The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1838-03-06
From tho Boston Atlas.
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.


Washington, Feb. 20, 1888.
The following is brief sketch of that part o
Mr. Clays speech which Calhoun spoke of as a per
sonal attack upon himself, TO which he should repl,
at his "good LEISURE" and after which reply Ga;
should have no reason to complain that he was no
paid in full.
Clay said, the dratcer Of this bill (he sub treagur,
bD is to be found at the White House but the bill
has met with very unexpected acceptOr in .ic
Senate, in tho person of the Senator from Soutl
| Carolina. What the drawer thinks of the acceptor
from exactly knowing. What the acceptor think.
| OF the drawer, he has himself proclaimed times
without NUMBER in the hearing Of the Senate and
1t was but short time since that he declared him
TO be wanting in all the noble attributes of the king
OF the Forest and to resemble the meanest and most
| skulking rascal among the quadrupeds'
nave lately seen, and read with pain, a m ost
remarkable document (Calhoun's EdGcfeld Lefts,l
in which the Senator from. South Carolina qivess
The reasons for his course. 1t seems that in his
opinion, tho victory which his Wing allies as he
calls them, were about to achieve would not enure
to htm and has party; and, therefore, in the yery
heat of tho struggle, after acting with them for
years, he suddenly deserts it, and goes oyer to the
common enemy.
Day after day, the Senator from South Carolina
with dismal countenance, had doed ont his com
plants against the corruptions of the times the
downward course Of the administration, and the
necessity OF the most ardent and active struggles
against tho party in power-a party chrstened by
himself the sPods Party-to prevent them from to.
tally running the country. To myself, who am nat
orally inclined 10 look at the bril- ht side of things
tho and the denuncintions of the Senator
from South Carolina, have sometimes seemed lii
tic exaggerated; but at the moment when the erea,
object which he had struggled for in our company
with so many signs and tears, and such paintve
assiduity,-at the moment, when that great object
was about to be accomplished, the senator deserts
us, because the victory will not to him and
his party
To him and his party? Was it for personal and
party objects, that he engaged with us in this strug
gieF thought 1t had been to rebuke usurpation,
TO recny abuses, to take from tho "spoils party
the possession of the government which they had
so shametully mismanaged These supposed TO
have been the objects for which we were allied
Not so, the gentleman from South Carolina. lie
saw that the victory would not enure to himself
and his party, and therefore, it was necessary for him
and them to go to the other side Accordingly
he, and his party in the Senate horse, foot, and
dragons, deserted their old allies; and went
to the enemy = but that "party, those horse foot
and Dragons, consisted merely of the Senator him
self! lie took his gun and his knapsacL, and to
borrow phraseology made famous by another
great Leader Of the party to which he has now join
ID himself "sotary alone, he deserted to the ranks
If the enemy
The earliest instance which history affords us of
:, quarrel among allies, took place during the
!'roan war, and is sung and celebrated in the Iliad
hchliles the great champion of the Greeks, with
rev himself from the field of battle and suffered
he Trolans under the heroic Hector, to make havoc
Inong his friends. Achilles, however, had real
n tancied wrongs to complain of, and to urge, as a
u justification for his conduct. We did no wrong to
ne senator from South Carolina. We received him
Win cordially and kindness we respected his
minent abilities, his acknowledged genius, his long
xpeTiehce, his supposed patriotism and more than
~ that stern and infexibIe fidelity TO his friends
Vhich we imagined TO make part of his character
Achilles simply withdrew himself from the war {
e did not go over to the ranks of the Troians and
omit his spear against his former friends The
entleman from South Carolina deserted to the ranks
the "spoils party, and, like deserter. he went
yer distressing and distrusted. Whether it. in the
curse of his connection with his friends he should
nd that the victory is not likely TO enure to him,
is part OF his intention to deser.sthem also that
point, the adjustment Of which is best left to
40 high contracting parties. I
"A scene in the Ohio Legislatlre.-A laughable
Gene was Witnessed in the House OF Represent
ives, ofthis State, last Saturday. The House
roceeded TO elect an Associate Judge for the =
curt of Commod Pleas of Jackson county ; and !
10 member from that county, contrary to his
ish and much TO his surprise, received a ma
rity Of the votes for that office. He was ezra
I'd at the fancied insult, and while votes were
,ing counted. his eyes flashed fire, and he look
unutterabte things. When the Teller had
,unted forty one votes for him, he boiled over
ith rage, and addressedthe Speaker with great
'hemence MS follows ;-"Sr, there are forty one r
oundrels in this House!'' The Teller procee- +,
ID, and counted eleven more for him. He rose /
aln and said 81 said sir, that there were forty :
le scoundrels in this House. l have since as i
rtaned that there are eleven more" So in .
gnant was he that he resigned his seat.--.NctO-
K (O0 .4duocote.