Henry Clay

Il is well knou-n tnat ino w mgs or me West preferred Hemy Clay to General 1 rison, as llieir candidate tor the Presideocy,: and the nomhmüoji of the lalter gentleman' was only concurred in by thetn on account of the necessity ot union amongall the Whigs.1, An attempt is how niaking to secure his; nomination for the campaignof 1844. Sen ator Woodbridge stated to the recent Whigj Convention afAnn Arbor, that he had re-': ceived a communication from a distinguished Senator of Kentucky,(probably Mr Clay,) recommending a great Southern and South, western Conventioti, to asscmble at Cincinnsti, Nov. L5, to be composed of delegatesj from the Congressional District in the sev-eral States lying on the iMississippi river. - j This Convention were to confer logether, ■ and determine what could be done in refer-j ence to u National Bank, and agreeon some plan of operations in regard to the currencyj and when some plan should be devised, it - would bc a further object, by a etrong dem- onstration of public opinión, to secure Mr. Tyler's assent to il. Governor Woodbridge strongly recommeiided the project to the Convention. , j It can be seen at a glance that this projec1. originated with Mr. Clay, and was designed: to place him at the head of the party, and. ultimately makehini the Whig candidate for! the Frcsidency in 1S44. We venture to: prophesy for the benefit of our Whig friends that the project of electing Clay, and estab. lishing a National Bank, will not succeed. - The President of 1844 will be, emphatically , a Northern or Southern man. The inter ests and feelings of the t-.vo sections conflict more and more every day, and no "compromiser" ivill be iniBted bv eitlier part of thenation witb power. Mr. Tyler a;J his friends have already spoken for the South, and the north, as a body, cannot be carried br a man of Mr. Clay's qualifications. His habits of life are altogethcr discordant vvith the feehngs of the Norlhcrn people. Mr. Clay is a slaveholder. He bujs.sells, and breeds for market human cattle. He now owns a poor old wonian whom he bo't at Washington, who has had eleven or twelve children since he bought her, all of vvhoin Menry Clay has sold away from their parents into different parts of the country, as best suited his convenience or profit. He keeps this wotnan property in a hut that is not as Gomfortable as a good stable H1s slaves are dcprived of. the oppoitunity of learning to read. He ke'ps an overseer to flog them, and whcn they escape from his lyranny, aud atlempt recovering the posses-; sion of iheir inalienable rights, he has the, effrontery to offer a reward to all the freeinen of the United States, as an inducement to them to arrest the wretched panting fugi-, tives, and bring them back to him, thathe, may rob and tyrannize over them thé remainder of their lives. Shall Buch a man be our next President?