Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1849-03-16
MR. CLAY AT HOME.

The Louisville Chronicle, new Democratic
paper, edited with much ability, reviews MI
CLAWS history with whitening power, and shows
that be has always looked and is now looking 10
the North TO crafty his Presidential aspirations.
We make an extract from its article upon MI
Claws. emancipation letter, which, 1t says, II
would have been a little more honest IN Mr.
CLAW to have published before he was elected 10
he Senate Of the United Sales. The picture OF
the aDictator" Gas w. c. Rives called him)
abounds in passages Of powerful truth. here
they are: -.
Not satisfied, too, with the expression Of such
mo fled opinions as are held by the mass OF
Emancipalors OF this Stale, he has gwen ute
rance 10 the holdest abolition sentmens-more
betting the mouth OF one OF the Northern Ia
nalics, than distinguished Southern states
man. His vaullipg ambition grasps al the polil-
;ca influence OF the North, and 10 attain that, the
sacrifice of his own State and Of the whole SCUM,
weighs but feather in the balance.
And vet Mr.. Clay is consistent. Since The days
Of The acoalition between the Eastern puritan ana
The Western black-leg," his whole influence and
mower have been exerted in favor OF the North.
The scheme of Bank Of The United States,
centralixing the whole moneyed capital oil Inc
country in the east, by which TO build up its
commerce and manufacturers, was essentially an
Eastern measure; and we confidently believe that
len wears more will not elspse before our Western
and southern wings will wonder at the faulty
which induced them TO support ibis corrupt mono
poly. His protective Tariff was also essentially
measure 10 build up the east and good reason for
lis advocacy by western men cannot be given. Like
The Bank otthe U. States, it will in a few years
he secuted by all thinking and sensible men in
The West. The bare idea OF an agricultural peo-
ole enacling high tariff on manufacturer, is
ridiculous absprdily, and we have no question,
since now the eyep Of the people OF Kentucky
are opened 10 what has been Mr. Clay's real
FEELINGS and affiniles, that they will view all OF
his tayorite eastern measures in their true light.
The whole sim of all the labors of his life are
so pla in and legible, that 'lhe wayfarng man,
though fool may read it." That aim has been
the PRESIDENCY!
His vole for John Quincy Adams against Gen.
Jackson, by which the sentiments and wishes Of
Keplucky and the South were disregaTded, and
The instructions of his own Legislature and The
right Of instruction" Qhe doctrine which be him
seIi taught lhem,) violated and trampled under
noaer f6ol,-was with a view TO his o,cn adrance-
n.ent 10 tie Prssidsney.
His unwayering advocacy OF High Protec-
tive Tariff and of a Bank OF the United States,
after be himself had taught the South thai il
was unconstitutional and oppressive, waste pro-
initiate the East and thereby aduanee his oSn utfcs
upon the Presidency.
His celebrated Missouri Compromise, BY which
the South was betrayed to the aboliiioniss OF the
North, {as was proved BY every Southern man
except himself voting against il, was an effort 10
gain The confidence of The North, and thus pro-
mole his rcn aims upon ne Prss,deney.
His much Landed Tariff Compromise, (by
which The South fauered themselves that he was
returning TO a sense OF his duly to his country ]
which he himself was the first to violate in 1910,
was as il appeared by his lelter TO Mr.. Clayton
in 1874. deception practiced upon the South,
and but another bait 10 the East and 10 the Tarff
feeling in Pennsylvania, to fo1,oard AIS oioD ad-
paneement TO The P,ssideney
His Bankrupt Law, also, [by which The in
s,ruclions of his Legislature were again disrs-
O., I'd / and thousands of his acts and votes in
Congress, can be easily traced 10 the one, same,
ever.mindlul objecl-b. Advancement 10 the Pre-
sideney.
And now, In lS49, when the Constitutional
rights of The South are assaied by the whole pack
| OF fanatics and demagogues whom purblind mad.
ness and The love OF political power are urging
| 10 their desecrplon-when Kentucky is viewed
| andppenly proclaimed az The debateable ground
CT power between the North and South, ana Inc
| emissaries of The North within and without her
borders are moving heaven and earth 10 strike
down al blow ESQ 000, 600 worth OF her proper
| " and forever bind her TO The car OF Massachu-
sstts-Henry Clay, With bis eyes yet fixed nm
benching on The While House, and bis heart yet
warming for this one sole object OF his lifelong
! Iabors, casts The weight and influence of his
name against Kentucky, and boldly throws him
self into the arms OF the aboilionists IN another,
last, desperate stake for tie Presidency.
Will not Kentuckians Ror learn to know Hen
~ Claw Will the true sons Of Kentucky, those
who love her soil, her institutions, her thousand
glorious memories-who glory In the unexam-
Piled prosperity, happiness and manly indepen-
| dence of her children, and bow down in reveren-
tial awe at the mere mention OF The names Of her
pioneers and statesmen OF other days--Tho scorn
and oathe the Gaming fanaticism OF the snufdins
| bypocrires and snivelling knaves who would
transform her into colony OF wooden-nutmeg
and old-clothes venders-will they yet continue
| 10 bend the knee before The shrine OF The man
who has ever barlered her generous devotion to his
own unhallowed ambition2 Will they leave to
their children the inheritance OF servile subser.
viency 10 The political hucksters OF New England7
Are ,bey prepared 10 acknowledge their own and
| their iaIhers ratnio,ity 10 the pen whom they
| have always controlled, ruled and governed =
Are they willing TO transfer The powers, honors
and digni.es of the government into the hands OF
The POLITICAL traders, whose supremacy is 10 bt,
purchased by denunciation and prescription Of
The South and all her patriotic sons3 And have
they reached thai Stage Of abect cowardice, which
will cause them TO accept The advice OF Mr.
Clay-and cringe in paralylic fear before the
isorlherner, and with "'baled breath and whis-
pered humbeuess," beg that Kentucky may not
become the battle-ground between The North and
The South THAT rather may their fathers OF
Virginia or their brothers oil Tennessee bear the
| brunt of Abolition fury, and that Kentucky will
pay for their immunity with tho blood OF her
neighbors and kinsmen
This is The degradation TO which Mr.. Clay and
his abolition friends in this Slate would reduce
the South for his advice 10 separate Kentucky
from The other slave States of the Union can
mean nothing else. And il his positions are true
as regards Kentucky as border State, how
much more imperative would it be for Tennessee
and Virginia, il Kentucky were free State. also
10 adopt the same policy; for in thei, case The
border is but geographical line, while Ken
lucky has the Ohio river as barrier.
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