Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1828-05-22

| =, Va teW tFienuS TO dine with
them at an early hour; and afterwards
between and O'Clock, he visited the
venerable Charles Carroll of Carrollton.
at the dinner the following toasts were
gwen 6y the Committee efIuvitation:
!. Fhe President the United States
Z \ great Statesman has said, "What
sa public man worth who will not suf-
Ter Tor his country" We have seen a
puoiic man sacrifice much sor bis coun-
Try, and rise resplendendy triumphant
over the calumnies OF his enemies.
Mr.. CLAY then rose (eyidently Ia.
boring under debility from indisposition.
probably increased by the cere monies
of the day. and said,
Although have been required by the
advice OF my physicians to abstain from
all social entertainments, with their at
tendant excitement, cannot leave Bal
timore without saying few words, by
way OF public acknowledgment for the
cordial congratulations with which
have been received, during my present
visit. am not so vain, indeed, as to
| imagine that any personal considerations
have prompted the enthusiastic demon
STATIONS by which my approach TO this
city and my short so)ourn have been so
highly distinguished. Their honored
OBJECT has. 1t is true, some claims up.
on the justice. il not the sympathy, of
generous, intelligent and high minded
people. Singled on. for the prcscrip-
ton and destruction, he has sustained
all the fury of the most ferocious attacks.
Calunnious charges, directed against
the honor of his public character, dear
er than life itself, sanctioned and re.
published by one who should have scorn.
ed to lend himself to such vile purpose,
have been echoed by thousand profit
gate or deluded tongues and presses.
Supported by the consciousness fhav
ing faithfully discharged his duty, and
defended by the virtue and intelligence
OF an enlightened people, he has stood.
firm and erect, amidst all the billowings
of the political storm WHAT'S public
man, tyhatis any man worth who is not
prepared to sacrifice himself, if neces-
sary, for the good OF his country,
But, continued Mr.. Clay, the demon
STATIONS which | have here witnessed.
have higher, and nobler source than
homage TO an individual They origi-
nate from that cause with which I am
an humble associate the cause of the
Countryside cause of the Constitution,
the cause Of free institutions They
would otherwise be unworthy of free.
men less gratifying to me. | am not,
hope, so uncharitable as to charge all the
opponents of that cause with designs,
| uniriendly to human liberty. I know
that they make. many of them. sincere
! ~, other professions. They talk indeed
of Republication, and some of them
Impudentiy claim to. be the exclusive
Republican party. Yes! we End men
who, but yesterday, were the foremost
IN other ranks, upon whose revolving
ears the grazing sound of Republican.
ism ever fell, and upon whose lips the
exotic word still awkwardly hangs, now
exclaiming OF acquescing in the cry
that they are the Republican party! |
bad thought that it, any one more than
all other principles characterized the
true Republican party, twas their ar
dent devotion TO liberty, to its safety, to
all its guarantees. I bad supposed that
the doctrines of that school taught Us to
guard against the dangers of standing
armies, to profit by the lessons which
all history inculcates. and never to for.
| get that liberty and the performance of
the military principle were utterly in,
compatible. The Republican pa .ty! In
this modern new tangled and heterogen-
eous party, Cromwell and Caesar have
recently found apologists. The iude
ment of centuries is reversed Long
established maxims are overturned
the Ethiopian is washed white; and the
only genuine lovers OF liberty were the
Philips. the Caesars, the Cromwells, the
Mariuses and the Scyllas Of former a.
ges. II is time for slumbering patriot
ism to awake, when such doctrines as
these are put forth from the capitol and
from popular assemblies. 1t Is time
that the real Republican party Il speak
not of former divisions springing from
causes no longer existing, and which
are sought to be kept up, by some men
in particular places, only for sinister
purposes,) that party, under whatever