The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1847-08-03
INFAMOUS ABUSE OF HENRY
CLAY

Last Spring. before there had been much
said by the Wing party relative To presiden
,ial candidate, The t0cyfocos generally sup
passed that HENRY CLAY would stand fair
chance of re nomination; and he, Of course.
received for a time their abuse in unmessured
quanmies; but it was left for The Genius Of
Liberty. violent partisan paper, conducted
by prcfessed preacher oCthe Gospel. to put
in circulation the most infamous aud Hbelous
story which had ever been manufactured in
relation to The great Statesman. The pious
editor of the Genius had somewhere obtained
letter signed Frederick Glidden. detailing
some of rhe most rerolting aud horrid acts
imaginable. which he reported as coming
from Il Runaway slave brtmGed Henry Clay
and of course once owned by him. This
outrageous letter Of Glidden was published,
with a great flourish of runpeis. by the
Clerical BdaiiiRg and NJ. Clay was demol-
ished at ouce-Ihe Wing parry did not dare
put him in nominaIlou-of perhaps had not
intended 10 do 50. We uuhesi!a;ingly pro-
nOuuced the charges FALSE al the lime the
letter appeared-but the Clerical editor was
81 busy preaching, advoC aIing third party
ism. attending meetings. and abusing Henry
Clay aud the Wing party generally, that he
had no lime to correct mis- statemenis-his
mendacious paper continued on in It's career
nl abuse as though it was doing God service
At this late day. it seems Justice TO Mr.
Clay has come from another quarter The
National Anti .Slarory Standard, whose ed
rIor his a conscience not yet scared as with
a red hot IRON thus speaks -
In the STANDARD of june Oath, under the
head of The Peculiar Institution NAV be
folnd a leiier sieurd Frederick G!idden, and
copied from the Genius of Liberty, a paper
published al Ludlow. VI.
We hesi,drei long as TO the republication
Of such an article, forve could not readily
believe il. If such things were irne. however
al Mr.. Clay, they ought; we thought. 10 be
known ; and if false. The readiest way TO put
a stop 10 such story would he lis publication
~ here il oulG readily come under the nuiice
OF his friends. or Of himself. We therefore
copied Mr.. Gldden's letter, and the result Is
as we hoped, that we have got at The truth
in tile matter. We are happy to be assured
that the 'rhoie story is false from, beginning to
end so far as Mr.. Clay p concerned In
a letter before us, Mr. Clay declares, that
there is not. so far as il relates to him. one
ord of iruih IN The u hole account. i new
er owned he SAYS, 'or knew, or had in my
service. any such person in my life; and
every statement of Tom, TO Mir. Glidden in
respect TO his residence with me as represen-
ted in the letter is fabrication, aud destitute
Ct all foundation.
We most cheeriuly and gladly make this
correction. Aud we cannot Doubt that every
ami slavery paper in the land, which has
ropie1 Mr.. Glidden's letter. Will as readily
publish Mr.. Clay's positive assertion that II
does not contain particle of truth, There
are evils enough, and unhappiIy to many
atrocities incident to Slavery, TO make ii
necessary to resort 10 laisehood to excite the
popular indignation against it. We need
not say that suri a course meets with mi
rersal condemnation among Abu iiinniSls.
We shall wait 20 see how the Clerical Ban
Ting will get along under the load put upon
us shoulders by an AMI Slavery paper 10
The mean time, we hope that oar Wing
friends will circulate Wing papers so that
ruth may 6nd IFS way where error has gone
beiore.-B ctlOrs Falls Gazette.