Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-01-30
Mn WALKER AND MR.. CLAY.

MR.. WALKER AND Nix. CLAY.
II was not orr intention to PUBLISH the particulars o
tho ncrsonol controversy between these Senators.
letter however has appeared III the Baltimore fatri",
so GROSSLY msrc presenting the whole matter as 10 rem
der it due TO truth and justice that the facts sohH "'
stated precisely they occurred without tn" change
addition or subtraction of a single word lew daF
since MIR Clay in his speech, compared General
| Jackson and Mr.. Van Buren, TO the two CnAELEsLs
of England and also excited the laughter OF ms irenos
in the galleries. by carcaturc DESCRIPTION OF df 'a
Buren, moving through the ram with ms nmo[%i'a
bosted ard India rubber coat. Next day MIR. W a!kcr
replied at length and whilst he fully discauned any
personal aluson Mr.. Clay he said that the laugh
tcr-exciting faculty one .! The hunthicSt OF IN,
human mind and rarely Gnrtcd with great int"ec tlhi
v;yor: and that IL power, the exercise OF wh!ch
r.s L,dlv suited 10 The dignity of this tribunal that II
he wanted to laugh lac would buy his ticket and SO ana
listen IN the theatre to farce comedy; but tha even
if he possessed The comic powers OF Mathews himself,
he would not exert them here: and that, III however
eminent degree any might possess The laughter
cycitnr faculty. they should remember that this was a
faculty in which every harlequin was their equal, and
every circus clown greatly their superior
/ Tie next day Mr. CLAY said that he would answer
first the rant matter this side OF the House, before
roplyinr 10 The small turning towards Alr
/ Walker on the ether. When Mr.. Clay closed Mf
4 Walker said that IN his speech Of yesterday, the sena
tor from Kentucky had been treated by HIM wth ina
dccor, which dee TO his station, and the EcSpcc
he felt for this bodv that how tar that senator hau PUT
total absence of all decorm, which was constitutional
with and part of the nature Of some gcntlcmcn he SUB
suu ne TIu maze no Assault DIE
from Ky; that he not in tie habit of making ms
saults upon any one; but if he did it would be upon tho
living, and not upon the dead the dying and that he
would leave that Senator to all the consolation which
he could derive from that honorable discharge {
which he had declared himself so fully entitled, anC
which he presumed, he had lately received, that he
would leave HIM, as be would any other crushed vie
ne INST i'm ~
from overflow Of its venom. Mr. Clay replied
that he neither dead nor dying that he thought
last year, Tic Senator from Mississippi was dying but
was gind see il not so. and that his health wa.
restored He would say that Senator and others who
acted with him. that he old to repcl and
punish lmpudcncc and mpcrtnence, come from what
ever quarter it might, to the calls which every
gentleman of honor is bound to attend Mr. Walker
said, he would only remark that if the honorable Sc
nator desired to repe and punish elsewhere any ricv
ance which he might complain of hay received from
him, that lie wout promptly accept any call which the
Senator had intimat he might be disposed 10 make
for satisfaction here elsewhere Mr.. Clay SAID he
felt grief at any thing said by the Senator from Mis-
sissppI that the Senator incapable Of exciting an
emotion in his bosom; but that what he now said was
that he not too old, and never would he while his
pulse beat, 10 repe lmpcrtncncc and that he would
ut all times, respond 10 any call winch that Senator
might make upon him, here or elsewhere. Here the
matter closed and has, for the present been arrested
and rs determined not 10 aid in regulating the
question, We refrain from all comments Gt0Jc.
ME. WALKER REFLECTED
ErrGc, ot icr from gentleman .Sc Orleans 10 HI, tcad IN
ftts r"g, dqi'd .IaRHdrg II. 1910.
"Ihr election for United Senator Mss>ppi took
place the 9 and the Stood l ballot Walker
Prent> 81. When the result announced the capitol runa
again and again with thuRdrs Of applause and will be cebr
ted glorious anti Bank Democratic victory through
out the states for Walker went the whole boldly and openly
against the entire "r system corporation, State and Fcd"rs
Walker has now 'i serve, including his present NJ
red term hiring elected III adj ancc If usual jus,
blte n POPULAR ealdr The result loo" received by The De"
mocrats with JOY aud by ;ha ~ Walkers Old fricad
! General jacksonville.