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WILMINGTON JOURNAL.
DAVID FULTON, Editor,
ALFRED JC, PHMCJE-)
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OL'R COUNTRY, LIBERTY, AND GOD.
AOL. 1.
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Family
From the Richmond Enquirer.
The last Will and Testament of H. CLAY !
We have received within the last three
days not less than three letters from " the
mplete Letter-writer." One dfihese was
certainly not intended for the public eye.
It is the extraordinary private letter to C.
M. Clay, which we publish this morning,
with the scathing stricture of the N. York
Democrat. It shows with what eagerness
the "aspirins and moon-reachinc Clay" is
pursuing the game of ambition how anx
iously he watches the vane of popular sen
timent, and seeks to accommodate his o
pinions to every section of the country.-
It is impossible for one, who has always
sriven Mr. Clay some credit, amid all his
defeats, for moral firmness, and a decided
character to see the twistings and turn
ings of the political Proteus without aston
ishment and contempt. The 2d letter was
addressed to Dr. Moore of Georgia, partly
intended for the private eye of his friends,
but wrung from his correspondent by the
publications of Mr. Holsey. It touches
his former course about the right of Con
gress to emancipate the slaves of the Dis
trict and Mr. H. uses up this letter so as
to present Mr. Clay in parallel columns,
in opposition to himself at different peri
ods of his course.
But the letter of all the letters is the last,
from the National Intelligencer. He
swears at last, that it is to be his last
that is, the last intended for the public eye.
He says, that he doubted at first the pro
priety of answering any letters upon any
new questions that lie still doubts the
propriety and vows, that this is to be the
last letter he will write for the public eye.
We must, therefore, regard it as the last
strain of the dying swan and unfortunate
ly for the minstrel, it is not the sweetest,
but the most ridiculous and shameless of
all his notes. Pity it is, inded, for his
present prospects, and his future character,
that he has written so many letters, and
that this last should be so open to excep
tions. Better, indeed, if he had taken
much sooner the advice ol his friends in
New York. Far better, if he, too, had
had a Committee, like General Harrison,
to conduct his correspondence, or refuse
all answers. But so anxious has Mr. Clay
been to propitiate all his friends in all di
rections, to remove all objections, to abate
all prejudices, and to grasp the sceptre,
that he has been writing to all parts of the
country, and presenting the most inconsis
tent phases to North and South. One un
fortunate letter has led him on to another.
He writes a letter with a Noithern aspect,
to please the Abolitionists. A Southern
friend informs him, that this letter is doing
mischief to his cause in the South. Out
then comes another letter, witli more of a
Southern aspect about it. Mr. Cassius M.
Clay goes forth as a sort of missionary to
win the Abolitionists. But his revelations
are so strong, as to dissatisfy the Southern
palate and out comes the "anointed chief
tain" with a public letter, disclaiming some
of the public remarks of the missionary
but, for fear of Mr. C. M. Clay's taking
offence at this public demonstration, he
addresses a private note to excuse his pub
lic letter telling him, that he had been
obliged to gainsay his declarations, because
of the iijury they were "likely to inflict
upon the Whig cause in the States of Ten
nessee, N. Carolina, and Georgia" and
that they "even endangering the Slate of
Kentucky."
We cannot trace the anxious and des
perate game which Mr. Clay has been
. i i i ; i
playinz-h.s electioneering tour-lus mul -
numinous anu various tellers, an jut tjjvu
without losing that respect for his mor-
al firmness, of which he had been cried up
as "the great Embodiment." Who now
can confide in his professions, after wit
nessing the fluctuations which he has ex
hibited in his four letters on the Texas
question? What will the Abolitionists
think of his apparent versatility? Beshre w
us ! but we now believe, that Mr. Clay
will retire from the campaign, not only
with defeat upon his banners, but shorn of
that high character for intrepidity, and e
ven audacity, with which he entered the
contest.
