Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1843-08-25
From The Ohio STATE Journal
"MR JEFFERSON AND TIE A Me-
Rfc4N SY3[EM"

htCAN Ct > EM
Under lhe above head. an article ap
peared IN our last, copied from hs BaltI
more American, IN which letter pur-
porting to have SEED written by Mr.,
Jefferson is introduced, which letter
spoke in terms Of high comme0dsIlon OF
Mr.. C!ay. This letter, it sppasrs, is a
forgery. and was frst published in 1880.
The Paladepba Forum Of Monday
gives the following explanation, which
we are pleased to find thus promptly
made:
POLITICAL. FORGERY.
"The letter which has lately been re
published, purporiing 10 be from Mr..
Jen a6n, and speaking Of HsnFy Clay
and Protective Tariff, is, no doubt, a
forgery. 1t originally appeared in the
Literary SubaItern, published end edited
by s. S. Soulhworth, Providence, R. !
in 1880 Mr.. S. was charged, at the
time, with having forged the letter, and
we believe never denied it, 10 coase'
quence of this base act, Mr. Clay refused
to permit him 10 come into his presence
and Soutbworth, finding himself put in
Coventry by every honest Whig, as g
matter OF course went over to The party
for whose ranks he had thus qua fed
himself, and was received with oper
arms, as John Tyler was subsequently,
for another act of iHfamy, He wss 70
some time the correspondent OF the Bal
tmors Republican, and it was he who
in letter to that paper, in the winter o
lS39-40, used tbs expressions OF 'haf
f CIDER and log cabin iD reference i
General Harrison, which gave rise t
the use of those terms and emblems @
j., the Wings during the las, Presidents
campaign, and which SO annoyed ou
opponents,
= "Southworlh has been first rate 'ls
Ter day Democrat ever since This forge
. RVS in the enjoyment of an office
the city Of New York. under the dem'
cratic rule Of the day, and is moreove
said 10 be the New York corresponder
S of the MadisoOiau, through the column
of which he pours out, unceasng'y, h
n abuse upon Mr.. Clay, and offers lncen'
% 10 Mr. Tyler
q 1--WE are surprised that any OF OF
q leading journals should have iorgo''t
le the circumstance 10 regard TO this lete
Of as they occasioued no little noise al t
i, time il WIS originally published. v
t. have a dislinc: recollection Of them, o.
3. upon being requested by a friend to pu
a Iish the letter; we informed him 1t "
m a forgery. The fact Of ltS being sue
re however. detracls nothing from N
Of Clsy's merits. nor from The love /
ly American people bear him, as it cot
vt add nothing 10 either, were it genuine
II This forgery the Statesman most Ge
he ingly moralizes on, and generously
oil nominates as "a low Wbig forgery q
,e' BY way OF inuendo seeks to lmpicate
he Journal in the matter. We are not d
Ve posed 10 rob the Statesman Of the le
he particle Of the high moral sense VIII
- it assumes on this occasion. II gN
Dir evidence that there are more impro
- ments than one going on in the wor
nd and we say so, from a contrast ot
h. nice sensbiIity now, with what it eS
10 bited on the occasion OF It's pubIlcat
it, OF the famous forged circular OF
ian Whig Central Committee Of 1910, wh
r was fabricated by its partisan trlend'
for this city. II wO recOIIect rightly, tn
was no Indignation displayed then
i'm homiies upon moral depravlty-
i'm regrets expressed that by the law,
,bo perpetrators could not be sentenced
ar the PeniIenllary.
be By the way, what does the Statesr
pho think OF our late extract from the E
ice cutive journal Of the United States :
int aleS Is that, too, Gorgeryf
nen <3oOoS-S
yer TRADE BETWEEN THE UNIT