Journal Journal how are you today? Won’t you be here tomorrow to stay? To Tell me all is better than okay. ---Henry Clay Journal, Journal

April 8, 1841 Journal Journal how are you today? How unfortunate for such an event to occur, my dear friend William Henry Harrison has died of disease. What will happen to our beautiful country? I’m losing that tiny grasp of Whig power that we had worked so hard to gain and achieve. Let’s wish our fellow Whig Tyler is able to be trusted to carry out our agenda. We have magnificent plans for our beloved country and we will carry them out just as planned, even if it is under John Tyler. We’ll have to depend on our “Tyler too” for the next four years. I think I need to sit down and think this over. Tyler’s Democratic tendencies are what worry me so. Let’s just wish that this doesn’t not turn into another problematic fate that god had bestowed upon us. Rest in peace my dear friend William Henry Harrison. ---Henry Clay

William Henry Harrison Whig March 4, 1841 – April 4, 1841 May you rest in peace

January 1, 1842 Journal Journal how are you today? Tyler, Tyler, Tyler is a jumbling buffoon. We had to expel that …Democrat… from our glorious Whig party. He’s a treacherous traitor who deserves not to be President. After all our efforts to get him and Harrison elected, he blatantly defy this Whig party every way one could possibly conceive of. How dare he reject our bills? What’s next? By the time when I wake the next day, Texas will be ours? Oregon and California too? Oh and apparently he decided to lower the tariffs. Why did we allow him into our precious Whig party again? He is without a doubt a Democrat spy. Well at least he increased tariffs to 32% right? Think positive right? --- Henry Clay

John Tyler and his growing closer to the devil

August 9, 1842 Journal Journal how are you today? Webster-Ashburton Treaty could work I suppose. We managed to avoid war with Britain while gaining much land and an useful port. Daniel Webster did a fine job negotiating the treaty with the British representative. See? Whigs can negotiate better than Democrats! Now how hard is it for the rest of the country to see what’s so obvious? There was no loss for our country in this wondrous treaty, yet those democrats are still jabbering on about ‘not-enough land’. It makes you wonder doesn’t it? The Webster-Ashburton Treating has done this country well. I will continue to server this country as best as I can to bring it closer to that brighter light. ---Henry Clay 

First Baron Ashburton Daniel Webster

Outcome of Election of 1844 Journal Journal how are you today? The most fortunate? I certainly am not. We… l..o….s..t? This simply cannot be! Our beloved country is lost. I must do what I can to help her find the right path. I suppose at least Tyler had the sense to drop out right?  “Just who is James K. Polk?” Well now I suppose he’s the President of the United States. Where have I gone wrong? We need more influence to rise above the Democrats! From where I stand this proved to be very difficult. We are outnumbered by the Democrats in both the House and the Senate. Oh the thought of these next few years brings much anxiety. ---Henry Clay

James K. Polk and what should have been.

Texas Joins the Union Journal Journal how are you today? Texas? Those democrats will take over our country and our beautiful country won’t let me do a single thing about it. Apparently Texas’s time is now. The democrats have their twisted agenda and us Whigs are just watching them. What about this whole slavery issue? Would Texas be an extra state for those wealthy plantation owners to draw power from? Could this lead to war with Mexico and possibly European nations who wanted the land? Do those democrats ever think? Where is there logic? Sigh, I just wish this turns out well for our country. --- Henry Clay

Texas, an Official State

May 13, 1846 Journal Journal how are you today? Looks like Congress decided to declare war on Mexico. Why must god torture this poor soul? We need to improve our country internally before declaring war on those countries. Polk was provoking war as well as the good hearts of us Whigs. He just wants to expand therefore he choose to provoke Mexico while trying to seem like it’s not. As if it’s not obvious! Wait how did I lose to this idiot in the election again? Sigh, serving a country with a leader who does not have the country’s well-being as the top-most priority is difficult. Despite the fact that we could easily defeat Mexico, diplomatic relationships could be very useful in the future. How many more wars must we fight? --- Henry Clay

The Fool with the irrational ideas. May 13, 1846

July 1846 Journal Journal how are you today? Polk and his Walker Tariff, restoration of the independent Treasury, Oregon controversy and Oregon Treaty of 1846…Well at least we gained Oregon? Expansion is all that they hold in mind. Independent treasury? Can we really trust a United States treasury separate from the banks? With that protective assisting us lowered, what will become of our economy? Our industry? Our manufacturing business? 32% to 25% is a very significant difference! Do they even care? I sincerely believe I would have been a better president. --- Henry Clay

February 15, 1847 Journal Journal how are you today? The Wilmot Proviso tries but fails to get passed into law…Whigs are quite unfortunate are we not? This would have made any land that we, the United States, take or receive will be free of slavery. Abolishing slavery has proved itself to be a difficult yet not impossible task. The House passed the bill but failed in the Senate yet again. The attempts, I refuse to stop until the final flag is waved. We…no I must do what I can to do what is right. We Whigs will prevail, it may not be now, but our goals will be successful. We must expand, gain power, for the greater good. Slavery is an issue, if we can succeed in abolishing, then we might gain popularity. With that popularity, I might finally get elected as president. --- Henry Clay

David Wilmot

September 1847 Journal Journal how are you today? The War is finally over…Even though the victories are seemingly easy, was it really worth it? We lost 13,000 men, they’re still our men who would not have vanquished otherwise despite the fact that most died by disease. Was it really worth it? Was it? To me the war’s price to pay was far more valuable than the rewards to gain. We lost so many men… For what? A major victory would be defeating Santa Anna at Mexico City, General Winifield Scott lead the united states army to a decisive victory. And General Scott? Most definitely a Whig who loves his country. The United States are always in over his heads since it’s lead by democrats, but it’ll always pull through, because Whigs, who will always love our country, will be there. --- Henry Clay

February 2, 1848 Journal Journal how are you today? The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo... Texas is officially ours, even though it was of the United States, but we could have very well lost. I thought postponing such drastic measures of war would be a better idea. Why are we expanding like imperialist buffoons? We still haven’t worked out all the internal issues yet! We need to get a national bank before even thinking about all the ‘expansion’ . It increased our boundaries, Upper California and New Mexico. Some gain is better than nothing right? But we need to improve internally before going off and taking land. It seems that it’s just another concept that the democrats do not understand. --- Henry Clay

The Treaty Signed February 2, 1848