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HENRY CLAY AND JAS. BUCHANAN.
We hope that what we are now about to
write will command the attention Of all hon
est and honorable men and especially Old
Line wings, the former supporters of Hen
ry Clay and the present reyerers Of his
memory. The boast has been made that the
Old-Line Wings will as a general rule sup
port Mr.. Buchanan for the Presldency.-
We shall see.
All of our politicians have a vivid recol-
lection OF the leading events of the election
of President by the House of Representa-
tives in the early part of 1925. Mr.. Clay
was then member of the House and he cast
| his vote and influence in favor Of John
Quincy Adams, who was elected over Gen.
Jackson and Mr.. Crawford. Mr.. Clay was
subsequently selected by Mr.. Adams as his
Secretary Of State. At later period Mr..
Clay was charged by his political enemies
with having sold his vote TO Mr.. Adams for
the Secretaryship, and we all know that
this cruel and monstrous charge, though a.
bundantly reluted in every form in which
refutation was possible or conceivable, i'll
volved 10 great extent, The ruin of Mr..
Clay's political fort ines. But for that
charge, he would afterwards have been E.
lected President of the United States almost
by acclamation.
Foremost among those who charged that
Mr.. Clay's vote was given TO Mr.. Adams
on account of promise of the Secretary
ship of State was Gen. Jackson. Tne Gen
, eral gave the name of Mr.. Buchanan as his
authority for the truth of the charge. Mr..
Buchanan had held private conversations
with him upon the subject, making sucl
statements as left no doubt upon the subjec
in the Generals mind. In fact the Gener
= al did not hesitate TO say, alter that inter
= view, that Mr.. Buchanan had come to hin
y with full authority from Mr.. Clay or hi
friend to propose terms 10 him in relation t.
their votes, that is TO propose to vote 70
him for the Presidency if be would promis
Office to Mr.. Clay. OF course Mr.. Buchan
an was called on to put into the form of
: letter what he knew upon the subject an
n what he had stated to General Jackson. II
accordingly wrote the letter which alter
IS wards became famous in the controversy
IS That letter was most adroitly written wit
view to relieve the author from the ex
-" cessively painful position in which he stood
IS He dared not say that he ever had any all
e thority from Mr.. Clay or his friends 10 pro
pose terms to Gen. Jackson, yet he careful
ly SO shaped his language as to afford III
Clay's political enemies pretext for repeat
ing the atrocious calumny against him. Fl
e. expressed his own belief of the bargain an
d corruption story! He said: "Ihe facts az
before the uoorld that .Mr. Clay and his par
ticular triends made Mr.. Adams Presiien
and Clay Secretary of SAFE. The people uci
drdw their oDn inference from such cOndu'
= and The circumstances connected lpih ii. The
, wiH Judge Of the cause from tie ebect."
Il Mr.. Clay and his friends regarded MI
Buchanan'S letter as exculpating him an
: them from the charge OF having authorize
Il Mr.. B. to propose terms to Gen. Jackso
= in relation to their votes, and so indeed
'r did. And yet it was SO cunningly write
that the whole of Mr.. Clay's political enc
l. mics throughout the nation considered it an
treated it not as a vindication of the Ker
lucky statesman but as confirmation strong
of the truth of the accusation against hin
. Thus the whole calumny originated in M
D Buchanan's statement to General Jscksol
Sc and, when the author of the statement WI
N required by Jackson or his organ to write
q z out in the shape Of letter, he so performe
the appointed task, as, while shrinking fro
any direct confirmation of the impression
p had previously given to Gen. Jackson,
(, afford pretext 10 the whole Jackson part
a to assail Mr.. Clay as traitor to his countr,
y and there was not Jackson newspaper
s, jackson politician in the nation that d
not treat Mr.. Buchanan's letter as evidenC
IS, of bargain, intrigue, and corruption betweC
Mr.. Adams and Mr.. Clay.
> The specific charge, as already state
r which was made against Mr.. Clay, al
IL which Mr., Buchanan was cited as a witne