The Arkansas banner., 1850-06-18
MT. Clay and the Administration.


 Every day brings us news of sotas fresh .opposi- ton, some additional degfedation offered to the President ana his corrupt cabinet. The last and most bIighiiag stroke comes from NJ. CLAY who in the most direct terms places himself among those who have lost all conf lenc-n the President When il SO turns out that this great whis leader and sup porter of Gen. Taylor, ta IS .repaiiates him, and calls upon or rather challenges any friend he has in that body to defend him if he can, weak, wrong, and inefficient, he must be, indeed.
 s4 Yesterday and CESAR might have stood against the world.
 Now none so poor to >o him reverence"
 The promise Of Taylor when he was candidate that he ould not be the President of any party, Is a, len ,ttfitteraIy fulfilled though not a the spiE which he lnteded it. For neither to the whigs nor the democrats, can he look for support. H. has dis appointed the fosmer, disgused the latter, and won the supreme contempt of both. h alladins to the division among the whigs, the Knowing eorrespon- dent of the New York Herald writing from Wash ington on the 2lst ult says:
 1.-The rupture is complete. The old sore has bro ken, and, apparently, beyond the power of all the patent medicines in the world 10 heal it. The reap pearance of Mir Clay in the Senate excited the dis trust of the cabinet, and they did all they could 10 cobcate him, but the old Indomnable whlg leader could not consent 10 play second fiddle, even to General Taylor. He gave notice that he should take his own course, and he has made his word good.
 The cabinet Is weak in every sense but very weak in the head. They have supposed that Mir. Clay in this Compromise. is engaged ina movement for the Presidency that if he succeeds with it, all the glory will fall to Henry Clay, and that the ad minisration Old Zack, and the cabinet and all will go 10 pot and sink into the pool of Iogetuness, as quietly as the Corporai's Guard of John Tyler.
 Hence the war of lhe cabinet upon Clay's compFo- mise. The object is to put down Clay at any cost, so that the whig party shall not be altogether lost 10 to the administration. The hostility of tine cabinet to Mr Clay is known to be bitter and malignant. II was held 10 be proper, by the friends ot Mir. Clay, that ke should bring the matter 10 understanding, one way or the oheT This conclusion, after the late articles in the cabinet organs, announcing General Tayors determination io adhere to his cabinet and his policy of non-aclion, was strength into conviction of public duty; and the manner m which Mr. Clay discharged this duty Of denouncing the policy of the administration. abundany shows that he had fully resolved to do the work up brown.
 Now. let the consequences come. Whatever they may be, how can this cabinet stand? IhaS but one of two alternatives 10 cAoose-eiher 10 resign or 10 be expelled by the pressure from without. IL can only resign m disgrace; it only continue Tn con temp, Of public opinion; ane if expelled, II will be with the seal Of Gaphn and the character Of specu- lators upon the public money.
 We take ii, that before the slavery question can be settled, the war must be closed, one way or the other, compromised, between Henry Clay and tbe administrations; and that Il must close in the down fall ofhs cabinet and that calculating the chances of a compromise, must take into the estimate the probable complexion of the cabinet which is 10 sue eeed the present sorry concern"