The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1844-05-29

! Virgins, and challenged him to mortal combat.
The provoeation and ground. of the challenge,
were the words we have placed at the head OF
this address. which Mr.. Randolph had made use
of on the hoor of the Senate, in describing the
union between Mr. Clay and Nh. Adams. Upon
their meeting, at the second fire, MIR. Randolph,
not choosing TO kill Mr.. Clay, fired in the air,
and the parties separated. Whether 1t was, ga
safe precedent" for an American Secretary OF
State to challenge and fight member OF Con-
gress for words spoken in debate, IS question
we leave our readers 10 determine. Mr. Gays
"conscience," which he olways "interogated"
upon important occasions, undoubtedly tod him,
that aside from the risk which he run of getting
shot, the precedent was perfectly "safe."
How the issue was tried.
The matter in issue between Mr. Clay and his
accusers, was tried, not by partisan committee
as he had once endeavoredto 10 have it, but by the
, unbought people fthe country. From the time
of the consumMaton of the bargain up to the
6 election of 1928, it was the main question before
The people, The bargainers were backed by all
the patronage of the government, and they strug-
ged as if for their very.lives. Coffin handbills,
monumental Inscriptions, ''shuffled militia docu-
ments," and every species ofslander, falsehood
and foul abuse, were the aliment which the Goa
lition administration dealt out 10 the people.
b Every thing was resored 10, which could corrupt
/ |intimidate, or seduce. Mr.. Clay himself became
travelling electoneerer, haranguer at polltl-
1 cal barbecues and dinners, and used all the eo~
n Iquence and all the ingenuity he possessed, to
i persuade the people that he was innocent.-He
even ventured, in public speech made at Balt-
s more, in May, 1928, to invoke the name of Deity
t in his behalf, and pray that the Almighty would
: send ''WAR, PESTILENCE AND FAMINE"
upon the country, rather than the election of that
man whom, four years before, he had defrauded Of
! the Office to which the place he held hearts
i of his countrymen had justly entitled him. The
!. following were Mr.. Clay's words as reported in
Niles Register, vol "a, page 1885,
r, ~ would humby PROSTATE myself Him. and i'm
plore his mercy, visit our favored land with war, with
. pestience, with famine with any scourge, other than
military rule, or blind and needless enthusiasm for
U mere military renown."
), The Result.
i But all the efforts ofthe Coalition were in vain.
s. The majority which the people gave to the brave
n and noble-hearted Chief of the Hermitage, was
G Overwhelming. Every one of the five States,
T. whose Representatives had followed the lead of
If Mr. Clay, voted against Clay and Adams. Even
d Kentucky herself refused to ratify the corrupt
bargain of her false Representatives, and voted
n. for Andrew Jackson. Adams obtained but SO
n out of 26l electoral votes, and the whole nation
h hailed the elevation of Jackson as ga precedent
,e which vindicated the sovereignty ofthe unbought
rs million, and rescued the government from the
h. hands Of those who had made base traffic of hon.
at or, principle and duty, and whose corrupt ambl-
ton had threatened the total ruin OF our free in
@. stitutions The verdict of the country, in 1928,
" was repeated, with still more emphasis, in 1882
y. CLAY, himself, was then the sole candidate ofhis
4 E al 1vofav bo
barely 40
,re Shall the Verdict be Reversed.
@ ,e 1t is nearly twenty years since the commission
ln of the high offence for which Mr.. Clay was thus
condemned; and he now has the etfronery to
es seek reperSaI Of that verdict which was pro-
mi nounced upon his case while the fact was still
an recent, and all its circumstances were fresh with
rv in the memory of the people. Ift is reversed
A. at all, it must be done, not the ground ofnew
ly discovered testimony and established inno
,s ccnce, but on the same principle upon which
nv condemned fclon receives pardon from the
raj Executive. And what has Mr.. Clay done to
ato entitlc him to his country's cemency? Has he
repented Of the high crime Of which he was gull
III ty?-Has he, in the least degree, atoned for the
Ia oules insult which ever offered to the males
I'm ty of free people? Has he boted out his for
OF mer nfamy by a subsequent life of generous de-
votion to the interests Of his country? No; his
ich offence is unrepented it is unatoned; it is not,
and it never can be, bloed out. He has con-
IN tnued up to this day, TO exhibit the same selfish
Us: spirit and unprncipled ambition which, in 1926,
de- led him TO violate the most sacred obligations of
lo!- his life: His political schemes have been fra
M. med solely for his own political aggrandizement.
His measures have all been disastrous to the
ion country, and the very agitation of his plans has
,rs been constantly the source Of mischief and con-
the fusion. And ask you, iellow-cltizens, that it
ave may not be forgotten that from the time of the
,ng Coalition to the present moment, he has never
,ile ceased to be the vruent opponent and vlndic-
tod Tive vilifier ofANDREW JACKSON. True it
sefIs, his malignant labors have ever been in vain
and JACKSON has, all the while, continued to in
we crease in the estimation ofhis countrymen:-yet
this Clays bad passions have seemed only TO burn
of with greater fury his malice has been none the
ion. less and he, therefore, none the less deserves
but the censure and rebuke of the millions who love
and venerate the most illustrious statesman and
bv hero ofodr times.
ve The people of Ohio have double interest in
fov this question: BECAUSE they have not only TO pas:
ary, again upon the claims of HENRY CLAY, who
nth especially deceived them in 1924, and whom
GER they condemned, both in 1928 and in 1882, bu
lee they have also before them, as the ant-democra
tion Iic candidate for Governor, MORDECAI BART
LEY, of Richland, one of those men, ofthe "Ohie
and delegation" who became the willing instrument!
pre- in the hands of Mr.. Clay, for the consummatior
hem of his corrupt and treacherous bargain Let
was VA then, the voice of Ohio be heard on the side o
sound principles and of political honor, and that