The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-07-19

mted that MIR. Clay was the best man. if there was
such an one l should like to hear his name. know
that some of the personal well political friends
OF Mr.. Clay, after having fairly scrutnized public
sentiment and finding that there was not the remotest
chance Of his success did make of such remarks
to salye over the modification of Mr. Clay and his
devotees SO as to induce them to submit with be-
coming grace to their disappointment, in the hope
that by playing the hypocrite, which they now charge
upon Hayisonia,s, Mr. Clay, at the expiration of
the old Generals term, might fall heir to his PoPuia
rty, and succeed him in the Presidency. But what
friend of General Harrison made use OF SUCH all
argument to induce friend of Mr. Clay to vote Tor
him' | venture to say not The friends OF the
Hero of Tippecanoe made such an admission,
and for the reason that they did not entertain any
such opinion. They considered his sterling integrity
his indomitabe courage his well informed mind, his
sound and discriminating judgment his distinguished
services in the field and the councils of the naton all
as pre-eminently qualifying him for the situaton.-
They would not acknowledge him, taking him all in
ALL as inferior to any Huing man, and only second to
one who was more, " the Father Of the Country"
But the nomination of General Harrison for the Pre-
sideny is denounced treason and eace'y, and an IN
suit to the nation! This accusation has no parallel
for downright mpudence and vile calumny, with the
exception of the UNANIMOUSLY celebrated story of his
having been confined in iron cage by his Keepers to
prevent him from exposing his imbecility. Did the
nation show by the vote that was given to General
Harrison, that regarded his nomination as an insult
Mr.. Clay would doubtless gratefully receive such
manifestation of the conrys displeasure at his NOM
nation! But in what consisted the treason and
treachery' Was General Harrison ineligible to the
office, or had Mr. Clay any vested right in itby virtue
of the Constitution, election, or otherwse' Can
any one be surprised at the charges heaped upon
President Tyler of treason and treachery when they
see such base attempt by the very same party to
blacken the memory of General Harrison with the
identical allegations? For surely if was treason
and treachery in his friends nominate him. he was
equally criminal in permitting himself to be made
the instrument of perpetrating such offences And
all the suferngs of the country, too, according to
these very sapent Clay Wings, are to be charged to
the account of General Harrisons election! This is
but the repetition of the charge of the Locofocos
against the Wing party, and should not be astonsh
ed it, before long, to make the election of General
Harrison odous possible, they should join in the
ridcule of log cabins, hard elders, coon SKINS and
all the appliances made of during that ever me-
morabe canvass.
1t would seem, from the course that MIR. Clay and
his friends pursuing that they laboring under
monomania, that the Presidency belongs to him, and
that he has been divested of the powers of the office
through heachery and treason. Lawrence, who at
tempted to assassinate General Jackson, afflicted
with the same disease, and he could not by any
other recover his fanced dominion, he thought
by sending bullet through the hero of Orleans
he would be able to effect his object. The Clay
Wings trying the virtue of detaming both the Hu
ing and the dead and if they should not succeed by
such means, they in the madness of their chagrn
and disappointment, may, like Lawrence, resort to
the assassns pistol attempt to make prophetic the
picture which Mr.. Bolts drew few days ago on the
floor of Congress- of ten thousand bayonets in Penn
sylvana avenue destined for the Presidents mansion,
and, as suppose, to make room. for Henry Clay.
call upon the friends Of the farmer and patriot of
North Bend to rally around his fame, and shield his
memory against the disgraceful imputaton of reach
cry and treason which the peculiar friends of Mr. Clay
have attempted to fasen upon it. call upon them,
his sacred name to sustain the constituted author
tiles and institutions of the country against the assaults
of most niqutous and desperate faction.
WAYNE