Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-07-18
From The Cincinnati Daily Gase'fe July IL.
"MR. CLAY AND THE CHOLERA.

An article under this head made its appearance
10 the Republican of yesterday morning IL IS
evidently the first born of a new "dd interim"
and as such it is pre.eminently characterised by
the preiudices and personal malgnity OF Its au-
thor towards Mr.. Clay, and his covert contempt
for the sacred rites and ordinances Ut the Chris
tan religion. -.
1t seems that, with this new sad interim"
the marty is every thing. Who but mad party
laborer. upon whom every act of Mr.. Clay ope-
rates like water thrown upon rabid animal,
would set down and deliberately write and pub
lish such an article, when the very scourge
(which every good man should invoke Heaven to
svert) is already ON our borders-nay, at our
very dours-aud is sweeping its victims to an un.
timely grave? Who. but mad partisan work
ing tor hire, under the threatened visit OF this aw
fuI malady, would dare to supp!aat every feel
ing of piety in the breasts of the community, by
reminding party spirit as craving as death and
remorseless as the gravea What, let US n.k eve
nv caadid aud rejecting mind, ha, given rise to
this ebuliion of party malice towards Mr. Clays
In offering this resolution did Mr.. Clay profess
to be moved by his own pi"us feelings? Certain
" not. fleldistinctly stated that ne moved IN
the matter upon the suggestion OF protested
Christians. both in and out of the Senate. tie
stated explicitly that he was not professor OF
religion, and that he did not offer the resolution
as such. :,
Such resolutions had heretofore been adopted
bybuthlIouses of Congress. audbeen sanctioned by
the President: and MI Clay thought them right
and proper Now what was there IN this to call
forth any other feelings than those OF humility
and pierys Would the honest and the upright
of any party, see in it any thing more than what
| it protested on its face? Have the honest and
the upright seen any thing else? Does the hire
of party, which consumes the heart, quicken the
mental powers, or does it furnish them jaiSe
Eght, by rejecting the principles and the mo-
tiyes of its victims, which they mistake Tor the
principles and motives Of their opponents!
! The victim of party fury who penned the aru-
Gle of the Republican, has seen in the resolution
of Mr.. CLAW, something beyond what it possess
ed. He has seen in it party movement-an
elec,ioneering trick, by which Mr.. Clay was at.
temnting TO enlist the feelings and sympathies of
the religious. But how and why is it an cleo.
tioneeriny trick? It passed the Senate by very
large majority, and was voted for by many Sena-
tors who sustain the administration. How then
could it be a party trick? WHY, after this fash.
ion. Mr.. CLAW knew that Gen. Jackson had
certain constitutional scruples about praying ana
invoking Heaven in its mercies, to turn aside the
dire scourge from our happy land. and he knew
that II the resolution was adopted, Gen. Jackson
was ool.hard, enough to veto it, and thus show
his ignorance of the constitution, and his con-
tempt of religion.
| Suppose Mr.. Clay did know that the Presl-
dent had these scruples, had he no rights OF his
own, as a member of the Senate! Is he TO be
denounced when he dared TO exercise them, De-
cause the President did not agree hlmP Will the
wurshippers of power include IN the duty to re-
cord the edicts of Caesar, the duty to sanction
his ignorance, and his contempt OF the Christian
religion.
But whv is this article put forth at this time in
the Republican, Will the editor of the Republic
can (be he who he may) only deny the propriety
of the whole American people joining in one
voice to supplcate the Throne of mercy, at a mo-
ment when the destroying Angel IS abroad do
ing the work of death? This he modestly de.
cliines: and whys Because he knows full well
that it would meet with the contempt and execra-
ton, not only of the religious, but OF the most
abandoned, who. under the dispensation OF a
wise Providence, cry for mercy.
He dare not assail the propretyof Mr.. Clay's
resolution, and as to its consttutionality, no one
talks of il but those who are politically made
mad; and are, therefore, the especial objects OF
the prayers of the good and vrtuous. A TRADE
of abuse against Mr.. Clay. it was thought. would
better prepare the public mind to receive the
Presidents veto upon the resolution which his ob-
stnacy and violence have made sure, than any