Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1828-09-12
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MIR. CLAY IN CINCINNATI.
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Permit me, sir, in the name OF .lIy fellow citizens
here assembled, to offer you a cordial welcome TO
our city. And while we tender our congratulations
ior mat degree oil improvement in your health,
which has permitted you TO accept our invitation
we earnestly hope that its complete restoration
enable you long TO continue in public life tie able
advocate Oi that system which claims YOU for its
most distinguished supporter. and which must form
she Ia Is oil our connry's future prosperity. Many
oil us have known yol from your FIRST entIarcr in
to public life. We have seen you In vour adopt.,
State. at an early per- the drm advocate Of free
dom and equal rights. IN tho councils of.tle ma
tion, we have Witnessed your efforts to elevate the
character and advance the interests OF the West;
and IN all places wc have found YOU an enlirhten-
ed Statesman, devoted To your country and 10 the
cause OF human liberty. Your talents have COM
manded our admiration, yonr integrity our esteem,
anu we ieel our attachment 20 you firmly CO.
menictLjy the violent attacks made upon votIr pub-
lie conduct. by ambitious aad disappointed men,
who 90 not themselves believe to he true te char
ges they have made against you. These attacks
nave indeed been violent, " but you have been en-
dowcd with powers OF resistance " lch have ena-
bied yon successfully TO avert their iorce-and we
trust that The Almighty will yet spare you and us
TO witness the triumph of that cause ,g,i ci, we
hope he has merciiuily deCreeI, and with which
we soiemnly believe the permanent safety Of our
Institutions, and The prosperity OF country, are in
timately Associated"
will only add sir, our best wishes for YOUR
health and happiness, and that your able enicayors
TO promote The best interests OF free and happy
country may be completely successful, and her
prosperity secured by wise and prudent admins
ft1ton oil her government.
MIR. CLAY'S REPLY.
M. Chairman Although it is not entirely
compatible with the precautions which arc eninin-
ed by the delicate state Of my health,to which you
have so obigDgly alluded to present myself in
This attitude, cannot refrain from making pub
&c expression TO you, and 20 my feiiOw-citizeDs
here assembled, of my profound Acknowledgements
for the hearty welcome and the cordial, sponta
ncous, and enthusiastic manifestation oresPGct and
attachment with which my present visit To- your
city has been attended. II has been frequently,
but not less truly ,-id, that the highest reward, for
public SERVICE, is the appreciation 0l the public
The support OF public Opinion, is the greatest in
centive 10 the faithful and beneficial discharge OF
official duty. IL, as you have truly suggested, il
has been my misfortune for several years TO have
been abused and assailed without example, have
nevertheless had the satisfaction 10 have been
chcered aud sustained, in all parts Of the Union,
by some OF the best and most yirtuous men in il.
And seize with pleasure this occasion say that
even among my political opponents, many OF the
bIoderate and most intelligent, have done the
justice TO discrcdit and discounienance the caum.
mics OF which have been the object But no
where have found more constant, ardent and
effective friends, than in this city thank them
most heartily for all their friendly sentiments and
eXerions.
Whatever may be the issue Of the contes; which
nj present unhappily divides and distracts our
country, trust That the beneficial system 10 which
you nave referred VIII survive the struggle, and
continue 10 engage the affections aud to cheer and
animate the industry Of the r.0qe OF the United
states. 1t has indeed, been .rece:,aY attacked ia
another quarter Of the Union, by SONS o, cur icl-
aoW-cltizeus, with haFshness and in.empcr2Gce
Which must every where excit: the patriots
greet. 1t has been denounced a. il ii were = new
system that sprung into cSi tcucc bat yesterday,
at least with the present Administration, if not du
ring the last session .! Congress. But il owes it's
origin 20 a much earlier date. The pre- cent Admin
istraton, though sincerely attached 10 10. and most
anxious for IL preservation Els no; the merit ot
having first proposed or first established IT, The
manufacturing system was quickeucd into cX-
Silence, by the commercial restrictions which
preceded the late war with Great Britain, and
by that greatest Of them all, the war Itself
Our wants, no longer supplied ifom abroad
must have been supplied at home, b. mus
have been deprived Of ihe neccssIres anC
comfort Of civilization, IS lad moi rellpscd int
state Of bar1arisn. Tire policy Of Jefferson an,
Madison iosicred, IL did not create, the ndnulac
lures OF our country. The peace brought with i
giut OF foreign fabrics, which would have pros
tratcd our establishments. il government had been
capable Of unjusuy witnessing such spcctacl,
without interpreting lis protective power. Pfo,cc-
ton, therefore, was not merely called lJr by tht
substantial Independence Of our country, lot
was parental duty Of Government; 20 those Cit
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