Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1829-07-24

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would allow him to turn out all the old and
faithful servants off the farm, md employ
those who were untried and inexperienced
He asked his audience, what they would
think of a newly employed Captain of a
steam boat, if, on going on board, he
should dismiss all the crew. because they
were not devoted to him, and hostile to
their old commander? Would he not
burst the boler!" said Mr.. Clay. In re-
ply to this interrogatory, an Irishman in
the crowd exclaimed: go ahead, my no.
neg, you are bursting your own boiler fast
enough" Laughter. Mr.. Clay con-
tended that the prescription pursued by
Gen. jackson, was corrupt and despotic,
calculated to convert our republican go
vernment into a monarchy.
To prove that Gen. Jackson's principles
are essentially mOnGrchiat, Mr.. Clay quot
ed the following sentence from the recent
stalk of the President to the Creek In
dams
"By permission of the Great Spirit a.
bove, and the voice of the people, have
been made President Of the u. States, and
now speak to you as your father aud
friend"
The language thus used by the Presi-
dent, because he conceived it to be adap.
ted to the savage mind, appeared to have
made an indelible and very alarming in,-
preston on the mind of Mr.. Clay. He
imagined he saw in it the germs of royal
ty--of monarchy and despotism! 1t sound
ed so much like owe, George Nv. by the
Grace Of God," that he was quite sure he
could not be mistaken in the designs of
the military Chieftain )" and he implored
the people in the most pathetic manner, to
be vieilant in watching the executive and
guarding their liberties. 1t was the duty
of every patriot the Hurras excepted to
watch the course of events, with a jealous
and never-sleeping eye.
MIR. Clay deprecated, in strong terms.
the course pursued by the President to.
wards the Creek Indians; pronounced it
cruel, unauthorized, and despot,c; denied
the right OF Georgia to extend her laws o.
yer he soil within her own limits, SC. &c.
We regret that we cannot furnish more
perfect outline ofthe speech of Mr.. Clay.
AS we did not hear it, we are, of course,
indebted to others, for such parts of it as
we have detailed. 1t gave satisfaction to
none except the enemies of the orator.
The abortion was so complete, that his
friends were compelled to acknowledge that
he had fallen far short of their anticipa-
tons. On the return of the crowd to the
city, men who never saw him before, were
heard TO say" he is far from being as
great man as had supposed"-" Barry
is decidedly better speaker have
hoo 4,
After all, Mr.. Clay made, perhaps, as
great display as could reasonably have
been anticipated. A farmer from the
country opposed to him, made the best "a
pology for him that we have ever heard
He declared that no man could have rea-
sonably expected great speech from Mr..
Clay on such an occasion, because he
could not fix upon any subject of deep in
terest to speak about. He could make
no well grounded complaint against the
new administration; could point to the vi
olation of no important principle, or, to
the negligence of no leading interest
Under such circumstances, our friend
concluded that it was impossible for any
man to make good speech. He could,
indeed, manifest bitter and unrelenting
spirit OF opposition, but that would only
satisfy his hearers that he was influenced
by revengeful and selfish feelings-and
that he was not, in reality. half as worthy
ofpublic confidence, as those he was revil-
ing.
So it has turned out with the "Cicero of
the West" He travelled nearly so miles
to make speech here. In performing
| this task, he lost character as an orator,
and injured his popularity as man. His
| friends were disappointed as well as his
enemies. The former feel detected, and
the latter elated He is now considered
less attractive by his friends, and less fol-
mdable by his foes: and it seems to be
pretty generally conceded, that in his
marchto the Presidency, he has, as Pad
dy would say, "adUanced backwmds." He
may learn, perhaps, by his effort here, that
the people are not prepared to tolerate an
undignltied course on the pant of poiti-
cal aspiraDt, or to lissen to unmeaning
vollies of invective.; that they have some
resrsct for themselves, and will Judge Of
the Presider. they have elected by the
character of his measures.
THE U. STATES Us. ANN RoYxL. An
other case came up yesterday before the
Circuit Court, which, by the unusual
crowd that thronged the Hall, appeared to
excite much interest. Mrs Ann Royal,
against whom bench warrant was issued
last week, appeared to answer an indict
ment found against her during the term,
by the Grand Jury, for certain alleged i'm
proprietiesof conduct, denominatcd in le-
gal phrase common scold,' common
slanderer,' brawler,' Common nuisance,
&c. The defendants counsel entered a
demurrer to two out of three counts Of the