Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-09-22

| did the great measures OF National Policy
which originated with Teanesseeans, nest
with no tiIiiy more incorporating. than
/ that which they encountered at the hands Of
| Henry Clay. When Gen. Jackson wss a can :
didate for he Presidency. in 1861. Mr.,
Clay made a speech at Baltimore, OF which
the following is an extract:
/ There follows the extract, containing the
famous swar, pestilcnce, and famine ain
sion.] grf
g Tbs hatred to Gen Jackson end has poll
sy Is sfiH abiding soitA the aps5ittaus Ken-
tstektea StiiI he 5Dours our a fresh Uiat Of has
tcraA upon the Distinguished Tennesseda schen-
seer an opportunity offers. The shades OF the
Hermitage, the sacred pGles Of retirement and
pirate life, are no barriers against the MA
LIG S1TY OF henry CLAY Fer it is not
much more than a year ago that he made a
speech of which the following is an ex tract .
+ Here follows the extract.
g Is it not direct, a most sametill insult,
to dsk 1e'lnesseeans TO support the man who
can at this late day utter such calumnies
against the Hero of the second war of the
! Revolution?' There are great States in the
Union which viii consider il downright
| insuit-and shall not Tennessee remain true
to herself?''
In the same number Of the Union from
| which the foregoing extracts are taken, there
I IS an editorial account of discussion which
took place two days before, at Nashville,
between Mr.. Bell and Mr. Burton. Of Mr..
Burton, among otherthings, the Union said
! &c He defended Mr. VAN buren, rery hand
| soDaety from the foul charges preferred
| against him by the disappointed political
| leaders who have deserted the democratic
standard-and the ray that he used up HEN
RY CLAY, and some of the newborn con-
verts to this champion of High Tariffs, this
Federai-National-Re publican-no-party-y
candidate the Presidency, was the RIGHT
WAY"
OF Mr. Bells part in the discussion, the
Union, among other things, said: "HE
DEFENDED AND EULOGIZED MR..
CLAY"
Here is another article from the same pa
per on the same subject, which will bear re-
production:
GFrom the Nashville Union of June H. 1891
FORCE THEM TO THE ISSUE
alt is to be hoped that the people of Ten
|
for their suffrages, at the approaching cleo
ton ~nmGsk himself upon the stump When
candidate says he is for any man but Van
buren,, 1t may be taken for granted that he
is, under existing circumstances, for HEN.
RY CLAY. who is to be nominated by the
Federal Wing Convention at Harrisburg.
Mr. Ctay's great lack Of popularity in Tennes-
see, ddmoRishes the candidates to keep as dark
as possible; for they kno1o that he is A LOAD
AZ
6dckS-and it is, therefore, the more imperi-
Gus duty of the p ople to call them QUITO
exact pledges-,o force them to the only
true issue, CLAY or VAN BUREN?
1t is on these grounds that we implore the
people To drdW OHt their candidates for office
on this question. The federal-whig candi-
dates will come out reluctantly; for they are
In favor of lay, while hey know that true
TennesSeedHs detest him. K X \ \
weagain call upon the people to call out their
candidates on the Presidency Van Buren,
or Ctdy2' FORCE THEM TO THE ISSUE"
From the same paper we make the subs
joined additional extracts:
From the Nashville Union of June 10, 1897
MR.. BELLS CONVERSION To cLAYIsM.7
''If our notes of MIR. Bells speech in the
market place, the other day, be correct-and
took them with The greatest possible
eare-he then and there manfully defended
Henry Clay, and favored his advancement
to the Presidency. = x He stated that
Clay was a better Democrat than Van Bpren
: : : x Clay, he said never was insincere
IN his public professions. tie has never been
charged with violation of his honor, x x
Mr. Bell defended Mr.. Clay, decLcriRg that he |
aCGs dtlcays Republican, neUer a FederaList |
He alluded to the cry of bargain and |
corruption" that once rang through Ten |
nessee against him, and remarked that if he |
(Clay) had voted for Gen jackson for Presi- |
dent, and had been by him appointed Secre- |
tary Of State, instead of for and by Mr. |
Adams, he would probably have never been |
burnt in effigy in Tennessee. From the |
tenor of those portions of Mr.. Bells speech |
that referred to Mr.. Clay, it would seem that /
the federal candidate for the Presidency is, |
at this time, the very beau ideal Of political |
honesty and consistency"
IRON the Nashville Union of June q, 1891
.'To THE REsCUE-TENNEssEEAs TO THE
ERsCUE
"a State is to be saved Wiz you Mro,U
yourselves into The arms Of Henry GLGy-the
champion of all the old anti-republican
measures which you fought against and put
down by the election and re- election of Jack
son to the Presidency? WI you forsssear
dtk your old principles and GSsociations??'
[From the Nashville Union of July l., 1881
sc We are progressing-and the Federal
Wing leaders are in a sorrowful condition.
ALL THE MASKS ARE OFF. CLAY is
NOW their chief raIlying point, and TO the
people, the old Republicans, we say again,
in the language of distinguished chieftain,
: You now see your enemy--and you know
your work.
How powerfully these appeals were cal
culated to sway the public mind in Tennes-
see, during this memorable canvass, no one
who did not participate in it, can properly
The bitterness of feeling
which had characterized the feud between
Gen. Jackson and Mr.. Clay, had been in
tensifed among their respective supporters.
Towards each of those great party chief
tains the minds of the friends and supper
tiers of the other, particularly in Tennessee,
were infamed with fierce, and what seemed
to be, the most implacable. luminosity.
More than ,nine-tenths of the voters of
the State had been ardent suppor-
tiers of Gen. jackson, and bitter oppo>
nents of Mr.. Clay-and as such had, for
years, towards the latter, INDUCED in Ian
guage of unmeasured denunciation. I'm
der these circumstances, the course of
policy adopted by the Van Buren, leaders
was craftily devised, and could hardly fail to
succeed. They proclaimed that Mr.. Clay
would be chosen by the opponents of Mr.. {
Van Buren, to contest the Presidency with ,
1im in 1910. This appeared to be alto ,
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