We lay this last Will and Testament
befere our readers. We have no room for
the copious remarKS, wmcn u is caicuiavcu
to call forth. It places its author in a most
, . t t . 1
one can mistake its character. It is inten
ded to win back, if possible, the Abolition
vote, which he tells Cassius Clay, in his
private litter, he (H. Clay) is "afraid" he
is destined to lose. These letters (Nos.
1, 2 ami 3) he had written abont the an
nexation ofTexas. Tire 1st was intended
for the North. Nos. 2 and 3 were design
ed for a Southern latitude, to soften down
the objections to his 1st letter. He had so
completely mystified the whole subject,
tht some mm had said, that he must now
Ulltll'iauiv ' - r-
write a 4th letter to explain his threefint.
And lo! here it is! making confusion, if
possible, worse confounde'd" andf the
'distracted politician," if possible, more
awkward and ridiculous! This 4th hst
I throw of the dice,- is to expunge his two
leiters, Nos. 2 and 3, and brings him back
to the 1st, (Raleigh) or Abolition letter.
The whole letter is weak and contempti
ble showing that infirmity of purpose,
which i the evidence of an eager, moon
reaching and unbalanced spirit an infir
mity of purpose, which he manifested from
the very moment when he consented to
write any replies at all, down to the pres-
. -
eut, last, expiring enort. we pas9 over
the comments, which rise to our lips on
reading this crude and panic-struck pro
duction. But nothing surprises us more
in the whole of its contents, than that a
man, who had been so much attached to
Texas; who had solemnly protested against
its cession in '20, and had attempted twice
to recover it in '25 and '27, should now
have the folly to come foward and say,
substantially, "Oh! as to myself, I have no
personal or individual motives for opposing,
nor have I any for espousing, the measure.
I have no wish myself in the matter and
all I wish is to plesse every body else."
Whatever be my particular views and o
pinions1' (which he has not the courage to
express,) "I should be happy to see what
the whole nation might concur in desir
ing under the conditions stated." And this
declaration he now makes after the indica
tion of his personal feelings in his recent
letter. But who does not see, for what
purpose this last letter is indited? Who
is so blind as not to see, that Mr. Clay, a
larmed by the accounts he had received a
bout the Abolitionists, writes it to propi
tiate their prejudices; and, in fact, to pre
sent, of all others, this single sentence,
"iMotning was lurtner trom my purpose
than to intimate any change of opinion,
as long as any considerable or respectable
portion of the Confederacy should contin
ue to stand out in opposition to the an
nexation of T 'exas.1J But the Delphic
Oracle has spoken tco late. The Conven
tion of Utica have decided against him
and upon the ground, not so much of An
nexation, as of Slavery, which Mr. Clay
did not anticipate, and does not meet in
this last will and testament. There is an
other feature in this remarkable letter. It
is to be his last and in it he goes appar
ently the whole against Texas and he a
vows to the Abolitionists, that it is his last
that he will change no more that the
weatheicock will shift no longer on its pi
vot but that he will remain true, eter
nally true, to the unqualified declarations
of his Raleigh letter against annexation.
But, whilst he addresses these pledges
to the North, what will the South say of
him? What hope docs he hold out to
them? None. He closes the door for
ever. Like the inscription on the poetic
gates of Hell, there is "No Hope," writ
ten upon them. We shall scarcely hear
Messrs. Leigh and Lyons, &c, &c, aver
ring now, that Mr. Clay is the very man
to get us Texas. Southrons ! Mr. Clay
has sacrificed this beautiful country for the
votes of the Abolitionists, and to his own
ambition,
will you
What will you say ? What
do?
From the National Intelligencer.
A LETTER FROM MR. CLAY.
To the Editors.
Ashland, September 23, 1844.
