The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-02-21

dences to support lis accusations against Mr.. Clay,
when it goes back to an event that so far ante
dates not only every other mans thoughts of Gen.
Jackson for the Presidency, but so far antedates
Gen. Jackson's own aspirations on the subject, as
does the Seminole question. 1t is another illus
tration of the Globes contempt for the knowledge
and recolections of the people, and for their ca
paey TO bring that knowledge and those rccoections Of
past epents to aid their present judgments respecting Mr.
Clay and Nh. Fan Buren,
In another part of the Globes article, where it
fain would illustrate how slow paced was Gen.
Jackson's ownmodesty upon the subject it holds
this language:
"The patriotic old chief of the Hermitage
whose modesty knew not the measure of his great
faculties-pho ,cas surprised to hear himself
spoken of as President-who said that he could
manage an army in an unscientitic way with toll
cradle success, but was not fit for the diplomacy
of politics-broke up, on the command of the
people, the foul nest of added European politics
which chicane and cunning were laboring to
hatch into system of corruption at Washington.
Now every body knows, that the event to
which the Globe alludes, as the first dawning Of
any body's thought of General Jackson for the
Presidency, and Of his own, was not until gears
subsequent to Mr.. Clays participation, as a
member Of Congress, in the debate upon the Sem
mole question. And in this fact, thus authenti-
Gated by the Globe, we have refutation of the
Globes unfounded accusation against MIR. Clay,
that he was influenced, or could have been inhu-
enced, upon the Seminole question, by any jea-
lous or hostile feelings towards General Jackson
on the subject of the Presidency. Jealousy, or
hostility, upon subject which no one human
being, at that time, thought of, and much less
had mentioned to any other human being
The accusation, and the whole argument upon
which it rests, is as ridiculous and tar-etched as
would be the accusation and argument, if made
in the like manner, that those who were inslru-
mental in recently subjecting Commander Mac
kenzes conduct on board the Somers to official
scrutiny, were at heart acuated by jealousy
of his being candidate, at some future day, for
the Presidency AN event not thought of no,v
by the most chimerical admirer of his conduct
and character; and yet, perhaps, as likely to
| happen as was, to human foresight, in 1919, the
| subsequent candidacy and election of General
Jackson to that high office.
But, so far from shrinking to recall to the pub
lie recollection and judgment this act of Mr..
Clay, it is our purpose and desire to have it
done, and before we quit our comments upon
the Globes labored article, to prove "the magic
Of honest patriotism as characteristic of MIR.
Van Buren,, and to dsproye Mr.. Clay's claim
upon the public confidence, we intend TO dwell
upon its details
The alluson to feature in Mr.. Monroe's ad-
ministration, by the Globe, to impress Mr.. Clay's
relation to it with the character of burning jea-
lousy on his part towards somebody, and on the
subject of the Presidency, and finally, desig-
mating MIR. Adams as that somebody, is another
historical event which the Globe can pervert 10
Mr.. Clay's disadvantage, only by abiding to it
darby and mysiically, and classifying it in
catalogue of Mr. Clay's assumed offences. The
editor of the Globe knows, that blind followers
who may not comprehend what the accusation
is, will, nevertheless, be influenced by the asser
ton Of the Globe that an accusation rests there
| and it will have the influence upon them of " the
heap Of meal " in the story of the jealous hus-
band. We understand its allusion, and to this,
also, we shall again recur with challenge to
the Globe to point out single act in the whole
life of Mr.. Van Buren,, that will begin to com
pare, in lofty patriotism, and enlarged states
manship, with this act of HENRY CLAY. We
pass it now, only to reach at once the most
characteristic, and yet the most revolving and
sefdebasing accusation Of the editor of the
Globe in his article as quoted.
The space we have occupied, compels us to
defer the remainder Of our remarks upon this
subject till tomorrow.
Thomas A. Spence (Whig) the candidate in the
9th district Maryland, received 6S3 votes in Dor
chester, being all that were cast and in Talbot
362 to l04 scattering.
The editor of the Annapolis Republican thus
expresses his qualification at the passage of the
Tax Bill in the House Of Delegates of Mary