Columbus Democrat. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1840-02-22
MR.. WALKER AND MR.. CLAE,1

II was not our intention to publish the paTcu.
lars Of the personal controversy between these
Senators. A letter, however, has appeared IN the
Baltimore Patriot, so grossly misrewesent'ng the
whole matter, as to render it due TO truth aud JUS
tee that the facts should be stated precisely as
they occurred, without the Change, addition, or
subtraction of single word. few days since
Mr.. Clay, IN his speech, compared General Jack
son and Mr.. Van Buren, to the two Charleses Of
England, and also excited The Laughter of his
friends in the galleries, by caucaturt deserlp-
lion of Mr.. Van Buren, moving through the RAIN
with his umbrella hosted and India rutbsr cont,
Next day Mr.. Walker replied at length, and
whilst he fully disclalmed any personal allusson
to Mr. Clay. he said that the laughter excltin. IA
Guilty was one Of the humblest Of the human mind,
and rarely united with great intellectual ylgor
and that it was power, the exercise Of which
was badly suited to the dignity of this tribunal
that if he wanted to laugh, he would buy his
ticket and 90 and listen in the theatre to farce or
comedy but thnt, even II he possessed the como
pcwcrs Of Mathews himself, no would not exert
them here and that, in however eminent de
gree any one might possess the laughter exciting
faculty, they should remember that this was IA.
Guilty in which every harlequin was their equal,
and every circus clown greatly their superior
The next day Mr.. Clay SAID that he would an
swer first the giant matter on this side of the
House, before replying to the small concern
turning towards Mr.. Walker on the other. When
Mr.. Clay closed, Mr.. Walker said, that in his
speech Of Yesterday, the Senator from Kentucky
had been treated by him with that decorum, which
L IA k, ala ia,
this body; that how FAT that Senator had pursued
similar course, or how far he had exhibited thai
total absence of all decorum, which was conS
tuuonal with, and part OF the nature OF some
gentlemen, he submitted to the consideration o
of the Senate and the country. He SAID he haE
made no assault upon The Senator from kentuc
| Ky; that he was not in the habit of making as
suits upon any one; bu, if he dd,t would be upoI
! the living, and not upon the dead or the dying
! and that he would leave that Senator TO all TIT
| consolation which hc could derive from iha
honorable discharge" 10 which he had dc
cared himself so fully entitled, and which h
presumed he had so lately received, that he woul
leave him, rs he would any other crushed vlctlr
of different kind expiring IN the dust and ago
nv, from an overflow of Is own venom. Nj
Glow replied, that he was neither dead nor dying
that he thought, last year tho Senator from Mis-
sissippi was dying, bat was glad to see i was n,
so, and that hts health was restored. lie wou'
say to that Senator, and others who acted VII
him, that he was never too old to rcpel and punI'
mpudence aud lmpertlnence, come from VIVA
ever quarter 1t might, or to meet tn" calls wh't
every gentleman Of honor is found to attend I
Mr.. Walker said, he would only remnrk, that
the honorable Senator desired to repel and pun''
elsewhere any grievance which he might col
plan of having received from him, tina, he won
, promptly accep, any call which the Senator hi
animated he might be disposed to make Tor SAT-
, faction, here or elsewhere. Mr.. Clay said,
p felt no grief AT any thing said by the Senator lfo
0 Mississippi that the Senator was incapable
4 exciting an emotion in his bosom but that wh
n he now said was, that he was not too old, and n
c ven would be- while his pulse beat, 10 repel II
e pertineuce and that he would, at all times,
!, spond TO any call which that Senator might ma
y upon him, here or elsewhere. Here the matt
9 closed, and has, for the present, been ARRESTED
i x as we are determined not TO aid m re-ag'iOtl
q the question, we refrain from all comments.
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