HENRY CLAY z. MILITARY CANDIDATES
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HENRY CLAY rs MILITARY CANDIDATES.

 la ises Henry Clay opposed the election. to the Chief Masisssaey, of ten. Jackson. with the grea- test bitterness, odeIing otheI reason thaa that man whose merit fosas.ed ss nothing b.. s.il try service. was not it to administer the govern ment- He said he should consider the days of the Union as numbered, when adiEerent principle was established. and declared with the emphasis of feel tug irvitafed sy envy and disappointment. that it would be better scs the United States 10 be swept by war. pestiience and famine. than to have mii- ,ary ~hieitain for their first magistrate Such says the N. o. ConTse-. being Mr. Clay opinion twenty years ago. on the proPne,y of military eomman. der presenting himself fcr the sarsges oG his fel. low-eitiEens. when the trophies of successful wal had somewhat faded on his brow, what must he think Of his party now-thc great whig party. sci. zing nPcn the miI,ary qualifications ol Gen Tsy. ios cf the regular army. in order 10 make him Pre- sdent of the United Sta,es while be is still n the midst of war, surrounded by blood and carnage. and exercising the ire1 ae=fesism that is never to b. dispensed with by military commander while con. daeting bis operations in the presence cf an enemy er in an enemys eoanty'

 How Is this inconsistency between the profession. nf Henry Clay ana the conduct of has party 10 be sxpi@iasds The oaiy explanation cf the sno,nal, E. that tAe whigs. if Mr. Ciays views be correct are ansilsns to nsmbes the days of the Uaioa. to

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