Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1848-02-03
GEN. TAYLOR, Mr. CLAY AND THE
NORTH.

We are far from sectional in our feelings
nor d. we desire to see sectional feelings AMI
prrludices iostered or pointed, aud in this
spirit we lhink we can Justly anl properly
ask the few leading wings Of the Northara
States, who seem now determined to refuse
their support TO Gen. Ia ylor whe Their they be-
lieve they are laboring for the best iuleres; Is
OF the country, whether they do we'll in hold
ing out The hope to MIR Claws friends, that he
be elected if nominated AMI thus pre-
vent him rom doing what both his true irieajs
and his own great fame require him to do,
dec.i c being a candidate Tor The Pres
idenCy.
We do not believe, Judging from the past,
that Mr. Clay can ever b. elected Presi t.'''.
lie has been before the people, he wssorouslt
beloFe them in IS i. when eve, drop IN lie
great flood OF the popular mind, was in hs
favor. He failed, ialI-d when the hardest
blows were struck, that could be struck BY his
staunchest friends. Can m re he expected
now We appnhendel not. The New York
Tribune than whose editor 10 one is more
talented or less discreet and sonn in judge.
ment, makes the following remlrk:
Here is New ork-one- eighth of the en-
tire Uaipu--carr ID NAiL at The last two f.
lecupns bs majoritie, Of 10000 aud $1,000
respective with D.egiliDi in Conpre-,
two-t!lirts Wai5, aud State Government
ever 80 strongly Whg-lJes ANYBODY seri-
onsy doubt thh her So votes viii BE- cas-, tor
Mr. Clay il he runs! AMI ,hc,e votes would
have susIicsd T. elect hin in II. And beside
New iord, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania.
G-nr5id Ia llama, Fiortlt aud Wisconsin have
been car!ed b. the Whig, since 1871. ana
most of them went Whis IN the last contest.
Nh4teXcus, Is there tor the assertion that
Mr. Clay could ct NJ vote, in Is That h. lost
in "A.
Ih't the Wags have carried New York
for tWo yeafs Is true, bat no man can,
IN his senses set down New York as a Wai5
State, un eas under peculiar circumstances.
Size could never be made 20 vote Tar Mr. CLAY.
whose sound Old Wing doctrines would n.y.
er be accepted by The ola hunhets or ba,n
burner, OF The Stale Gen Ts,Ior. ofeven
Gen Scout could carry New YORK, brcaus the
people feel an enthusiasm Tor them, Mt bectoss
la- truly talrntcd Whis editors Of thu Cits
aaa State GnI morr pleasure in back anals
t1e "oea %. each other all Vh.ieW4shiag it,
"ni5aers nan 10 holding a2 rJlkcry to DAB.
lac scom. Gen Ia,isr csaid carr, New York.
and past experience shows lhat Mr. CLAY can
not, s. can he carr ,h. other States named
but "Ii' any rational man say ial, AR Cl,y
cao carry lAe vote ol New Hampshire. Penn.
syhanla OF Wisconsin # Is !lle 10 l.I.,f
such 'hlHs aud more Idle to HOPE it.
sjn= lew OF The Northern .nen oepos. fia,
ia."r because he is Southern man. H,,aa
sectional p'euicea2 No, neither have the
Peop'e,oii -Ar lew Leaders have. TAev want
norAfm man Tor President. have they
nor.d'n m4n they CA h1ye 10 elect i,
there mln braries Gen Taylor, whom tb.y
they could even centre Jaeifown votes ON i,
Is there eae who wouaj esv- 50 cool ,a.o
Teniag Tor northern men Hereafter voaId
Gen Taylor? Nol one. The Nor,bs,o
SlutArrn, Eastern or Western Wing. who o,.
poses 'he nomination OF Gen ia,Ior. dgb,.
ioF 'a- iuF. her and Goa .aaed defeat of Wbis