Gentlemen: Since my nomination at Balti
more in May last, by the Whig Convention,
as a candidate for the office of President of the
United States, I have received many letters
propounding to me questions on public affairs,
and others may have been addressed to me
which I never received. To most of those
which have reached me I have replied; but to
some l have not, because either the subjects
of which they treated were such as that, in
respect of them, my opinions, I though!, had
, hefTn Sllfficient,; pJro&, 0r that they
did not possess, in my judgment, sufficient
importance to require an answer from me. 1
desire now to say to the public, through you,
that, considering the near approach of the Pre
sidential election, I shall henceforward re
spectfully decline to transmit for publication
any letters from me in answer to inquiries up
on public natters.
After my nomination, I doubted the propri
ety, as I still do, of answering any letters up
on new questions of public policy. One who
may be a candidate for the Chief Magistracy
of the Nation, if elected, ought to enter upon
the discharge of the high duties connected
with that office with his mind open and un
committed upon all new questions which may
arise in the course of its administration, and
ready to avail himself of all the lights which
he may derive from his Cabinet, from Con
gress, and, above all, Irom the public opinion
1 in auvauuc lie auuuiu tviuuin umiotn w
T ( lak n A K .-v rl.n..U m at- It i mo4kl C tr
individualg who may think proper t0 address
him, he may deprive the public and himself of
rrra o
4. -
in? this view, it was my intention, after ray
nomination, to decline answerin for publica
tion all questions that might be propounded
to me. But, on further reflection, it appeared
to me that if I imposed this silence upon my
self, I might, contrary to the uniform tenor of
my life, seem to be unwilling frankly and
fearlessly to submit my opinions to the pub
lic judgment. I, therefore, so far deviated
from my first purpose as to ,espond to letters
addressed to me, making inquiries in regard
to subjects which had been much agitated.
Of the answers which I so transmitted, some
weraintended exclusively for the satisfaction
of my correspondents, without any expecta
tion on my part of their being deemed worthy
of publication. In regard to those which have
been presented to the public, misconceptions
and erroneous constructions have been given
to some of tbem, which I think they did not
authoriie, or which, at all events, wsrc con-
trary to my intentions.
Io announcing my determination to permit
no other letters to be drawn from me on nub
Iffcffitfti, 1Mnk ?' $ttoU teyidfbm
Occasion a rnrrpft the prrnnaniu intsrnrntn. i
tion of one or two of those which I had previ
.. I
ously written. In April last I addressee to
yon, from Raleigh, a letter in respect to the
proposed treaty, annexing Texas to the United
States, and I have since addressed two letters
to Alabama upon the same subject. Most un
warranted allegations have been made that
those letters are inconsistent with each other,
and, to make it out, particular pi. rases or ex
pressions have been torn from their context,
and a meaning attributed to me wa.ch I never
entertained.
I wish how distinctly to say, that there is
not a feeling, a sentiment, or an opinion ex
pressed in my Raleigh letter to which I do
not adhere. I am decidedly opposed to thn
immediate annexation of Texas to the United
States. I think it would be dishonorable,
might involve them in war, would be danirer
ous to the integrity and harmony of the Un
ion, snd, if all these objections were removed,
could not be effected, according to any infor
mation I possess, upon just and admissible
condi iions.
It was not my intention, in either of the
two letters which I addressed to Alabama, to
express any contrary opinion. Representa
tions had been made to me that I was consid
ered as inflexibly opposed to the annexation
of Texas under any circumstances; and that
my opposition was so extreme that I would not
waive it, even if there were a general consent
to the measure by all the States of the Union.
1 replied, in my first letter to Alabama, that
personally I had no objection to annexation.
I thought that my meaning was sufficiently
obvious, that 1 had no personal, private, or in
dividual motives for opposing, as I have none
tor espousing the measure, my judgment be
ing altogether influenced by general and noli
tical considerations, which have ever been the
guide of my public conduct.
