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Wilmington, N.C.,- Sept. 21, 1S44.
From the Ohio Statesman.
THE ANSWER OF TWEN TT-EIG MT
.METHODISTS TO THE REV
im hascom's cf.r pificate
O.F MR. CLAY'S MORALITY.
Why is it that so much sensibility is ex
cue I? Why such holy horror manifested?
Whv so much fluttering heard among tbe
partisan presses throughout the length and
breadth of the land, whe n the morality ot
a candidate for the most exalted station
within the power of the people to confer
on any man is made the subject of legiti
mate inquiry? Is it because that people are
to be debuted the privilege of ii.votiga
lion into the life and conduct of the man
who seeks elevation at their hands; or are
they requited, by a hireling; and subsidi
zed press, blindly to intrust their destinies
into the hands id' an individual whose deeds
I hey are denied the right to s-rutinize?
A virtuous man teats no scrutiny into
j
iii iiMuiuri iic mvues i u vesi i gat ion re
quires no endorseis. however strict the or
deal may he requires no partisan prts
to s ist i in him, or to do the bidding of
the master's hand." If, otitheo'her hand,
-a 1 1 is not right in Denmark" if his life
h:s been pissed in vicious ami immoral
acts, in vol ition of the laws of God and
man if the fabric be not pure anil uns'ai
ned and cannot sustain itself th2 flood
gates of abuse and i eci iminalion are open
ed, and lavished forth with a relentless
hand; certificates are "manufactured to or
der," to delude the people, and to bolster
up a sullied reputation; and even miniters
of the gospel forsake their sacred calling,
and are persuaded to venture into the po
li'ical arena, anil by their endor.ement to
prop the character of a man whose life (and
we speak knowingly) has been one contin
ued scene of vice and immoiality from
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his earliest nianhcod to a decayed old age
How was the moral and religious woild
astounded when the certificate of the Rev.
Dr. H. 13. Rascom, which so recently ap
peared, was heralded forth by a licentious
press, endorsing the character of that man
whose name has been a by-word among
his own brethren for years past, carrying
along with it, not the faintest evidence of
morality and virtue, but, on the other hand,
associated by them with all the prevailing
vices which characterize the worldly and
the vicious man.
We would for his sake we would for
the sake of that church of which he is a
bright and shining ornament we would,
as his brother, for the sake of that religion
which he professes, and for the sake of that
reputation which he has hitherto sustained
as a candid ami conscientious man, cover
this, last act with an impenetrable veil, and
hide it in oblivion, never thence to be
brought forth and reckoned against him.
Rut there is a duty, an imperative one,
which we owe to out selves, to cur chil
dren, to our church, our religion, and our
country, which no personal consideration
must shake, and from the discharge of
which we must neiihcr falter nor depart,
even when the name of the Rev. H. .
liascom is opposed to us. It is fresh in
the minds ar.d remembrance cfthe whale
country, that a letter was addressed by Dr.
J. G. Goble to the Rev. H H. liascom,
with the itinoirv. ''whether the charges
preferred against the Hon. Henry Clay, of
being a Sabbath breaker, a profane, swearer
and gambler, were correct or not." Now
mark the reply of the Rev. Mr. Ha scorn to
the charg- s: ! have been in intimate and
confidential intercourse with the Hon.
Ht-nrv Clav, in private and public life
'.or more than twenty years, and know
the ehatges enumerated m your letter
tgain-t the private character of Mr. Clay
to be utterly and basely false. Mr. Clay
does not belong to the church, but in view
of the ordinary accredited principles oft
good moral character, no charge can be
brought against him without violating the
obligations of truth anil sound justice; and
to each and eoery charge in your letter, I
return for an answer, that I regard them,
one and all. shamefully unjust, because
not true, cither in whole or in purl.'
The reverend doctor sweeps the platter
goes the whole figure, without exception
or reservation; and, in this wholesale de
nial, can arrogate to himself the credit at
least of going further and stronger in de
nying these charges, than any man of any
size, sort, description, or cloth, has ever
ventured to go. He strikes the current,
and leaves himself no chance of swimming
to land, but a fair one of sinking before he
gels even in sight.
This wonderful certificate covers the
grou nd of Mr. Clay's morality "in whole"
and not "in pari," for twenty years and
more; and to that period, so embraced, we
shall respond, and take the doctor's "inter
course, so intimate and confidential, public
and private," and no more.
Every reader of the paragraph referring
to the doctor's public intercourse with Mr
Clay, would very naturally infer that he
had held for "twenty years and more,,'
some public station under the government;
anu, LUNnunii, vvas piaceu in a situa-
tion to know that these charges were utter
ly and basely false. Hut the public will
be as naturally very much surprised to
learn, that the reverend gentleman's public
life is comprised not "in twenty long years
and more," but in the enormous short
spice often short months! in the capacity
of chaplain of the lower House of Con
gress. .
