New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-04-23
How n Lie gets on It's Legs.
The last Cayuga Tocsin coolly publishes the
parbled pretended extract from the Speech of Mr..

Sldy LII lCfS IeduiIS tilus,
Carr out the principles ofthc Compromise At Look to
Psrcnue alone support of Government DO mot raise
The question Of PROTECTION winch Ind hoped hhd Geen p'
to rest. THERE IS no NECESSITY FOR rRorKcrIoS!t
Ifthe Tocsin Editor will but look through Mr..
Claws Life and Speeches, he will find that Mr..
Clay never uttered the above, any thing fairly
convertible into it. The fraud has already been
exposed by Hon. John White on the floor Of Con.
gress What Mr. Clay did say, and has con
stantly maintained, is this that if we will but re-
turn the Public Land Proceeds TO the States and
look to Duties ON Imports alone to pay the Pub
lie Debt and support the Government, lcvying
those duties by wisely Disseminated Tariff,
there will be need of raising the question Of
Protection for tie sake Of Protection Does the
Tocsin dispute this
But hear the Tocsn again:
HENRY Clay AND THE ABoLIrIoSisrs.-,Ne advise those
csjoe the boonists OF tins snte. through the
temp,bs letter OF his avehoding nephew, aud other ms
of stamp read them the annexed extract from
OF Mr.. Cay's speeches IN 1873:
If gentlemen will not dlom us to have black
slaves, they must let us have whtte ones; for We
cannot cut Our GreWO0d. and tidck our shoes, aud
HAVE OUR WIVES AND DAUGHTERS
WORK IN THE KITCHEN"
Now could any reader of the Tocsin, who has
faith in the honesty of It's Editor, believe that this
confident reference 10 lone Of Mr.. Clay's
Speeches in 1919" is mude 1cithomt the least an.
thority-that in NO Speech Of Mr.. Clay erer re-
ported or printed in any form can any such sea
ti,nent as is here aScribed TO him be fund.-
What must bcthe moral sense of the man who
can induce his readers TO believe that he has
copied from Mr.. Clays Speeches passage
which can only be found in the attacks of his
enemies
The paragraph above quoted was never even
reported as having been uttered by Mr.. Clay
but, in the heat of the intensely exciting Mis-
souri, Question Mr.. Clay made Speech in favor
of the admission of Missouri into the Union.
which was not reported but TO which Mr. Rich
of Vermont replied with vchemence the next day.
In that reply, or at least in his printed Speech,
MIR. Rich represented Mr.. Clay as having uttert d
the sentiment above quoted But is this any con.
elusive proof that he did so Doubtless Mr..
Clay said something to the effect that the eman
cipation of the Blacks, in community of differ
ent colors, would lead to the debascment of por-
ton of the Whites-a great mistake, certainly,
but one commonly fallen into by Southern men,
But is there a fair man living who would wish
himself to be judged, or to Judge others, by an ad
versary's uncorrccted version for the purpose Of
\ retort of sentiment uttered in the heat of exc
3 ed discussion We certainly would not
But we intended TO speak rather Of another
Political SANDER 1t often puzzles plain men Ia
see how such aspersons as the foregoing, or the
charge that Mr.. Webster has said, "Take care Of
the Rich, and the Rich will take care ofhc Poor"
or that Mr. Van Buren, has said =" The farther
power is removed from the People the BETTER"
first get into circulation. They ask, Do mon forge
and lie wilfully by wholesale Is there no hon
esty extant7 Can we trust nothing We answer,
These ISLANDERS usually originate partly in knaye-
~, partly in msconception. The recent forgery
on Gov Seward is a case in point. We have been
at some pains TO unravel it, and it illustrates fer
chilly the whole matter in hand--as follows
In a Enthusiastically nasty and dishonest tract,
clandestnely put forth by our Tarnmany leaders,
for the purpose of preludcing all Adopted Clt-
zens against the Wing party and sealing their
minds against dispassionatea and unprejudiced views
of the great questions at issue in our present Pc.
htical contest, entitled IAN Appeal to the Vol
.untarY Citizens of tho United States from all
Nations, on the Exercise fiheir Elective Fran
chise at the approaching Presidential Election
BY Henry E. Rcll," VIC find on page e the fol-
lowing:
GAS an additional and striking illustration of the
tbN S.alI- ttlaI
of The present day. towards foreigners who seek to
enjoy the freedom of this Republic good, faithful
aud industrious citizens, will present an extract
from an address The Louisiana Native American
Association the citizens o, Louisiana, and the IN
babirans of the United States, which is signed by
n Committee OF more than hundre,! persons. The
following explicit paragraph is from the 18th page
of the Address, and II will be that II embodies
congenial hint from the Inaugural Message OF Gov
ern0r Seward, of New York:
The present Executive OF the State of New Nork Gov.
Seward in lis inaugural Message There aRot
ey resource eh,ea ours nsit b. nhcrHane nor By ga"
Dor Of The EHropeaR stGes The truth OF statement
S Soy ANS ~ sff 6%l Ea oerc sEds @
SERVICE TO the United States and the duty, the
vi 1 ~ % SSfS I rEGfGk ToGH6S
Here you see the whole process of manuiactur-
ing Political forgery from the cocoon to The fin
ished fabric--or rather the finished fabric was
given in our paper few days since. All that
Gov. SEWARD said, you will observe, is the quo
tation in Italics which no friend of Adopted Citi-
zens can object to. But on this the Louisiana
Native American Association weave their pro.
scripdve commentary, that Foreigners are good
to labor, and should be confined to that. Next
comes Mr.. Ricl, attributlng without particle
of evidence) the sentiment of these beauties to
the malignan; Tory spirit of the sclf-styled
Wings of the present day." and falsely speaking
of the 'eOngenial hint given by Gov. Seward.
This is coming ii pretty strong but in the next
process we find the Cincinnati Enquirer and
Message quoting as Cor. Se,card's from whom
1t really gives not a word the commentary of the
Native American Association, and this is sent
on its travels as a veritable extract from Gov.
Stewards Inaugural Message! Can forgery be
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