The North-Carolina standard., 1844-06-12
From the New .Epgland piea.66eeiFiat
THE False OATH.

In the third section of7the first article Of The
Constitution of the United States occur the tet-
lowing words:
"No person shall be a. Senator ,uho shall net
hare attained to the age ef rffrkTr YEARS. -,
Every Senator before rntermg Oh his officiat
drties IS stcorn 10 observe and mGintGia-tke Con-
stilution the above portion Of (which makes the
age of thirty years one of the necessary auaIih-
cations for seat in the Senate, as well any and
all other portions. Any MIN who before arriving
at that aQe is elcctrd Senator, DOES not possess
the constitutional qualifications for the office and,
If he accepts, is morally guilty of fTaduIcra apd
dishonest act And this is not all. He coRlmis
perjury by taking an oath 10 observe mad hBain-
tain the Constitution which al the very moment
he pronounces that oath be is openly aHd knew
ingly violating. We call thisRERJURY. and thfrs
is no other name for il. Now all this--the ae-
eeptfng of an Office to which he not eligible,
and the taking Of oath to observe the Constitu-
Ton which in an essential respect he disregarded
and srt at nought HENRY CLAY, the whig
candidate for the Presidency, has done. fans
made he his first appearance IN The United States
Senate.
Now we pray the wings not to set this down
as ''loco foco lie," for sse going to- giVe'odr
authority for the stateHcnt, chqEAer apd verse,
the saying is Our authority Is The tIife of Hen
ry Clay" published in the New York ~NezS
World, and written, we think, by Eppes6aEgennt
at any rate, by warn partizan Of CiaF. This
biography savs--"Efenry.C Clay is native Of Haa'
over county, Virginia. He+oss torsO1Ehs I2th @
April, I77z. in q district Of country famHiafiy
knowEein The neighboEhod as The iSlaskes." As
to the date.0f Mr. Clay's birth aA bis biegraphers
agree: It IS aot, to eur knowledge, dispnaed If
any quarter that he was born on tie day, month
and year above set fonh The journals Of tic u
States Senate show that he first took his .seat II
that body on the 29th Of December, 1906. Bu
asfhe authofity of a whig hiographer rnaY b
better authority with sDne s3higs 4haa even thl
Senate records, we shall pnfy ttis ststcment also
by quoting again from the Eife Of Henry Clay
The second chapter eommeaees with these word.
ION the 18th of December. sos. Mr.. ClaI
~ THEN IN HIS TWENTY,NINTE
YEAK,1En pFoddGed his cEr4cntiais andtook hi
seat in the Senate of the United Stafes" -
Here then we have the evidence alt in. Mr.
Clay was bora April 18th, t77z, and oa the 2ati
OF December, 1906 1okiLe he get gcaaEed Qre1
Skhrss pgUnths Of the c6pstitutioaal age he entered
upon the discharge OF the duties OLA United
States Senator He was CHOSEN by the kentucky
Legislature TO fill a vacancy caused by lie resi6
of Mr. Adair, g and from the, iorrnai$ of Con
gressp says the biography already quoted, Ghe
seems to have entered at once, actively upon the
discharge of the duties of his wand exalted no.
sition.n The fact, Of his not having attained the
constitutional age of Senator, is proved uot on
ly by the dates given, but by the direct admission
of his biographcr, who seems to taseprids Ia par.
ticuarly noticing the fact, that on the 29thof De
cember, 1906. Mr.. Clay 'srHEN IN HIS TWENTY.
NINTH YEAR." took his sent in the Senate. The
term for which he was elected, expired on the
fourth of March, 1907, and consequently, during
the entire period of his first term Of Office psri
Cd ct 0rer tacO months, he was Ineligible 70 the