Of the reverend doctor. Mr. Clay has
ever been a quasi patron, and was his sup-
potter to that ofiic.e; and if the report of
that day be true, backed his claims to that i
olhee with the somewhat novel but singu
lar recommendation, "that he could pro
duce a preacher who could preach them all
to hell and back again." That argument
was irresistible to members the reverend
doctor was backed against Satan; Mr. Clay
endorsed, for him then; the doctor was
elected and he. not forgetful of past la
vors, cherishing a very commendable grat
itude, now backs Mr. Clay, and endorse
i. ... .i r..n ,i
i'i mm m me ion extern, ana a "ieeiir
over." The doctor preached, and preach
ed well; but whether he quite came up to
the letter, or filled the measure of the tec
ommendation, we regret to say history
does not allow to us the slightest record.
When the doctor counts again, he will,
doubtleso, discover that ten months are
not "twenty years and more "
Take the doctor's statement rs true to
the letter grant that he was "in intimate
and confidential public intercourse" w ith
Mr. Clay for "twenty years and more,
and then ask him how he ktiows that Mr.
Clay neither "desecrated the Sabbath, pro
fanejy swore, nor gambled" in that lime?
Was he at Mr. Clay's elbow all the time?
When he was preaching in the halls of
Congress, does he know that Mr. Clay was
not desecrating the holy day elsewhere?
Was be by the side of Mr. Clay day and
night, so as to know that he neither swore
nor gambled. All men would suppose that
a minister of the gospel would be the last
man "invited to such an entertainment,"
to witness the g3ming on which Mr. Clay
staked his thousands, ay, even during the
doctor's brief tenure of public station.
And yet the doctor knows that Mr. Clay
did not gamble, or swear, or break the
Sabbath.,
Hut the scene is shifted. The intimate
and confidential intercourse of "twenty
years and more," closes in ten months;
but the "private one" is still maintained
with so much fidelity that the reverend
doctor is enabled to "know," and does
know, and affirms that he does positively
and unequivocally "know" that Mr. Clay
never swore nor broke the Sabbathj from
the beginning of. the "twenty years or
more," up to the 20th day of July, 1844,
the date of his certificate. Now, unless
the country is willing to admit that the re
verend gentleman is endowed with ubiqui
ty, that, by some supernatural agency, he
is enabled to "know" what Mr. Clay is
doing in Washington city at all hours of the
day and night, on the days of the week,
and on the Sabbath when the reverend
gentleman is some hundreds of miles dis
tant, they certainly do not forfeit their
claims to common charity, when they
question very much whether the doctor
does "know" with as much certainty as lie
professes to affirm in his certificate or en
dorsement, and justification of Mr. ( lay's
claims to that morality with which he is so
ready to invest him. Hut to proceed with
tbe doctor's own history after the close of
his "public" life and intercourse. His ten
ure of office abrubtly ceases, anil he be
comes an itinerant preacher, travelling
through the length and breadth of the land,
and never having an opportunity of prea
ching to Mr. Clay, or touching at any
point where he pnssed his time more than
once in several years, until he settled
down, and became connected with the col
lege at Augusta, a town distant about COO
miles from ashington city, where Mr.
Clay spent the greater portion of his time,
and about 100 miles from Lexington, the
place of Mr Clay's residence.
Under this state of the facts, we respect
fully propound the question to the doctor,
how he could keep up an intercourse so
inlitftote and confidential at Ihese res
peciive distances, as to "know," and to as
sert to ihe world that he does "know,"
that these charges are "basely and utterly
false" "in whole and in part, and conse
quently, to follow out the doctor's most
decorous and Christian vocabulary, that he
who asserts the contrary "lies most foully
in his throat.0 We tell the doctor, were
he to slate personally to Mr. Clay's associ
ates in Washington or in Lexington the
contents of his certificate, and appear to do
it in sober seriousness, they would either
regard it as a pleasant joke of his, or an at
tempt to impose on their credulity. The
reverend doctor has about an equal chance
of "knowing" whether these charges are
true or false, as the Pope of Rome has of
personally knowing the morality of the
Russian Czar. Hut to render certain the
Rcy. Dr.'s means of "knowing" that Mr.
