Wilmington Journal

"The Pen is Mightier than the Sword."—This eloquent line which Bulwer puts into the mouth of Cardinal Richelieu, is likely to become quite popular. Its application can be very appropriately perverted. Gen'l Scott attempted to use this dangerous weapon, and he fell a victim to its potency. His "hasty plate of soup letter" almost annihilated him. He, however, went to Mexico and redeemed himself. But before the Court of Inquiry (not acting upon the proverb that a burnt child dreads the fire,) he has taken up his pen again and completely destroyed himself—for the Presidency. So with Henry Clay. He has proved the magic power of the pen. He has written an address to the Whigs of the Union, which his friends lament and his opponents rejoice at. There is all the weakness of age mingled with all the conceit of egotism in it. Henry Clay says he is the man for the crisis, and he is the only man that can save the country. Although against his inclinations, he will run again. Henry Clay, in this address, has been attempting to put into practice a sentiment of Machiavelli—that words were given to us for the purpose of concealing our ideas. Henry Clay would feign make the people believe that he does not wish to be a candidate for the Presidency, and that he is not ambitious, whereas we think that he would rather lose his right arm than not be a candidate, and that ambition goads him to his purpose.—Democratic Union.