierce
renconnter springs up, in which the actors
appear in no very creditable light to the
public.
In reply to the Republicans onslaught
upon MIR. Clay, a number of its subscri-
bers in Fulton, Galloway county, Mo-, ad-
minister a lecture to that paper, from which,
we make the following extracts:
"We must beg leave to enter our solemn
protest against the course pursued by yonI
paper for the last six or eight months, and
especially and e~mph0ficoNy against your
unnecessary and uncallcd for attack on Mr.
Clay, upon the reception of the %intelli-
.gence that he would permit his name 10 GO
before the National Convention. Your
right to pursue the course you have taken,
or any other that your Judgment or inte-,
rest may point out, we do not presume toI
question. If in your wisdom you shall even
choose to advocate the claims of Jas. X
Polk for the Presidency, we should have
no complaint to make so far as you would
be individually concerned. But we do
most seriously object to your views and o.
p~iaions, as the organ and exponent of the
party views of the Wing party in this State.
And while we do not call in question the
sincerity of the motives by which you have
been actuated, vi greatly doubt the wis
dom Of your coursels, and think that your
er parie and ercH,Sire course has been
from the outset, and is now opposed to the
best interests of the Wing party; and in-
stead of producing that union and harmonyi
so indispensable to our success, has great
" tended to create discord and dissenSion,
and if persisted in, will inevitably result inI
at home and serious injury to the
abroad" |.
* Having advocated the claims
Of Gen. Taylor 90 the exclusion of all 9TH
ers, with a zeal not tempered by discretion
and a confidence that bid defiance to dis
as a matter of course you
were disqualified to receive the %announce-
ment with any degree of pleasure or conn.,
And notwithstanding you were
prepared for it, and think 1T ill adcis-
cd," he Reopke think IL meN adrised, and
will respond TO It in thunder tones, FROM
Missouri to Maine. You "cannot see in
The position of Mr.. Clay before the people,
justification for an act which takes from
the National Convention some degree Of its
You, gentlemen, in common
with other editors, have to a very great ex-
lent created that necessity, and rendered it,
imperative on MIR. Clay to settle the dispu-
ted question, as to whether he would peri
nit his name to go before the National COM
V~ention or not. You have again and again
given currency through the medium of your
paper to every rumor that would leave the
matter in doubt. 1t has not been more than
l fortnight since you published from some
very authentic source, (?) that Mr.. Clayl
would positively announce his withdrawal
Oh his arrival at home. = y
X But has not General
said, that he would esteem it an hon
Or to be nominated for the Presidency by
whatever name they might choose to de-
themselves? Is not this express
zion sufficiently broad and comprehensive
10 include the National Convention? If So,
low is it that Mr.. Clay should have remain
I'd "passive?' That his announcement
takes from the National Convention some
of its discretion" and not General
faylor's? How will it leave the Conven-
ION less free to act in the one case than in