Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1857-06-18
Ashland District, Kentucky.

trict. james B. Clay, is the Locofoco, can
didate. They recently met in debate at
Paris, and the Lexington Observer gives the
following account of Mr.. Hanson's eifort:-
He indicated the principles orthe Amer
lean party in most mastery and triumph
ant msnner, and utterly coniounded his an
tagonist when he reviewed his past political
history and contrasted it with his present
position. 1t is said that Mr.. Clay was driv-
en- to the wall and nailed to it, by the fast
falling strokes Of our gallant leader, aud that
the letters of "Huon" fell like thunderbolts
at the feet Of his Locofoco friends. In these
letters Gone Of which was written in 1915
and the other in 1859, James b. Clay char
acterized the Irish as priest-rldden Catho-
lies, the Dutch as In6dels, and advocated
the utter abolition of the naturalization laws.
In 1855, two summers ago, the spirit of in
tense Native Americansm burned SO fierce |
ly within him that he desired TO place an
everlasting and insurmountable barrier in
the pathway of the alien who sought the
boon Of citizenship, but now he has ceased
to entertain any fear from these priest-rid-
den Irish and Infidei Germans, and doubt
less thinks that they make the very best de-
scription of citizens. He attempts TO ex-
plain his letter of 1916 by saying that il was
written while he was smarting under the
sting Of the defeat of his father, brought
about mainly by foreign votes, and in speak
ing Of the letter of 1855 he merely says that
he has changed his mind since he wrote it.
He wrote these letters when he pdS not an
aspirant for Office; he makes his explanations
and excuses for them while he is a candid
ate for Congressional honors; and we shall
not br considered uncharitabe when we de-
clare the belief that he has been lured, I'M.
consciously we hope, from his true senti-
ments by the adulatIon Of false friends and
the hopes of high preferment.
But no matter whether this belief is true
or not, it is certain that he cannot reconcile
his past and his presen: attitude upon the
foreign question, as the result of the dis
oussion on Monday fully proves. He could
not sustain himself at all upon this question,
for he is estopped from saying one word
against those who advocate American prin-
pies. Roger Hanson turned his own bat
teries against him, and with his own written
woids-the most earnest and eloquent by
far that he has written or spoken-demol-
ished his Intellectual arguments. Thus must
it be throughout this canvass, and, as we
have said before, it is impossible for Mr..
Clay to sustain himself upon the stump
The thing can't be done, for the words and
acts of his whole life are arrayed against
him, and he must not only repudiate his faith
er and,his teachings, but must repudiate
himself and trampe under foot all the senti-
ments he ever held, all that he put upon
record all that is remembered of his sayings
ir public and in private, and cut loose from
the James B. Clay of 1855, and ask to be
Judged by his present and future, and by
nothing else. The Locofocos may do this,
: but the Old-lne Wings aad Americans of
& the district will not. The triumph obtain
81 ed by Mr.. Hanson on Monday will be re-
tepeated over and over again until August,
and then Mr.. Clay may consistently start
4 upon his new pilgrimage. His defeat will
scertainly be regarded as thorough baptism,
and after that his atonement TO his priest
ridden and niidel associates may be consid-
cred as complete.
Upon which the Louisville Journal re-
marks:- -
The attempt Of Mr.. ~ B. Clay 10 make
he world believe thats his violent native
American letters, written in 1915, were
promoted merely by tie sting of transient
thought that his fatherhpd Just been defeat
ed by foreign iniuence, eXhibets him in
very contemptiblei sight, for he is unable to
deny that he wrote still more violently in
favor of native AmcricaniSm only couple
of years ago. But if he was stung in 1915
by the thought that his father had been beat
en- by foreign influence, and il in 1855 he
continued 10 be stung by the same thought
we see no reason in the world why he
shouldn't be stuag by il now. The thought
was Just one, and we see no reason why
its sting should be lost or blunted in the
mind OF any man. Henry Clay tras beaten
by foreign influence. He himself knew it
and said it a hundred times, and the unwor-
thy son knows it as well now as he did
when he felt his soul stung by it twelve
years ago and two years ago. Furthermore
he knows, and so uoes every decently in
tormed man in the nation, that not only Hen
ry Clay but oil the other unsuccessful anti
Democratic Presidential candidates within
The last quarter Of century were beaten by
'nreign influence. Not q solitary Democrat
would have been elected to the Presidency
within that period but for such influence,
and surely this reflection is enough TO sting,
and to keep singing, the heart OF every
true-souled American patriot. Indeed an
honest and patriotic American citizens is
entirely excusable if his heart overnows
with bitterness at the miserable reflection
that the result of almost every Presidential
conflict for nearly thirty years has been the
exact reverse of what it would have been
if decided by American citizens indepen.
IDENTIFY of foreign influence. There is in
that reflection something that stings the
American heart like an adder or scorpion.
The Lexington Observer reminds the pub.
lie that, when Mr.. Clay was beaten, the Dem
ooratic party into whose arms the son hG,
now thrown himself did, with ruthlessnes
md barbarity and diaboloal mallgnity rare