Clay is a finished specimen of morality I
that virtue claims him as her favorite and
especial advocate and pattern -he is heral-
ueu lorin as the renowned President ot j
Transylvania University, and thctcby an!
attempt is made to delude the people -.vithj
the idea that he has occupied that station hand has placed him, and kill the time,
for a considerable length of time. Such is! which hung heavily on his hands by a ie
not the fact. He has been a resident of j sort to the gentle and cry "moral" amuse-
Lexington scarce two years, out of '.lhe;?ncnt of the gaming fable; ay, and even
twenty years and more" through all of
which this intimate and confidential in-
lercourse" has been maintained in all itsj.'Mwo bullets and a bragger," or the four
purity, uninterrupted and unbroken, dis-j honors in his own hand?" This last i
tance and separation to the contrary not-
withstanding.
And has not the Kev. Dr. s
faith in Mr. Clay as the embodiment of all
virtue been shaken at 3ny time during thejod of "twenty years ?nd more," may, by
lapse of this "twenty years or more," orjihis time, have taught you to understand
are his ideas of morality isolated, and pecu-j its legitimate meaning. And still, doctor,
liar only to himself? Docs he not "know"! your honorable friend and patron is the ve
t hat scarce thrte months ago Gen: McCal-i lies! qink of morality, according to "its
la, of Lexington, an elder of the Prtsbyte-j m.osl accredited pi ineiplt s," as taught by
rian church of that city, a man without spot cur chuich and our religion,
or b!emih.) who has been hunted down ! And you "know," too, doctor, that Mr.
by Mr Clay himself ay, even by all the Clay is no '"Sabbath breaker," and that
curs which so throng his kennel there, and j charge, too, is "utterly false." Does your
for what? becaue he dared to lift the cur-j church and religion teach, or authorize you
tain which concealed the deformity, and toj"to certify," that the man who travels to
publish to the world, one of these very j the races at Louisville on the Sabbath day
charges which, in the facp of overwhelm -
ing t viuencc, anti not (len)eii. tins reverenu
doctor now pronounces "utterly and basel)
fal-e") published in a paper there 'that
this very same Mr. Clay, oh the4ih day ol
July, 10 13, 3t a public barbecue twu miles
from Lexington, gamblsd high, and won.
i from the very friend whom he convey etl to
the ground in his own catriage, a consider
able Mini of money," and proffered to
prove the charge if denied by the gentle
men who played at the table, and by a ho.-t
ot his political friends and neighbors.
Was the change denied? Did any of the
tenants ol the kennel, or Air. Clay himself,
utter the faintest shadow of denial? Did ei-
thcr o! Mr. Clay's certificate makeis of theljustice and the-claims of society" so lo de
icccnt occurrence at the Blue Lick Springs.! i hire and certify it.. And you, too,
(who, by-the-by, were both present, ssj. "know," doctor, that Mr. Clay is "no pro
we are informed, at least when this game fane swearer." Have you. never heard it
at the barbecue was played, when the
friend's pockets were relieved of their
"small change,") then unsolicited and un
asked, step forward and certify that Mr,
Clay did no "gambling" then and there?
Silence, profound silence, was the watch
word passed from the chief to his satellites,
snd silence it was. They were afraid to
deny the charge which Gen. McCalla made
and could prove by fifty unwilling witnes
ses of his own party.
And has the reverend gentleman slept
over all this? He knows" the charge was
made, that nroof was offered hut none was
challenged; and yet he "knows" that Mr
('lay does not "gamble," and proclaims
the charge to the world as "basely and ut
terly false," under the sacred sanction of
the written vord of a minister of the gos -
pel. basely false." .
Once more Let the reverend gentle- This covers the ground of the Ucv. doc
man go to Ashland, and ask the man tor's certificate, which has been so much
whom he so boldly and recklessly endor- j extolled nd glorified, !hat a credulous peO;
ses whether the beautiful picture of the'ple would be very apt lo suppose -hst, on
"Welshwoman," which decorates ihe walljits "accredited principles," the .'"unt
of iis dining hall, was not won at the gam- 'v;s fully settled beyond all cavii."-. oed
ing table! Let him descend from his throne controversy, and that Mr. Clay, no lopc-c-of
Transylvania, and ask this same "em- amenable to the bar of puhjic opinion, Ir '
bodimchf'.of all ihe attributes of virtue j received at the Rev. doctor's hands
and morality.' whether the still more beau- ceipt in full.
tiful picture of the 'Bouquet of Flowers,") A few words addressed to you, doctor,,
which meets the eye as you enter the! in the relations, and with all. kindness, as
drawing room of that stately mansion, j members of the same Christian church, and
was not staked against with money and ; we lnve discharged a duty as unpalateable
won at the same place of vice and deprav-jto us as it is extraordinary and unauthori
itv ! 'z-d in you, as a minister of the church to
'Let him not leave the mansion until he which we belong, to give currency, arid
makes the still more porpentous inquiry of the sane ion of that church, by your, hp'.:';;
this sage of Ashland's shady groves, (who
once backed him against
SaUn, and whom
he now backs as the purest and thi best,)
whether he did not propose, at ihe same
place of iniquity, lo put up a high slake
against the picture of the Virgin Mary,
and to play at cards for the picture of the
Motiikr op our Saviouu! Ask him
again most reverend doctor, whether the
proposition was not made to the Hon. A.
