The Charlotte Journal

The editor of the Cincinnati Gazette writes from the seat of Government of Ohio, that it is well understood there that Mr. Clay will not consent to be a candidate for the Presidency. This has been our opinion for some months. Mr. Clay can have no desire to enjoy the mere honor of a nomination. The only contingency upon which he could allow his name to be used would be the concurrence of all the various conflicting interests of the Whig party in his support, with the moral certainty that success would crown the undertaking. The signs of the political horizon south of the river Potomac do not justify the assumption that it would be safe for the Whigs to rely on any of the States that lie in that region.—Boston Atlas.

The wish is evidently father to the thought in this instance, but it will not be gratified. Mr. Clay will not feel himself at liberty to give up the contest. Being in the hands of his friends, he can do no act to check their ardor in the great struggle for reform: and having submitted his pretensions to the decision of a National Convention, he will abide the result. The Atlas may be assured, however, that whatever it may think of "the signs of the political horizon south of the river Potomac," Mr. Clay is the prominent man in the Whig mind, and it will not be "safe to rely" on the presentation of any other name to the People of the South. Mr. Clay is gaining ground in spite of the misrepresentations of his enemies, and the folly of a portion of the Whig press in the North and West.—Richmond Whig.