Washington sentinel., 1856-08-05


berry, and murder if need be, to accomplish
their Hight From this condition of things we
can expect no relief if the anti-slayery party
succeed ~ the election Of Mr.. Fremont To
defeat their nomination seems to me to be our
first duty and greatest interest, and therefore
am ready 10 adopt that candidate who ap-
pears most likely to accomplish this purpose.
! add as showing the extreme designs Of the
anti-slavery zealots the following remarks. re-
ported as having been made lately by Mr..
Wendell Phillips. Speaking of the Republican
party, he says:
II is the first sectional party ever organized
In this country. Ii does not know its own face.
1t calls itself national; but it is not national /;
it is sectional. 1t is the North arrayed against
the South. Henry Wilson said to me, sWe must
get every Northern State in order to elect
Fremont!' 1t was distinct recognition Of the
fact that the Republican party is a party Of the
North pledged against the South Theodore
Parker wanted to know once where disunion
wonld begin 2 will tell him-just where that
party divides; that is Northern party against
the Southern. do not call il an anti-slayery
party; it has not risen to that yet. It's first
distinct recognition was Banks election
| have no idea that this is to he considered
as showing the general purpose Of the Republi-
can party, but | am well satisfied that such
opinions are growing in the North, under the
constant teachings Of such apostles as Mr..
Philips, and this speech shows the tendency of
present events.
! have been politically opposed to the Demo
cratic party tor so many years that cannot
without reluctance contemplate the necessity
OF supporting their nominee. Yet it must be
admitted that he is a man Of abilities and large
public experience; that he has been just to the
South, though not assuming to be a Northern
man with Southern principles; that his inclna.
tions are generally conservative; that he num-
bers among his prominent supporters many
gentlemen of talents and patriotic character,
entitled not only to the confidence of their
party but to influence with the country at large;
and that many Of the old issues between the
Wings and the Democrats are obsolete. Two
objections to him are much relied on by his
opponents in the South. 1t has been alleged
that he countenanced and promulgated the
charge of bargain and corruption against Mr.
Clay in the election by the House OF Repre-
sentatiyes in 1925. / should denounce him for
this as readily and as severely as any one if
thought this allegation Just. But remember
that this charge against Mr. Clay was made
without any direct testimony until 1927, when
the Carter Beverly letter led to Mr.. Buchanan's
being named as witness; and that he then
promptly denied the statement which he was
relied on to prove, and, at the risk of losing
Gen. Jackson's favor and that Of bis party,
exonerated Mr.. Clay. From the letter which he
then published extract. the following passage:
81 owe it to my own character to make
another observation. Had | ever known or
even suspected that Gen. jackson believed had
been sent to him by Mr.. Clay or his friends, ]
should have Immediately corrected his erroneous
impression, and thus prevented the necessity for
this most unpleasant explanation. When the
editor of the United States Telegraph, on the
18th of October last, asked me by letter for
information upon this subject, promptly in
formed him by the returning mail, on the 10th
of that month, that had no authority from Mr.
Clay or his friends to propose any terms to
General jackson in relation to their votes, nor
did ever make any such propositions; and that
trust would be as incapable of becoming
messenger upon such an occasion as it was
known Gen. Jackson would be to receive such
a message. | have deemed it necessary to
make this statement in order to remove any
which may have been occasoned
by the publication in the Telegraph of my letter
to the editor, dated the l lth ultimov
Again, in 1928, in speech delivered in the
House of Representatives, Mr.. Buchanan
declared that he had no knowledge Of the
bargain and corruption charged on Mr.. Clay.
These disavowals may be considered as merely
cold justice to the great and incorruptible Whig
leaders, but surely they contradict most fatty
the charge ofbeing his traducer and defamerh
II further proof were needed it may be found in
the following remarks recently made in Ken.
tucky by Mr.. JAS. B. Clay, his son:
"Mr. Clay then proceeded TO urge upon his
old Wing friends, the companions and constitu-
ents Of his father, TO rally around that banner
which he had spent his life IN urholding-thc
banner of the Union. He was ready to follow
the Wing standard as the Douglas followed the
heart of Bruce-as long as it waved. But that
dag was no longer to be seen on the battlefield.
1t might yet be unfurled. After death there
was the resurrection. But at present there was
no Whig organization, and the only party Of
the Union was that Of which Buchanan and
Breckenridge we're the candidates.
Mr.. Clay referred to the attempt to implicate
Mr. Buchanan in the charge Of bargain and
corruption. On. that subject he proposed to take
the testimony ofhis own father and he read from |
Mr.. Clay's letter to shoy that Mr.. Buchanan |
had conducted himself it that affair as a man |
" duNH duu HoHOT. ne SUOulu Del1eVe what |
his father said before others. Besides the |
evidence he had read, there was other testi |
nony bearing on the same point. In feeling |
and eloquent terms he referred to the heavy |
weight Of that charge against his father, and |
how gallantly and bravely he had borne it. |
Thank God, it died before his father and now |
1e was proud to say that there lived not the man |
who would whisper it. But Mr.. Buchanan was !
rec from all connexion with the matter
"Mr. Clay concluded with an eloquent appeal
o his fellow-citizens, especially Old Line Wings,
o give their cordial support to the Union
icket-to Buchanan and Breckenridge"
The next great objection is, that Mr.. Buch-
man would be unsafe in his management of
,ur foreign affairs. / readily admit that do
lot like the 0stend paper and do not approve
ertain resolutions adopted by the Cincinnati
Notwithstanding the unanimous
opposition of the Virginia and Maryland dele
,ates, and believe Of others and if he should
dopt the aggressive policy supposed to be
prescribed by that paper and the resolutions
should be as ready and as earnest in my op
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