Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-06-25

anan as their candidate for that high Office. and
call upon the ''old Clay Wings" to aid them in
electing himl
Mr.. CLAYs RELIANCE UPON THE ENLIGHTENED
JUDGEMENT OF THE PUBLIC
Mr.. Clay thus concludes his vindicatory address
to the public, in 1927:
Finding me immovable by fattery or fear. the
last resort has been to crush me by steady and IN
relenting calumny. Whether this final aim shall
be crowned with success, depends upon the nteIli-
gence of the American people. make no appeal
to their sympathy. Invoke only stern Justice.
If truth has not lost its force, reason its SWAY,
and the fountains of justice their purity the decs-
sion must be suspicious. With firm reliance up
on the enlightened judgment Of the public, and
conscious of the zeal and uprigh,ness with which
have executed every trust committed to nv care,
l await the event without alarm or apprehension.
Whatever tmay be, my anxious hopes will contin-
ne for the success of the great cause of hu-
man liberty, and Of those high interests of IA
onai policy, TO the promotion Of which the best ex-
ertions OF my life have been faithfully dedicated
And my humble but earnest prayers will be unre-
mtted that all danger may be aveTted from ouT<
common country; and especially, that our union.
our liberty, and QUE institutions NAV long survive
cheering exception from the operation of thatfa-
tai decree, which the voice of all history has hi,her
to uniformly proclaimed. II. CLAY
In the power of Mr. Buchanan, above all other
men, was it to have had justice done Mr. Clay; but
that power he neUer exercised,
Had he when he called upon Gen. jackson. frank
ly and fully unbosOmed hinsef-had he told the
General that, while be his friend and supporter
for the Presidency he was also the ardent friend
and admirer of Mr.. Clayn-that he desired TO see
the one President and the other Secretary of State
and that he had called on his own individual re-
spOusibility to see whether an arrangement could
not be effected by which those two objects could be
sccomPlished-an arrangement by which Mr.. Clay
and his friends should unite in the election Of Gen.
jackson, and Mr.. Clay receive the appointment of
Secretary of State-had Mr. Buchanan. We ssr>
dealt thus frankly with Gen. jackson, it is probable
that the latter would never have become Mr. Gays
public accuser-certainly he would never have be-
come so on the authority of Mr.. Buchanan.
Or had Mr.. Buchanan, at any time after the charge
had been made, publicly stated the Uhols truth
in relation to Mr.. Clay, Gen. Jackson and himself
the force of the charge must have been greatly
weakened, if not entirely destroyed. But this Mr..
Buchanan did not and would not do He would not
even consent, when the charge was hOtly pressed
during Mr.. Adams Administration, for Mr.. Clay to
make public what he Mr.. Buchanan, bad said to
him, on the occasion Of the visit made to him by
Mr.. B., while the Presidential contest Of Is24-5 re-
manned undecided by the House of Representatives.
He would not consent, though asked to do Sc by
Mr.. Letcher, or the part of Mr. Clay, TO have the
circumstances Of that visit made public in 1874 when
the charge Of bargain, intrigue and corruption
had been renewed and was bitterly and effectively
used against Mr. Clay by bis Mr. Buchanans pOliti-
cal and personal friends.
In the various appointments be has received, in
consequence of the success, at different times, of
the Democratic party, it may be truly said that Mr.
Buchanan has been politically benefited by his fail
70 have that justice done TO Mr.. Clay, which il
was in his power to have had rendered
Can it be possible that while Mr. Clay was defeat
ed in his aspirations for the Presidency by the per-
severing and relentless use OF this charge against
him, by Mr.. Buchanans political friends, that Mr.
Buct anan is destined to attain that high pOsitong
Forbdit justice
| Nix. BCcHANAN's WANT OF 'MORAL COURAGE"
| Gen. jackson, as We have seen, charges Mr..
Buchanan with having shown "a want Of moral
courage in the affair Of what he calls the intrigue
of Adams and Clay" Whatever be the aspect of
the case in which Gen. jackson makes this serious
and weighty charge against Mr. Buchanan, it must
be admitted that in egeyy aspect of it. through long
series of years Mr.. Buchanan did show a deplorable
want of ''uoral courage'-so much so that it is
most manifest that he is greatly deficient in that
prime quality Of a statesman,
Of what avail is even the possession Of a sound
moral sense unless it be accompanied by 'moral
courage" to obey its dictates and do its biddingsg
In the evil times upon which we have now fall
en- and when all the elements Of fanaticsm, Sec
tional agitation and disunon are actively at work,
and menacing the overthrow Of our nstitutiOns-in
times like these. we say, with his manifest swami Of
moral courage" Of what avail to the public, in she
event of his election to the Presidency, will be AR.
Buchanan's admitted abilities, his moderation of
character, and long acquaintance With public affairs?
OF what avail to him or TO his country was the
conservative spirit" which is claimed for him by
his friends, when he had not the 'moral courage"
to refuse to sign that fllibustering documen,-the
Ostend ManiiestO-got up by the Hon. Pierre
| SotRe2
OF what avail was President Perces no doubt
honest, intenfions-nAy, of what avail was his
solemn pledge to the people of the United States
not, by any act Of his, to permit the peace Of the
country which then prevailed, TO be broken, by a
renewal Of the slavery agitation-Of what avail to
his country, we say, were these honest intentions
and solemn pledges, when, as the result showed, he
was destitute Of the moFal courage" to carry them
out?
A party President Of the United States, without
"moral courage" is as lump Of clay in the hands
Of party Potters.
= A Democratic President without 'mOral courage,
is a. lump OF clay in the hands Of Democratic pot
ters-the pOtters who have brought the country to
the alarming condition il Is in.
From such President, during the next Presiden-
tial term. may the Lord in His mercy deliver this
/ torn aud distracted country.
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