The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-09-19

TnE UNITED STATES GczErrE--In reply to an ar
tic'e of ours published Nj nday, respecting the
Baltimore Wing Convention ofJS3l, involving aso
the question whetheasAlr. Clay was not the
candidate Of the opposition 10 Gen Jackson, the Uni
ted States Gazette discourses as follows:
"All this sounds very well, indeed and brother
Of the New York Commercial Advertiser dreams as
straight as one Of those Indians whom he has
bamed In h admirable biographies. But his dream,
Ike that of most other people, does not include all
the facts of the case.
"DoubtIess all that our brother mentions were at
The Wing Convention in December, 1881, and lac
among them, Romans countrymen and lovers and
doubtless the nomination of Clay and Sergeant was
made, and address issued But does not our
brother remember that, before these seeds
sown, when the earth was newly plowed and pre-.
pared an enemy came as early as September-three
months previous-and sowed tares upon the ground
That certain aGti-masons, at The head of whom
John &. Spencer, held a convention, and nominated
VIM. Writ AID Amos Elmaheri And that in many
OF The states, where IT was hoped to carry the Ma
uonai Republican candidates, all efforts were neu
trazed by the appearance of the antmasonic 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 aud few
other Wing gazettes, yet the anti Jackson electoral
II :Aet nominated in Peunsy lyania pledged 10 vote
for Writ and Emaker.
has mol been The ndidale of the an-J ac kson party
"Our readers will bear in mind that the antlna-
sons were large political party at the time to hch
we aludei aud their Withdraw al from a concert Of
action with the National Republicans was Of course
destructive to all hspes Of success"
We confess that we are exceedingly puzzled 10
know exact' what our long cherished friend Is dr.
wing al, m ms repeated discussions Of the question
herein above involved. II he means no more than
mat the names OF Henry Clay and John Sergeant
Stood at the heads of only a few Of the Wing papers
IN Pe"iigra'id aud that in that state they were not
,le a'-'ackson candidates, We may agree with him.
ltefD p,utI do
not been the candidate Of the anti Jackson partym
stated thus broadly, strikes as a very strange one
we know very we'll the history and The whole histo.
fy-"i'hess an octave of anti-masonry, and all It's
doings, political and otherwise We know too that
souih OF Pennsy lvania and Ohio it had but little if
any influence. Nor bad the organization o. that par
~ much influence against Mir. Clay, north OF Penn
yNania save, perhaps, ~ Vermont. In the State Of
we" YORK. "f,re The not unholy excitement OF anti
masonry hrst broke out, the cause of Mr. Clay was
not materially injured by II. The anti jackson cleo
torai ticket was Union tcket-composed one half
OF anti masons proper and the other half of pledged
friends Of MI Cay-with an under standing hat IT,
alter the contest at the polls was over il should an
pear that the united vote OF New York would give
The election To MIR. Clay, he was TO have it
ASIDE, however from all this we cannot but feel
that our friend of the Gazette is sboring under de-
fusion ia this matter. Certainly with the single ex
cepton OF Penusyya Mr.. Clay was the anti
jackson Candidate Of lS3l-32 as such he was sup
ported from Lake Momphremsgog to the Delta of The
mississippi Never was candidate nominated by an
ADLER convention, or with greater unanimity or sun
ported WIN greater zeal and enthusiasm by his r ends
But IT may be the editor Of the Gazette sees in,
uhcatlon OF ms position 10 the circumstance that Mr.
Wirt was The candidate Of the ant-masonic faction
against both Jackson and Clay. Yet we cannot dis
cover The soundness Of that logic VIII Oh would DENY
mat Mr. Clay was the candidate Of the National Re
puolcan party, as IT wa, then called, because Mr. !
Wirt was the candidate Of another party. II such
proposition j. 10 be conceded, we beg our friend 10
loon ABOUT nm, and see what by the force Of like
circumstances, Is to be the position Of the Wing
nominee ~ The ensuing campaign As with the artl- !
mason, VINO nominated MIR. Writ in anticipation Of
The Baltimore Convention, 80 has another G enemy
already so"n his tares' IN the field arc plough
ing. Look at the proceedings Of the late convention
al Buffalo, and their nomination Of Birney and Nor
rus more formidable faction, thai--because il, |
ranihca'ions are more widely spresd-than were the
anti. mlsOns.
Mark wel!' friend Gazette, for thou dearest the
mark and canst make it-Msrk well, we saw. and
discern, as thod mast ability, the signs Of the tncs!