Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1848-04-21
CLAY UPON CLAY.

Since the last letter Of Henry Clay, The letter Of
Cassius M. Clay, which we publish in another
column, as it appears in the New York Courier,
is zone OF The mos, extraordinary documents which
il has fallen 10 US 10 lay before The public. II IS
needless Tor US 10 say that we cannot respond 10
the violent language and tone OF the anathema /;
for, though the great Harry CT The West, whose
brilliant vile plume once loaled as proudly as that
ct Henry OF Navarro, has, by his late demonslra-
zion. sial en- from his hish %esate,' still We would
ss;end a lille charity aud consideration To 4 pc
ii,ical opponenr, especially il he be infatuated by
me blinaing madness Of ambition. II is not,
then, to renec! The malicious spite OF Cassius Nj.
Clay, for whom We have precious little respect
or liking, that We publish his whitening denuncia-
ton; but il is 10 draw from il a moral, and BIZ this
bitter disclosure o. 'the secrets Of The pIison-hnuse'
OF Whigsery, untold to the South The desperate
game played by the Wings for power in 1874,
and which, if experience be any index, will be
played again in 1913. C. NJ, Clay admits that
the Wing party in 1910 'had purpose slurTsd
the 'obsoletc Bank in the canvass" and yet the
Wing party, under the lead of Henry Clay,
denounced John Tyler as a ORATOR" because he
would not sanction the fraud upon The public
C. NJ. Clay avows that, in 1874, when he was,
as the political agent Of the Wing party, sedu-
lousy seeking the Abolition vote, Henry Clay,
while disclaiming any sympathy with emanci-
patton" checrcd him by writing, $50 on, good
| Cass;us." G. NJ. &. adds "This, however,
was a small affair between you and me, and our
abolition friends I" C.. NJ. c. further charges
that II. c., during the last canvass, "wrotc en-
couraglng letters to the Native American party,
which they were kind enough to Suppress
.SoU he denounces them Z. NJ. G.. further
adds that he induced "the Western Reserve" Of
Ohio Ca most yiolc mt Abolition REGION TO g for
II. c., because the latter was suspected Of
truth in Gec,aiming against starery'
But this is enough 10 show The game nf dc.
ception played by II. Clay ard The Wing party
in l844-and which, if they arc not closely
watched, will be renewed this year.
The Northern papers receive this scorching
letter Of Cassius NJ. Cay with very different
feelings. The Philadelphia North American,
thorough party Wing dc ounces il as "an epis'
tolary a%,roci,y y 'couceived in the brain Of
hatred, aud pcnncd By the hand Of malicc;" as
can insanity; as ''prodigious, fiom the intense
malevolcncc Of sentiment pnd expression;'' "a
most unnatural and Infamous attack" and
"shocking;' in tina. it displays "thc temper Of
a tiger, a deadly hostility" Most gentle Cas-
| sius, thu. 10 BE- Denounced by a parry, which
once cherished and upheld you as a skiliul
political aboltionist missionary!
On The other han', The N. Y. Mirror, The Tay.
Tor organ oi the North, halls the letter with I'M
concealed satisfaction. We canno, refrain from
extracting It's comments, as evidence OF The libc.
rally, cha,iy aud mtiansss Of a 'no-Pa'ty" organ.
II gives a sweeping hi al his "%allies," the Clay
Wings:
at is a powerfully written letter, because il is
written with truthinlness, candor, and under a
sense OF personal injury; but il is no, bitter, mol
malignant. Ii speaks the truth plainly as an ho
nest man should, and if Mr.. Clay's admirers in
this city have not all been exlinguished by his
last esotislical leller, we shall be glad to know
what can be said in defence o! the great states
man, whose pet measures have all become hso'
lelc ideas. We can only account for The peIlina
CITY of part OF the Wings in ~adhering 10 The
great embodiment OF their dead principles, upon
the supposition that they have been so long usec
to defeat, that they have got to liking il, as The
old lady did The tooth ache. They must require
the stimulus OF disaster 10 keep them together, OIL
they would not SO resolulely seek it, by uniting
themselves to a man who has never beensuccess
full"
N. B.-The jury verdict referred to by c. NJ
Clay, is a recent verdict for 81, 500 recovered BY
him against J. B. Clay, (H. Clay's son. and hit
committee at Lexington, for having taken down
and sen, oul Of the Stale, The press, &C., will
which c. Nj, Clay's abolition paper was printed a
Lexington
By the last arrival from Mexico, We learn lha
our troops, instead OF being defeated by Urea
near Ell Paso, as reported, entered Chihuahua in
| triumph on the LIST of March for The second time
From other sources, we are satisfied that the
rumor of The delea, OF Col. Rawls in the Santa
Fe country is equally unfounded.
The four mile race over the Me,airie course,
New Orleans, completely took in "lhe knowing
ones" Rerenue, Mr.. Bolls' horse, is al last beat
en-and by Charmer. The race was for the club
purse Of 500, entrance added, with an inside
stake OF 5000 10 1880 on Repenue against
Caarmer. The odds were greatly in favor Of the
former and before the race began, Charmer paid
forfeit on The inside stake and would only run for
the purse. Yet, to the surprise of all, Charmer