New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-07-09


icy whereon you differed from Mr.. Clay
had you said to them fairly and frankly
Mr.. Clay is a noble Patriot and States
man. who honestly thinks las he thought
and said when supporting the AdminisTa-
ton of Jefferson, and almost by himself
embedding that of Madson) that Protec-
ton to Home Industry. with liberal ap-
.propriations for Rivers, Harbors, &C.,
is the true policy to develop our re-
sources, increase the rewards of Industry
accelerate the growth and increase the
strength of our country, but we consid-
er him mistaken on these vital questions,
and will proceed to show you why,'-you
never could have triumphed over him.
But, from the moment you saw fit to differ
from him in 1924, on personal question as
to whether John @. Adams or Andrew
Jackson-(both of the Democratic par
ty, but neither of them the regular Dem
ocratic candidate )-should be preferred for
President, or to find fault with his choice
afterward though you approved 1t at the
time, you let loose all the bloodhounds OF
Detraction upon him-you accused him OF
corruption the most shameful and treach-
ery the most sordid-and thence to the end
of his career, or until you were certain
that he could no longer be a formidable
antagonist, you rung the changes on eve
ny debasing charge, on every infamous ac-
cusation, that your depraved imagination'
could invent. You made the Ignorant and
low minded regard him as monster OF de-
pravity aud venality-a shameless bargain
er for office-a Bank-bought, mercenary
attorney for British capitalists, a tool OF
aristocracy, leader and planner OF the
darkest conspiracies against the Liberties
and Rights of the American People. BY
these atrocious, unintermitted calumnies,
you taught the great mass of the unedu'
Gated and ill-informed to regard him With
adherence, and to oppose his measures
blindly and bitterly from a conviction that
no good could come from such a source.
We had no fair verdict on the great ques-
tons of policy which ought to have been
decided, because you had by calumny I'M
bued the jury with conviction that one
party and his witnesses were scoundrels
who could not tell the truth and could not
mean any good.
And then, when you had so poisoned the
public mind that, though we could beat you
on any other candidate, we could not elect
Mr.. Clay, you made it matter of reproach
to us that we did not keep running him for
President in the face of certain defeat
Having loaded your dice so as to be sure of
winning every time, you insisted that we
should play into your hands continually,
and whimpered, why don't you run Mr..
'Clayl He is the great embodiment of
your principles; why do you desert himF
Yes, you have actually reproached us be-
cause we at length perceived how immedic-
able were the wounds inflicted by the tooth
of SANDER; you driveled about Wing in
gratitude and fickleness, when you we'll
knew that never was party more devoted
to leader than the Wing party to Henry
Clay.
Now that he is dead, and any profit that
can be made out of him must be secured
on the other tack, you are unanimously
voluble in his praise Your orators can
find nothing too good to say of him. Your
houses are tricked out with Grape, and none
can surpass you in paying honors to the de-
parted. You would fam have your past
calumnies forgotten, and each would say
of the avalanche Of personal defamation that
overwhelmed him,
Thou canst not say Idld 1t Never shake
Those CORY locks at me"
when in fact your whole party either
directly propagated or indirectly counte-
nanced and upheld it. As a party, you
were eager to profit by the foul aspersions
so long as anything could be made by them.
Now that the great man is in his grave,
who thanks you for your recantations!
Can Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of deathr
We would not speak thus of the past if
it were not for the notorious fact that though
Clay is dead, the tactics which defeated,
the spirit that hunted him to the tomb,
still survive. The party which so relent-
lessly pursued him still seeks power by es-
sentially the same means. All its logic,
its manifestoes, substantially set forth,
What we advocate must be right because
we are the Democracy, the party of the
People; while our antagonists are the
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