Litchfield Enquirer

The Middletown papers of last week contain a notice something like this: 'The friends of Henry Clay, the nation's candidate for the next president, are requested to meet, &c. to make arrangements to celebrate the 4th of July.' Really, this is rather too soon to attempt to bring Mr. Clay forward—there will be time enough two years hence. 'Twould be a pity to keep him before the public as a candidate, subject, as he has been for the last four years, to the constant defamation of the Jackson presses, till 1832, and have him defeated at last. Better lie by for the present, and watch the 'moving of the waters.' We would, with our present views, and present feelings,—and we say it without hesitation or mental reservation—support Mr. Clay in preference to any other individual in the United States—we admire his character of firmness, independence, and chivalrous intrepidity—but the time has not yet arrived to enter upon an electioneering campaign.