Delaware State journal, advertiser and star. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1832-1833, 1833-08-16

The following article is from the Rich
mond Whig, we copy IT because we think
that great injustice has been done to that emf
|nent statesman, by by the silence of his
friends and the clamors of his enemies. The
editor of the Wing is not an advocate for Mr..
CLAY, as the candidate for any office; nor do
I'VE know that he is DESTROYS of doing more by
his concentrations, than to give an honest
man his deserved praise. In copying the
piece, we have only in view the promugatlon
|of sentiments which we think correct, and
tho more extensive circulation of a deserved
recommendation of a man, who has earned tor
himself fame, beyolu infinitely beyond that
Iof the Roman Curtius. S. Gazette.
MIR. CLAY.
| We said OH late occasion, that Mr.. Clay
'had lived down SANDER" and in the same
article, that we had once hoped the gratitude
iof Virginia and her sense of the injustice she
Ihad done him, would have prevailed with
her to take him up as her candidate for the
lneXt Presitlency-5ut that ISLANDER had sunk
too deep" and sshad done its work too well, %
lto,' the realization of this hope.
The ''wise wight" of the Baltimore Re-
publican, and after him the sniveling slrvil-
Ter of the Richmond Enquirer, pretend in
these expressions to see an irreconcilable dis
lcrepancy, and the latter proceeds to deduce
. the conclusion, of how little credit the editor
Of this paper is entitled to, i'll consequence
thereof?
. There is however, no contradiction what
: ever, in fact. Mr. Clay has s'lived dow
SANDER" Those whose daily habit once
: was to abuse him-who, conscious of his un
popularity, gratified their malevolence, while
i they replenished their pockets, and filled
. their subscription lists, by heaping upon hin
every coarse and rancorous epithet, do so n,
longer. They like Mr.. Clay no better thai
:, before ;they even dislike him more,for snatch
;, ing from their idol, the glory of pacifying hi
= who know 7vhen to abuse, and how to curl
y their maignity when prudence recommend
y lit. To abuse Mr.. Clay in the present TEN
y - per of the public mind, would be as impolit
as once it was advantageous.
). Henry Clay has Hved do7on SANDER?
Il Aye, to extort unwilling praises from tn
- trumpeters Of "barsain, intrigue and cor
: rupton."
q Is it not equal true, that that SANDER ha
II made too strong impression, had sunk to
J. deep into the public mind, to permit it
!! once to pass from reprobaton to the highc
:, mark of confidence from malediction to Hi
- sannas 1t is true ISLANDER is lived down,
but prejudice is not conquered. The diseas
= is vanqushed, but its effects remain. FL
~ Lion has shaken off the ours which hail con
:. bined to mange him, int the wounds whc
;. they had inflicted are not healed.
: Thus we make good what we said-th
y "Mr. Clay had lived down slander," b
!, that it had done its office too well, to perm
~ his present support by Virginia.
-. We appeal to every mans daily expei
" cnce for the confirmation of these truth
~ One every day, m ~ hear such confessions
u these: 81 have done Mr.. Clay great inju
-, tice. ! regret the part have took again
- him. now believe HIM pure patriot, al
~. ~ great and upright Statesman. was misl
,al by circumstances