Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-24

! Western had liks te nave Sast their all |
him, and would but for the Clay.
The CRAwFoRD is tall majestic fgur,
with wonderful bone, muscles, and sinev
His tread firm and indicative of grel
strength and activity. He sprang fro1
the old Virginia stock Of racers; one
the best strains in these United State
wide the American racing calender, title
Washington, Jefferson, Madison and Mon
roe.) When young he was taken to Geor
gia, and there occasionally ran few eide
races successfully, when his owners. EN-
boldened by his success, ventured to ente
him in the State jocky club, where he de
feated the fayorite horse of Georgia
although often opposed 10y that daredevil
the John, Clark, nag of some dis
tinction in that quarter, who ha
lately, however, become spdUined. spliated
and Strflaghatted. 1t is singular that the
supporters of all the other nags We'd il
their abuse of this horse and his perform
ances.
Such are the characters of the horse.
which paraded on the day of trial All O
them had acquired reputation in theil
provincial racing, but how they would play
their parts, when opposed to each other on
the great theatre of the national tUrf was
all doubt and darkness" Bets were va
rious-and the vociferations of praise by
the friends of the respective nags were
boisterous and constant. The shrewd
Yankee was ready to risk his whole crop OF
onions, together with the fruits Of his years
of toll in the Cod fishery on their favorite
| Adams. Hundreds of the sons of old
| Rentuck, were around the Guy, who made
the ''welkin ring" with their shouts. They
said ''he was half horse, half alligator, and
tipped with the swapping turtle. Nay,
/ they avowed he was a very steamboat =
a Mississippi sawyer!" They swore Che
was the best horse on the turf, and that
they could out-run, outjump, out-shoot,
throw down or whip any man or set of men
who dared to contradict them"
A faint uproar of appreciation was occa-
sionally heard from the friends of Calhoun,
but it was "a dying sound.
The Georgians and Virginians were loud
in their plaudits. They offered to stake
piles of old Virginia street scented and
| Georgia GpJdIdS on the Crawford. The
Yankees looked with a yearning eye on the
| hogsheads and bales, and sinned most
| heiDously in their hearts against that COM
mandment which forbids the coveting of
thy neighbors' property.
The Jackson had abouI him some staunch
/ friends, though few in number. They
| talked of the e0er glorious EIGHTH, and
swore by the deeds he had done that he
was ''the horse of horses! :"
The adams had been long in training.
| He had been long under the care of two
famous sporting associations, called the
essex Junto," and Hartford Conven-
ton" whose system of training was fash
| ioned after the English plan"
The Cgdywas trained chiefly in Kentucky,
amongst tie people, and rubbed down occa-
sionally by tie friends Of the South 44ReeTi-
can Independence and the Mississippi boat
men.
Some Dutch wagoners in Pennsylvania
had the keeping of the Calhoun who stuffed
him with 2cheat bran and rye
straw; sort of food that
merely tended TO puff him up, without in
vigorating him with any real strength.
The Jackson might be said to be without
keepers; at least he had none of expert
enced professional skill. His hackers said
he was always at the service of the jockey
club-that he required no keeping, and
that he was always ready If tie people
should think fit TO start lin. No studied
preparation had therefore been made, and
he came upon the ground full and rough
relying upon his native strength, unaided
by the skill of the jockies.
The Crawford was in famous plight He
was at first managed by some Georgia
jockies. He was thence taken to the Old |
Dominion, where he was again looked after |
by some of the old grooms of nine |
ty-eight; the same who had trained |
Jefferson when he beat t'other Adams |
Mordecai Noah, of New York, also, lever |
and anon" took him through q course of /
exercise.
The State of Maine was selected as the /
starting post" There, on the appointed |
day, the candidates met, and from thence /
they were to run throughout the whole /
twenty four States.
The beating of the drums announced |
that the hour for the riders to mount had /
arrived. The rattling of this instrument /
of war electrified OIL Hickory 1t was to |
the same music he ran when he tried his /
speed with the PdckeHhdm. He prlcked |
up his ears, bowed his neck, |
champed his bit, and carried lofty. But |
this note of war greatly affrighted the |
Adams, whose spirits are always started at /
wild wars deadly blasts and his friends |
were greatly shocked at sounds so often |
sive to the feelings Of a podceabJe and re. |
Lgj0Us pe0pJe.
The Editor IF tie National Gazette was
selected as the rider of the Adams who has |
acquired some distinction, both in this
country and in Britain, as a rider. His |
system of political craftsmanship partakos |
more of the English than the American |
mode And it is moreover said he is quite |
capricious in relation to his tenets, alterna- |
lively the votary of doctrines fashioned |
TO the varying hour"
He mounted his candidate for domin-
ion; and the richness and gaudiness of his |
dress, filed tie people with amazement.
He was clothed in purple; and on his
head he wore cap~ shaped like
a crown; and attached to this crown, floated |
in the air two onsigns, impressed with APP
propriate notices, The one however, was
speedily tied up; the other ratified in the
wind, and displayed this inscription, 1--WE
are all Federalists-We are all Repubh-
cans!" II was, however, whispered about
that this was the same which the Adams
carried when he ran in Massachusetts, under
the fictitious name of PUbJtcOtd;
and it was apparent that the ground of the
ensign had been newly repainted; that the
old inscription had been brushed out, and
this new one substituted in its stead
Noah, one of the Crawford jockies, a
keen lynx-eyed fellow, was seen to gaze
slyly, yet intently, at this ancient banner,
and limited that vestiges of the ancient
writings were visible, a transcript of which
being submitted to that turnover after an
Equities, Doctor Mitchell, he produced the
true and original reading to be thus.
''Huzza for the Alien and Sedition laws"
standing Armies and Direct Taxes"
The rider carried in his hand a
whip, made of a certain timber called
"direct taxes admirably calculated
for scOltrgiRg The adams carried heavy
weights, fastened upon him by the oppos-
ing grooms, consisting of huge masses OF
Federalism and Aristocracy 1t was thought
those burthens would not greatly impede
his progress in passing over the dry sandy
soil of the New England States; but it was
believed they would cause him to stick
fast i'll the deep rich, and loomy grounds
of the West
He was led to the starting point by a
Federalist of the Boston turf
The Clay was mounted by one Of the
| people rough hardy Kentuckian,
dressed in a linsy-woolsy hunting shirt
| fastened around him, coarse, leathern
belt, with deersBin moccasins, with "a
blue and white cotton handkerchief tied
around his head. He carried a whip,
mere thing, cut from the tree persuasion.
| His bride reins were made of the peoples
will. He, too, unfurled an ensign, which
bore ''The Western States and the Missis-
sippi !" The only extra weight which the
| Clay carried consisted in an old dirty pack
of cards. heretofore much used, but appar-
emily long since thrown by, which the