Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-10-04
From the Cincinnati Gazette.
GEN DUFF GREEN.
"Monsieur Ionson come again"

Monsieur I0nSon come again..
This doughty champion of the quill has a
| gain visited Cincinnati, and again addressed
himself to me- He has now chosen The columns
of the Republican, and although his address is
an odd sort Of medley, cannot, in civllity, re-
fuse to notice it,
He seems to have pondered over my COM
ments, on his billiard table letter OF the Oath
June. up to this time, without knowing in what
manner 10 reply to it: and has finally concluded
to make ii an occasion toHilify Mr.. Clay. His
virulence towards this gentleman is evidently a
kind of rabies, which, but for the deepness OF
its maignlty, would rather excite pity than
provoke anger His whole historical detail is
in the same vile and disingenuous spirit, which
repeats the insinua,ion that Mr. Clay wrote the
Columbus and Kentucky addresses of his friends
in 1924, which large number OF respectable
citizens know 10 be false.
do not recollect ever TO have seen such
tissue of falsehoods strung together and sub
scribed by real name, as this address con-
tains Among these may be enumerated the
assertions, that the friends of Mr.. Clay were
"systematic and constant in their abuse OF Mr.
Adams:''- denounced Mr.. Adams Sin the
public stage in his presence, as an apostate te-
u,
pose confidence and my last choice of all the can
didafesu!''-that while resident al St. Glars
Vile. was "violent abuser of Henry Clay:"-
that MIR. Clay "converte6 my enmity to him
and to the bank, into subserviency to the one
and blind devotion to the other: that was
transferred from St. Clairsvile to Cincinnati,
and was upon the eve of transfer to Washing
ton City," AS Ikno,0 all this TO be false, and
as Gen Green, when he asserted it, could knoU
very little about it, am enabled to afiix just
estimate upon his regard for truth.
There are other matters in this address TO
me, which also bear pretty directly upon Gene
raj Green's veracity. He says, "Noao be at kno'0n
10 you that Ipyeter your abuse and Islander 10 your
praise" This is very silly vaunt, and the more
so, that it can obtain credence with nobody
No man is Indifferent TO the good opinion OF "a
mother, whoever that other may be. None but
knaves and fools make such pre:enslon: And
when our relative situations and standing are
considered, for Duff Green to pretend that he
sspreters'' my censurc TO my praise, is most tru-
~ ridiculous. Nothing but his inveterate pro-
pensity to make assertions, without regard to
the true stale of facts, could have tempted him
to the folly of this declaration.
When he wrote his letter of the Oath Of June
he thought it necessary to assign some reasons
for addressing it TO me. He then talked of be-
ing "dragged before the public alleged had
s'no iusti6able cause for assailing him. and
claimed the publication of his statement as an
act of "justice and courtesy" All this is di-
rectly at variance with the assertion he now
makes, that he 'pyefers my abuse and SANDER
to my praise" But, as if,his proofof his men
dacity, furnished by himself, were no: enough,
he goes on 10 assign a totally different reason
for writing his letter of the Oath of June.
envy chief mdueement for writing to you was
to identify you as the Editor Of the Gazette, the
mouth piece and conscience keeper OF Mr. Clay
in Ohio that might use with the better effect
a file of the Ohio Federalist, which, in fact, was
the only thing "given me" as an inducement to
my editorial vocation, save the hospitality and
appreciation Of many Of Gen. Jackson's friends"
The factrhat edited the Gazette, was as we'll
known to Gen Green, in June, as any other fact
whatever Had he entertained doubts, they
might have been removed by direct enquiry at
any time. To "idenhy' what was thus public
ly known, the General, by his own confession,
trumps up afalse pretence, and upon that false
pretence addresses letter to me, which false pre-
tence he now avows, with as much non chalance,
as if its practice were virtue to be boosted Of
The paragraph quoted above contains other
matters in which truth is wholly disregarded
tits asserted that file of the Ohio Federalist
"was the only thing given him as an inducemaent
to his editorial vocation, save the hospitality *
appreciation ofmany ofGen. Jackson's friends. %
Now happen to know, hoao sohen, and achere
the General obtained file of the Ohio Federal
ist, and this knowledge enables me to decide
that the Generals account of it is not true. The
fact is he has never yet seen the file he talks a.
bout.
Those who know but ever so little Of the &c.
neral, know that he is one of the m ost obtrusive
and incessant praters in the land. He has nc
discretion as to time, place, or company, Nc