The Feliciana Democrat. (Clinton, La.) 1855-186?, 1856-08-30

ltEeu authority OF James DuCnuuhn, III ueChIiho
Mr.. Clay listened to the earnest prayers Of Mr. Blu
chanan the real proposcr Of the bargain and corrup-
ton. and spared him nearly the life time of gene
ration, were now to elect that Mr.. Buchanan to
the Presidency. Truly IL would he almost enough
to make man sick Of liis species"
Is M" really sincere, and does he mean
what he says? AS the friend and ndmirer of
Henry Clay, would he support the man who
had made the charge of "bargan and corrnp.
tom against his patron saint Henry Clay "
o achat shame, arhat burning shame, what
an eurlastiag shame, il would be for M" to
do sol. Yet Andrew jackson Doneson made
that charge, as will appear from the following
extract
I'm the Nashville Union Of August 10, 1874, md
copied into the Washington Globe of August 81,
1874. is full ana authentic account o: the cechra-
ted Democratic Mass Meeting, held Mt .hvillc,
Tenn, during the 18th and 10th days OF August,
1874. From that document we make the following
extract:
| The Hon. Linn Boyd,of Kentucky was to have ad.
dressed the meeting on the second day but In the
progress of the discussion. Mr. "A. j. Done'son. who
in the chair In the absence Of the President an
nouncrd that he had just received a note from Mr..
Boyd informing him that IN accident in the over
turning of carriage containing his family, in the
morning--n which. however. no serious injury had
been sustained-would prevent him from being pres
! cnt TO address the meeting. Major DoNEIsoS. on
making this annnnciation, cdiled The attention Of the
meeinq 10 he fact that Mr. Boyd mas he distinguished
Rea,uckim rho HID CHARGED AND PROIED
UPON Mr.. CLAY. ~ MS Place LN CON.
GRESS THE CHARGE or "B1RGLdN. IN
TRIG UE and CDRRUP7lON' in The Pre,idntia' eloc.
ton Of 1920 evd who had been sustained by has eoasin
e,ts in his course. lie (DONELSON) therefore Propased
nine cheers for LlNS BoYD and Tie Democracy Of has
| distria.'
1t would be an everlasting shame for
an" to support Mr.. Buchanan, who dm
not make the charge, but the "highest honor
to support Mr.. Donclson, mho did make the
charge Where now, "M," is all that virtu-
Gus, that everlasting shame.
Willard Fillmore has spurned and deserted
that party of which Mr.. Clay was the leader
and the brightest ornament. He is no longer
Wing; he belongs TO n new party, wisi new
principles which boasts that it has strcwn up
on the breeze, all that the giant intclccts of
Clay and Webster had tocd for years TO
build up And are these the men that IN,
the devoted friend of Clay, and the veteran
champion of Wing principles now supports;
one the dcnouncer of his old chieftain, and
the other deserter of his party and its prin-
ciplcs? And against whom? The gallant
Breckinridge the friend ncghbor, and con.
stitacnt of Henry Clay; and noble Buchanan,
whose voice saved, when it might have blasted
the reputation of the great Wing statesman
Alas for M" he is living in past age,
and his hostility to Gen. Jackson has quite
bcrcft him of all discretion. How far "Old
| Hickory" may have been censurablc in the
bargain and corruption" affair, at any rate
James Buchanan is completely cxoncratcd
from all blame. As regards the character of
Gen. Jackson, it is now time for M" to learn
that it is quite unayang for him to spend
any more of his time, talents, and money in
assaling It, for it's invulncrahle. From "M.'s
early manhood to his maturer years, this has
been his time past and his ambition; it is now
II Pigment OF his brain. Come, M" leave
antiquity and its actors. Come up into mod
ern times, where yon may ''movc and act in
the living present" for the good of your coun-
try. X. Y.