The Nevada journal., 1856-09-12
BARGAIN AND SALE sLANpER-It

hard lot the locofocos have defending
the target candidate they have set up.
That bargain and sale slander makes
them tremble in their boots. There is
no denying the fact that Buchanan was
the author of the vile charge which rob-
bed Henry Clay of the honors he had
gloriously won from his grateful and ad-
miring countrymen. 1t is folly to at
tempt an apology for the conduct of the
Democratic nominee for his agency in
that disgraceful afair-more than folly
to resort to the miserable expedients
adopted by some of our opponents to
shield the old defamer.
Of what use is it to produce the sur
mises of weak Drained and degenerate
son of the great statesman, when the
hand of the matchless old patriot itself
has left in imperishable and undeniable
record the damnable facts against the
slanderer
The truth of the whole villainous af
fair has been given to saddened world
how Henry Clay was slain by the tongue
of detraction. He wrote it himself, be
fore his great spirit left its majestic tab
ernacle of earth forever. He has left
behind him the evidence upon which
posterity will vindicate and cherish his
fame.
Thatportion of Colton's Life of Henry
Clay, where the bargain and corruption
chargeis reviewed, was written by the
identical finger that oftimes had empha-
sized burning sentences, thrilling the
hearts of listening senates. If it comes
to question veracity between Henry
Clay and James Buchanan, voice will
come up from the grave of the revered
and honored dead, that will overwhelm
a living hypocrite. But the record is
furnished with earthly proof of its YER
acity. Cotton, the author, has lately
responded to the calls of an interested
people, and declared that Henry Clay
is his own vindicator in the pages of his
Life. Thus the truth is established
beyond cavil that Buchanan fabricated
the vile charge of bargain and sale
against the peerless statesman of the
West
But that more proof need not be want
ing, Buchanan is asked, nay, dared to al
low Gov. Letcher of Kentucky, to tell
what he knows of private conversations
between Clay and Buchanan on this
mortifying subject. Buchanan is taunt-
ed to suffer the facts to be brought to
light-to remove the injunction of Sc
cresy from Gov. Letcher, and permit the
truth to be known. But he persists in
refusing to absolve Gov. Letcher from
his pledge of honor not to divulge the
eliminating evidence against him. On
every side there comes demand that
the whole truth shall be known. But
Mr.. Buchanan is as silent as the tomb
aye, more silent than the tomb of Clay
which utters sepulchal truths to his
condemnation. The testimony against
Mr.. Buchanan is clear and irrefragible.
1t is convicting-overwhelming.
And yet there are men who profess a
love for him who lies entombed in the
hallowed soil of Ashland, who pride
themselves on being cherishers of his
fame, who are about to commit the sac
riligious deed of rewarding the man plot
ting the ruin of his character "Judg-
ment, thou art fed to the british beasts. .
Old line Whig your adhesion to
Buchanan may be honest,
But if for him thou dost forsake,
That glorious one, ami rudely break
cherished image from its base,
| To give to Buck the ruined place.
Then fare thee well, I'd rather make
| My bower upon some icy lake
When thawng suns begin to shine,
Than trust to love IS false as thinel"
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