Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1838-04-19

stoHd IN 1884, and ever since. He could
not be driven form it when others came to
it, and now he could not be drawn from i,
by their departing. To stand alone had no
tcrrOrs for him. ltwas to him not unusual.
From the Kentucky and Ohio Journal.
Mr.. CLAY & Mr.. CALHOUN g. THE SUB
Treasury BILL.-But to return to Cal
houn and Clay, who were especially anita
gonistical in this debate,-and we regret
that we have not the pencil of Plutarch to
present them 10 our readers in contrast
,hrouehout-it would appear, wo think.
that II Clay can oUT-rRAY, Calhoun can
oUT-PREACH. Mr.. Calhoun confined him
sefstrictiy TO the financial and constitution
al questions which grew out Of the bill,
contlonsing, we think, a little too much for
The ordinary reader, while Mr.. CLAW in his
meteoric excursions, touched almost eyery
other subject but the one before the House.
MIR. Calhoun probes every subject to the
bottom, and whatever he attempts, he de.
Elonstra,es. MIR. Clay cannot reason logi
cally-he is forcihle declaimer, and his
power III debate consists in action-in MAN
| NERIsM. Hence, all who read his speeches
are disappointed. 1t is indeed unfortunate
for the fame Of Mr.. Clay as an orator, that
his speeches have been pubished-posterily
will place many Of his contemporaries be-
fore him, and among tho number his par
ticular friend Mr.. Calhoun.
If you wish TO undcrslan the merits of
the sub-Treasury bill in all its importan,
bearings, read the speech Of Mr. Calhoun
or Mr.. Wright; and if you wish to under
stand clcctioneering slang, and how Mr..
Clay hates Gen. jackson, and most of his
political rivals, read his speech;-,he one
thought Of the welfare Of the republic-the
other of himself and the presidency. Mr..
Clay's speech upon the ub-Treasury bill
is failure, and must he SO considered by
his friends who say that questions offimancc
are not his forte. 1t is. we think, misc
rable piece Of pntch-work; "a tessalated
pavement without cemcnt"-illed with di-
grcssion upon digrcssion-taunts, sneers,
stale jokes, local prcjudces, calousies and
malignant personalities against Mr.. Van
Buren, and his cabinet and friends; deliver
cd in dialect and manner unsuiled to the
place, the time, the occasion, and unwor-
| thy of his eminence rs n statesman. Mr..
| Randolph would have called il "fanfarip-
ade." No man is more sensitive than Mr.
Clay, or more prompt at repcllng encroach-
menls upon his personal or official dignity,
and with oil his appetency for popular ap-
plausc which he has sometimes mistaken
for the trumpet Of fame, he not unfrequent-
| ly draws around him an atmosphere of re-
pulsion which he allows no one, not even
his satellites to penetrate. His course du-
| ring the prcscut session has been uncourte-
Gus dogmatic and insolent. He seems 10
| have taken the orator Of Roanoke (the
marks of whose scourge he will carry to his
grave) as his Senatorial prototype.,
We have been particularly strusk, of
a'6ut, M like NH lie P6Srisees a; Of DID, he assavs
prays in public, in the streets and market
places, and never a, all unless he is can
didate for the Presidency. and that he has
been for the last twenty years. He reminds
US Of the Duke of Glostcr as painted by
Shakespeare, who, when he had resolved
upon the crown, never appeared in public
except in the company Of priests, and with
prayer book in his hand
And i'll this dcvout mood MIR. G. COM
mcnccd his great speech upon the sub-,rea-
sury bill, under, as he said, Oppressed feel
ing' and "a deep sense of awful responsi-
bility." He spoke Of his anxiety, his sleep
less nights and ''his fervent PRAYERS for Di-
vine assistance" He thanked his God
that he had prolonged his life for that great
occasion" lie "thankcd Him for the soft
and s,ceet repose which he had experienced
the night bcfore;'' and in imitation of Crom-
we'll when he was going into battle, he
pointed TO the sun and thanked his Maker for
the light and warmth he shed upon the
earth, sc &c.
Now, all this we are compelled to believe
was Pharisaical cant, for at that very mo-
mcnt his heart was filled with uucharita
bleness toward General Jackson, aud all his
political opponents; and from the abun
dance of the heart the mouth speaketh''-
for he had scarcely finished his prisons when
with the fcfocity of Il tiger hc pounced upon
the hero of Orleans, and for several hours
mangcd his private and public character.
BY way of letting his admiring audience
know that he had been in Paris, and in the
palace Of the Tuillerics, he alluded to the
fact of the Bourhons endeavoring to obIite
rate all traces Of Napoleon, and then asked
when we should see cff'aced all traces of The
ravages Of General Jackson's adminisrra
ton; during which he said "society had
been uprooted, virtue punished, vice re-
war.led, aud talents and intellectual epdow
ments despised-brulality, vulgarsm, and
loco .focoism upheld, cherished and counte-
nanced." But by way of cImacreric lie
said the Generals objectionable sin was his
war upon the Bank of the United States,
and here upon the ruins of the monster. nc