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Clay and Buchanan That Bargain and
Corruption charge. Testimony Of Clay
and Jackson.

Corruption charge. Testimony Of Clay
and Jackson.
The editor of the New York Evening Post.
Democratic, said at Cincinnati pending the
nomination, tn at James Buchanan had the worst
political antecedents and was the most vulner-
able Of the candidates before the Convention.
His old and acknowledged Federalism, his
opposition 10 the war of l812,-hiS advocacy
Of the reduction of The wages of American la
borers to the 10 cent standard Of European
despotsm,-his false charge Of bargain and
corruption against Henry Clay,-his Ostend
fillibustvrism. .--and bis ready subservency to
the demands of the slave power, would make
him weaker than Pierce whose every where
condemned administration the Slave Democra-
cy seek to elongate.
The prediction is evidently true. for every
Democratic paper and orator is kept busy in
explaining and defending the political acts of
James Buchanan. HIS record, and bis loss Of
personal identity in the platform are but sorry
provocations of enthusiasm. The nigger dri-
wing leaders crack their whip, but the demOc-
rscy hold back in the political traces, and Buck
and Breck' are certain to be Bust and Break
on the 4th Of November. .... =.
The lodisville Journal, now the organ of
the Know NOthings in Kentucky. has opened
an awful battery upon Buchanan. 1t is drag
ging up some Of his antecsdents that will make
such old Wigs as talk Of going for him stare
The Journal charges that Mr.. Buchanan, in the
Presidential election of 1895, "went to Mr.
Clay, and to induce that distinguished states
man to support General Jackson, assured hin
as il by authority, that Gen. Jackson, If elect
ed, would make him Secretary Of State. With
out receiving the slightest encouragement, h
then went to Gen. Jackson, told him that Mr.
Clay, il promised the secretaryshlp, would sup
port him, and earnestly solicited permission tC
say from Gen. Jackson, that, if elected, be
would appoint Mr.. Clay Secretary. Gen. Jack
son treated Mr.. Buchanan's proposal as con.
temptuOusly as Mr.. Clay had previously treat
ed Mr.. BIS. proposal to himself. Both Gen
jackson and Mr.. Clay sCorned all thought o
bargain and sale, and both alike rspulsed thsi
self constituted gO-betwesn in his attempts 4
get up a corrupt bargain between them. Ant
yet the go-between, on being summoned b!
Gen. Jackson as witness, lyingly expressed
belief that Mr.. Clay had been guilty Of bargaiI
and corruption, and from that time, for NOR
than twenty years, humbly supplicated Mr.
Clay to spare him by rot vindicating himself
by continuing to submit INCREASINGLY to lh
most cruel and bitter calumnies."
To prove the assertion that Buchanan wen
to Clay and attempted to buy him to The ser
vice oi Jackson, the Journal publishes iron
Colton's life Of Clay. the following passage
which was written by Mr.. Clay himself TIL
Journal says:
"This passage was incorporated into the vol
ume word for word as it came from the vener
able statesman's pen. Let the American peo
pie read it and ponder upon it. Here itis:"
Some time in January 1895, and not lonl
before the election OF President Of the United
States BY the House OF Representatives. th,
Hon, James Buchanan, then member of th,
House. and afterwards many years Senate
Of the United States from Pennsylvania, Wit
had been Isaleus and influential supporter o
Gen. Jackson during the proceeding canvass
and was supposed TO enjoy his unbOsndsd con
fdence. called at the lodgings Of Mr.. Clay ii
the city Of Washington. Mr. Clay was at tn