Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1838-04-19
From the Kentucky and Ohio ,you,us,


Mr.. CLAY GI Mr.. CALHOUN s. tn. Sua-
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
throughout-it would appear, wo think.
that II Clay can oUT-PRAY, Calhoun can
oUT-PREACH. Mr.. Calhoun confined him
selfstrictly TO the financial and constitution
al questions which grew out of the bill,
condonsing, we think, n little too much for
The ordinary reader, while Mr.. CLAW in his
meteorlc excursions, touched almost eyerv
other subject but the one before the House,
MIR. Calhoun probes every subject TO the
bottom, and whatever he attempts, he de-
Elonstrates. MIR. Clay cannot reason Iori
cally-he is forcible declaimer, and his
power III debate consists in action-in MAN
NERIsM. Hence. all who read his speeches
are disappointed. II is indeed unfortunate
for the fame Of Mr.. Clay as an orator. that
his sspeechcs have been publisletl-posteri,y
will place many Of his contemporaries be-
fore him, and among tho number his par
ticular friend Mr.. Calhoun.
III you wish to understand the merits ,r
the sub-Treasury bill in all its impor,on,
bearings, read the speech Of Mr. Calhoun
or MIR. Wright; and if you wish to under
stand clcctioneering slang, and how MIR.
Clay hates Gen. jackson, and most of his
political rivals, read his spccch;-the one
thought Of the welfare oftlc republic-the
other of himself and the presidency. Mr..
Clay's speech upon the sub Treasury bill
is failure, and must be SO considered by
his friends who say that questions Finance
are not his forte. 1t is. we think, misc.
rable piece Of patchwork; ga tessalated
pavement without cemcnt"-filled with d.
grcssion upon igrcssion-taunts, sneers,
stale jokes, local prcjudices, jcalousies and
malignant personalities against Mr.. Van
Buren and his cabinet and friends; deliver
cd i'll n dialect and manner unsuiled 10 the
place, the time, the OCCASION, and unwor-
thy OF his eminence as statesman. Mr..
Randolph would have called it "fanfarip-
ade." No man is more sensitive than Mr.
Clay, or more prompt at repelIing encroach-
ments 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 unfreauent-
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 present 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, strnsk. Of
!6ut, !ai6s m like M lie P6Srffsees ] Of old, he aisays
prays i'll public, in tho streets and marker
places, and never at all unless he is can
didate for the Presidency. and that he has
been lor the last twenty years. He reminds
US of the Duke of Gloster as painted by
Shakespeare, who. when he had resolved
upon the crown, never appeared in public
except in the company Of priests, and with
a prayer book in his hand.
Ana III this devout mood MIR. G.. COM
menccd his great speech upon the sub-trea-
sury bill, under, as he said, Oppressed feel
ing" and "a deep sense of awful RESPONSE
bility.." He spoke his anxiety. his sleep
less nights and .his terrent 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 street repose which he had experienced
the night bcfore;' and in imitation of Crom-
we'll when lie was going into battle, he
pointed 10 the sun and thanked his Maker for
the light and warmth he she'd upon the
Garth, sc &c.
Now, all this we are compelled TO believe
was Pharisaical cant, for at that yery mo-
mcnt his heart was filled with uucharita-
bleness toward General Jackson, and nil his
political opponents; and from the abun-
dance of the heart the mouth speaketl',-
for hc had scarcely finished his prisons when
with the fcrocity of II tiger he pounced upon
the hero of Orleans, aud for several hours
his private and public character.
BY way Of letting his admirng audience
know that he had been in Paris, and in the
palace of the Tuitlerics, he alluded TO the
TACT of the Bourhons endeavoring to oblite-
rate all traces OF Napoleon, and then asked
when we should see effaced all traces oflhe
-avages of General Jackson's adminis,ra.
ion; during which he said "societv had
been uprootcd, virtue punished, vice re-
'varded. aud talents and intellectual endov.
nents despised-brutality, vulgarism, and
oco .focoism upheld, cherished and connie
But by way of climacteric he
said the Generals objectionable sin was his
var upon The Bank of the United States.
md here upon the ruins Of the monster. rs !
,pon the bed Of Procrustes he stretched the |
Hero, and after torturiDg him
without mercy for upward of an hour, by
'Shrewbnry cl0ck," left him to die of his
Wounds and bruises. This seemed TO no the
,nkindest cut Of all-for Mr.. Clay himself
vas the first to wage war against this insti-
ution. He denounced it as uncons,itution-
Il aud dangerous; but this was before he
vas candidate for the Presidency, and
While he was acting with the republican
,arty, before his alliance with the New
england puritan.
We have now waded through several
olumns Of MIR. Clay's speech, upon " hich,
We were praycrfully admonisIled in the ex-
rdium hung the future destiny of this Re-
'ublic. and not one word upon the sub-