The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-02-06
TELEGRAP~1lC INTELLIGENCE.
MIR. Cis,< - Position ana RESOLUTIONS.

MT vi" % POsltion and Resolutions.
The or. ginal, well Defined and sublime position
taken by Mr.. Clay in the Senate of the United
States, will have much more powerful effect upon
the country at large. and upon his associates at
Washington, than was generally anticipated. We
think we do not see merely through our hopes, as
many journalists do, when evidences OF truly
thinking and Judging dispotition appear IN the Sc
nate, once not only complimentary to the genius
manliness, and patriotism of the great Senator
from Kentucky, but happily, for the settlement OF
aquestion to which the force and character OF the
cabinet were pre-eminently inadequate. What
ever ultimately may be the realization from the
labors of Mr.. Clay, one thing is by no means
equiOcal-though the regulation of the disturbed
political elements, at the centre of governmental
system, be merely subject for theory and
| speculation, Mr. Clay's views will act like the
great forces OF nature, which hold and sustain
the planetary organization In their individual beau
ty and their collective harmony. Minor antago-
nistic powers may produce their phenomena, to
derange and to retard, for time, the great laws
which intellect will create and fashion in this cri-
sis but from one source alone will proceed that
regularity and order SO ardently desired by every
true. admirer of this nation and its institutions.
sition by the course of Mr.. Clay. Opinions and
suggestions, almost infinite in number. will be
started, and, like chrystallzations, will shoot In
every possible form of eccentrIcity; but the general
character of these, they become fixed into solid
deductions, will be in conformity to the line Of
reason marked out by the distinguished Senator,
whose mind first grasped the great necessity of the
case, land directed attention to Its mportance-out-
shining, and casting into shadow, the contempti-
BILE recommendations of the imbecile cabinet,
whose craftsmanship is stupidity, and whose diplo-
macy is thin veil of fimsy inactivity.
MIR. Clay commenced to speak yesterday, about
one o'clock, upon those resolutions which have
already appeared in the Herald, and which every
man ought to read attentivey When we received
his first words, the precise character Of the effort
he was to make flashed upon us; and we were
convinced that he was spiritually wrapped" tor
more important effect than the mere tickling OF
ears, stirring up the hair of the Senate All the
Rochester hocus-pocus Is girls work, compared to
1t. With what grace and force he turns the points
of arguments, when the country is endangered and
basely deserted by those whom the President
called to aid, not to impede, his administration !!
There is something noble, elevated, and august IN
the manner in which Mr.. Clay has brought his brill
liant and gigantic intellect to bear on the mo-
mentous question and there only few men,
we presume, in Congress, who will be willing to
risk the odum which will fall upon them, should
they be disposed depart from the general spirit
characterizing the proposed compromise
Although we have only an abstract of this i'm
portant speech of Mr.. Clay's, there is enough to
satisfy any rational man-any man not eaten up
with the canker OF party-that the results from Its
delivery, assumed by us, will yet be realized 1t
cannot be that anything very WIDE of the margin
proposed by Mr. Clay will be adopted, unless the
busy, meddling, small politicians, flung headlong
by their passions, create that confusion so much
sough, by some parties for the purpose OF obtain
Ing capital to work outIheir silly, paltry schemes.
These ptiful aspirants for distinction will find that
the Union is not child's dissected map, to be
pulled TO pieces and re6tted at the caprice of every
wanton mind-but one of the solid creations of
time, that has been baptised by two vast oceans,
and whose head il sacred in the sight Of liberty
and NJ Qualification