The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-09-16
FILLmoRB. ELECTORAL TICKET
James 3. Clay.

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ceiyed several faying castigations from
Prentice In commenting on the expression
of ''the favorite son Of the immortal Clay"
which the Buchanan press everywhere apply
to this renegade Wing, the Journal declares
him never to have been fayorite son Of the
father that he was an unflial and undutiful
son, through life, heartless and selfish in all his
flial relations. IT. the last years Of his life,
when suffering from disease and oppressed
with the constant visits of strangers who came
in crowds to express their respect and love
for the great statesman, the father, when his
strength was exhausted and he was forced to
seek his bed, begged this unworthy son to
supply his place as host and dispense the hos
FATALITIES Of the mansion to the people who
came with full hearts to pay debt of graft
tude to the expiring patriot, this "lavorite
son." with indecent rudeness shut the gate
upon them, and drove them from the premises
When the father felt his last hour approach
ing at Washington, where he had gone TO per-
form his last service to his country, he sent
not for this 'lavorite son. whose conduct ex-
ternally, and to the eye Of the world had been
moral and proper, but for the noble hearted
and generous, though erring, Thomas H., who
through all his errors showed gEmpses OF the
genius and soul of the sire. He, it was who
alone was sent for and went to attend upon
the last moments of the glorious old patriot
and soothed the pillow in the old mans last
struggle with humanity and received his dy
ing blessing. At this affecting moment when
the whole country was watching with anxious,
fearful solicitude the Pickering flame of life in
the. sinking frame Of the venerated patriot,
this .'favorite son." was calmly and uncon-
cernedly sowing and reaping on his farm in
Missouri, and counting the returns of his
hemp and corn, and devising new means to
save dollar or make new one. And final
ly when the immortalspirit of the parent took
its fight and the whole country was filled
with mourning for its bereavement, this favor
lite SON. found no tears to shed; and while
thousands. EFF strangers were rushing from the
extreme limits of the Union to the capital to
pay. the last tokens Of respect to the departed
statesman, and while towns and cities every
where rose up and claimed the grateful priyi-
lege Of performing solemn obsequies over his
revered remains, the "hHorite SOM had neither
heart nor time to spend upon such empty
parade, and unpaying pageantry. When the
empty tenement CT the immortal mind that
had she'd such 1ustre and glory upon the name
of Kentucky reached its former beloved home
when the people Of his cherished State
gathered, as with one heart, to shed their
tears over the bier Of him who.had ever worn,
as a ,chaplet upon his brow, the emblems Of
the pride and love Of his State, no where in
the vast weeping crowd was seen the Bonded
form, bowed head of this ''favorite SOM his
crops in Missouri claimed and received all his
attentions.
But as soon as the Executors in the dis
charge Of their duties, put up Ashland for
sale and bargain was to be had by its pur-
chase, the "avorite son" FASTENED to the ven
Grated homestead, and the world may be as
sured, that to save it from stranger hands, not
one dollar was givenfor it more than its &C
tuaI worth to grow hemp and feed cattle
Neither unfortunate brothers nor expectant
nephews received cent for the moral and
holy riches of the heart, with which the long
life of virtue and patriotism Of the father had
invested it. And there as if to prove to an
incredulous world, that there was depth o.
baseness and selfshness more unfatbomable
than human imagination had yet conceived
he ruthIessly and wantonly tore down the
home of departed patriotism around which tbs
love and reverence of the country was centred
as holy temple, in which to strengthen and
renew the impulses Of love Of country and o.
the Union, and then peddled out the fragments
Of the sacred building to be made into relics
toput dimes and dollars into that filthy peck.
ct that had swallowed up and consumed his
contemplate SOUL He is now in his own
proper association and fellowship, in his adj
mission and communion with the Buchanan
ties. False to the sentiments of man-re-
creant to the principles Of his father, and a
traitor to bis party, no one will envy his new
friends the pleasure of his company or the adj
vantage they may derive FROM the accession O
their proseIyte.
t. The Cincinnati and Marietta Railroad
which is thought to be one Of the most i'm
portant roads to the interests of the latter city
is rapidly progressing, and win be completed