The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-08-30

100 pupils and we hope that all who are in
terested in the success of the institution or
the correct education of their children in that
| favorite study will endeayor to turn their pa
tronage towards the support of the Seminary.
Were this effort one Of purely personal
character l might crave your indulgence for
obtruding myself before the public, but since
it is eminently public measure and one of
vastly more impor lance to the city than it
can be to myself, I have no apology to offer.
The subject speaks for itself. z. M. S.
ERRoR.-We were misled by an article
which we copied from the. St. Anthony Ex-
press yesterday, in regard to the letting Of
Mr.. Winslow's new hotel at St. Anthony.
Mr.. w. informs us that it is not yet let
The building has so far progressed as to be
ready for roofing in few days, and it is cal
culated, will be finished by the 18th of May
next. eaa aEtt7 HHH
Mr.. Buchanan and Mr.. Clay-A Loud Call Upon
s,s-.se. Mr.. Buchanan.
! From the Louisville Journal, July 21st p
| Mr.. c. Cotton, the author of the Biogra-
ply of Henry Clay recently addressed a
note, as our readers have seen, to the editors
of the N. York Times, confirming our state
ment that the two paragraphs in the Biogra-
| ply relative to Mr.. Buchanan's approaching
Mr.. Clay in Mr.. Leecher's room, in January,
1925, to offer Mr.. Clay the Secretaryship Of
State for his support of Gen. Jackson, were
written by Mr.. Clay's own hand. Mr.. Col
ton further states in his own note to the
Times, that Mr.. Clay, on furnishing him
those pages for the Biography, appended to
them note, request ng him to apply to Mr..
Letcher for further information on the same
subject, and he adds that he did accordingly
apply to Gov. Letcher, but found his lips
sealed by a pledge of silence giren to Mr. Bu-
chaaadn.
| We say, with the Times, that we must
now have Gov. Letcher's evidence in full, or
Mr.. Buchanan must fall before the imfamy
of his position in refusing to allow it. Mr..
| Clay has appealed to it,and theinjustice done
by Mr.. Buchanan cries out from the grave for
Mr.. Letcher to be permitted to speak The
truth of his history demands it. And we
trust the American people will demand it.
Let Coz. Letcher speak, or let the deep dam
nation of the seal put upon his lips be pro-
claimed to the world. Justice to Henry
Clay calls aloud from his grave for this rev.
citation. There is eno"gh, indeed, on the
record of history, which Mr., Clay caused to
be made to show on which side, and by
whom, bargain was proposed; but the finger
of a deceased patriot, and he the greatest,
the purest, and most magnanimous of the
age in which he lived, points to revelation
on this very subject yet unmade, and Justice
| to his name and fame demands that it should
be made.
If Mr.. Buchanan has any friends left, that
entertain the slightest respect for him, or are
willing to sec justice rendered to the injured
and mighty dead, let them once unite with
the rest of the people of the country in de-
manding peremptorily and sternly that che
at once authorizes Gov. Letcher to make a
statement of the facts which that gentleman
stands pledged not to make without his con-
sent" Henry Clay wanted those facts sta
ted in his life time for the vindcation of his
foully-slandered fame, and Gov. Letcher, as
proved by Mr.. Buchanan's own hand, applied
to Mr.. b. for permission to state the truth,
but that guilty man, as is proved by his own
hand, withheld such permission, and insisted
that the old pledge of silence should be rig
idly kept. If Mr.. Buchanan now, with the
whole NIGHT press at his back, dares to
meet the truth face to face, if he dares to let
the world know what his conduct was on the
memorable occasion which gave rise to that
dreadful charge against the greatest and best
man ofall our land, a charge that has infu-
enced the political destinies of our country
ever since, let him, abandoning the miserable
and skulking cowardice of his present posi-
ton, stand up and bid Gov. Letcher speak,
Then the world, whatever else it may say of
him, will never call him coward again. He
will strongly remind us of Ajax defying the
thunderbolt. Will he let Gov. Letcher do
justice to the dead Clay by a statement of the
truths ifnot, who Of all the true and hon
Orable and just men OF the country will be
guilty of the degradation of supporting him
for the Presidency?
And, whilst Mr.. Buchanan is giving his
consent that Gov. Letcher shall speak out,
let him, if he dare, give his consent in anoth-
er matter, to which we have already refer
red. In l84S, during the lifetime of Mr..
Clay, a writer Of high responsibility and au-
thority, after publishing the statements given
by Mr. Clay in Colton's Biography, said:
10 add further testimony, we state-and
let it be denied if it can-that Mr.. Clay has
now in his possession a letter, which, if pub
lished to the world, would place Mr.. Buchan-
an in an embarrassing condition. The letter
came from Mr.. Buchanan; and no call on
Mr.. Clay will induce him to give it up save
one from his country-that is, the Senate of
the United States. The bargain and sale
conspiracy, with this expose, would place
Mr.. Buchanan without the pale of Democra-
cy, as totally unworthy the place he holds,
and the sufrages of the people.
We and many others heard Mr.. Clay
speak Of this letter of Mr.. Buchapan's which
he had in his possession. And now let Mr..
Buchanan, who aspires to that lofty position
which he prevented Henry Clay from attain
ing-the Presidency of the United States
signify under his own hand, or through an
authorized friend, g his consent that any let
ter of his to Mr.. Clay upon the subject of
bargain and corruption shall be given at once
to the world" We are not quite certain
that the letter is still in existence. Posi-
bly, Mr.. Clay, whose resolve was thatit should
not be published unless with the consent of
Mr.. Buchanan, or at the call of the Senate of
the United States, ordered it upon his death
bed to be destroyed, but we should not be at
all surprised if the formal consent of Mr.. 3.
/ to its publication were to effect q sudden, re-
markable and mosta tonishing development.
at any rate, if no development should fol-
low, Mr.. Buchanan would sustain no damage
from giving his consent, but on the contrary,
would be very essentially benefited.
| Then let Just word, with one voice. de-