Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1852-09-23
SANDER. ON Clay and scott.

er class CT the opposition press we cailot iaii u
note the low and foul ISLANDERS with which they
seek to asperse the stainless and spotess character
of WINFIELD ScocT. To their credit, be it said that
some Of the more dignifed and elevated papers OF
the Democratic party have refused to lend them
selves to such low and infamous ISLANDERS, and have
attempted to conduct the present canvass upon the
noble and elevated platform of principle. Among
the wreaking ISLANDERS Of polluted press, is found
the charge that GEN. ScoTT filched money from his
men, in his early military career. Another is that
he failed TO fight duel, when challenged, and
third that he was infamous enough TO send cha-
lenge to De Wrr CLINTON, together with the whole
sale charge that he is coward; while the Wash
ington Union has recently attempted to show that
he is a defaulter to the Government, with various
other charges of the same kind, which, if true,
would show that GEN. ScorT is not worthy to be
trusted in the most insignificant position of trust in
the country. We shall not degrade him, or the
party whose banner he now holds aloft, by stoop
ing to reply to or attempting TO reute these misera-
BILE fabrications. We ask those who are disposed
10 give to them, TO look at his past life and the
position which he has held from his entrance into
public life, and if they are not convinced of his
integrity, his honor and his purity, "they would not
believe even were one to rise from the dead"
We will not point them to Mr.. Madison, to Mr..
Monroe, 10 Mr.. Adams, to Gen. Jackson, TO Mr..
Van Buren,, to Gen. Harrison and to Mr.. Polk, by
all of whom he was honored and by all of whom
he was entrusted with the most important civil and
military operations of the country; in all of which,
if the Democratic Presidents and the leading DEM
ocrats of the time to be believed, he acquitted
himself with honor and credit, and for which he
received their unqualified, marked and deserved
appreciation.
Such an effort on part wonld be to lend dig
nifty and Importance to foul detraction and TO raise
from the slough OF party lttleness and petty ran
cor, ISLANDERS, which would else sleep forever,
stirred in the Shiny bed of pollution in which they
and their authors have been Graded.
We have been induced to advert to these fabri-
cations from having recently read the following eff
fusions OF AMOS KENDALL on Henry CLAY and we
were so forcibly struck with the similarity of this
noble effort at detracton and defamation, TO those
now teemng in the party press on General ScoTr
that we cannot forbear giving them, in order that
readers may make the comparison for them
selves. The character of public slanderer is
notorious and the attributes necessary TO the for
nation of that most lamentable commentary upon
the frailty of human nature, are SO marked, that
the productions have only to be compared in order
to determine the elements which compose the
character of the authors. .
"a Design to illustrate the WING Party"
At the top OF the sheet put the owing Party
Under this place the figure OF double with lace
each way side representing Henry Clay with duel.
ling pistol in hand and pack OF cards in the other and
bible in his hand. Below put the words,
ms Ggh tri9 69i esr,si and nd ;Pirlat ISsGSons
et put cut representing Henry Clay shooting fellow man
in due on the right Frehnghqysen praying for sinners
and al the communion table partans of the
Henry Clay in lrOtsel kissing evvd women and Ere.
inghuysen amid his pous sisters at prayer meeting
Clay looking on, while his whips negro, and
Frelinghuyscn walking arm in with a negro dandy
The whole 10 be inerspersed with appropriate sayings
clded by grand procession OF Wing cergymen who sup
port the ticket escorting their Henry Clay in
he shape of old Nick, the temple of civil Power while
FrelDghuysen with angel wings on sits beside him
the same car, with this motto:
sour HeareH is PorcT, though the Derfi Be its God"
Such was the language of one, high in the Dem
ocratic party upon the character of him, whom
now all delight TO honor, upon whose tomb Thorn
as Richie has wreathed the last garland. HENRY
CLAY had served his country in every civil capaci-
ty: He had entuned the Legislative halls of his
adopted State at an early period and had served
her with such ability that at the early age of thirty
he was almost unanimously chosen to the United
States Senate. He had served there, and then in
the House of Representatives. He had been Spea-
ker there, when in the language Of the historian,
Gin the depressing horrors of the war with Eng
land his silver voice in the Legislative Hall was
worth thousand men in the field" He had con-
cluded the treaty of Client, by which freemen Of
every nation were protected on the Ocean, if only
the starry pennon of American Independence float
ed above them. He had struggled for the develop
ment Of every portion of the country and for the
promotion ofthe interests of all and had noblysu
ceeded in his efforts. He had stood upon the floor
Of the Senate and witnessed the gathering of the
mighty storm the Missouri question, which
seemed destined to burst upon the head of his de-
voted country and engulph in one universal con-
fict, the sons of revolutionary sres and break to
fragments the fair home of his brethren. He paus-
ed not, but rushed into the middle of the conflict
and, bearing aloft the olive branch of compromise
and concord, besought the mad combatants to stay
their wrath and remember that they were the sons
of common parent. His voice was heard, his
counsels needed and his country saved.
Again in the memorable contest of 1882 he is
found on the floor of the Senate. Again had the
tocksn of raternal discord sounded throughout the
land, again was uplifted the parcidal hand which,
had it descended would have struck a blow fatal
to the hopes and the freedom of America On the
one side stood the bold and chivalric sons of Caro-
lima, the noble offspring of revolutionary sires,
dashed into fury by imagined wrongs, and ready to
seal with their blood the rights for which they
were contending. On the other might be seen the