The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-12-14


/. pqd.asF. ia its issue Of Tues
1 a6k sse4sion i.l a'leding to the unpub-
iisis e;.ers Of Henry Clay, to eulogze the
sml4glsal Clay in strong terms. The same pa
,ssr ID ggely 70 Al sft.cic Of ours, spoke oil
agge as 50 dull, stolid, heavy man, without
particle Of intellectual brilliancy," and as
..sh.fJ rate Buffalo lawyer"-that his ''reputa-
fsa IS solely owing to BArnuml-like putting,
and cot to any real merit"--pronouncing
paoo Bisnsy immensely the superior Of ttr
Fillmore, &c. Itthought the .doAesAeee.fingly
absurl q sgea..ag 81 FILLMORE Ger the P.-s-
jdsucry Vi re.grsnc=~-A@l--Llagil 9. oisnay
XIV as tae Impure. has exhibited so much
respect for sfr cla5s3a1ss his opinions give
It beiov an extract from letter written by
Henry Clay, in view OF the caniid4te for the
PRESIDENCY in 1852, to Mr.. D;tpsl Eln,sa.
IL then said:
You rightly understand me in exercising a
prefeseace ior Mr.. Fillmore as the y ,ag eau
dilats or the Presidency. This did l,v'ere
lea aainc and have frequently here in Prisate
intercourse since my arrival at Washington.
care n3t how generally the fact may be known
b5t hlad not de;n it right to publish any
sra5l ayowal d thaC prs srence under N },
oan si-nlture % the new papefs. Sucg q
cHnfse w5asH subject m. 10 tins IN 5utation Of
siag.asilig that M opinions poss2ssgI more
gt with the public than | apPreaend they
dD lhe ouadation Of my prelere lee-i j. dat
ttlimofe has adm nistered The Executive
Government with signal success aaei ability:
}e iI;s4 been tire ana found true, EAigifltL hon
ess IA ] coAssienllous. | wish to say nothing
in tl.7ogaton from his eminent competitors;
dies have both rendered great services 10 thea
country; the one in the field, the other il TIL
Cabinet. 1heg might possibly administer thC
Government as well as Fillmore has done. BIZ
taeA neither OF them has been tried he has beef
tried in the elevated position he now holds
an. I think that prudence and wisdom had
better restrain US from making any change
without necessity for it, the existence 0
which do not perceive.
If the Enquirer is sincere in its opinion o
Clay, it must believe that Mr.. Fillmore is 10
th3knd Of man described by itself No onc
b.Iiofes that Henry Clay would thus have
Spoken, as he did in this letter of Mr. Fill
more, Of "a dull, stolid, heavy man. without
psttieIa Of intellectual brilliancy." nor assis
in SWING repu alton to such a man by "BAr
Ali1arlk Ike putting" No one believes either
shai ach nun as the Enquirer has describe,
liInore to be, could have modelled and cal
red through an Administration in so exalte
4 manner, as to secure tine warm eulogy G
AeEry Clay.
Ne cali the attention Of the peopleto Henr.
Clay opinioa Of the Fillmore Administration
ar1 ask them, if it were not better in the ap
pglecling election, to seek to elevate ma
to7ths Presidency who has been tried an
Sound true laitfFel honest and conscier
tiois and who has once administered th
E&eeutive Government with signal sueces
4a1 ability" than in this time Of danger an
trbulation, to place man there whose higl
est recommendation my be party zeal, an
whose Administration aust be but a vast an
dangerous experiment.