The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1856-09-27
James Ii. Clay.

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James Buchanan, the man who sought to &c
up bargain and corruption" between hi
father and Gen. jackson, and failing in hi
scheme, started the story that there was
bargain between Clay and Adams, by whicl
foul Islander the hopes of the friends of Herr
Clay aud his own political aspirations wcr
blasted The Buchanecr press has sought l.
make great capital out of the fact that thi
James b Clay is supporting the man who
traduccd and ruined his. father; they have as
serted that he was '.the eldest and favoritt
son of Henry Clay" &c. In order that OH,
readers may know something of his history
and character, and vcncration for bis father
we copy the following sketch of him from
The LouisuiLic Journal.
Mr.. JAMES B. CLAY.-This man, who I'm.
fortunately is able to speak of the immortal
Henry Clay as his father, has had his weak
and vain head turned by the batteries and ca
.iolcrics ofthe Sag NIGHT leaders and gone reg.
ularly INTO the canvass as a travelling a.lyo-
cate of James Buchanan. whom at least nine.
ty.ninc lnlndredths of the old friends and de.
tenders OF Henry Clay regard as the undOubt-
cd and sole author of the horrible calumny
which blasted all the highest and noblcst
hopes OF that glorious patriot and Statesman
throughout bis cvcntful life.
Mr. j. Is. C.'s speeches are of no conSe-
quencc i'll themselves; they derive, even in the
estimation of his new friends, all their i'm
portancr from the simple fact of his being a
son of the great man whom large majority
of them hunted like hell hounds to his grave.
And this employee of theirs, seeming to know
i'll spite of his vanity, what is wanted of him,
makes his illustrious father the burden of all
his speeches He is not contemplated or re-
cogniscd as man of himself but simply as
the son of one. lie is not esteemed on his
own account, but only on account of his re-
lationship to his bctters. 1t is said that, by
a spaslnodic effort of nature, the modest of
horses may be produced by scrubs, and so, by
spasm of the same power in an opposite d.
rection, the scrubbicst of men may be the
progeny of the greatest and most lllstrious
| of the race.
| The Democracy, to make the most of J. B.
! T., are always talking of him as 1.-THE favorite
son of Henry Clay" This. we think, i'm
poses on us the duty of speaking of matters
that we would most gladly avoid James b.
Clay never performed in behalf of his father
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