Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-07-27
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rp1DAy MORNING, JULY 81. 1927.

EQInAY MORNLNG, JClH 'o~f'
An account Of the Great Dinner given oy Inc
citizens of Lexington and county OF Fayeue 10
their distinguished friend Henry Clay, VIII &c
sound in this mornings Gazette. fyfeen nun
d,,d gentlemen were present. The Hon. w m
Rochester of New York was guest. nc
dinner took place on Thursday the III" '''s''
On the Saturday following Mr.. Clay was "
a;,s in Woodford county; on The Monday ioi-
,o,v;ro \, p,R1s; ana on Wednesday, al Mays
,ius whence he would depar, for Washington
sneaking of the proposed Dinner at Par's' Inc
Editor Of the Western Citizen says:-"Mr'I clay
has been waited on by delegation from she
.o,,,;,,,e and has accepted the invitation. de
IN ,,;rs here. on his return 10 Washington ci-
~. Splendid preparations are making ior "''
rece,tion by the committee. FROM 'he extern
s;v. arrangements which are making, ana the
zeal which anin,a,es our county, 10 receive MN
IN 4 manner which his patriotism anu Puo"'
service merit, We are assured that IL WIZ oe que
of the mos, splendid and numerousiy a"e"oe'
entertainments ever given in the Nes'er" 9ou"-
rrv~ The Editor then remarks:-"'ho GIG
no. know, that knew any thing OF Henry Clay
,ba, he could never have stopped 10 such III
,,;gue as was laid 10 his charge! A more IN
corrun,ibIe statesman lives not in our republic,
,;,ss nor ON earth. And if he had been disPos-
ed TO intrigue, who is so big fool as not 10
.nov he never would have stopped to have been
the Secretary Of tina, Military Chletlain, who
now in irving to injure him is prostratins min
self And who of Mr. Clay's friends can ha'r
offered 10 make this bqrgain9 not our WORTHY
Representa,iye Themas Me,calf, nor our res
pectable neighboring Representative Mr., irin-
bic. No, never. We say push on the inSeso
ca,ion we glory in seeing i, traced TO lis source;
i, will result in the exaliation OF Mr.. Clay ana
his friends, AMI in the degradation OF those
whose malice has invented IL.
In reference 10 the base charge OF Corru p
lion. brought, by General Jackson against M
CLAW aud his friends, the editor says with grea'
animation and ius,ice:"Tbe unmeasured heaps
of foul delracton which have Increasingly oeen
noured out upon our distinguished fellow ci'i-
zen appear now 10 be reooiling, and pressing
hard on those, who either as actors on the stage,
or promp,crs behind the scene, have had hand
in dark and diabolcal deeds, 10 blast The cha
racter and fair fame Of a man TO whom vast
and powerful Nation must feel Itself under
grateful tribute. Yes, Henry Clay, The Ia
,her of the american System"--,he untirIng
and Jealous advocate Of Domestic Manufac-
lures and Internal Improvements, must be put
down. He,whose voice, for twenty years, has
illumined our National Counc ils-mu1 now
be sacrificed at the shrine Of factions and aai-
bilious men. But to check this want Of graft
tude in some, there is a rcdeeming spirit in
many, who only speak when occasion requires
and who know that Noise is neither Reason nor
Logic, nor Faction love of country"
We hope on Monday next to receive copy
of Mr.. Clay's Speech at the Lexington Dinner.