The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-04-27

Our Warrington Correspondence.


Our Washington Correspondence.
WASHINGTON, April Is, ls49.
M. Vsbster-7he Politics of the Day, and the
Position of Henry Clay.
The Virginia election comes off tomorrow, for
Congress and the Legislature. Mr.. Webster, not
having pro6ted from the rays Of the October sun"
Of 1910, got to chanting the chorus Of
40, carry me back to Old virginny;"
and they carried him back-they tOted him thar,
He has been down among the herring and oyster
eating "outside barbarians' pertaining TO the
borough of Norfolk and the demesnes crcumJacent
- the Dismal Swamp. But whether that April snow
storm will tell more auspiciously to the cause than
the sun of October, il is for the morrow to deter
mime. Mr.. Webster is in for it. The very first
negotiations of Mr. Clayton, as PRIME minister,
were with Mr.. Webster; and II the secretary OF
State succeeds as well IN his diplomatic arrange
unents with foreign powers and pOtsntates with
abe Olympian expounder OF magma ch6sta, he will
be more than a match for Pena Pena and Boca-
uegra, the vanquishers of the Murphys, Shannons,
and SGdes; he will be able to nuilify the protocol
dodge the proviso, and annex Cuba and Canada,
without calling phalanx to the field
Mr. Webster is bound to support the administra-
ton. He is secured and the object of Mr.. Clay
ION, in securing him, was to secure strong man
IN the Senate against the very possible disobedience
Of Henry Clay. But the dynasty of Master Tyler
and lS4S ought to admonish Mr.. Clayton that, for
all party purposes in party crisis, the nomination
Of the champion of the chowder-men-the chef
cook of the bivalves of Patchogue-was, perhaps,
"nomnation not fit to 'be made" Time will
tell: Mr. Clayton Is sagacious: MIR. Webster is
profound. Mr.. Clayton wins regard Mr.. Webster
commands respect And the amiable cancellations
the one with the reservation of the terrible thun
der and lightning of the other, may crcumvent to
surrender the old wing lion of Kentucky. OF him.
self, Mr. Webster would surrender TO Henry Clay !;
but as mediator, as the friend of Mr. Clay, and
Of his friend Mr. Clayton, the great Daniel may be
enabled TO appease the more lndomltable Harry.
The act Of Mr.. Clayton, in securing the good
offices of Mr.. Webster IN the Senate, indicates
me importance of conciliating Mr.. Clay Let him
remain among the mutlnous and dlsafiected, and
all the disappointed office-seekers will rally around
him, 10 the annoyance of the adminstraton-to a
repetition of the game of Mr.. Van Buren, and the
barnbumers, and to the destruction of all harmony
M the party, and all the prospects of Mr.. Clayton
for So
The movements of Mr.. Clayton, then, to the
cancellation Of Mr.. Clay, have been sagacious and
would adopt, especially if he were looking himself
nor the succession in $50 or Sc We concur, too,
IN the policy of recommending some of the most
notorious friends of MIR. Clay, by way of an expe-
riment Kindness may do a great deal There is
nothing like soothing plaster for an old sore.
Singuarly unfortunate as Mr.. Webster has been
in all his party enterprises let hope that the re-
suit of his April visit TO Virginia will effect better
results than his October sum- and that, at the
next meeting of Congress, he and Mr. Clayton one
on each side, may be enabled to take up the Great
Harry, to declare for himself his devotion to wing
principles, and his undying Partially for the mill
lary chieftain, who in war administers grape-shot
and bomb-shels, and who in peace administers the
laws w.