Literary cadet, and Saturday evening bulletin. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1826-1827, 1826-09-02

Mn. CLAv.--The last accounts We have Of this
gentleman, left him in the interior Of Virginia on
his way to Washington, to re-assume the arduous
duties ofhis Office. He was then in bad health,
and would previous TO his return resort to the Sui
phur Springs ofGreenbriar County, with hope that
their salutary waters, would restore his wonted
health. We hope in all sincerity that his antcipa-
ton. may be realized, and that he will arrive at
.he Department of State, in the full enjoyment Of
that health, which he once possessed.
II gives US much satisfaction to discover, from the
tone of the prints, that MIR. Clay, so far from de-
clining in the estimation of the American people,
is daily and hourly growing more popular.
If there ever was man, who suffered persecu'
ton, for the maintenance ofhis political opinions
that man is HENRY CLAY, and proud are we TO
say that lie has wihstood the caumnies and assaults
Of his enemies Conscious Of the rectitude Of his
own conduct, he looks with smile Of complacency
on the attempts fhis enemies TO pull him down 10
their own level, and undismnyed, and unshaken, has
pursued that plain straight forward path Of duty,
which his conscience, and his devotion 10 his coun-
try has marked out for him. His country's wei.
fare has been his whole aim. through life, and his
love ofndependence OF and the liberties of mankind,
have been his incentives to action. Asa politic-
ian, he is original in hi, views, and during his event.
ful career, he has completed that code Of national
economy, which Jefferson commenced, but failed to
red uce to practical system.
U paided by fostering friends and destiude Of the
advantages ofa proud paterna inheritence, by the
force Of his own genius--by his industry, he has
reared himself to the first standing among men, and
now ranks with the ablest und wisest statesmen Of
the age.
Calumny and detraction have assailed him--but
they have assailed him in vain, and after passing
thrice through the ordeal, he has come out pure
of alloy, and ten fold more radient than ever.
His countrymen reposing every confidence in his
integrity, prepared to defend his fame; and they
will not quietly look on, and behold their favored
son. the ablest o: American statesmen, as,aied by
an nnprncipled and infuriaed faction, whose views
far from being patriotic they Disgrace
full to themselves, and their country.
In the violence of their rage, they have attempt
ed to impose q belief in the minds of the too
credulous, that the illness Of the Secretary of State
is judgment thrown upon his head, with all the
vengeance of the thunbols of Jove, for acts ofpo-
litical corruption and apostacy. Let them go on in
their mad career;-the Secretary and the American
people, will teach them, that he who hus withstood
the tornadoes Of political warfares pure aid unsul-
lied; and he will at last when his enemies have been
humbled with the Dust present himselft to the world
in the mishtiness of moral and political triumph
Let his foes point to single act ofderelictOn Of du.
ty, committed by the Secretary, and we will yield
to them all they ask.