American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1851, 1851-07-11

Oh WONDERFUL THE NeD York Herald out
for Clay and Webster for President and Vice Pre-
sident!-We quote the following article from a
late number of the Herald, confessing ourselves
so completely bewildered by the new lights that
are reflected from it, and the new political i'm
pulses it has received, that we cannot bring our
judgment to bear upon any of its seeming vaga-
RES
Voice from Ashland-M. Czay-This vene-
rable and patriotic statesman occupies posi-
ton, in our judgment, by far the most exalted
and enviable of any man now living. After a
long life devoted from his boyhood to the service
of his beloved country, and commanding from
the first hour Of his debut in public life, that
powerful influence which great abilities, united
with pure patriotism, will ever secure, he is
now seen, at the age of three-score years and
ten, in retirement beneath the shades of Ash
land, glorious exemplar for republican states
men. We would not exchange the dazzling
fame of the warrior Wellington, nor the scho-
lastic celebrity of Brougham, of Guizot, or of
Humboldt-now the most exalted of the ceIebres
of the old world-for the unfading halo of re-
nown that encircles the brows of the first and
foremost of the living statesmen of America, as
he is beheld in his retreat in Kentucky. We
have, to-day, been favored with the perusal of
q letter from him to a young gentleman of this
city, dated June 80, 1851, treating of variety
of topics.
We regret that the recipient of the letter will
not permit its publication, it being a private
epistle to a devoted personal friend, and written
in all the confidence and freedom that charac-
terize such epistles, and breathing the loftiest
sentiments Of honor and unselfsh patriotism.
Upon the subject of the present state Of the
country, owing to the conduct Of the Abolition
lists, Mr.. Clay says:
81 should be glad to witness termination
of the violence, both at the North and South,
which threatens-in words, if not in fact-the
existence of our Union. But my confidence is
strong that the Union will be maintained against
all assailants, in whatever quarter they may
appear"
Mr.. Clay contemplates remaining in the quiet
of his home till the assembling of the Senate
again calls him to his public duties. He writes
81 have been so much from home during the
last eighteen months, that believe l shall not
visit the East this summer, agreeable and bene-
fetal as it might be. l expect to remain at
home, in Us much quiet as l can here enjoy, and
take care of my health"
The handwriting of Mr.. Clay is steady, firm,
and vigorous. So even, smooth, and indeed
beautiful is it, that we venture the assertion
that there is not a clerk in this city who can
equal much less excel it, in the characteristics
which should distinguish the chirography of the
gentleman, scholar, and apt and correct business
man. What grand and glorious spectacle it
would be, to see the American people, in 1852,
with one accord discarding all the fdgetty as
pirants and intriguants of all parties, and call
ing him-as the Romans called the old patriot,
Cincinnatus-to the chief magistracy of this
mighty Confederacy, the first office in the
world. With Clay for President and Webster as
Vice President, and the odious cries and clam
ors of factious selfshness and aspiring dema-
goguism stifed in all sections of the Union, how
proud, and glorious, and powerful would our
country stand forth to the rest of the world;
and how happy would our countrymen be- en-
joying all the blessings of political and religious
liberty at home.