Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-04-19


Slashes of Hanover has ELECTED much remark
Tint men should have left their posts in the Cab
met, the Senate aud the House. TO have come to-
rether near the humble scene of his nativity 10
do honor to the memory Of an illustrioos citizen,
now no more, would not have been remarkable,
If they had been men who had ever given reason
to believe that thej entertained for him living
any Of the sentiments they profess toward hin
dead. But when slch men as Secretary Gushing
Senators Douglas. Bigler. Mason, Butler and
Jones Of Iowa; Mr.. Cadwalisder. caskie and 9th
ers Of the House--men who scarcely ever held
a political opinion in common with the lamenied
Statesman who beiong TO party that hunted
him through life like wild beast-when such men
are found putting themselves 20 unusual trouble
to eyncc their love and admiration for Henry
CLAY. other men who attested their devotion 10
him living as we'll as dead may be pardcned II
they attempt to find an explanation Of conduct
which 10 them cannot seem less than extraordi-
nary. II has been only twelve years since Henry
Clay was candidate for the Presidency, The
gentlemen whom We hare named withou, an eI-
cep,ion. opposed his election. and sustained that
of a citizen of Tennessee whose birth. day it has
never yet been thought appropriate publicly to
celebrate. To what extent they any OF them
may have joined in the hue and cry of deiraotion
and calumny with which their party assaed him
then we have not the means Of knowing; but We
think II any Of them had gone TO his yindcation
against the foul aspersions that were poured up.
on him we should have ksswn il. We have be-
fore US now editorial article from the Louis
vile Democrat, Their now one of the recog-
nized and most Influential Of the organs Of that
party in the oouniry-in which, in the space Of a
hand breadth, Mr.. Clay is charged with the foul
murder" of Ciey, with making his wife mani.
ao." with having perjured himself To secure a
yseatin the United States Senate" with having
made ian Infamous bargain with j. Quincy
Adams, by which be sold out for 6 thousand. a.
year Office" with being "a gambler and sab.
bath breaker" with entertaining political prin.
.oiples precisely and exactly those of the Hart.
ford convention ifedefalists" and other most base
and villainous falsehoods. that should have pal
sled the hand That penned or the tongue that
uttered them. Where then were these ardent
DemoeIaiic friends and admirers Of the pcrse.
cu.ta and slandered old sfnanl The whole can.
vass howled with the ciamots Of his assaiants.
Did any OF these men who have now come from
Washington 10 Virginia to attast their yenera.
ton for his charscter-did any solitary one OF
them then open his lips or raise his hand to hush
the storn,or shelter tho brave old Commcner from
ats fury ! Not one ef thea. in his own Ian
guage, at The time; " The vile curs of party are
barking at my heels.and the blood hounds of per
sona malignity are aiming at my throat | scorn
and defy them as I ever did" II /. enough IN
make ones blood boil 10 think that men who then
cried on the brutal pack and Joined in the wild
hslloo OF the ohase, should now ,sride with and
mock the -ens'bililies Of those who really revere
the nome OF benry Clay, by altering maudn
panegyrics in his honor. Why has not this oc-
CURED before There have been other celebra.
tions OF his birth day both before aud since his
death. How does it happen that not till now
have prominent and aspiring Democrats come
forward to lay their offerings on his shrine
Why have they come just Mt this juncturc in
auch numbers and with such votive feryor3 The
mystery does not lie too deep to be fathomed.-
A Presidential election is near at hand There
is large Wing vote supposed to be floating and
capable of being Melted by skilful angling
Numbers OF the old friends Of Henry Clay stand
disconnected with the parties of the day and it is
thought that adrot management may enlist them
in the ranks of the Democracy. Hence this
Eruption Of Democratic leaders into Virginia.
and hence this sudden and surprising affection
'for'the consecrated sage of Ashland. 1t has not
been great many years since the Richmond En-
quirer called upon the Democracy of Virginia 10
meet him on her border as he was coming toward
his native State. and drive him back from their
soil. Now, for purposes Of their own, the poten
tates Of that party, whose mouthpiece tho En-
quirsr waathems selves crowd into Virginia to aid
in making immortal the day and the spot on which
; he was born. There is moral in these thing,
which the country will not lack the in,elgenc,
to deduce. Either the abuse by the Demoo ,ati,
party of Henry Clay while living was insincere
or its praises Of hin. now dead arehypocritical-
or their judgment Of him was immensely ant
monstrously erroneous. Their word or thei
judgment, the or the other. 10 not TO b,
trusted Itfollows that we mus ct take "a entitle,
Ito no weight what they may now say of othe
.men-of Willard Fillmore, for example. For, WI,
can tell but that in short time the chorus O
defamation they are now chanting over him ma,
also be changed isto paans Of prsisel Who CA,
tell that the soil which shall after q while inur,
his ashes may not, like the sod that covers tn,
PROSTATE and Wondering form Of Henry Clay
De moistened with the tears Of the Democracy
A CANDID EDIToR.-The editor Of the reen
vile Is. c. Patriot, one of the inost uncompro
missing anti-Amercan papers In that State, paw
the following deserved compliment to Millar
FILLMORE:
Ex.PREsIpENr FILLMORE. distinguish
ed statesman and pure patriot has been nom
stated for. the Presidency by the National Know
Nothing Convention la ,Philadel phia. We re