Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1839-08-22

Clay delivered . very exeelicnt OF hand reply with
msch earnestness; the simple points e his spesch
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his looks said honestly for their Welcomes ii was
the NEST handsome he had yet met Wits he fsh
proud and grateful fer is he did mot consider paid
to him as an individual but to the principles which
ne professed; those principles he would maintain,
whether he remained Senator, returned to private
life or became the Chief Magistrate Of the country;
ne had fought and struggled for Referm-Reforn in
the fullest and most desirable acseptation sfhe term
reform in the principles of the Government and its
mode OF administering those principles; he hoped
YET 70 be able to accomplish this Reform; to give
to the country from end of the Unsn to the other
a sound and healthy cxrrency-(great cheering) to
change the system Of Government, make it more
responsible and more obedient to the will OF the
people and more watchful of their welfare; he would
still fight he had done for the people, for his coun-
try; his country right wrong; and in defence Of
its true principles those blessed and pure principles
of glorious and hallowed liberty which had been
handed down by their Revolutionary forefathers.
At the close there was immense cheering, and a
number of well dressed loafers pressed forward to
grasp Mr. Clay hand, until they almost pressed him
out of the carriage. At last Cowan succeeded in
driving him up to the Aston House, and he, with
struggling got into the house, hurried into
bed room, stripped, washed, dressed and made de-
cent, and sat down to coed dinner, whence he
to go to the Bowery Theatre.
At the Bowry Theatre Mr.. Clay and the Committee
occupied centre box and enjoyed the play interrupt
ed only by he struggling energies of two agents
from other theatres trying to get mortgage on Mr..
Clay's bsdy for night this week. Hanblin, all
the time, walking the lobby, in all his glory,
ooing in the Of the scheme by which he had
caught Mr.. Clay first; having despatched emissaries
up the river seize and take possession Of Mr. Clay
wherever they could find him.
Such was Mr. Cay's suaerings yesterday To-
day he will have to stand up for two hours in the
City-Hall, and shake hands with great many per-
sons whom he saw before, never will see again,
and about whom he don't care straw. But SO wags
the world. He has to squeeze and be squeezed to
shake and be shaken to foel and be fooled, to the
top his bent and perhaps till he breaks down IN
der the infection. This is all part and parcel
Of the hospitality Of New York and a serious
thing is the hospitality Of this city under the most
favorable circumstances Mr. Clay will have his
full share Of punis hment from the hospitable he will
be driven and dragged, and tagged from one part Of
the city the other he will be made 70 eat and to
drink and to talk till his tongue aches and worst
Of all his suerings to be talked to by set of sense
less and to stand till his legs fail under him,
and to sit till he aches in every member Of his long
and eloquent body. His friends will punish him in
every possible way and manner they will scarce
allow him sleep to his eyes, slumber to his eye-
lids, whilst he remains amongst US. They will take
him to museums and to theatres, and to taverns and
private houses and public houses, and several ether
houses until he will exclaim, :" plague on all
your houses - and if there any real liens in the
4 a. r
Buren, and Victoria have done. We pity him sim
cerely we pity any man who has to undergo the
hospitality Of New York-he win probably have to
suffer more this week in this life EARTH than he
will have to suffer IL he falls into the hands Of the
devil in the life which is to come, which he need
not do if he appeal in time to the blessed virgin,
repent Of his sins, eschew politics. return to his
farm, improve the breed Of his oxen, cows, sheep,
servants, and other cattle, and live soberly, righ-
teously, and godly in this present evil world