ANNALS OF CLEVELAND

318
Abstracts 1906
CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1838
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT - United States (Cont'd)
of the State would respect the voice of the people three times expressed
in convention and abandon so fatal and disorganizing a course.
A faction of our party, chagrined at the defeat of the State Whig
ticket, attributed their defeat to the unpopularity of Henry Clay in
Ohio.
We did hope that the first respect we entertain for a good and
worthy old man in his decl ining days would have spared us the unpleasant
duty of presenting to our fellow citizens the unvarnished truth.
It is true that in every Whig county in Ohio where Mr. Clay is the
candidate of the people for the Presidential nomination, we have an
increased Whig vote. It is also the reverse in every Harrison county
and every county visited by him during his itineracy, there being not
only a Whig loss but a Van Buren gain in the popular vote.
"In the face of these facts we are asked by Harrison presses to
abandon Mr. Clay • Abandon him for what? For Whom? Citizens of a
grateful Republic! Answer them." . (16)
1906 - H&G Nov. 6:2/4 - In an open letter to the Free, Liberal, Intelligent,
Unbribed and Unbought, Democratic Whig Electors of the Western
Reserve, "Paoli" says: - "I now lay before you, certain floating rumors
in the east, prejudicial to the contemporanious oracle of the party lawgivers
in Ohio. We do not endorse the communication, but feel bound to
give it to the press, no less in justice to the editor of the ATLAS,
than to the deeply injured cause of the Whig party in the nation.
"In giving publ icity to an anonymous letter we intend no personal disrespect
to the editor of that paper, and we assure him that we shall be
more ready to give place to his denial of the truth of the allegations
than we have to the letter.
"New York, Oct. 20th, 1838. To Paoli: - It is rumored in this city,
that the editor of the Boston ATLAS made an effort to establish at Washington
a new paper avowedly to support Mr. Clay, that he was assured by
friends of Mr. Clay that such a course would not be approved by him,
that Mr. Clay was in favor of a Congress of delegates fresh from the people
of the States, in fact Mr. C. was in the hands of the great Democratic
Whig party ••••
"It is further rumored that the editor returned to Boston and made an
ineffectual effort to arouse friends of Mr. Webster in opposition to the
acknowledged pre-eminent claims of Mr. Clay for the present campaign.
Situated as the editor then was, the only alternative left him was to go
over to Mr. Harrison. In consequence of this last manoeuver; the ATLAS
no longer expresses the sentiments of the Whig party in New England.
Union. "
The Boston DAILY ADVERTISER says: "The whig party in New England wishes
to support Mr. Clay as 1st. choice for the Presidential nomination, with
Mr. Webster a close second choice. and as to Gen. Harrison, he is regarded
as not qualified to aspire to this high office as he has only his
military record as a background, has rendered no services, and exhibited