In my second letter to Alabama, assuming
that the annexation of Texas might be accom
plished without national dishonor, without
war, with the general consent of the States of
the union, and upon fair and reasonable terms,
I stated that I should be glad to see it. I did
not suppose that it was possible I could be
misunderstood. I imagined every body
would comprehend me as intending that,
whatever might be my particular views and
opinions, I should be happy to see what the
whole nation might concur in desiring under
the conditions stated. Nothing was further
from my purpose than to intimate any change
of opinion as long as any considerable and re
spectable portion of the Confederacy should
continue to stand out in opposition to the an
nexation of Texas.
In all three of my letters upon the subject of
lexas, I stated, that annexation was inadmis
sible, except upon fair and reasonable terms,
if every other objection were removed. In a
speech which 1 addressed to the Senate of the
United States more than three years ago, I a
vowed my opposition, for the reasons there
stated, to the assumption, by the General Go
vernment, of the debts of the several States.
It was hardly, therefore, to be presumed, that
I could be in favor of assuming the unascer
tained debt of a foreign State, with which we
have no fraternal ties, and whose bad faith or
violation of its engagements can bring no re
proaches upon us.
Having thus, gentlemen, made the apology
which I intended, for my omission to answer
any letters of inquiry upon public affairs which
I may have received, announced r.y purpose
to decline henceforward transmitting answers
for publication any such letters that I may
hereafter receive; and vindicated some of those
which I have fowarded, against the erroneous
constructions to which they have been expo
sed, 1 have accomplished the purpose of this
note, and remain, respectfully, your obedient
servant, H. CLAY.
Messrs. Gales & Seaton.
From the Nashville Union.
"Who is James K. Polk ?" -
THE FEDERALISTS ALARMED.
No sooner was James K. Polk nomina
ted as the democratic candidate for the pre
sidency, than the federal papers and lead
ers throughout the Union, with their ac
customed arrogance, cried out, " Who is
James K. Polk?" and affected to treat his
pretentions lightly and said that the idea
of his having the least chance to be elected
was ridiculous. It was predicted that they
would find out who he was in November,
and the prediction is being verified. All
their movements prove thai they are, in
truth, greatly alarmed ; alffheir newspa
pers, great and small all their great and
small bodies, are laboring incessantly to stay
the current of the popular sentiment, which
they cannot fail to see is running rapidly
against them, and sweeping James K.
Polk into the presidential office. They
see and fear the result of the contest, and
are almost desperate.
They have ceased to cry out, with the
haughty arrogance always inseperable
from federalism, "who is James K. Polk?"
They have found out who he is. All their
papers are filled with long and labored ar
ticles to prevent his election. The Na
tional Intelligencer, at Washington the
leading organ of federalism is now con
stantly discoursing about this unknown
James K. Polk. As a sample of their in
timate acquaintance with him, in' that pa
per cf the 7lh instant, rs a labored article
of between Jive and six columns, devoted
to a review of his claims and qualifications
for the presidency. In the Nashville
Whig of the 17th inst., is an article of be
tween nine and ten column devoted to
James K. Polk.
Webster, Seward, John Quincy Ad
ams, Slade, and the whole federal hive at
the North and East, have found out "who
James K. Polk is," and that he w lo be
the next President of the United Slates,
unless they csn slander him out of his
well-earned character and reputation before
the people. Crittenden and the notorious
Ormm9. from the neighborhood of the
ilAmKAfitTinnl N ....... 7 ' I .... . I. a ..
sent over tb Tennessee to help Bell, Fos
ter, Jarndgin, and the rest of their leaders,
to prevent the election of this same James
K. Polk.
All their efforts are vain; their slander
ous misrepresentations1 are harmless. The
real people the great masses have risen
in their might, and the march of the De
mocracv is onward.
Since the harmonious nomination of Si
las Wright for governor of New York, of
Shunk for governor of Pennsylvania, and
of Thompson for governor of New Jersey,
they see the resistless current of democra
cy sweeping over those States; and driven
almost to despair, are struggling with al
most frantic rage to avert the fate which
they see awaits them in November.
