The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-10-03
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THURSDAY EVENING, oCT'R 3. 1874.
"RATTLE AND SNAP"

l...: .a "RAIILE AND SNAP"
The venerable and pous Amos Kendall, ever
careful Of the public morals, assails the charac-
ter Of Mr.. Clay, and declares him unfit to sit in
the Presidential Chair, because, when a young
man, he gave way to the prevailing custom of
betting upon games Of hazard. We are far from
defending the morality of such usages. though
true i, is, that men of the greatest probity and
Clay, we believe, admits that in his younger days
he occasionally amused his leisure hours in this
most punctilious honor have fallen into them. Mr..
way; but never has the breath of caumny dared
to charge him with unfarness in betting. The
odum which attaches to gambling. therefore, can
not be laid to the door Of Mr.. Clay.
But how stands the case with the idol of the
Locofocos, the man who brought them into pow.
er, and divided the spoils of Office among them
What has been the conduct of General Jackson,
whom Amos Kendall has grown rich by fatter-
ing? Let Amos Kendall answer. That ndi.
vidual. some time last year, commenced writing
the life of Jackson in series Of numbers, in the
modern catch-penny style of publication. Not
coatent with living his best days upon old Hick-
orys contemporary popularity and influence, the
attempt is made to convert his posthumous fame
into ready money. Dining, as it were, upon the
fat of Gen. Jackson's sides, Kendall, ia a spirit of
honsewifely economy, expects to breakfast by
hashing up the fragments.
Such is the relation in which the reviler of Mr.
Clay stands to Gen. Jackson, who has won his
thousands upon games and horse-races. We
give specimen from Kendals Life of Jackson.
After relating that Gen. Jackson then youth,
became acquainted during the revolutionary war
with number of excessively genteel, well-bred
people of Charleston, who had been forced by the
British to retire to the Waxhaw settlement, Jack.
sons brthplace) Kendall goes on to tell the fol.
lowing story:
fish troops, and many OF her polished inhabitants
were making the region Of the Waxhaws their
residence. Among idle, though respectable young
men Of this sort, the orphan boy found agreeable
associates. Pride would not permit him to be be-
hind them in the liberaty of his expenditures,
and his little patrimony fast wasting away
in this unequal competition. Books were throw n
aside, schools were not thought of, and he gave
himself up to the amusements of the hour. When,
after the evacuation of Charleston his friends re-
turned to their homes, he followed them on a fine
mare which belonged to him. Finding some of
them, in tavern where he stopped, engaged in
game of dice called rattle and snar" he staked
his mare against sum of money, and ICON.
sudden resolution seized him. He put the money
in his pocket, paid his bill, and suddenly left for
The Warha,os"
Here, reader, is a clever trick for hero to
play! A fine, instructive, moral story this, we'll
calculated to impress the rising generation with
sentiments of probity, fairness, and honor And
yet this piece Of chcane, this scurvy trick, is told
by Amos Kendall of General Jackson, the man
whom he has twice thrice supported for the
Presidential office of Christian people. He
stakes his all upon the throw of die, and ,oins
Jumps" in sporting parlance, without giving his
adversary fair chance to recover his losses.
Here is an example Of magnanmity for you
The "Chivalry' have certainly very little to
boast over General Jackson; for according to
Kendall, he "tricked" them of their ready cash
when yet boy, and all remember that he would
have hanged them in '33 but for the Intervention
Of Mr.. Clay's Compromise.
The moral to be drawn from this story related
by the pious Mr.. Kendall may be given in the adj
vice Of Peggy Lob to little Paul, in Buwer's Paul
Clifford. "Never bet, little Paul." says Peggy to
her adopted son, ''but if you do, you must go for
10 beat; and if you ca IT beat you must 60 for to
cheat
Such is the morality which the Heaven-born
Amos teaches to the rising generation by the ex-
ample Of bis patron, friend, and idol, Gen. jack
son. But the pious Amos is Mortified at the
thought of electing Mr.. Clay to The Presidency
because he has sometimes amused himself with
gaming. The mean hypocrisy of this crusade
against Mr.. Clay is beyond all parallel.
The State election in Pennsylvania takes place