The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-02-22
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THURSDAY MORNING, FEB. 20, 1914.


THURSDAY MORNING, FEB. %, 1874.
MR.. VAN BUREN'S "MAGIC OF HONEST
PATRIOTISM"
We resume the subject upon which we treated
yesterday. .
Bya coalition .of Mr.. Clay with Mr.. Adams in
1924 he defeated the wishes Of the nation"
says the Globe. @9
If Mr. Clay's voting for Mr.. Adams in prefe-
renee 10 Gen. jackson, were all thati charged as
the meaning OF the "coaliton," it would fall
harmless upon our notice. For, if the vote OF
Mr.. Clay had been for Gen. jackson over Mr..
Adams, it would have been no less coalition"
But theGlobe characterizes this coalition as one
of " bargaining confederates" land abiding to,
the same event, in another place, the Globe cha
racterizes Mr. Clay as solicitor intriguer, bar
gamer tor the Chief Magistracy."
One would suppose, that the editor OF the
Globe, did he stand in no other relation to the
vote of Mr.. Clay for Mr.. Adams in 1924, than
that of an honest unimpeachable voter, who had
been called upon to make up an honest convic-
ton respecting the motive of it, from such facts
and circumstances as party rancor might have
aarrayed to effect the condemnation Of MIR. Clay,
he would, from reverence to the most solemn as
severations Of man, never yet convicted Of false
hood, and Of a man whom time, and age, and the
fullest measure of qualification in the shape Of
public honors and undying fame, that human
ambition can desire, have so far severed from
all the concerns and relations of this life, to
make him appreciate every returning day as the
last which is for him on this earth;* and from
most9 .solemn renunciatons Of the public mind,t
once most embittered towards Mr.. Clay, of the
great injustice done to him on the subject super
added to those of individuas;t out Of respect to
these, if from no other, and no mate sense ofjus
tice towards an adversary, one would have sup
posed the editor of the Globe would have for
borne to array anew the accusation against Mr..
Clay, of bargaining for his vote with Mr.. Adams
in 1924. #S ge
From the mere circumstance of Mr. Clay's
taking the Office of Secretary of State under Mr..
Adams, was more to be inferred against him
than might have been inferred against Mr.
Monroe in taking the Office Of Secretary of State
under Mr.. Madison in 1912, after having first
sternly opposed and being denounced and set
over to the Federalists, euen By Mr.. Richie, for
his opposition to Mr.. Madison's election, and yet
subsequently supporting Mr.. Madison's election
in that same canvass I'll
But what is TO be thought of the head and
heart, the principles and practices, of the editor
of the Globe in renewing this accusation against |
Mr.. Clay, when it is part of the solemn records
of the country truth than which none other in
history is better established, that he, himself,
IL This same editor of the Glo6c,Ln being then
the professed friend of Mr.. Clay, and a recipient
of individual consequence from his avowed admit
ration of Mr. Cay's character. was not only
justifier, 15'but AN ADVISER Of This same, ident-
cal uote Of Mr.. Clay for Mr.. Adams in 1924 !-r1
How harmless must fall to the ground the ac-
cusation of man thus brought up in his own per-
son, out of his own mouth, to prove his accusa-
tion to be wanton, false, malicious, and corrupt
But the editor Of the Globe again knows, as in
regard to the accusation on the Seminole ques-
tons, that his renewal of the accusation will 90
the hands, and influence the honest and unsus-
pecting judgments of thousands, who will never
have an opportunity to learn and see how indeli- |
bly, stamped with infamy is such an accusation,
proceeding from such source. But this is done |
to sustain Mr.. Van Buren, claim to "the magic |
of honest patriotism" Worthy means of such
an end Fr t
How stands the case History is perverted
truth suppressed; philosophical truisms of the
Globes own framing are violated; conclusions
IN fiat contradiction of premises admitted are put
forth; and the editor of the Globe runs tilt
against his own turpitude--all, all this resorted
to- to establish Mr.. Van Buren's characteristic of
"tbe magic of honest patriotism" and to get him
in favorable contrast to Mr. Clay We regard the
campaign as opened by the Globe upon it's choic-
est grounds in the article before us. 1t may ram
ify and diversity its modes of presenting it's can
didate and its cause, and Of opposing Mr. Clay. |