The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1844-10-17
MODES OF PARTY WARFARE

MODES OF PARTY WARFARE.
If party contests were confined to fair
discussion of principles and measures upon
which mem may honestly difer-ifthe claims
of candidates were Regarded in connexion
with their public services and their fidelity
as The representatives of prihciples and sys-
tems Of policy-oar political campaigns
would lose none of their interest in losing
much of the acrimony, bitterness, and bad
temper which unfortunately characterize
them now.
The attacks upon Mr.. CLAY are not more
remarkable for the virulence of enmily which
they exhibit than for the variety Of shapes
(which they assume. There is no end TO the
Ingenuity of his ass~ailants-no measure tothe
6erceness of their animositv. We speak of
those who make il a business to study invec-
tive against him. A new treaties on rh eto-
rio might be illustrated with examples from
this source, showing how all adversary may
be attacked in spite of all the advantages
which truth and a good cause may give him
l-how the fancy may find exercise in the art
of peryersion, dis illing the essence ofiction
from the elements of fact-and how inven-
ton may tsoldly go forth to create fiction cut
of its own pure nonsntity. Here might be
exhibited every variety of demonstration to
prove that if Figures of aritbmatic do not lie,
figures of speech may, Here, loo, would
be seen specimens of rhetorical architecture
upon every system and style ever preached
by The s~optisis, illustrating how any thing
may be established and any thing oyerlhrown
f-how the largest possible supersiructuIt
may be raised upon the smallest possible
foundation, and how d vast fabrication may
actually exist without any foundation al
all.
One of the most felicitous specimens o
this exhaustless fertility Of ingenious device:
is now lying before usin the shape ola para
graph which our readers may have seen, a:
we have, in many ofthe Polk papers, and
which we expecttose sec in many more. Some,
times it is headed "Horrible profanityn'bu
this may vary according TO taste and location
1t runs thus:
"'Fhe following impious and blasphemou:
declaration was made by Mr.. Clay in the
House ofrepr~esentatiyes, on the 24ih March
1920, in his speech upon "the mission tc
South America"
ayes, sir, from Canstantinople to the Bra
I'll; from Turk or Christian; from BLACK Oh
white from the Dey of Algiers TO the Dey
iof 1unis; from the DEVIL HIMSELF, ifhe wore
a crown, we should receive a minister."-
GreelyS McEirath's Life aud Speeches o.
Henry Clay, appendix, page 23.
Here we have given us the time when
the place where, the OCCASION upon which
this shocking sentiment was avowed. o
I course the honest reader is Mortified. He
had been inclined to think well ofMr. CLAY
but tIis is too bad. There cannot be an,
mistake about the fact, for the reference il
} given 10 volume and page; and the bodies
impudence would not commit itself by offer
ing such ready means of correcting lis false
hood, if it had stated a falsehood. Howev
err, we naturally turn 10 the ssLife and Spec
ches of Henry Clay" and on the occasion
referred 10 we find ihat Mr.. CLAY was max.
ing one of those strong and eloquent spec
ches in behalf of South American Indepen
!, dence which were afterwards read TO the Pat
riot armies 10 inspire new courage into she
soldiers. On the specified page we find th,
; following paragraph:
MY tutFC Sooa ptuJcCt III tuo ueHS
papels, and | should not be surprised. ate
wha, we have already secu, II its being car
ried iu!o effect. for senling d minister 4
The Porte. Yey. sir, fom Coastan'inople,u
from the Braz:lls; from Turk. or Christian
IRON Li4ck er While; fioln the Dey of A
IierS nr the Dry of Tunis; fiotu the Dew
himself, if he woe a crown, we would II
{ ceive a minister. We evenp1id The expei
c ses OF the minister OF his sublime highnes
the Dey of Tunis, and thought o%urselve
J highly honored by his visit. But iettlIe MI
: isier Come from a poor Republic. like that {
: La Plata, and we turn our back on him. Th
Il brilliant costumes of the ministers ofthe rol
= tal Governments are seen glis,eniug in iti
%circles Of our Advantageous, and their splel
y did equipages rellng through the avenue
e ofthe mttrnpolis; but the inaccredi ed mil
isler of the Republic, if he visit our Pres
% dent or Secretary ot State at all, must do
incog. lest he eye of Doa Onis shouldb be o
Tended by so uhseemly a sight! | hope ii
Il gentleman fiom Snnih Cagolina, who is {
lie eaptble of estimating The effect of nor:
v causes, will see some use in recognisiugtf
re independence Of La Plata. | appeal to I'll
20 powerful effect of moral causes. manifesto
le in the case of the French Revelation, w!it
~ by their influence, that nation swepi fro
about her The armies of the combined Po1