Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-01-20
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WEDNESDAY MORNING, JAN. 20, 1880.
KENTUCKY.


merely for ITS own Concerns, always .cmbroled and
always conducted by great ability but as tho retreat
oithat eminent citizen, who for the last six years,
has filled SC large space in the public eye, and at
traccd SO unusual proportion of yituperaion abuse
and Observation-Disclosures Plutarch says that after tho
ascendancy OF Antony. and the expulsion Of Bruus
and Cassius from Rome the Republicans who were
left IN the city, could never hear the name of Bruus
pronounced without tears-so deeply and una!:s.ably
was associated with public liberty and the glory of
their country For our part, we fcei aome,hinp of
the came emotion at the name of Henry Clay. That
name kindles within us, enthusiasm for those instu
tons, which enable ono born in humble obscurity to
tower by the force Of original genius over the favo
rites ofbirth and fortune. We respect in that name
genius self dependent, and rising by It's own exertions
to the highest eminence--it awakcns our sympathy
for noble character misunderstood, and for fate
which the cxcoss of the noblest virtues Produced
To those intimately acquainted with Henry CLAY
who remember the day when his eoquence stood al
most alone cncountering and rebukng general des-
pondcnce, and ann,ating it to resistancc-who know
the man, and knowing HIM, know besides, that mind
more loyal to liberty, more true to friends or mag
unanimous to enemies. more incapable of the basencss
imputed to it, or more endowed with sensbili,y TO
impossible for these to see such man driven with
taunts from the councils ofhs country his reputation
loaded with unmertcd obloquy. and his fecIiprs in
suited and triumphed over by the tools and hrcnas
OF his enemics-the Kendalls Hills, Greens, Penns.
who have already pocketed the wages ofthcir hire
without warm Indignation. Is it not well calculated
to increase this Indignation to the men who have
succeeded to tho public confidence which MIR. CLAW
has lost embracing aud executing that very policy
which so recently, they reprobatcd in Mr. Adams ad-
mniStratlon' Is this Indignation cssencd, when we
see the result of those splendid promises of Reform
ana Reirenchment with which the of the people
were assailed and their understandings duped. Can
the astutest mind perceive wherein the general poll
cy OF the late administration has undergone the
slightest modification of principle? Is the Tariff TO
be changed? So far from it, even the notifications
recommended by Mr. Adams, arc declared inexpedi
ent and the system to be irrevocable Is the uncon
stitutional power oflnterna Improvement TO be re
United IN exercise or degree? So far from IT. il is
threatened to be prosecuted with vigor, and on a
scale of magnifcence. unknown TO any former time
In al. probability too, the national property in the
Western lands, is to be reInquished to the modest
demands of the Western States and the common trea
sure Is to be approp lated the purchase of Texas
worse than useless to the Union but servioe
able in propitiating the affections of the West
towards Mr. Van Buren, At no time have there
been SO many splendid" projects entertained at
Washington. At no time has the ambition of indvi
duas' clothing itself in the specious garb of patriot
ism, been so daring and undisguised At no time
has Federal power attempted so many, SO maqnif
cent so expensive and so doubtful designs and this
within the first year of that Administration which
was to model itself on the simplicity Of the JcfFerso-
MAN era!
We learn from Kentucky, that Mr.. Clay was on
the eve of a visit to his children in New Orleans-
that the Legislature Of that State have adopted
very able Report IN to the S. arolna Reso-
lutlons-and that no Nomination was made or in.
tended of Mr. Clay for the Presidency Of the U.
States, by the General Assembly ofKentucky
III this last circumstance we are happy to hear
convinced that it would answer nc parpose IN, to
re oisf upon him, the flood gates ofsander and per-
secution of which God knows, he has had enough to
bear during the last five ycars--nore we believe
than ever fell to the share of any other man. He
can be real friend of Mr.. Clay, who would desire
at this time, to bring him tho eectioncerng arena
Whether it will ever be eRpedient is another ouos-
ton; though in our opinion. public opinion never
inflicted wrong that it did not ultimately atone
for
South Carolhna-Tho recent meeting and pro.
ceedings ofthe citizens Of Charleston calling on the
General Government for aid in the construction of
their Rail Road, are viewed by the Calhountos at
Columbia, an abandonment of principle and Of
State Rights (God save the mnrk) That they are
oftbis character, take the liberty of thinking our
solvo MT H. al.
the people of Charleston, by the followers of Mr.
Monroe's Secretary Of Warl "Of all the cant of
this cauting worldp'-The severity with which the
people Of Charleston are reproachod by the High
Priests of State Rights at Columbia--tbc Calhoun
mint have heon told an nronor-