The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1843-09-21
From the ~. Y. Commercial Advertiser.

THE UNITED STATES GGzErrE.-In reply to an ar
tic'e of ours published M nday, respecting the
Baltimore Wing Convention of 1881, involving so
the question whether Mr. Clay was not the
candidate of the opposition to Gen Jackson the Uni
ted States Gazette dlscourses as follows:
"All this sounds very well, indeed and our brother
OF the New York Commercial Advertiser dreams as
straight enc Of those Indians whom he has en-
bamed in h admirable biographies. But his dream
Ike that Of most other people, does not include al!
the facts of the case.
"DoubtIess all that our brother mentions were at
he Wing Convention in December, 1881, and he
among them, Romans, countrymen and lovers and
doubtless the nomination of Clay and Sergeant was
made and an address issued. But does not our
brother remember that, before these seeds were
sown, when the earth was newly powed and pre-.
pared, an enemy came as early Septem bcr--three
months previous-and sowed tares upon the ground !;
That certain anti masons, at the head Of whom
John &. Spencer, held convention, and nominated
VIM Writ AID Amos E!makeri And that in many
OF the States, where il was hoped to carry the Ma
tiona Republican candidates, all efforts were nen-
traliZed by the appearance of the ani-masonic ticket
Our brother knows these things well and he knows
therefore, that though the names Of Clay and Ser
geant stood at the head of this paper and some few
other Wing gazettes, yet the anti Jackson electoral
ticket nominated in Peunsy lyana pledged TO vote
for Writ and Ellmaker.
eve, therefore, repeat our remark that Mr. Clay
has not been the candidate of the anti-Jackson party
large political party at the time to hich
we alludei and their withdrawal from concert Of
action with the National Republicans was, of course
destructive to all hopes of success"
We confess that VIC arc exceedingly puzzled 10
know exactly what our lorg-cherishcd friend is dr-
wing at, IN his repeated discussions of the question
herein above involved. If he means no more than
that the names Of Henry Clay and John Sargent
stood at the heads of only few Of the Wing papers
IN Pennsylvania, and that in that state they were not
the autl-J candidates, we may agree with him
But the subsequent declaration that Mr.. Clay has
not been the candidate of the anr Jackson party I"
stated thus broadly, strikes very strange one
We know very we'll the history and the whole histo.
ry-witDess an octave of aD-masonry, aud all its
doings, political and otherwise. We know, too that
south of PcDnsy lyania and Ohio IT had but little if
any influence. Nor had the organization o that par
ty much influence against Mr.. Clay, north Of Penn
syvania save, perhaps, in Vermont In the State of
New York, wfore the not unholy excitement of anti
masonry first broke out, the cause of Mr.. Clay was
not materially injured by it. The anti JAG kson cleo
toral ticket was Union tckct-composed one half
oil anu masuns proper, and the other half Of pledged
friends of Mr. Clsy-with an understanding that it.
after the contest at the polls over it should an
pear that the united vote Of New York would give
the election TO Mr.. Clay, he was to have it,
Aside, however, from all this, we cannot but feel
that friend Of tho Gazette is laborpg under de-
fusion in this matter. Certainly, with the single ex
ception Of Pennsy lvania Mr.. Clay was the anti
jackson candidate Of lS3l-32 as such he was sun
ported from Lake hemphremagog TO The Delta OF the
Mississippi Never was a candidate nominated by an
ADLER convention, or with greater unanimty or sun
ported with greater zeal and enthusiasm by his fir ends
But II may be the editor Of the Gazette sees a ius
LITIGATION of his position 10 the circumstance thai Mr.
WHIT was the candidate of the auti-masonic faction
against both Jackson and Clay. Yet we cannot dis.
cover the soundness of that logic VIII ch would DENY
that Mr.. Clay was the candidate of the National Re-
publican party, as IT was then called, beoaus, MIR
Writ was the candidate of another party If such =
proposition 20 be conceded we beg our friend IN
look about him, and see What, by the force of like
circumstances, IS TO be the position Of the Wbg
nominee in the ensuing campaign. As with the anti
masons, who nominated Mr. Writ in anticination of
the Baltimore Convention, so has another enc,nvr
already sown his tares" in the field we are plouab
ing. Look al the proceedings Of the late convention
at Buffalo, and their nomination of Birncy and Nor
ris more formidable faction that-bec,use liz
ramihcations are more widely spread-than were the
anti-masons.
Mark welln' friend Gazette, for thou dearest the
mark, and canst make it--Mark well we saw and
discern, as thou hast ability, the signs of the tmes
ACQUITTED. Carter, who ha. been on trial some
three weeks for the murder of the Cashier family in
Warren county, n. j., has been acquitted. The r1ry
were out twenty-five hours. Upon the announce.
ment of the verdict he was somewhat affected and
shed tears, almost the only sign of feeling he has ex
hibed during the trial.