The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1855-10-27
Political.
From the Harrisburg Tc Iegraph.]
THEN AND NOW.
SelC-COnVfctcd Fa lsifiers and
SlandcrerS.

and prosecuted the great American
Statesman, and denounced the Wing
party as the vilest faction that ever ex-
listed in the country. During the mem
orable campaign of lS44, the Harrisburg
Democratic Union, and indeed the whole
Locofoco press of the State, teemed with
vile ISLANDERS Of Henry Clay:
Islanders as foul, as the spirits that came
From the b!ackness of darkness to tarnish his
| iamc.''
He was stigmatised as an immoral and
wicked man-a "gamblcr," "drunk-
ard" a '.Sabbath BREAKER" and every
thing vile and iniquitous. There was
paraded in the columns of the Locofoco
papers an Infamous picture in the shape
of man, representing Henry Clay, with
a whiskey bottle in the one hand, pack
of cards in the other, and the epithet
".uurderer," imprinted upon the very
heart of the great Statesman.
On their banners was represented a
BLOODY HAND, with the inscription,
"Henry Ciay the murderer Of Cilley."
There was not a Locofoco paper in the
land that did not indulge in the coar sest
abuse of this great man and pure patriot,
and denouncc the PARTY of which he was
the leader, as s'torics,' and "British
Wings" and "bluc-light Fcderalsts,"
and enemies to the land of their birth
In view of all this, we must acknowledge
that it puts our patience to severe trial
to read the articles of the Locofoco anti
American papers now in relation to Hen
ry Clay. In every Locofoco paper from
the Democratic Union down to such fill
thy little organs as the Bedford Gazette,
we occasionally see the most highly
wrought eulogies upon the man whom
they noW recognize as the "cmbodimcnt"
of Virtue and Patriotism. Says the
Louisville Journal, in a recent whitening
article on this subject, the Locofoco pa
pcrs and orators now talk of Mr.. Clay as
ga man of proud and honorable princi-
pies; they denomnate him sthe glorious
Clay:' they speak Of him as being too
lofty i'll all his feelings and impulses and
sentiments ever to stoop to conccalment
or deception; they tell us, that while he
was the leader of the Wing party, it was
noble and bold and generous and pa
triotic party; and they invoke his name
in every assault upon the American or
ganization and ask how his pure and high
and naughty soul, if he we're now alive,
would regard such an organization.
"Now we say to these anti American
newspapers and these anti-American as
pirants for Office, that, if what they thus
say about Henry Clay and the old Wing
party is just and true, they themselves
have been throughout nearly the whole
of their political lives, the vilest and
basest and most infamous liars and SLAM
derers that ever disgraced their kind
by the declarations, which, for the sake
of securing anti-Know-Nothing votes,
they are now putting forth as to Henry
Clay and the old Wing party, they pro-
claim themselves to have been, through
nearly all the years of their existence a
set of calumniators fit for nothing better
than to have their tongues cut or pulled
out of their mouths or bored through
with red-hot irons. If Henry Clay was
great, and good, and lofty, and patriotic
and if the life of the Wing party was
proud and glorious, what sort of men or
beasts or devils, can those editors and
dcmagogues have been, who, with their
accursed pens and lips, lied away the
life's life of both Henry Clay and the
Wing partyp'
10 show the consistency of these loco
foco Sag NIGHT editors who are now so
loud and rapturous in their praise of
Henry Clay, we had intended to repro
duce the infamous picture which orna-
mented the columns of the Democratic
Union, in 1914, representing him as a
gambler, drunkard, Sabbath breaker and
murderer-but failed to obtain a file of
the paper. Here is an extract, however,
that will answer the same purpose, taken
from Amos kendal's Washington City
Expositor, of 1S44-at that time the
Locofoco central organ-and copied into
nearly every Locofoco paper in the I'm
ion. Look on the picture, Clay Wings
OF the Old Keystone, and then if you
can, sacrifice your principles and man
hood, by sfusing' with the locofocos, and
shaking hands, politically, with the SLAM
derers who villihed and prosecuted, and
the assassins who murdered your great
idol and leader:
II Design to illustrate the Character
Of the Wing Party.-At the top of the
sheet put the name-"WHIG PARTY"
Under this place the figure of a double
man, with a face each way, one side rep
resenting HENRY CLAY, with a pistol
in one hand and pack of cards in the
other, and the other representing FIRE.
linghuysen with Bible in his hand.
Below them put the words, owe fight
with both carnal and spiritual weapons"
"Under this divide the sheet in two
columns. On the left put representa-
ton of Henry Clay shooting fellow man
in duel; on the right, Frclinghuyscn
praying for sinners.
"Beiow this, CLAY AT THE CARD
TABLE, playing brag; and Frelinghuy-
sen at the communion table partaking of
sacrament.
"Clay looking on, while his ovcrseer
whips a negro man, and Frclinghuysen
walking arm-in-arm with black dandy.
''The whole to be intersperscd with
appropriate sayings, from the mouths of
the two candidates, and concluded by