Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1844-10-15

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travelling up and down the river on steam.
boats, and you at home, By your own
ireside, as TO know that he did not do.
scehd from that piOnScie Of msrslity on
which your ready hand had placed him,
and Kill the time which hung heavily on
his hands by resorl to the gentle and
very moral amusement of the gaming
table; aye, and even forgot that Saturday
night had passed away, and Ias Sabbath
had daWned on two bullets and a brag-.
ger, or the -four hono's in his pwn hand.
IhIs last is technical language, Doctor,
Dut your intimate snd c0nli ieniial in'
eTcourse' Of twenty years aid more.'
may, Uy this umG, have taught you 10
understand its legitimate meaning -
And still. Doctor, your honorable friend
and patron is the veriest pink Of moral
y, according TO its mGsl accredited prin-
ciples, as taught by our church aud our
religion.
And yOu know too, Doctor, lhs, MIR.
Clay is 'DO Sabbath breaker and that
charge loo, is utterly and btseIy f,ise.
Does your church and religion teach, or
Suthorize you 'to certify hat the man
who travels TO the races at Louisville on
the Sabbath day, does not profane the
holy purpose for which il YVES set npaT'f
Does the Bible, or the sanctty Of your
hGllowed Office as minister and teach.
er OF IFS precep's, instruc, you 10 declare
that man free from the charge Of desc.
Grafton of that holy day, VINO, surround
ed by pOmp and pageaR'ry, and all tie
circumstances ofa festive occasion, adj
dressed crowd on political sutjscls, a-
mid The shouts and huzzas Ofan assem-
bIed and Sabbath breaking multitude.
And yet, Doctor, you know that Mr.. Clay
is mo Sabbath breaker,' and is moral to
the full extent of its accredited princi.
pies, ,and all this isVrtuous mora and law.
lul, and you ewe ii 10 'lruih and Justice
and The claims of socisly' 50 10 declare
and certify it. And you too, know, Doc>
tor, that Mr.. Clay is mo prOfane sNt arer'
Have you never heard i! whispered that
this same Mr.. H. Clay, Ctis true, the
charge was attempted to be shifted off the
shoulders Of its author by a heirling
press, aud fastened On the Hon. c. c..
Clay OF Alabama, who promptly de- ounc-
ed i false so far as he was concsrnsd.I
so far forgot tho dignity cf his station as
the grsveSenatOr and the sageofA shland,
GIhst notwithstanding to It's most t4c- =
credited principles OF which ynu. Doc.
tor, certify he possesses 30 ove'A .~inR
and sboundlng quantity, as la s4y ON
the floor OF Congress, of Gov. Polk, Go
home ,Ged damn you, where you beInng.'
The charge has been made by members
of Congress, who heard the expression
nj bis infurate passion; and neither Mr.
Cay nor any Of Us paLtisan presses have
ever had the ha:dihOod 20 deny the
charge. And yet you, Doctor, endorse
him and certify that he is no profans
swearer, and that yOu know The fact, ,snd4
owe il TO truth and justice TO say so,'
and that he who asserts the fact, sffirms
that which is utterly and basey false
This covers the ground Of the RV.
Or's. certificate, which has been so much
extOlled and gloriied, that credulons
people would be very apt to suppose, that
an ils accredited principles the account
was fully settled beyond all csViIllng aud
controversy, and that Mr.. Clay, 10 long.
or amenable TO the bar of public Op n-
ion, had received at the Rev. Dr's. hands
a receipt in full.
A few words addressed 10 you, Doc
tor, in the relations, and with all kind
ness, as members of the same Christian
church, and we have discharged duty
as unpalatabls TO us. as it is extraordis
nary andunauth0rizsd in you AS minister
of the church TO which We belong, to
give currency, and the sanction Of that
church, by your name and Authority, to
a certificate of accredited morality 10
the duelist, the profanO sweaFer, the
Sabbath breaker and the gambler. We
know, from better testimony than yOuFS
can possibly be, who never had an op.
of 'knOWing'-we know, from
The general character in these particulars,
and others which We could snumoTats,
that your honorable and 'm0ral' friend ID
guilty, has bean often guilty, OF the char.
ges which you denounce as utterly and
oassly false, in whole and in part, Sin
POUR startling certificate authorized by
gou TO be proclaimed and published 70
he world, as containing the ruth, the
whole truth, aud nothing but the truth
We know the man whom you have sacs
credited with such pure and unblsmishN
I'd morality, drafted the unballoWed chal. i
lenge, which hurried into eternity, scarce
six years ego, dsluded victim to the
bloody 'code ofhonor.' We know that
the man whom yeu herald to the world
as one Of infsxible and accredited {
virtue, has twice stood forth on The field
Of blood TO uphold that 'cods Of honor
which defeS the laws of God aud man, +
shooting in cold blood enc antagonist,
and desperately wounding the ether, and
sven now as reckless and unrOpsRtant, a