Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-08-07

~AuauS ltleuuS Win unelr own weapons.
Referring to Buchanau's first conversation
vita him upon the subject, MIN. says:
. AIR. b. asked, if had seen Mr.. Clay,
" and whether l had any conversation with
him touching the Presidential election.
| replied, that / had seen him in the
" House, but had had no conversation with
" him on that subject; but said was anx-
ious to get an opportunity to have con-
" yersation with him, as / felt great ankle
It that he should vote with Pennsylvania.
: Mr.. B. replied, that no one felt more
. Z" anxious, for UariOHs reasons, than he did
{" himself; that it was important not only
for the success of Gen. Jackson's cleo
ton, that Mr. Clay should 60 with Penn
" sylvania, but on account of has ulteriOr pO-
" hticaL prOspects-declaring that he (Mr.
Buehanan) hoped to see Mr. Clay Presi-
" dent of the United States, and that was
g another reason why he should like to see
Mr.. Clay Secretary of State, in case
T" Gen. Jackson was elected; that if he
was certain that Mr.. Clay's views were
Favorable to Gen. Jackson's election, he
. WOULD TAKE AN OPPORTUNITY OF TALKING
WITH GEN. JACKSON, or get Maj Eaton
to do So that he thought by doing so,
he would confer a particular benefit
90 on tho nountry. ,Nn THAT ur corr n err
NOTHING WRONG IN IT." The reader will
bear in mind that Mr.. Buchanan did take
an opportunity of talking with Gen. Jack
son." and that Gen. Jackson, in his letter
to Carter Beverly, says he secuted the pro-
position which he considered Mr.. Buchan-
an to make; and in his letter to Maj. Lewis
of February %, 1s45, twenty years after,
says: "ThiS to me appeared DEEP CoRRUr-
TON, and l repealed it with that honest
Indignation as (Which thought it de-
served" and yet Mr.. Buchanan could
see nothing wrong in it,"
But let US see what Mr.. Clay thought of
this huckstering go-between who was so
oficious. After the appearance of the
Carter Beverly letter, Mr.. Clay called to-
gether his constituents at Lexington, KY,
for the purpose of vindicating his conduct
from the charges brought against him. He
addressed them on the 18th July, 1927,
before Gen. Jackson had given to the
world the name of the member of Congress
"of high responsibility" upon whose testi-
mony he had based his accusation.
Mr.. Clay did not know it was James
Buchanan, but he took the view of his
conduct, which every honest man who
scorns duplicity and corruption is compelled
to take of it, and spoke as follows: eff he
(the generaD had rendered the 'distin-
guished member of Congress- little more
distinguished, by instantly ordering him
from his presence, and by forthwith denounc-
ing him, and the INFAMOUS propositions he
bore, to the American public, we should be
a little better prepared to admit the claims
to untarnished integrity which he so mod
estly puts forward. But, according to his
own account CORRUPT AND sCANDALoUs
PROPOSAL is made to him; the person Jas.
Buchanan) who conveyed it, advises him
to accept it and yet that person still re-
tains the friendship Of Gen. Jackson, who
is so tender of his character, that his name
is carefully concealed, and reserved to be
hereafter brought forward as a witness
A man, aohO, ifeis a member of the House of
Representatives., IS DoUBLY INFAMoUs--infa-
nous for the adrice rhiob he gaUe, and infa-
n,ous for his 'oilliagness to cOanire at the cor
ruptiOa Of the body Of oc4id he is a sooOrn
member--iS the credible @ witness, by
whom Gen. jackson stands ready to estab-
lish the corruption Of men, whose charac-
tiers are never questioned" Such is James
Buchanan as depicted by Henry Clay, and
such is the man, Old Clay Wings, whom
you are called on to support. !