The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-10-29
w AS HI N G I 0 N.
TUESDAY EVENING, oCT'R 20, 1914.
THE GLOBES LAST AGONIES.

,aa Ill THE GLOBES LAST AGONIES!
"With these political elements, so adverse to
pure and honest and simple Democratic institu-
TONS Mr.. Clay embodies the mean, selfish, grow
cling, bargaining intriguing, betrayng, deceiving
cheating, classifying propensties of the younger
Adams, with whom he commenced taking lessons
b in intrigue as colleague at Client, fully gradu
ated with him in 1925, and has maintained
joint fellowship up to this hour"
Such is the language of Francis P. Blair, who
was once the euogist and over-zealous friend of
Mr.. Clay! Did he not write from Kentucky in
1S24-25 to members of Congress from that
State, urging them to vote for Adams in prefer
ence TO Jackson! Did he not write to Free Tom
More, one of the delegation, to vote for that
man-either Adams or Jackson-who would
make Mr.. Clay his Secretarysof State! And had
he not in his possession confidential letter from
Mr.. Clay, assuring him, what he had urged and
enjoined upon his colleagues, that they should
throw him entirely out of consideration in making
their decision, and go for what they believed
would be best for their country and its insttu-
tons! Did not Mr. Blair, after this, and after
finding that the Jackson would be stronger thar
Clay, and join in the hue and cry that Clay and
Adams had perpetrated corrupt bargain? He
came to Washington and received his regard for
deserving Clay and espousing the cause of jack
. son. That reward has not only made him rich,
but nsolent
d He talk of Henry Clay's /" cheating" and '.bar-
gaming" p-opensties Why, has he not been
for fifteen years defending cheats" and /" bar
gains" in almost every number Of his slanderous
Globe! Who has forgotten the attempt first
made to bend the United States Bank to corrupt
partisan purposes. Il would have been good
enough-bank, if it could have been bent as the
"Kitchen Cabinet" desired But they failed in
the attempt. Then The Bank was Monster, and
"by the Eternal" must be put down and give
place to a Bank
Who has forgotten the astounding rascality
manifested by the Administration and defended
by the immaculate Francis p. Blair, in keeping
notorious defaulters in office, such as Swartwout,
Price, Harris, Spencer, Boyd, Hawkins, &C., &c.,
long after they were known to be defaulters? A
pretty character indeed is Francis p. Blair to
pirate about the "cheatng" and I" bargaining
and "fasifying" propensities Of such pure,
bigh-mnded statesman as HENRY CLAY! The
editor of the Globe accuse Henry Clay of "falsi-
fyingl" Why, who does not recolect how per-
severngly that sheet has declared all Locofoco
defauters, the moment they were detected by
the Wings and exposed, but not before, to be
Wings How it charged that Linn, the Locofoco
forger OF the "Roorback" falsehood, was a Wing
but not until after the Wings had lerretted Linn
out and exposed him How, previous TO the re-
cent Gubernatoria election in Maryland, it cried
out that the Wings we're going to pipelay and vote
illegally al desperate rate in that election, while
its editor, Mr. Francis r. Blair, after raising this
hue and cry, went deliberately to one of the ball
lot-boxes in Maryland and not only cast his own
spurious vote, but got in that of one Of his rela-
tlyes, who did not even have Blair's excuse of
owning property in the State And lastly, who
has forgotten the Globes recent ridiculous fabri-
cation that the Wings went in disguise to the
Locofoco Convention of Saginaw, Michigan. and
nominated James G. Birney, the Abolition candi-
date for President, as the Locofoco candidate for
the Michigan Legislature
The editor of the Globe pirate about Claws lack
of honorable propensltes" indeed Verify, the
is in his last agonies