The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1844-10-25

I'm WnOe anu III pdIl, anu consequently, " W.
low out the doctors most decoIous and Christian
vocabulary that he who asserts the contrary ''lies
most foully in his throat" We tell the doctor,
were he to state personally to Mr. Cays associates
in Washington city or in Lexington the contents OF
his certificate and appear to do it in sober serious
ness, they would either regard it as pleasant joke
of his, or an attempt to impose on their creduiitye
The reverned doctor has about an equal chance Of
s'knowng" whether these charges are true or false,
as the Pope of Rome has of personally knowing
the morality of the Russian Car. But to render
certain the Rev. DR.. S means Of ''knowiDg" that
Mr.. Clay is finished specimen of morality-that
virtue claims him as her iavorte and especial adj
vocate and pattern-he is heralded forth as the re-
nowned president of Transy lvania University, and
thereby an attempt is made to delude the people
with the idea that he has occupied that station for
aconsiderable length oftme. Such is not the fact.
He has been a resident of Lexington scarce two
years, out of "the twenty years and more" through
all of which this "intmate and confidential inter-
course" has been maintained in all its purity, un-
interrupted and unbroken, distance and separation
to the contrary notwithstanding. And has not the
Rev, pr,'s faith>in Mr.. Clay as the embodiment
OF all virtue been shaken at any time during the
lapse of this "twenty years and more," or are his
ideas Of morality isolated, and peculiar only to him
self Does he not "know" that scarce three
months ago General McCalla, OF Lexington, on
elder OF the Presbyterian church of that city man
without spot or bemish, (who has been hunted
down h.y L,,, -,
ours which so throDg his kennel there, aud for
what? because he dared TO lift the curtain which
concealed the deformity, and to publish to the world
one of those very charges which, in the face of
overwhelming evidence, and not denied, this rev.
erned doctor now pronounces "ut,erly and baseIy
false, published in paper there ''that this very
same Mr. Clay, on the 4th day of July, 1913, ,-at d
public barbecue two miles from Lexington, gam
bled high, and won, from The very friend whom he
conveyed TO the ground In his own carriage, a con-
siderable sum of money" and proiicred to prove
the charge if DENIED by the gentlemen who played
at the table, and by host OF his political friends and
neighbors.
Was the charge denied? Did any Of the tenants
of that kennel, Mr.. Clay himself, utter the faint.
est shadow of denial Did either of Mr.. Clay's
certificae-makers of the recent occurrence at the
Blue Lick Springs, (who, by-the-by, were both
present, as we are informed, at least when this
game at the barbecue was played, when the fiea|'S
pockets were relieved OF their ''slnall change, ~
then, unsolicited and unasked, step forward and
certify that Mr. Clay did no 'gambling" Mea ant
there?
Silence, profound silence, was the wachwcrd
passed from the chief to his satellites and silence
was They were afraid to deny the charge which
Gen. McCalIa made and could prove by fifty I'M
willing witnesses ofhis own party.
And has the reverned gentleman slept over all
this He "knows" the charge was made that
proofwas offered, but none was challenged; and
yet he knows" that Mr.. Clay does not gamble, -
and proclaims the charge to the world as "baseIy
and utterly false. under the sacred sanction oflhe
written word ofa minister Of the gospel
Once more Let the rcYerned gentleman 90 to
Ashland, and ask the man whom he SO boldly and
reckleSsly endorses whether the beautiful picture of
the "Welshwoman," which decorates the wall Of
its dining-hall, was not won at the gaming-able!
Let him descend from his throne of Transylvauia,
and ask this same ''embodiment' cfall the atiri.
butes of virtue and morality, whether the still more
beautiful picture of the "Bouquet of Flowers, -
which meets the eye as you enter the drawing
room ofthat stately mansion, was not staicdagains
with money and won at the same place Of vice and
depravity
Let him not leave that mansion until he make
the still more portentous inquiry of this sage Of
Asbland's shady groves, (who once backed him
against Satan, and whom he now backs as the pur-
est and the best,) whether he did not propose. at
the same place of iniquity, to put up high stake
against the picture of the VIRGIN MARY and to
play at cards for the picture Of Mt .lfJiher 0f ar
SaSiOr! Ask him again, most reverned doctor,
whether the proposition was not made to the Hon.
A. G., of New York, aud what was the reply
whether it was not that "the picture of the mother
Of our Redeemer was not obtainedb gambling, and
that he could not gamble it off"
Let these questions be asked and answered in
honesty and TRUTH and if denied, let the proof be
called for, and then, sir, you may be placedina sit
uation to "know" wether this charge of"gambling
is utterly and basey false or whether it stands
written in imperishabe characters against the man
whom you attempt to sustain and endorse, "the
public and private intimate and confidential inter
course of 20 years and more" with additional
proof your certificate to the contrary notwith.
standing. Was this intimate and confidential IN
tercourse still kept up by you, doctor, when Clay
left his home to travel to Louisville 10 the raccs'
Ay, even the race field itself, and to the locked
rooms of the hotel where these "moral sports"
were finished for the day, and 60 you 'know" that
Mr.. Clay did not bet high on the race field, and
gamble high at the hotel' Were you SO "intmate
and confidential with your honorable friend when
he was travelling up and down the river on steam
boats and you at home, by your own freside, as to