Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1840-02-13
MIR. WALKER AND MIR. CLAY.

II was moi our intention TO publish the
particulars Of the personal controversy be-
tween these Senators. A letter however
has appeared in the Baltimore Patriot,
SO grossly misrepresen.iug the whole mat
ter, as to render it due to truth ana justice
that the facts should be stated precisely
as they occurred. without the change ,addi.
ton, or subtraction Of a single word. A
few days since Mr.. Clay, in his speech.
compared Geueral Jackson and MIR. Van
Buren, to the two Charleses of England,
and also excited the laughter of his friends
in the galleries, by a caricature description
of MIR. Van Buren, moving through the
rain with his umbrella hoisrcd and India
rubber coat. Next day Mr.. Walker re-
piled a, length, and whilst he fully dis
claimed all personal allusion 10 Mr.. Clay;
he said that the Laughter exciting faculty
was one of the humblest of the hunau
mind, and rarely united with srea, intel
lecrual vieur; aud 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 60
and listen in the theatre to farce or come
dy, buttlat, even il he possessed the comic
power of Mathews himself, he would not
exert them here; and that, in however
eminent degree any one might possess
the laughter exciting faculty, they should
remember that this was faculty in which
eve:y harlequin was their equal, every
circus clown sreatly their superior.
The next day MIR. Clay said that lie
would answer FIRST tho giant matter OH
this side Of the House. before reply To Ihe
small concern (iurning towards Mr.. Walk.
cry on the other. When Mr., Clay closed,
Mr.. Walker said, that in his speecI, OF
yesterday. the Senator from Kentucky
had been treated by him with that deco
rum, which was due 10 his station, and
The respect he felt for this body, that how
far that Senator had pursued similar
course, or how far he had exhibited that
tornl absenre of all decorum, which was
constitutional with and part Of The nature
of some gentlemen, he submitted 10 The
consideration of the Senate aud the couu-
try. He said he had made no assault up.
on the Senator from Kentucky; tia, be
was not in the habit of making assaults
upon any one; but if he did, it would be
upon The living, and not upon the dead or
dying; and that he would leave that SEN
aIor to all the consolation which he could
derive from that honorable discharge"
10 which he had declared himself so fully
entitled, and which he presumed, he had
so lately received, that he would Leave
him, as he would any other crushed victim
of different kind, expiring in the dus, in
nsony, from an overflow of its own venom.
Mr.. Clay replied that he was neither dead
nor dying; that he thought, last year, the
Senator from Mississippi was dying, but
was glad TO see il was not so, and that his
health was restored. He would say 10
that Senator, aud oilers who acted with
him, that he was never too old to repel and
punish impudeuce aud imperineuce, como
frnm whatever quarter it might, or to meet
The calls which every gentleman Of honor
is bound to attend 10.
Mr.. kersaid, he would ouIy remark,
that if the honorable Senator desired 10
repel and punish elsewhere any grievance
which he might complain ofhavnc receiy.
ed from him, that he would promptly ac.
cepI any call which the Senator had init
mated he might be disposed TO make for
satisfaction, here or elsewhere. Mr.. CLAW
said, he felt no grief at any ttina said by
the Senator from Mississippi; that the Sen.
a'or was incapable Of exciting an emotion
in his bosom; but that what he bor said
was, that he was not too old, and never
would be while his pulse beat to repel inn
perinence; and that he would at ali times.
respoud TO any call which that Senator
might make Upon him, here or elsewhere.
Here the matter closed, and has for the
present. been arrested; and as we are ,le.
lermined not 10 aid in re-agitaliug the
question, we refrain from all comments.