. Ben Hardin: his times and contemporaries, with selections from his speeches. control ofartful politicians. Obnoxious appointments were made. His self-willand ungovernable passion betrayed him into many follies. His admin-istration was not a little in contrast to all that had preceded. Party * Letter of Mr. Clay to H. Niles. i5o BEN HARDIN. spirit ran higher than ever before. The administration maintained anewspaper organ (a practice then introduced) whose diatribes were ofunparalleled bitterness. The Whigs, or National Republicans, underthe lead of Clay, and the Democratic, or Locofoco follo
. Ben Hardin: his times and contemporaries, with selections from his speeches. control ofartful politicians. Obnoxious appointments were made. His self-willand ungovernable passion betrayed him into many follies. His admin-istration was not a little in contrast to all that had preceded. Party * Letter of Mr. Clay to H. Niles. i5o BEN HARDIN. spirit ran higher than ever before. The administration maintained anewspaper organ (a practice then introduced) whose diatribes were ofunparalleled bitterness. The Whigs, or National Republicans, underthe lead of Clay, and the Democratic, or Locofoco followers of Jack-son, were so widely separated by political feelings as to interrupt inno small degree the social and business intercourse of intense passion of the leaders passed down the rank and file. Mr. Hardin, although a faithful Whig, was, however, not trans-ported by his zeal. He, perhaps, excited party spirit in others thathe himself shared only to a limited extent. He never came to respectGeneral Jackson. He ridiculed and denounced him quite IT Wont Hold Another Drap. He was elector for Clay in the presidential campaign of 1832. Assuch, he canvassed the State, increasing his fame for oratory and con-tributing to the triumph of his party in the State. I heard Mr. Hardin on Jackson, in 1832, writes Colonel Allen, andI then thought it the most exquisite irony I ever listened to. He drew apicture of Jacksons excessive vanity and how the magician of Kinderhook(Mr. Van Buren) ministered to it, for his own purposes, and how compla-cently the old hero received the ministrations. He depicted the Presi-dent occupying an easy chair in one of the private rooms of the White THE WHIG PARTY IN KENTUCKY. 15 I House, a weak, ill-educated, vain old man, in the hands of the wily fox—VanBuren—who, being present, played on his inordinate vanity to subservehis private ends. There was more truth than poetry in the picture, remarks ColonelAllen. The particular fla
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