Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-11-01

R5- Do the Wings remember the cha
grin and modification which they suffered
at the defeat of Henry Clay in 1874? Do
they know to whom, more than any other
man, that defeat is to be attributed? 1t
was James Buchanan. He procured the
writing of the celebrated Kane letter in
regard to the tariff of 1912, which misled
the voters of Pennsylvania, a large MAORI
ty of whom were known to be favorable to
that measure. During the canvass he ira
yersed the State and in his speeches he told
those people that Mr.. Polk was better
tariff man than Mr.. Clay, when he knew
that Mr.. Folks Congressional career was
signalized by violent opposition to every
thing which bore TIE most remote reSem-
blance to protection. He boosted in Wash
ington city upon the announcement of Mr..
Folks nomination, that be could impose
this fraud on Pennsylvania, and he did do
it. When late in the canvass Mr. Polk
was about to write other letters, or in some
manner make further exhibit of his tariff
views, under Mr.. Buchanan's advice he
was dissuaded from doing so, Buchanan
giving assurances that the Kane letter was
working WELL" or in other words, that it
was defraudng Mr. Clay of the votes which
his advocacy Of protection to American
manufactures entitled him to- The efforts
of Buchanan, his falSebood, deception, and
hypocrisy in that canvass, gave the Octo-
Der elections in Pennsylvania to the de-
mocracy, and constituted the grand turn
ing point in favor of the fortunes Of Polk.
The Kane letter unwrtten and Buchanan's
falsehoods unspoken, Pennsylvania would
have thrown a different vote, and the mo-
raj effect of triumph there, would have
changed the result in New York, and Mr..
Clay would have received at the hands Of
his countrymen the need Of honor which
more than any other man who ever lived in
the country, he deserved. He failed to do
so, and Buchanan was the chief instrument
tally in preventing it.
Indeed Mr.. Buchanan seems to have been
the evil genius of Clay, from 1925 to the
close of his life. In that year he fabrica-
ted the SANDER of Bargain, Intrigue and
Corruption, which his partizans proclaim
ed and repeated year after year, until they
succeeded in prostrating Clay in the conf
dence of the people. The record of DIR.
Clay's Life and services, and his treatment
by the American people, will be read and
wondered at by future ages, as one of the
most singular problems in history. 1t will
be deemed incredible that genius so bril-
liant and commanding, craftsmanship SO
eminently practical and judieious and pro-
ductive Of such vast aud incalcuable bless
ings, character so sublime and heroic in
every aspect in which tits viewed, a cOnjune-
ton Of qualities which made him both Scion
and Demosthenes, whole which made him
the great figure on the canvass OF his times,
should on four several occasions fail to in
spire the confidence Of his eountrymen. It's
solution will be found in the damnable
SANDERS, and vile intrigues and trickery Of
men among whom James Buchanan is no
table as the author Of the basest Of the
falsehoods which were propagated against
him. And yet, in view Of these facts, the,
liegemen Of this great and greatly injured
man, are called upon TO do honor to the
murderer Of his reputation, aye, the cold
blooded and dastardly assassin. They can
not do il, aud will not. They should on
Tuesday next, vote as though the spirit Of
Clay looked on them, and as if his rePuta-
ton was at stake. To endorse Buchanan
is 10 condemn Clay. Old wings think Of
this when you come 10 vote.