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Political commentary from Baltimore Patriot, reprinted in N.Y. Commercial Advertiser, criticizes Jacksonians' hypocrisy in appointing abusive editor Duff Green as U.S. Senate printer while condemning Henry Clay's similar refusal to calumniators; notes Benton's statement silences claims of Clay's corruption in supporting Adams.
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From the Baltimore Patriot.
Mr. Clay declined continuing the publication of the laws of Congress to two or three of his most inveterate calumniators--this by the Opposition is denounced as a most horridly iniquitous affair. But now of a scene in which there is neither blood nor murder.
The Jacksonians have a majority of the Senate of the United States--that majority has appointed Duff Green, the most abusive editor in the country, its Printer, and thus taken it away from Gales and Seaton, without cause, who always have treated that body with the utmost respect. This job is worth twenty times over, all that Mr. Clay pays to every printer in the employ of the Government. But this act on the part of a Jackson Senate is pure and patriotic and just as it should be, while the same act in Mr. Clay, although he had just cause for it, is just the reverse! This is the consistency of Jacksonism.
Since Mr. Senator Benton's statement has been published, that Mr. Clay told him, before the middle of December, that he intended to vote for Mr. Adams, we hear no more from Gen. Jackson's other partisans about Mr. Clay's corruption in concealing his intention, &c. They cannot sustain their General against the evidence furnished by his own friends.
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Mr. Clay declined continuing the publication of the laws of Congress to two or three of his most inveterate calumniators, denounced by the Opposition as iniquitous. The Jacksonians' majority in the Senate appointed Duff Green, the most abusive editor, as its Printer, taking it from Gales and Seaton who treated the body with respect; this act is worth twenty times what Mr. Clay pays printers and is deemed pure and patriotic by Jacksonians, while Clay's similar act with cause is the reverse. Since Senator Benton's published statement that Mr. Clay told him before mid-December he intended to vote for Mr. Adams, Jackson partisans no longer claim Clay's corruption in concealing his intention, unable to sustain their General against evidence from his own friends.