Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1872-05-16
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you. and | hope 70 see you here" Il was
this advice. wLfes. IL may be noted, GER
tainly betrays 10 sectional feeling tbs.
prevailed General Taylor conferred With
Mr.. Cri,tenden ut Frankfort. and q Cabi.
net was made not csly withou. CLAY AZ
fnities." but one which. during i,s short
tenure. Mr.. Clay thoroughly n.agoui.ed.
We may note. in passing. that Of the midi
| yiduals referred to in this letter oil are
dead except the writer. Andrew Stewart
(still INDUCING in his wool gathering
crochets}. and Mr.. Kinney. The latter
gentleman viii be surprised and perhaps
shocked 10 learn that Jefferson Davis once
recommended him to high Office, the same
TO which Mr. Meredith was afterwards an.
pointed, as we happen to know on the re-
commendat!on Of no other than James
! Buchanan
There is in this volume brief CORES
pondence. Of rather an earlier date. direct
ly between the Kentucky statesmen, in
which Mr.. Clay in April. ls4s. auuoun-
ced his intention, coHte que couie. to be q
candidate. and Mr.. Crittenden advises
against it. urging the superior availabili-
ty OF General Taylor. on which the bog
rapher remarks: This is supposed to
be the last letter ever addressed by Mr..
Crittenden to Mr.. Clay. Circumstances
growing out Of the nomination and cleo
ton Of General Taylor produced an alien.
alton between them. though during Mr..
Clay's last illness there was cordial re.
Cancellation"
The great interest Of these volumes is
in the correspondence. and Mrs Coleman
has had the tao; aud good taste to give us
letters to as well a. from her father. Some
Of them are very clever and characteristic.
The best are those from his life long friend
Judge Letchcr. and Mr.. Leigh, Of Vir-
ginia. with one or two very sprightly ones
never meant for print but quite welcome
,here-from John NJ. Clayton. The
dead rise up in living jolity before us as
VIC read Letter Of his to Mr.. Crittcnlen.
when Attorney General, in 1851. asking
for purser.hip for young Dupont MY
dear Crittcndcn. I know I am boring you;
let me therefore cut my letter short by
this letter. to 20 down and sec the Presi-
dent. and tell him he would do more to
crafty his friends in this little State bv
this little appointment. than he could By
full mission abroad Take glass of bour-
bon before you start /; call on Graham and
get him to go along with you. and don't
leave him till you get promise that young
Dupont shall have the frst vacancy.
The men who wrote thus, had no Puritan
ism. and some patriotism in their veins
There are here. too. several letters Of
Presidcu, buchanan in \ much more lively
strain than he usually INDUCED in-for
he was not a spri:h,ly writcr-and in one
as far back as 1874. we find an allusiou
to the old scandals Of 1925. Il 60. my
self" he writes TO Mr. Le.cher. i" into 4
scrapc from the desire / often expressed
and never concealed tha. Jackson, frs. Of
all things. might be elected By the House.
and next. that Clay might be his Secrcta-
ry Of State. I, was = most unfortunate
day for tao country. Mr.. Clay. and all of
us. when Mr.. Clay accepted the Office of
Secretary of State" (p. 2oD. We con-
fess we do not in the light Of to-day very
clearly understand why Mr.. Clay being
Secretary Of State under General Jackson
should be all right. and under Mr.. Adams
all wrong.
The active. mature life of Mr.. C.itten.
den extended from 1912. when he was
IS. to 1868. when he died at IS. His
very last words in Congress we're in reply
to Thaddeus Stevens on the CONSUMPTION
bill: "A negro army unnerves the white
mans band-the white man heart" He
died on the Goth July. 1863. All tina.
We read Of the closing days Of Mr.. Crit
,enden's public life is sad The failure of
his compromise and Of the Peace Congress
told heavily upon him. He was faithful
Union man. but he had . son in the Con-
federate army; and though Mrs Coleman
thinks it worth while to tag Boston rhe-
sorical posey on his coffin in the shape of
fantastic letter from Mr.. Winthrop (p.
$500. it is very plain that his great heart
beat sluggishly when forced 70 sympashi.e
with successes on one side or the other
in that worst Of wars-a war Of breth-
rem"