The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1844-06-28

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sent card to the National Intelligencer, laden
with the "emotions'' of bully and duelist!
CLAY'S HORROR OF A MILITARY CHIEF
TAIN.
The sole reason which he assigns to Judge Brook
for his contemplated vote is, that Jackson was
''mliary chieftain,'' and that il would be ''the
strongest guaranty Of the ruin of this republic,
to elect military chieftain in this early stage of
its existence. What miserable hypocrisy, and oh
what wretched folly was this? Had Mr.. Clay in
his moment of madness, forgotten the immortal
name of Washington? Did he imagine that the
American people had ceased TO remember that it
was brave and successful military chieftain who
had been their first president' Did The vainly hope
that he could make any free born citizen believe
that it was stain upon mans character, and
disqualification foI office, that he had periled his
life in the defence Of his country, and had led his
countrymen to victory and to glory'
CLAY's ALLUsIoN TO HIS CONSCIENCE.
Mr.. Clay pretends to Judge Brook, that he had
'sinterrogated his conscience" as to what he
sought to do and that THAT told him he sought
to vote for Mr.. Adams Did it also tell him, that
he ought to set the will of the people at def
ance, abandon his republican associations, give the
lie to all his past professions shake hands with his
bitter enemy, and betray the west to an apostate
eastern federalst, who had offered to barter its
dearest interests to the Brtish' This tale about
his conscience was too monstrous fol- belief, even
at THAT DAY; and certainly, it will not do, at this
day, to talk of the conscience of that man who
penned the challenge that brought the lamented
Cilley to an untimely grave.
CLAY'S PRETENDED PATRIOTISM.
Affecting spirit of self-sacrfce, Of which he
has never given single example, Mr.. Clay asks
"What is public man worth, he will not expose
himself on fit occasions. for the good of his coun-
try?" When, we ask, has Mr.. Clay even exposed
, himself for the good of his country? Had he, like
; Andrew Jackson, barred his breast in the deadly
l battlefield? Had he ventured his fortune' Had
he submitted to the least degree of privation and
hardship? No! his life had been whiled away
amid the luxuries of office. He had ever reclined
upon the silken couch Of political power; and the
very act which he was then endeavoring to excuse,
was but selfish attempt to trim his sails so as to
catch the breeze which might wait him onward to
the goal of his ambition
.D1,I AUUhEoS ~ ..Ic CUNSTITU-
ENTS.
The awakening wrath ef an offended people,
beginning to press heavily upon him, Mr. Clay
saw fit on the 26th of March, 1926 to issue in his
own defense an ''address to his constituents. !"
The address occupies l6 printed columns of Niles
Register In all the wordy length of this elaborate
document, strange as it may appear, he gives but
two reasons for his vote against Jackson lst, that
Jackson, as mere military chieftain, was not $50
competent to discharge the various, intricate and
complex duties of the office of chief magistrate
as his competitor; and I'd, that, by voting for Ad-
ans he would conform to the wishes of the Ohio
delegation" The FIRST reason was given in the
letter to Brook the last, though it was all he had
been able to add to hs defense in tho spaoe Of two
months, is too papably false to have the weight of
feather in Mr.. Clays favor, for, as we have be.
fore shown, Mr.. Clay's friends in Ohio, in the
address of their State convention, in July, 1924,
had solemnly declared that the election of Mr.
Adams was the 'event which it was the first object
of the friends of Mr. Clay to PREVENT" ANY
man who knows ]. Sloane, J. C. Wright, J.Vance,
and Mordecai Barley, the men who were then the
leaders of "the Ohio delegation" knows that Clay
never coniormed TO THEIR wishes, but that THEY
conformed to the wishes of Clay. If the wings
of this day can believe that Henry Clay followed
the lead of John Sloane, upon the most important
question he was ever called upon to decide, and
that, too, in violation of the instructions, almost
unanimously given by The legislature of Kentucky,
it is plain that they must believe Sloane the greater
man of the two, and we would humhly advise
them in that case, to drop Clay and take up Sloane
as the candidate under whom they will meet defeat
in the ensuing election.
THE OBJECT OF THE COALITION.
Even if there were not one particle of positive
testimony upon the subject, it would still remain
as clear as the noon day sun, that Mr.. Clay made
Adams President for the sake OF obtaining the
Office Of Secretary of State and securing the sue
cesson to the Presidency. THE CASE PROVES
ITSELF. cam l asked for the proof;" said Mr.:
McDufie in the House of Representatives, 81
answer that if circumstantial evidence be not re-
Jected as inadmissibe, it is full and satisfactory
Hear it! He gives the vote of his State in oppo
stion to his own principles-aganst the will of the
people of that State-and thereby makes the Pre-
sdert: and then has the FRoNTLEss, SHAMELESS
AUDAcITY, to set public c,ninion at defiance, by
instantly and openly receiving, as the reward oi
his treachery to the people, and to his own princl-
Piles, the highest Office that President can confer
upon him! Can any thing be more plain? 1t is
the common case, of sale in market overt; and
none but man of the most consummate boldness
and effrontery could hold up his head in society
after such transaction"
There is abundant evidence, however, of the
most positive character to show why the vote of
Kentucky was given to Adams.
Gen. Metcalf, one OF the members from Ken
lucky, when he returned to his constituency after
the election, stated as an excuse for voting for
Adams, ''We could not possibly get Mr.. Clay into