The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-06-18
CLAW and Buchanan.

In an article last week. we assumed the po-
sition that no old Wing, who followed under
the lead of Henry Clay could consistently
vote for Jas. Buchanan. We now say, no old
Wing who loves the memory of the immortal
Clay. can do else than despise the man who so
cruelty mistreated him as did Buchanan. But
for the "bargain and sale'' charge against
Henry Clay, he would have been elected Pres
ident almost by reclamation, Immediately af-
ter the Adams term. But for JAS Buchanan
this bargain and sale" charge never would
have had any force or influence worth mention
ing-tor jackson made the charge against
Clay on the authority of Observation-Disclosures
an, hot pressed, wrote letter lodging the
responsibility, yet by inuendo still keeping up
the charge, and when he had it in his power
by simply telling the truth, and the aohoze
truth, to have crushed it forever.
The Louisville Journal gives a history Of
the Clay and Buchanan affair." accompanied by
new documents, Which long as it is, we intend
publishing soon as we can find room. The
following are its closing paragraphs
To show how the terrible exposition made
by Mr.. Clay in Colton's biography of him was
regarded at the time, we may mention the
fact, that, when it appeared, all the Democrat
ic organs were startled by it. Mr.. Buchanan
was then no candidate for office, and on that
account it created a less powerful impression
than it would otherwise have done, but we
wildly remember the sensation manifested by
the Democratic papers, especially those OIL
Pennsylvania. We copied into the Journal
an article from the most prominent and indu-
entail of them all, declaring, as several of the
rest did, that Mr. Buchanan must respond tc
and reiute the charge made against him or ex-
Ipect to be dispersed with by his party. And
we and hundreds of other Wing editors called
upon him and defied him to respond while yet
Henry Clay and r. P. Letcher were both liv-
ing to meet any denial or equivocatio2 that he
might put forth. But he replied not. He
uttered no word. He could not be induced
either by the warning threats of political
friends or the loud defiance and demands Of
political opponents to open his mouth. Hum
bly, he bore from the greatest man then living
upon the earth published charge, which, i
tue, exhibited the most irredeemable infamy
on his part
And now we ask the old friends of Henry
Clay, we ask the Ole Line Wings, we ask all
honorable men, we ask the whole American
people, what they think of James Buchanan
and how they mean to act toward him. c
what shame, what burning shame, what an
Everlasting shame it would be if the American
nation, after having thrice rejected Henry
Clay from the Presidency on account of a
charge of bargain and corruption resting on
the alleged authority o. James Buchanan, and
all because Mr.. Clay listened to the earnest
prayers of Mr.. Buchanan, the real proposer Of
the bargain and corruption, and spared him fol
nearly the lifetime of generation, were now
to elect that same Mr.. Buchanan to the Pres
idency. Truly it would be almost enough to
make man sick of his species.