The North-Carolina standard., 1844-05-01
CLAY UNDER .BoNDI

We stated last week that Mr. Clay was under
bond to keep thepeace, aud we now present the
bond, and the circumstances that gave rise to it.
In 1s41 Mr.. Clay was in the Senate. He had
succeeded in electing General Harrison and dur
ing the memorable session of lS4Ol4l, he as
sumed the manner and the language OF Dictator,
proclaiming that the "d0y of judgment had come"
to the democratic party The election of Printer
TO the Senate came up; and in the course of the
discussion on that question Mr. Clay pronounced
Mr.. Blair an Infamous man, and the Globe an
infamous paper This language Mr. King, of
Alabama, commented on. He said he had long
known Mr.. Blair; and that, in his social rela-
tions of life, in his intercourse as gentleman in
beneVolence and purity of character, he would
compare with even Mr.. Clay himself Mr.. Clay
Immediately replied to Mr.. King" That as
false-it is a sl0mderous, base, and false, and
cowardly declaration, and the Senator knoaos it
to be So" Whereupon Mr.. King challenged
Mr.. Clay and at this stage of the affair the friends
of the latter complaint to the
Police Court at Washington, and had him bound
over to keep the peace in the sum of five thousand
dollars The New England Democrat obtained
and spread before the public copy of the bond
Here it is:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
District of Columbia, TO 1cit:
Be it Remembered, that on the Tenth day of March,
the year of Lord thousand eight hundred and
before US two of the Justices of the Peace for
the County of Washington of the District of Columbia
personally appeared HENRY CLAY and WILLIS GREEN,
and seversly acknowledged themselves to owe the Uni
ted States of America that is to say, the said HENRY
n H'EUa ThnUpco nd n4llo
GREEN Five thousand Dollars, each, TO be respective
y levied of their bodies, goods and chattes lands and
tenements to and for the of the said United States
the SAID HENRY CLAY shall make default in the per-
formanee of the conditions underwrtten.
The condition Of the above Recognizance is SUCH that
If the above named HENRY CLAY shall keep the peace
OF the United States towards all persons and particular
ly towards WILLIAM R. KING, then this Recognizance
shall be void, otherwise OF full force and virtue in Law
Acknowledged before as.
B. K MoRsELL, P.
~. THOMPSON. J.P.
A true copy.
Attest: w. BRENT, Clk.
There it is, religious and sober-minded people
of North Carolina What do you think of it ?
Has Mr.. Clay, think you, grown better as he has
grown older2 If we all pardon his youthful in
discretions--his duels with Marshall and Ran,
conduct as this, exhibited at the mature age
of sirty-seOen? Mo- AS the Democrat says
" What he aoas, we find him still, in age as in
youth ~ THE DUELLIsT"& The bond
has not been cancelled. Mark that And shall
we elect him PRESIDENT Shall the blood of Gil
ley cry up from the ground, in ls45, and in years
to come, against his murderer, seated in the first
office known to men? May that Providence who
has watched over this country in all hours, whe-
ther of prosperity or wo, and who preserved the
garments of Washington, SO that they knew no
stain like this any stain whatever, preserve US
also from so great calamity as would befall US
in the election of Henry Clay