A party with desperate prospects will
resort to desperate means. They are mis
representing every act of Governor Polk's
public life. They take garbled and in
complete passages from this speech and
that report, and suppress the balance; they
give this vote and suppress all other votes
in the same connection; and in this way
present to the public the most palpable
falsehoods, and hope to impose them on a
confiding public for truth. A full illustra
tion of this oourse of political warfare is to
be found in the article of nine or ten col
umns in the Nashville Whig of the 17th.
That article is but a sample of many oth
ers of the kind, which we have eeen re
cently. Tennesseeans! whig as well as demo
crats will you not rise in your majesty
and stand by your brethren of the Old Do
minion of the Keystone and Empire
States of the democracy of the whole
Union, in placing your own citizen in the
first office, not only of this country, but of
the world?
To furnish a President of tha United
States is a most distinguished honor to any
State. But five States in this Union, (du
ring more than fifty years) have ever fur
nished a President of the United States.-
The democracy of the twenty-six Stales,
assembled in council, voluntarily offer this
distinguished honor a second time to Ten
nessee. What Tennesseeau does not feel
proud that he is a Tennesseeau, when he
reflects, that out of all the distinguished
men. of the Union, a citizen of Tennessee,
who did not seek or expect it, has been se
lected as the candidate of the whole Un
ion? Will Tennessee reject the honor which
has been offered to her, by refusing to ra
tify, by her vote in November, the nomi
nations which have been made? WTe are
satisfied, from all the signs around us, she
will not. We know she will not. The
pure republican principles of her people
forbid it. Her own future glory as a State
forbids it. Virginia noble Virginia, is
now looked to as the mother of Presidents.
Whenever her sons emigrate, they proud
ly point back to the land of their birth, and
claim the glory of their native State as their
own. Let Tennessee take her stand by
the side of Virginia; and let her sons, too,
when in future time they may chance to
be in distant climbs, point back to the glo
ry of Tennessee, the cherished home of
their birth. We have not a remaining
doubt, but that James K. Polk will be cho
sen President of the United States in No
vember next; without the vote of Tennes
see; but as Tennesseeans, we have a pride
that Tennessee should aid by her vote in
consummating this grert event. We have
not a doubt she will do so. And when
the election shall be over, and James K.
Polk be placed in the Presidential Chair,
we trust all our federal adversaries will by
that time have learned who this James K.
Polk is.
MARRIED MEN.
BY ONE WHO KNOWS Til EH.
A man is born a Betty, he may be born
a genius, mechanician, musician, poet or
financier. The Betty may adore his wife
and children, be an honorable man of bu
siness, and acquit himself of all those du
ties which society imposes, but his home
will still be disagreeable.
Breakfast is served. The wife takes
up the morning paper, while she sips her
coffee, and our domestic gentleman amuses
himself by making toast. For a few mo
ments he is absorbed in silent contempla
tion of the glowing embers, but in a short
time he calls the attention of his wife, and
says, "dkl you put a stick of wood on the
fire last evening, after I went out ?"
"A stick of wood, my dear! What did
you say?"
"I Was not talking Hebrew, I believe.
When I went out last evening, at nine o'
clock, there were two slicks on the fire, a
large and small one enough to last till bed
time, i don t want to prevent your
ing as much fins as you please, bat
to keep an exact account; for this morning
I found three brands. Now, how could
there be three brands if you did not born
a third stick ?"
"Ah! my dear, how vexatious yoti are;
some times. I mav or mav not have nut
on more wood, t am trfrinff tb read an
article which interests me, and you mmt
needs interrupt me about a paltry stick of
wood !"
The domestic gentleman is silent, and
contents himself with whistling to himaelf
m a low tone, a thing which he is in the
habit of doing when he is dissatisfied witH
a reply.
At breakfast the butter arrests his atten'
tion.
"How much did you pay for this but
ter?" he asks.
