Literary cadet and Rhode-Island statesman. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1827-1829, 1828-01-26
PROVIDENCE.
"CALUMNY AND DETRACTIoN."

1NeNA shO OoAAAASA Va UNIV ROltiC0l iQOA,--1hu
like the famous Doctor, Of whom Legendary
lore tells much sell themselves "body and
soul to Lucifcr'-~ begin to grow desperate,
and resort TO tho vilest articles, and to seal
umny and detraciion," to aid them in their de-
signs, their cause is evidently weakened. and
they are on lie margin Of a gulf, which
yawns to receive them, and into which, they
must soon tumble, together with the load of
their political i~niqultics and alterations.
The senior Editor of tho Boston Daily Amer
lean Statesman gentleman, who is as ardent
in his devotions to the Military Cbieftain, as
any man can be, and who has through life,
been entitled to the respect of the world, has
at length, grown desperate with defeat, and
in his paper of Monday, has published the fol-
lowing tissue of ~calumny and de;raction, and
unne c~essarily associated himself with the vii
est libellcrs of the age. We reluctantly copy
the article, rs the fact OF Mr.. Greene's having
published q shameful paragraph, pregnant
with detraction and fslschood, does no,
present him TO the world, in the most enyiable
posture:
"Mr. Clay, in his late book, which, poor
thing, died before it could be christencd, char-
ges General Jackson with the stain of "IM.
MoRALITY." This sounds well from the lips
of a man who has borne tho character which
Henry Clay has sustained; this sounds charm
lngly from the due 81 who was so stung BY the
force of MIR. Randolph's roUarks about the
coalition of the puritan and tho "blacklog'
that, in the desperate fury of his mind. he vlo-
lated the sacred Constitution Of his country;
this comes with a good grace from The man
who was thus described in the pamphlet of a
friend of Mr. Adams, who was a member of
Congress, and knew Mr. Clay's habits, and,
too, is a man Of truth; she WHO SPENDS
HIS NIGHTS AT II BANNING TABLE, AND
IN THE REvELs OF A IN CON-
TEMPT OF THE LAWS OF GOD AND MAN.
Yet Nr. Clay has dared TO accuse General
Jackson, the latchet of whose shoes he is no,
worthy TO unloose, Of immortality. Mr. Clay
has boosted that he inherited nothing from
his parents but infancy, indigence and igno-
rance Mr. Randolph said that he should,
in order to have kept up the dHiterat on have
added and inpudence also" II would
scom by his late inip0fent az well as inpudent
attack upon the character Of General Jack.
son, as If ho means to justify the addition OF
MIR. Rando'ph's wit TO his eloquencc"
As the humble friends of Mr.. CLAY, and
as feeble supporters of the administration, wo
feel bound TO notice the above article, and in
doing so, VIC should be rcjoiccd, if VIC could
do our duty, without declaring, in round and
unequvocal terms, that the first sentence,
contains a sheer, and as deliberate a falsehood,
as was ever permitted to d~isfigure, and dis
grace the columns of a newspaper Mr..
CLAY has not, in any part Of his book, accus-
ed General Jackson of /" IMMoRALITY"; on
the contrary, he has not uttered one word, it
relation 10 the private character of the Gene
raj. This assertion, We make openly and fear
lessly, and We challenge the Editor oftho Bos-
ton Daily American Statesman, to a refuta-
ton.
The attack which is mado on the private
CHARACTER OF Mr.. Clay, in the same paragraph,
IS copied from an infamous pamphlet. published
by Mr.. TIMOTHY FULLER, which sas so vile,
III - it destroyed itself and fell almost still!
born from the press. The pamphlet, was writ
ten during the great excitement which existed
during tho last presidential canvass and had its
origin in private spleen and envy.to which, per-
sonal disputes in the House of Representatives
on questions ofsome magnitude, added a sting.
and a cankering virulence
In that pamphlet, after Mr.. Fuller had es-
hausted tho whole Of his chalico of calumny
and venom, he SAID of Mr.. Clay: He spends his
nights nc iho gaming 'ab'e ard in the revels of a
brothel, IN contempt Of the laws Of God and
man. When the pamphlet went before the
world, containing charges so vile, unlounded,
and infamous, it was scorned by friends and
foes, and even tho editor Of tho Boston Daily
American Statesman, treated it with all the
contempt it mcritcd, and pronounced it a tissue
of the blacklist and most infamous !alschood.
Ard yet that gentleman when grown mad WITH
defeat, resorts to the same pamphlet for venom.
and quotes from it, with a liberal hand.
1t is rot necessary for us TO come forward 10
yindicatc tho moral character of HENRY
CLAY; for hc whose reputation is beyond re-
proach, needs no efcnder no advocate. But
lest tho quotation, which has been made from
Timothy Fuller's book, by the Editor Of the
'oston Statesman should DC received by any
one. we will step so far aside from tho path we
VIC intended to pursue, as to say, that tho ac-
cusations, which have been preferred against
Mr.. Clay ARE falsc-vile and ridiculous'y false.
A residence of moro than seven years, within
Il fow hundred yards Of Nlr. Cldy's country