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Kentucky, and they cannot believe that he who has already made so 
many sacrifices for his country, will now permit his name to be used to 
divide and distract the anti- Van Buren party, and thus consign to hope- 
less ruin our republican institutions.'^"^ 
The candidates, themselves, took about the same attitude 
towards their candidacy. Harrison said that no man could 
truthfully say that he had ever expressed or suggested a de- 
sire to become a candidate.^^s gcott would accept no public 
entertainment whatever, and Clay declared he had told no 
one that he would become a candidate. The only thing that 
prevented him from declaring he was not a candidate was 
that his opponents would say that ‘T saw the grapes were 
sour.'’^26 
The relations between Webster and Clay are hard to trace, 
but it is easy to agree with Mr. Adams that “There is no 
good-will lost between Mr. Clay and Webster.’’^^^ Adams 
said that Mr. Abbot Lawrence, a political and financial sup- 
porter of Webster, “now thinks Webster has coalesced with 
Harrison against Clay upon the Presidental competition’^^^® 
while the Democrats with more presumption declared that 
Harrison was to have but one term and then support Webster 
in turn. ^29 Webster organ, the Boston 
Atlas, had come out for Harrison made it appear that Webster 
was unfriendly toward Clay.^^® It is now known that Webster 
was angry at the editor for this action, but it is also known 
that between Harrison and Clay, Webster favored the 
former.^^^ 
By this time, Calhoun had begun to see his way clear for 
a reunion with the Democrats, so he refused to take any part 
in the preparations for a Whig convention.^®^ 
In September, 1837, fifty-three Anti-Masonic delegates 
from Pennsylvania, Ohio, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and 
New York met at Washington to choose candidates for presi- 
dent and for governor of Pennsylvania.^®^ Resolutions favor- 
124 Niles’ Register, LVII, 191. 
125 /bid., Liv, 397. 
12® Colton, The Private Correspondence of Henry Clay, 431. 
121 Adams (ed.), Memoirs of John Quincy Adams, X, 77. 
12® Ibid., p. 43. 
129 New Hampshire Patriot and State Gazette, December 3, 1838. 
The Globe, July 15, 1839; Colton, The Private Correspondence of Henry Clay, 
429-431. 
121 Webster (ed.). The Private Correspondence of Daniel Webster, II, 45. 
122 Jameson (ed.). Correspondence of Calhoun, 372; ibid., 376, 377. 
*22 Adams (ed.). Memoirs of John Quincy Adams, IX, 372. 
