The Woodstock age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1844-1845, 1844-07-18

imagine their association is very appro-
pirate, and | will not disturb it, Neither
will retaliate the charge of insanity up
on the editor of the Commonwealth; | do
not suppose that the amount of his intel
lect would ever place him in so high a
scale as lupacy. ldiocy Genes nearer to
his grade.
Mr. Clay's whole history in this coun-
try is so mixed up with his habits at the
card table, that conversation about him
is almost invariably intermingled with
sporting anecdotes of his past life. If
any reformation has taken place, it must
have been long since the period fixed by
the veracious author of "Junius." as
sert, on the authority ofgentlemen of I'M
doubted standing, that as late as the 4th
of July last he gained at cards, at the
place before mentioned, for money, ,rhich
he wOn.
If Mr. Clay will dare to deny the truth
of the charge, as to this particular in
stance, which is given merely as one out
of many recent instances, will produce
the proof. The witnesses shall be named,
and they must testify or stand mute
There are enough who will, although re-
uctantly state the facts.
| cannot but admire the cool command
of countcnance which his indiscreet
friends must possess, when they attempt
to deny charge so well known and ad-
mitted in every circle in which Mr. Clay
has moved, from that of the British Am
bassador at Washington, with whom am
informed he has had many hard set-to,
down to his hard favored associates at
watering places and on steamboats,,
am charged with being melted to this
attack on Mr. Clay by bitter personal
malice, resulting from attacks made by
him on me. With these the public have
nothing to do, and about them they care
nothing | deny personal malice, but a
VOW deep conviction of Mr. Clay's unfit
ness, from his habits, for the station to
which he aspires: station which should
be held by those only who to talents such
as he possesses, add the higher qualities
of good morals, and integrity in political
life, Of which | conscientiously believe
him to be destitute.
JNO. NJ. MCCALLA.
Mr. McCalla is a man of irroproacha-
BILE character, a member ofhigh standing
in the Presbyterian Church, was lately
Marshal of the State, has been ardontly
supported by his fellow-citzcns for many
important stations, and is now candi-
date on the Democratic Electoral Ticket
We content oursclf at present with adj
ding the following, viz:
From the Charleston Mercury.
The N. Y. Courier and Enquirer has
decisive way of settling contested facts,
that if it really settled anything at all but
the dogmatsm of the editor, would be of
great benefit to history. We have an in
stance before us. Mr. Kendall, (Amos, }
who we must say writes of late like a
catamount, has issued tract in which he
cnumcrates Mr. Clay's sins, and among
other things charges him with gam
b'lng. The Courier and Enquirer replies:
"Ihcre is not charge or an inslnua-
ton, in these sentences, against the NOR
al character of Mr. Clay, which Amos
Kendall does not kn0w in his Utmost soul
to be utterly Observation-Disclosures of the
rcmotest shadow of truth, and the off.
spring solely of his own boundless malig-
nifty and innate propensity to falschood.
He knows that for the last thirty years OF
his life Mr. Clay has not played at a game
of cards, even for sport; for Mr. Clay
has said so, and in spite of all his foul
abuse, Amos Kendall knows him too well
to believe him capable of stating what is
not strictly true," sc. sc.
Now ifAmos knows all these things,
he is not only knowing, but he knows too
much. He knows to be true what every
gentleman who has irequcnted Mr. Clay's
society in "the last thirty years Of his
life" or the last three years either, knows
to be false. The Courier, in its desire to
be emphatic, has simply showed itself
absurd. Mr. Clay never made any such
assertion, and is, we believe, incapable
OF stating what" everybody knows sis
not strictly true" What liberties he
might take under different circumstances,
we shall not pretend to say.
REMARKS. What has the Courier and
Enquirer to say in reply to the Mercury :
What has it to say in reply to the state
mcnt that "every gentleman who has fire.
quentcd Mr. Clay's society in the last thir-
ty years or the last three years either"
knows that he has played cards:
Not frequcnting Mr. CIay's society
ourself, we know nothing personally OF
his recent card-playing. But we are told
and believe, that he played cards and
won money on the last 4th of July. And
gentleman writes us from Richmond
Va. as follows, viz.
at may be well to inform Mr. Clay's
thral of the N. Y. Courier and Enquirer,
that his master took a game at cards in
Gloucester in his late understanding
tour"
"M Clay said So" did he! OF Nj
Clay's veracity we have on. own opinion
but we concur with the Mercury in the be-
lief, that he would not deny what "ercry.
body" knows to be true.
We suppose our readers remember
sompthing about this Courier and Enu,Ii-