G., of New York, and what was the reply
whether it was not that "the picture of
the Mother of our Redeemer was
not obtained by gambling, and that he
could not gamble it oil "
Let these questions be asked and an
swertd in honesty and truth, and if denied,
let the proof be called for, and then, sir.
you may be placed in a situation to "know"
whether this charge of "gambling is utter
ly and basely false," or whether it stands
written in imperishable characters against
the man whom you wish to sustain and en
dorse, "the public and private, intimate
and confidential intercourse of 20 years
and more, with additonal prool of your
certificate to ihe contrary notwithstanding
Was this intimate and confidential inter
course still kept tip by, you, doctor, when
Clay left his home to travel lo Louisville
to the races? Ay, even on the race field
itself, and to the locked rooms of the hotel
where these "moral sports" were finished
for the day, and do you "know" that Mr.
Clay did not bet high on the race field, and
gamble high at the hotel? Were you so
' intimate and confidential" with your
honorable friend when he was Ira veil iu'ir
up and down the river on steamboat", and
y ow at home, by your own lirestde, as to
know that he did not descend from that pin-
uncle of molality on which your ready
lorgot that Saturdav niaht had passed
away, and the Sabbath had dawned on
technical language, doctor; but your "inti-
j rnate and confidential intercourse" and as-
! soci uion with Mr. Clay for the long pcri-
1 does not profane the holy day for which it
was set tiparir
j Does the Bible, or the sanctity of your
i hallowed office as a minister and teacher of
its precept?, instruct you to declare .that
man free from the charge of deeecratiou of
th holy day, who, surrounded . by pomp
and pageantry and all the circumstances of
a festive occasion, addresses a crowd on po;
1 1 ileal subjects, amid the shouts and huzzas
of an assembled and Sabbath-breaking mul
titude? And ) o, doctor, you know that
Mr. Clay is "no Sabbath-breaker," and. is
moral to the full extent of its "accredited
principles." and all this is virtuous, moral,
and lawful, and you owe it to "truth and
wnisperea that tms same lir. iienry Ljay
?o lar torgot the dignity ot his 6lation as a
grave senator and the sage of Ashland, and
that morality according to its most ."ac
credited principles," of which;you, doctor,
certify he possesses so overflowing and
abounding a quantity, as to say on the floor
of Congress to Gov. Polk, "Go home, God
damn you, where you belong?" Th
charge has been made by members of Con
gress who heard ihe expression of his mfu-
riite passion; and neither Mr. Clay not"
any of his partizan "pi esses have ever had
ihe hardihood to deny the charge. And.
yel you, doctor, endorse him and cerlily
that he is no profane swearer, and that you
"know" the fact, aiid owe it to "truth and
justice to say eo," and that he who asserts
ihe fact affirms that which is "utterly and
and authority, to a certificate of "acc.cait-
ed" morality to the duelist, the ptjhne.
swearer, the Sabbath bieaker, and the sam--
bier. We know, from better test i mo w
ihaii yours can possibly be,' who never h&si
an opportunity of "knowing," we know,
from the general character in these particu
lars, and others which we could .enume
rate, that your honorable aud "moral"
friend is guilty, has been often guilty, of
the charges which you denounce as utterly
and basely false, in whole or in part, "in
your startling" certificate, authorized by
you to be proclaimed and publit-hed tp i)
world a3 containing "the truth, the whole
truth, and nothing but ihe truth." Wo
"know" the man w hom you have "accred
ited" with such puru and unblemished mo
rality, drafted the unhallowed challenge
which hurried into eternity, scarce six
years ago, a deluded victim to the bloody
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-code ol honor. e"Hnow inai ine
man whom you bet aid to the world an one
of inflexible and "accredited virtue," h3s
twice stood foith on the field of blood to
uphold that "code of honor" which defies
the laws of God and man, shooting, in cold
blood, at one antagonist, and desperately
wounding the other, and evr n now as reck
less ami unrepentant, at tbe advanced age
of near ihreescoie years and ten, standing
on the brink of eternity, and proclaiming
to the world most emphatically, and in do
ring and defying language to his God,
i hat he cannot foresee what contingency
I may arise, and that he cannot reevftcile i'