Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-08-19

ulation, in the often repeated escapes Of our
servants from the mildest form OF servitude
ever known, and in the ready acceptance Of the
recommendation not TO hesitate at theft, rob
berry, aud murder it need be, to accomplish
their fight From this condition of things we
can expect no relief if the anti-slavery party
succeed in the election OF Mr.. Fremont. To
defeat their nomination seems TO me to be our
hrst duty and greatest interest, and therefore
| am ready to 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:
9 II is the first sectional party ever organized
in this country. 1t does not know its ow face.
1t calls itself national; but it is not national
1t is sectional. 1t is the North arrayed against
the South. Henry Wilson said to me, We must
get every Northern State in order to elect
Fremont! it was a distinct recognition Of the
fact that the Republican party is party Of the
North pledged against the South. Theodore
Parker wanted TO know once where dsnnion
would begin? will tell hm-just where that
party divides; that IS Northern party against
the Southern. l do not call il an anli-savery
distinct recognition was Banks election
have no idea that this is to be considered
as showing the general purpose of the Repub.
lican 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 for SO many years that cannot
without reluctance contemplate the necessity
OF supporting their nominee. Yet it must be
admitted that he is man of abilities and large
public experience that he has been just to the
South, though not assuming to be Northern
man with Southern principles; that his inclina.
tons 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-
| sentatives in 1926. / 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 his party,
exonerated Mr.. Clay. From the letter which he
fthen published extract the following passage:
II owe it to my own character to make
another observation. Had I 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 nc. 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
trusted would be as incapable Of becoming
messenger upon such an occasion as it was
known Gen. jackson would be to receive such
message. | have deemed it necessary to
make this statement in order to remove any
misconception hich may have been occasioned
by the publication IN the Telegraph of my letter
to the editor, dated the lth utimo.'
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 Wing
leaders, but surely they contradict most fatty
the charge fbeing his traducer and defamer.'
Il further proof were needed it may be found in
| the following remarks recently made in Ken.
lucky by.Mr. JAS. B. Clay, his SON:
"Mr. Clay then proceeded to urge upon his
old Wing friends, the companions and consttu-
ents of his father, to rally around that banner
which he had spent his life in upholding-the
banner of the Union He was ready to follow
the Wing standard rs the Douglas followed the
heart Of Bruce-as long as it waved. But that
flag was no longer TO be seen on the battlefield.
1t might yet be unfured. After death there
was the resurrection. But at present there was
no Wing 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 mpcate
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 show that Mr.. Buchanan
/ ndu cohuucteu nimheli IL That AFFAIR as man
of truth and honor. He should believe what
his father said before Others. Besides the
evidence be had read, there was other testi
mony bearing on the same point. In feeling
and eloquent terms he referred to the heavy
weight of that charge against his father, and
how CALAMITY and bravey he had borne it.
Thank God, it died before his father and how
he was proud to say that there lived not the man
who would whisper it. But Mr.. Buchanan was
free from all connexion with the matter.
"Mr. Clay concluded with an eloquent appeal
to his fellow-citizens, especially Old Line Wings
to give their cordial support to the Union
ticket-to Buchanan and Breckenridge"
The next great objection is, that Mr.. Buch.
anan would be unsafe in his management OF
our foreign affairs. ! readily admit that do
not like the Ostend paper, and do not approve
certain resolutions adopted by the Cincinnati
Convention, Notwithstanding the unanimous
opposition Of the Virginia and Maryland dele
gates, and / believe of others; and if he should
adopt the aggressive policy supposed to be
| prescribed by that paper and the resolutions