New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-03-03

About TINT 'thCattna.'
The Corner & Ea9airey in reply to our denand
Tor some proof, some plausible justification, of lie
charge thu, we cheated Mr. Clay out Of the Presi.
doncy In 1870 says Of the Editor OF The Tribune
Tie did not sdvoeas the nomination Of old IpPeeanoe
bat he preached agaHt the nomination OF MI CLaY and
he did u most inscniously and sucoeoialy. 800
"ln this State Tor instan-e. Mr CLAY had i've Whis
votes where General hsSSisoS had one ept Gen seoi
than either in consequence OF his having So.
tei our border dhcuss feroevinr THIS fsc shs colt
ot 4 ne Tru"s and hi. esoesie' ,,isa upon tae
OF Scorr and procured delegates - thr IN IA
Of Scorr and pledged arainh Gay Ims oelnE &c,
complained, they gave o,ot IN ,ssoI 81 ~ -.
Knowing that tNvoud amount 10 sne men
that nA.nueh car Delegate. wee pledged ageFt CAV
they IN favor q Gen h,KaisoN Ia thls wsy wa
na,ion which At that time equivalent to 40 election
sU.a Mr. Cray been nominated. as 10 ceftsinly would
b.v, hr battle before the people here and In Penn
ylvanis bod been fought with the name Of SCOTT 10
stead u HssssoN, no reasonably inteheent nsn a9aoss
that he would have been elected IL was double irsu9
that deprived him Of the nomirston and Of tnst fraud
the editor Of TIE Tribune the special agent Not only
Mr. CLAY but the people were cheated by hs oerefo1'
maneuvsf also Gen. scOTT himself BY the impa-
dent OF his name not for h on seHlt our 10 cHtAi
I Hfafs Clay cat Of he Prestdc.cy"
Let us first pick out and classify the direct and
positive untraths condensed into the above extract,
and we can aiterward deal more freely with those
of a. inierental nature.
l. Its false that the Editor Of The Tribune had
ANYTHING TO do with procuring Scott Delegates
/ from this State to the Harrisburg Convention Not
one Scott Delegate was chosen through his sgency
or adsisement.
2 II is false tina. even half dozen Delegates IN
this State wsre chosen to that Convention IN favor
OF Scott and pledged against Clay" The great
majority were chosen entirely unpledged tor or
against any candidate. We have heard that two,
living not far from this City, went pledged TO Clay
but voted for Scott frat Harrison last, and against
CLAW all the time. AS the Editor Of the Courier
A ENQUIRER is thick with one il not both of these
gentlemen in Taylorism Just al present perhaps he
will inquire into the truth Of these charges and re-
port whether either of toe Delegates go charged
cheated Mr.. Clay
J. DOR Delegates not having been pledged
against Mr.. CLAW, 1t is OF course false that they
were urged to go for Gen Harrison on that ground
4 So far from nomination at that time being
equivalent to an electoo, there were not States
enough then Wing to cast 100 out Of 294 Electoral
Votes Not a single State but entucky in the whole
Valley Of the Mississippi was then under Wing
rule. unless We might have claimed doubtful as
tendency in Louisiana.
s. Instead Of giving merely one heartiess ballot
for Scott, as the Courier represents, the Delege,
for Gen Scott more than half dozen times and
steadily down to the evening of the second days
bslo,ng. At the close Of the first day, we ex-
pected and believed Gen. Scott would be nom
mated.
6. So far from the battle 10 Pennsylvania having
been fought in Gen. SCOTS name it had not been
mentioned there, but the State carried fairly and
squarely for Harrison, whom its Delegation support
ed from first to last Ditto of Ohio, State we had
visited the summer preceding, as the Courier
shows Why don't the rational Editor correct
these preposterous blunders in his Seniors arti-
clesl He ought not to take pleasure in seeing the
man expose himself
The cheating of the Editor of The Tribune
in 1899 amounted simply and solely to this-that he
openly and uniformly after May expressed bis opin
ion that Mr. Clay could not be chosen President in
$40. 1t may have been mistaken opinion-we |
arc now inclined to think it was-but It was rs
honestly entertained as his well fortified con- /
,icton that the Editor Of the Courier and Enquirer
Q serious damage to any cause he espouses.-
We procured the election Of no Delegate what |
.ver whether for Scott or Harrison, and advised
10 man to abandon Gen. Scott for Gen. Harrison
We were openly for Scott, but this City was so
decidedly for Clay that we made no effort to elect
Scott Delegates here and did not int rmeddle
With the choice anywhere else. If our earnest
md decided conviction that Mr.. Clay could not be
,hosen in 1870 was cheating how shall the
Curriers' present course be characterized7