The Yazoo Democrat. [volume] (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1858-18??, 1859-08-13

Mr.. Clay was anxious to receive the noml-
nation to the Presidency in l848. He
wrote to his distinguished friend, s. $. Prem,
tiss,, of Mississippi, just before the Conyen-
ton assembled. as follows:
III saw with much pleasure that you were
appointed one Of the delegates from Louisi-
ana to the National Convention, which is to
assemble in June next. sincerely hope
YOU may be able to attend. believe your
presence there is highly important. You
will take an impartial survey of the whole
grounl, and have it in your own power to
aim at just decision"
Mr.. Prcntiss, writing to his brother, in a
letter dated New Orleans, Nay %, uses the
following language in reference to Mr.. Clay
and Gen. Taylor:
at is perfectly ridiculous for respectable
party to make its success dependant upon
any one man. That Henry Clay is thous-
aud times better fitted than Gen. Taylor for
the first office in the nation, no man of OBJ
servation and sense can deny. Clay is a
statesman, we'll acquainted with our institu>
tons, our political history, our relations,
both foreign and domestic. Gen. Taylor is
a brave, honest, simple man, wholly ignorant
of politics. To him all matters of State will
be gordan knots, and as he cannot solve
them with his sword, he will be called upon
to call in others to unite them. In other
words, he must be guided by his Cabinet"
Now that the Opposition try to appropri-
ate the name and fame of Henry Clay, it is
in order to give what he thought of their
conduct whilst he lived. He wrote to
Nicholas Dean, Aug. 24th, 184S, thus i;
"The Wing party presents an anomalous
condition; without any candidate his obliga
tions to conform to their principles, the
members of it are called upon to indorse as
party no-party candidate; and have been
repeatedly called upon to indorse as Wing
General Taylor, who, whilst he adopts the
name in modified form, regulates the
principles of the Wing party. | need not
say that have done and shall do no such
thing"
How deeply he felt the conduct of men
in deserving him and the principles they
protested, appears in letter to committee
in this city. 1t is dated 2Sth June, 1913
II lost the nomination, as | firmly be-
leve, by the conduct of the majorities in the
delegations from Kentucky in Congress AID
in the Convention, and l am called upon to
ratify what they did, in contravention, as l
also believe, of the wishes of large MAORI.
ty of the people of Kentucky; | am asked
to sanction and approve the course of the
seven delegates in Kentucky, who, in viola
ton of the desire of their constituents,
voted against me, and virtually to censure
and condemn the five who voted for me-"
Before the Opposition abandoned the
name of Wing, it abandoned its creed and
great champion. The people compelled them
TO send Mr.. Clay back to the Senate, wher
he found himself in opposition to the self
styled Wing Administration, and to every
man in his party from the free S ates.
There he stood, supported in the North by
,welvc or fourteen Democrats, all from the
rec States but one, and not a single Wing
lie was applauded by Democrats all over
The free States, and cOndemned by his quon-
lam party friends, In his last speech in the
Capitol at Frankfort, be said
" For myself, I say alike with truth and
pleasure, that during the late arduous and
,rotracted session, l was in conference and
consulted quite as often, if not oftener, with
he Democrats than Wings, and found in
he Democratic party quite as much patriot
sm, devotion to the Union, honor and
1robily, as in the other party"
We may add, that the last time Mr.. Clay
voted in Kentucky, he voted for seven Dem
,crats and five Wings.
We do not claim Mr. Clay. He died not
! member of any party, and worthy of his
country. This Opposition has no right to
,laim him. He is not of them. Mr.. Nal,
DRY was one of the delegates who SO deeply
liSgusted and mortified the distinguished
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