Hillsdale Whig Standard

Waste of the 'Raw Material.'

All those Extras, with all their exquisite cuts, got up by the School children at the Gazette office, are entirely a dead loss. Henry Clay has vetoed the operations on which they were based. Read the following:

From Ashland and Henry Clay.
From the New York Express.

When we first heard of the intended so called Clay movement in this City, we addressed a private letter to Mr. Clay, not expecting in return any answer which we could print—but we have received an answer, in which we are authorized to say as follows:

ASHLAND, Sept. 8, 1848.

'James Brooks, Esq.: I have given, and shall give, no countenance or encouragement to any movement to bring my name, as a candidate for that office, (the Presidency,) before the public.'

'On one point I desire no secrecy, and that is, that I am utterly opposed to the use of my name as a candidate for the Presidency.'

'My regards to your brother.

'I am truly your friend and ob't. serv't.
H. CLAY.'

In connection with this the Express says:

We know that Mr. Clay opposes, discountenances, and refuses the sanction of his name to the New York movement. None knew this better than some of those who are engaged in bringing his name before the people. They know, as we know, that he not only acquiesces in the nomination of Gen. Taylor, but has done nothing whatever to oppose that nomination. They do not doubt that Mr. Clay, if he lives till November, will, in the full belief that General Taylor's election will prove more conducive to the common good of the country than the choice of any of his competitors, cast his vote for him; and yet knowing all this, they persist in the use of his name, in misrepresenting his wishes, in injuring his old friend, Millard Fillmore, and to the full extent of their influence, in wronging the Whig party, and doing a lasting injury to the best interests of the country. We tell the Union, then in the midst of its exultation, that Mr. Clay is NOT 'going to run,' and that nobody has any authority from him to place his name before the people. 'We speak that we know, and testify to what we have seen,' when we make this authorized declaration.