The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1856-07-14
p. GAY AND M. pucHANAN.

Fer Representatives.
TIMOTHY DAVIS, Of Clayton County.
Nh. CLAY And Nh. BUCHANAN.
The State Democrat Of Friday morninY
copied an article from the Cincinnati En-
9airer, written as a rejoinder to the Gassl
Of ,ha, city, and intended to exculpa,e Nj
Buchanan from the charge Of being the AZ
thor of the bargain and sale falsehoo
which vas propagated against Mr.. Clay
This article is commended TO the editor o
Der Dem ocr0t for consideration, but 10 W
happen 10 have convenient some OF the doc
uments relative to that charge, We give
them, accompanied by the remarks OF The
Louisville Journal.
On the Sd Of February, 1885, Mr.. Clay
then Speaker OF the House Of Represen ta
tives, demanded an investigation into III,
charge then current against him, in refer
ence to the "~bargain and intrigue" affair
which charges were made by Mr.. KremeI
through the public prints. Mr.. Forsyth. o.
Georgia, moved that s committee of nine be
appointed to investigate and report on the
affair. To defeat this act of Justice to Mr..
Clay, James Buchanan, OF Pennsylvania, al
that moment mopsd that the Hoase adjourn.
The motion was lost.
Mi. Randolph, OF Virginia, acting in the
same spirit with Buchanan, moved that the
proposition be indefinitely postponed. The
motion was lost. Buchanan voting yea.
The vote was then taken on Mr.. For.
syth's resolntion-a resolution introduced
for the benefit OF, and in justice
TO, Mr.. ClayA 1t was carried by a large
majority. Mr.. Buchanan, however. voting
against it.
These proceedings viii be found in Gale'
& Sea,on's Register of Debates in Con
gress of the second session Of the eighteenth
Congress. volume /, pages 40 to ~, AM
A6a to 4s6, and 522 10 525.
Referring TO, and commenting on. thes'
proceedings, the Louisville Journal makes
the following remarks. which We commend
to oil Clay Wings:
snow is not this monssrous3 Gen. Jack
son said that his informant was Mr.. Buchan'
an. Mr.. Buchanan, according to Gen
Jackson, was Mr.. Gays secret oocaser anl
slcndsrer. Mr.. Clay asked for an investiga-
ton, when Buchanan, 10 defeat and proven,
an investigation, not only mousd an adjourn.
uent of The House sad afterwards noted for
an indefaise posfponsmens, bot poted directly
10 a~isallor Mr., Clay the opportunity Of vim
dicsling his character from the foul asper.
sions which he had secretly ard basely heap.
ed upon ii. No honorable man would act
THIS toward a negro, much less toward the
Speaker Of the House of the American Con-
rress. Even The notorious and infamou.
George Kremer, rAo refused to make good bis
pubic charges, did not thus act, for he failed,
refused, or neglected TO vote upon both the
propositions denying Mr.. Clay the right and
privilege OF indicating his character
Then where was Buchanan when the chair.
man notified Kremer 10 appear before The
committee with his witnesses, Comment ID
unnecessary.
"Not for all the worlds " ealth would any
man of the slightest pretension to honesty,
act toward another as Mr.. Buchanan acted
toward Mr.. Clay. Knowing himself to be
the original cause of the airocious ISLANDERS,
and knowing that Mr.. Clay, If an oppor,u.
nifty should be presented, could not only
prove them to be ISLANDERS, but show Mr..
Buchanan to be guilty of the very crime
with which the latter had caused him TO be
charged-knowing. we say, ali these thing.
Mr.. Buchanan pertinacionsly voted to deny
10 the i.lustrious Kentuckian the privilege
of an investigation, a privilege that even the
humblest might under the circumstance
have Justly demanded. He knew thar
upon any full Congressional investigation
the accusation he had caused to be made
against Mr.. Clhy would of necessity be ex'
ploded, and that Mr.. Clay, if he shoule
think f,, might fix upon Aim, before the
eyes OF the whole world, the guilt of an at.
tempt at bargain and erruption. And ar
ter oil this, after having done all in bis pow.
err to deny Mr.. Clay the right 10 establish
his innocence, and after having lyingly ex.
pressed in the Washington Telegraph, YIN
der his own name, his conviction of Mr.
Claws guilt, be had the inefable and al
most uncomfortable mean-spiritedness, ef
frontery, and baseness TO beg, entreat anc
humbly implore Mr.. Clay to graciously ab.
stain. out of pity to him. from disproving the
imputaiion BY the means al his command,
inasmuch ss TO the use of those means
would inculpate him. Mr.. Buchanan may
NAV be supposed TO have said in substance
to Mr. Clay: ! did come to you in Mr..
Leicher's roUm and propose to you that il
YOU would vote for General Jackson you
should be his Secretary Of State did, by
nv oonversst5en with General Jackson,
cause him TO charge you with bargain and
corruption and name me as bis witness
though / personally knew that you were
innocent; / did falsely say in my letter to
the Telegraph that ! believed you guilty
and | have stoutly resisted all your -endeay'
ors 10 obtain gu opportunity in the House Of
r~efuting the charges that | have caused IL
be brought against you before the people
of the nation; but | ask You, oh ! ask you
10 remain quie, under the charge, for, if 20,
were 10 be SO cruel as TO relieve yoursel
by revealing and establishing the fact of M!
proposal 10 you, ! should be ruined with m,
party and the country for ever. have NJ
claim upon you on the score OF justice-m,
whole appeal rs 10 your mercy. we 90 DO
profess to have given here the exact word
of Mr.. Buchanan, but, if he or his politica
friends deny that we have given the sub
stance Of his appeal, let him or them make
a call for that letter of his, Of which Mr.
Clay so often said that he v ould never pub
lish il unless with Mr.. Buchanan's consent
or a. the call of the Senate of the Unite.
States.
sand Mr.. Clay, with illjudged clemeney
with misdlrected generosity, spared the mis-
erab'e and guilty supplicant, and bore
though not with patience, bis deep ant
deadly wrongs for nearly o quarter of a cen
fury and until every hope Of the PresideDc,
had died out Of his mighty heart. And now
IL the people OF the United States, with the
facts laid before them by the almost dying
hand of Henry Clay, were 10 elevate Mr.
Buchanan to the Office which they so often
denied to the illnstrious victim Of his calum.
MES, the shame of the foul deed would RES
upon the American name for ever"
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