Bedford Inquirer And Chronicle

Mr. Clay and Mr. Buchanan.

When Mr. Polk was nominated for the Presidency, Mr. Buchanan declared to Gen. Clinch that he would carry Pennsylvania; for, said he, we will make those Pennsylvania Germans believe that Polk is a better tariff man than Clay. The event proved that Mr. Buchanan was in earnest. He took the field for Polk in Pennsylvania, and averred, on his honor as a gentleman, that he knew Mr. Polk to be a better tariff man than Clay. So the Pennsylvania Germans voted for Mr. Polk, as Buchanan said they would, and Polk was elected.

We have the highest authority for asserting that Henry Clay never forgave Mr. Buchanan for asserting this last outrage. For his complicity in the 'bargain and corruption swindle' he had previously forgiven him: but the 'Pennsylvania swindle' he could not forgive, and never spoke to him from that time to the day of his death, although frequently thrown in contact with him in the society of Washington.

The friends of Henry Clay would do well to remember this, and to ask themselves what must be the extent of Buchanan's unworthiness, when Henry Clay, the most magnanimous of men, regarded the treatment he had experienced at his hands as unpardonable.--Washington Organ.