"I don't know, I'm sure."
"Don't know! Good heavens! what do
you mean?"
"The servant purchased it."
"You learned the price from her, 6'
course?"
"Yes, yes I remember, it was thirty
six cents, 1 believe."
"You believe! Here! Sally, Sally!"
The servant makes her appearance and
is arraigned before the domestic man.
"How much was this butter, Sally?"
"Thirty-six cents, sir."
"Thirty-six cents a pound?"
"Of course it was'ht thirty-six cents a
firkin," replies the young lady, with a dis
dainful and rather daring curt of the Ifp ;
and as she leaves the room she indulges
herself with the housemaid's luxury of
slamming the door behind her.
"Thirty-six cents a pound!" repeats the
domestic man. "Thirty-six cents! It is
truly frightful to think of! I ate some
capital butter at Bilson's the other morn
ing, and he only paid thirty-two cents.
Bilson's butter was the better of the two."
When the housemaid commences the
daily task of sweeping the room a task
which would seem to carry its reward with
it, to judge by the cheerful steal with which'
it is commonly performed the domestic
husband is always before the servant's
broom, peering into every corner, solici
tous to detect cobwebs, and pushing hie
scrutiny into' every hole and corner.
Some time before the dinner hour, he is
accustomed to make a solemn tour of ihe
kitchen. He is an habitual lifter of the
pot-leds, and inquisitor of tih-kitchehs and
reflecting bakers. If the old fashion of
roasting meat is still honored in his family;
he draws his stool to his chimney corner;
and bakes the crown of his head as he
bends over the fire, and whips up the turn
spit into a full gallop. He hovers over an1
unknown dish, in a doubt awhile, and then1
summons the cook.
44 What have you here?"
"Fricassed chicken, sir."
"Have you put in any mushrooms?
"Certainly, sir."
"If is" very singular I can't find any;
Ah! here I have one yes, yes, it's all
right. 1)6 we have soup, to-day?"
44Don't you see the pot on the fire?"
44 Very true. Outlet me tell you, ydd
spoil your soups by putting too many ve-"
getables in them. Now how many car
rots did you put in?"
"I'm sure I don't remember. Must f
count them now?"
44It will be as well. Stop, I'll doit for
you. I should 'nt be surprised if there were
half a dozen."
And the gentleman commences a painful
search for the orange-colored vegetables;
in the course of which he receives sundry
splashes from the unetuous & savory soup;
and finally in tasting a spoonful of the
compound rather prematurely, he scalds
his mouth severely, without, however, re
ceiving the least sympathy from the cook,
to whom such an occurrence seems to give
peculiar satisfaction. An accident of this
kind usually puts an end to his quest, and
he leaves the kitchen with diminished dig
nity, i he Betty is the peculiar aversion
of the cook. Indeed your cook seldom
remains long in the service of your domes
tic man she soon demands her wages and
quits his roof but the lady Of the house
is debarred the enjoyment of the servant's
privilege for such the scandalous work!
asserts that she considers it.
1
Tho u'nmlorc nf p.im rnttinnr urflf
never cease. The other day a travelling
chiropodist not only extracted a corn from
a gentleman's foot, but actually succeeded
in removing a "Bunyan" from a bookcase;
without the owner being aware of it.
Conversing one day wrth a fash
ionable and pretty belle, the fascetious Mr.
L observed: "Ladies that lisp wished1
to be kissed." The young lady, whb had
spoken very uhaffectionately oefore, Ksp
mgly replied, "7W I've heard thay."
A Good One. It is a shame to make
the Presidents of the United States giv
their countenance to such a business, said
a lady on observing a sign having thereon;
painted the likeness of si! the Presidents
hanging before a tavern.
Annihpr' soecimen of modern re
finement may be seen in the faet that th
dd-foshtoned arid fatdriie tXptttsion-" r
go the whore hog," nb changed to-
locomote the tntirt sitme"