Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1839-12-02
Observation-Disclosures.

has
-.r,.shsd in the year l824, signed Thomas Han
30, may well be styled political curiosity. OF
- violent and ylndictiyc enemies " bonn Mr..
rosion rather than his principles, have rails
-, ssaiost him. not one has been more bitter and
,,o.o,ous than the Missouri Senator. Not content
u,b the lenunca,ion Of Mr.. Clay's principles and
.,nious. which ma, be expected from an opponent
N The discussion of great questions OF public policy
,hc Missouri Senator has on more than occasion
|#Aten advantage Of his position on the floor OF q
cislafiyc body 10 level his envcnon,ed shaft person
#, At Mr. Clay as it, in addition the feelings Of
l,.ike so apt to be engendercd in narrow and con
t,cled minds by antag1 mist political relations there
,,nkled in his breast the most diabocal personal
haired Of his great political advcisary-if, indeed he
NAV so be yed, who treats his enemy with undis-
cu,sed contempt. What is the cause ofthis demo
MAC feeling it is perhaps not impossible TO conjec-
,u,e. twas no wound inflicted by Mr.. Clay we
shall ptescntly see. however, which converted into
so hitter an enemy. ono, who, no longer ago than
,ea1 gave utieranee 10 the following language:
.The priuciples whch would govern Mr.. Clay's
administration if elected, are well known to The
non. They have been displayed upon the floor OF
Congress for the last seventeen years. They con
sfnne a system OF American policy, based on the
v.
nron Interior as well rs sea-board improvement
rpon & G int ep' nd,noe # tie Lew world, close
commercial alliance with Mexico and South Amer
ica. II it is said that others would pursue the
system, we answer that The founder of the system
Is the natural executor OF his own work. That the
most efficient protector Of American iron. lead
hemp, wool AMI cotton, would be the triumphant
champion oithe new Thrift the safest friend in
lerior commerce would be the statesman who has
proclaimed the Mississippi to be the of The west
A,op
mcnis, wonld be the President, who had triumphed
over the President who opposed the constt uclion Of
patlonal roads aud canals-ihe most successful APP
Ilcant for treaties with Mexico and South America,
would be the eloquent advocate ofther own ndcpen-
dcnce. THOMAS HART BENTON.
We a3k MI Benon's Gends-and even he it
seems has frends-lo tell us what Mr. Clay has
done, since 62i, to change this Of friendly
feeling into torrent Of burning Lava! Will they
tell us that Mr. Clay does not occupy the same
position on the political chess board that lie did
then! In what has he changed Certainly not
any particular FOR WHICH Benton cnlos zed him !
II vi" be seen, indeed, that Benton's eulogy is
naoIy based upon Mr.. Clay's advocacy of priuci-
lles which Bentons friends now ychemen,ly de-
uounec And il is a fsct TO be noted that Benton
who has voted FOR every Tariff ard for almost every
Internal improvement bill which has been before
Congress since he has held SCAT in that body, is
now The m in prop and pillar Of an Administration
whose advocates IN the Souh falsely say is opposed
u those mcasurcs,-nay mere, is the le,r apparent
and annoin'ed successor Of the reigpps dynasty.
es: ho who applauded Mr. Clay, aud urged the
people of Missouri 10 for him, BECAUSE he was
the great champion of the american System, pretends
no"s that his opposition TO Mr.. Clay is based upon
his hostility TO that very system, And men who aie
prepared to cruelty Mr. Clay. are, or soon will be,
Prepared to give their supp1rt, for the Presidency TO
Ills old hieud of the same principles for holding
which they profess be opposed to Mr. Clay--to
This man who has failed 10 vote for Tariff or
an Internal Improvement el--and who, fearing that
The latter would not rapidly enough absorb the ie-
venues brought into the treasury by the former ac.
nally offered tcso.uiion which however the better
Judging of his own party repudilted and rejected,
inSructng the Secretaries OF the War and N,vy
Departments 10 report to Congress an extensive
scheme OF Military and Naval Defence calling for the
largest possible Expenditures proy oston which
shoc@ed every sober MUD, aud Which has never been
renewed only however, because, soon after its
introduction, came on that sudden eyuIs;on in our
hnanc'al allas, which drained our ple,bo,ic trcasu
y oaSs oil ther last dollar, and compelled our plod-
dhg secretary of the Treasury to acknowledge that
Inc Government was bankrupt
seeing then, thai Benton's hatred of Mr.. CLAW
cannot nave grown out of Mr. Claws opinions, AS i,
seems 'hat the ability with which he maintained
'hose OPINIONS constituted the chief ground Of his
support OF Mr. Clay IN 1924 the question suggests
sell 10 what is his rancorous hostility attributable
Ut change has been so sudden and so complete thai
would be without parallel in human ycrsatilitv
'u' lof another incident, equally remarkable and
e''N'ns IN the Missouri Senator's history-we re-
III 3" course, 10 hsJacndslp Er Con Jackson. W no
Nv" e'''''s IN his arm the wound inflicted By ball
"oa benton's pistol. aimed at the old bero,s hear,
"" 'e when bros and battles were his daily food
""'e'ef VIII look back TO the history of ha, bloody
'"s III 'He street of Nashville, between Benton
Jackson and hls friends i'll Sc that the ENGLISH
&C. copots as it in harsh and bitter cpihcts.
;,"'uSrdb, Benton in his description of the affiay
"e imputed to Jackson and his friends an
'"s' To assassinale himself and his brother
"''ef""'ds fading in that attempt. 10 gloss o,e,
by the foulcst falsehoods sworn to
OF peuured villains, whom Jackson KEEP, in
Wv MS lighting and swcaring This is moi
- 'ouh' reader, bur Bcn,on's-that same BEN
H. 10" "eaves the most gorgeous chapIets 70,
e 'ie'o's brow, and twines them around his
''"' WIN his own hands,--those very hands
n, wy "nce lEcarnadnck with the Generals
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