The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-04-29
a New " National Party.o
december 9Th 1857.

twill be seen, by reference to the
Geographic news, that a mass meeting of
the friends of Henry Clay was held in
Philadelphia, on the 18th inst, for the
purpose of forming a nem Ndtiondl pay1u
The country is certainly in want of
"nete National Party" if it is to have
any at all, and Notwithstanding the gen
eral tenor of our remarks, the other day,
on kindred subject we should not seri.
ously object to a new OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
rided it were of the right kind-that is
to say, prorided it We're literally and
strictly National party,-onea that
would administer the Government in hon.
est and faithful conformity with the Con-
stitution, entirely regardless of mere sec
tional preiudices and Supposed sectional
interests i'm word, prorided it We're a
hama 1fde living reaity-a controlling en-
b0diment Of the conservative patriotism
of the country, and not Il miserable
sham--a mcnstrous imposition of polit
cal trichSters--and On engine of omnipo-
tent power to be wislded for the benefit
of Inscriptions cliques and aspiring par
tizans, rather than for purposes of the
public veal Such party would en-.
brace the entire mas of the Southern
Righ!s---er Us sr9s s.a.s Rigl.s-asr!z
including all those Northern men who are
honest enough and lntriotic enough to
desire to see the GWernment honestly
and consttuIionally administered.
or s@ch party, W. say, the country
stands greatly in need; but what hope
what faintest shadow If the ghost of hope
is there that this newly projected or
ganization of anothei national party"
would prove to be strh an one Who
are the Northern political friends of the
late Henry Clay-or what is there in the
distinctive principles which they have
heretofore professed, to Justify the belief
that the Governmental their hands would
be so administered as to challenge more
general remphatic sanction of the South,
than it has hitherto lone in the hands Of
their political antagonists 7
One Of the ables and most Jealous of
the old " friends of Henry Clay"-was,
and is, Horace Greeley. He pronounced
the National Convdltion which rejected
the name of his idol to adopt that Of Gen.
Taylor, slaughter house." and 50
disappointed and mortified was he at that
nomination, which Webster declared was
" not fit to be madef that for months af-
forwards he played Achilles in bis tent"
and refused to have lot or part in the
matter. Another YARN and powerful
friend of the great Western Statesman.
was, and now is, tlp crafty and success
full Albany wire-puler--the whiggest of
wings and most thoroughly abolitionized
of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Weed. But
without looking f4ther into particulars,
we will simply alude to the assertion
made by Daniel Webster year or two
prior to his falIous Seventh-of- March
speech, that the "whig party was the
true anti-slaveryEparty," which, taking
It for granted TINT the wing party and
the Henry Clay barty are exactly identi-
1dl, 10 cHouSl W ltSell 10 SHOW the utter
of attempting to make out
Of such material another " National par.
~"
But there arr other obstacles in the,
way of realizing the hopes of these en-.
husiastic Phihdelphians--that is, sup
posing the announcement on which we
ire commentatng, is not hoax, as we
lalf suspect tito be--and the first is
he want of leader for the new organi-
.ation. To insure the success Of q
Henry ClayIparty, in the present CON-
lition of the country, there must neces-
arily be HENRY CLAY to lead it /.
Mas, where will they find him.
Many of the best friends and most stall
7art supporters of the deceased states
nan are mol his own son among the
umber-in he ranks of the Democratic
arty. Bnttsupposing they could find
,ader unde4 whose standard every mem
er of the o party would CALAMITY and
romptly r4y, would not the task prove
ather fo9hidable one, to popularize a
olitical s1tem which twenty years.
truggle ffearly demonstrated was be-
ond the treat powers of even Henry
lay himsFfq
NO! his project of a new national
arty" Is he mere estacy of political ia