Henry Clay; did and did not.
I VOTED FOR THE TARIFFS of 1916, 1854,
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See Mr.. CLAWS letter to Gen. Bledsoe, under date
of July %, 1843.


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See Mr. Claws letter to Mr. Merriwether, of Geor-
gia, under date of October p, 1913


We find the above in thirty or forty Loco-Foco
papers. It seems inconceivable that Human Ma
turc should be guilty of the baseness here perPc-
trated, for the sake of very paltry partisan ad-
yantage. Mr.. Clay was Speaker Of the House IN
1916 and 1924, and of course did not vote on the
final passage of the Tariff bills Of those years.
but he was their ardent, effective supporter, as
every BODY knows; and in the very letter to Mr.
Meriwether. last above quoted, says, when re-
minded that his name does not appear on the list
of Yeas for those Tariffs,


..you ara RIGHT SO far as the Record is concerned,
that Idid not rote for the Tariffs of 1916 and n
6u T suDported their principles, and hare Arrays
admitted that I pras in taror Of hem


Now would the villain who could cut off this
last sentence from what precedes 1t, and publish
the rest so as to make an apparent contradiction
with what Mr. Clay had before written to Gen
R]edsoe-when there is in truth a perfect consIs-
tencv between them-hestate to forge air. Clay S
name to an entirely fabricated letter, II 1t would
serve his purpose? There is not particle OF
moral difference between what is done above and
an entire forgery, though the latter is the less
cowardly. Yet men who pretend to deplore tie
licentousness of the Press will countcnance and
acquiesce in such frauds when their party is
served by them.