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special dish for the Whigs-which few Lo-
cos will relish until the conclusion of the enter
tainment.
Let them come! they will find us as formerly they
Did find us-all marshal'd in battle array!
The struggle Of war is dubious game
The brave may be beaten-but cannot lose fame
o.
LIST DISH.
"With the father of falsehoods their league is
well known,
And their friend, while it lasted, was kind to his
own.
Good bye to the Wings! their dominion is DER,
by force. by fraud, they can rule us no more;
They may wriggle and writhe, but struggle is
vain,
And long years will roll on ere they rally again.
For In spite OF some squeaking from Clay and
The country has said it-"GoOd bye to the
"'m n hGale, rejoice save some Bed Chamber
There Whgs-how do you relish that dish!
Perhaps you will have better govt for the
following, served up by tho same cook of the
Richmond Enquirer.
2ND DISH.
"The Federal Wing nomination at Harrisburg
in ls39-the Federal Wing Bacchanals and
triumph of lS10-the demise of the Federal
Wing President, and the Federal Wing Extra
session Of Congress of 1871, are a series of e.
vents so marvellous, preposterous, astounding,
and unprecedented, as to outsirip both fable and
fiction; and to defy all tho hyperboical vagaries
that the widest imagination can conceive. 1t
| seems as ii the genius of evil had in boasting
and Dragging mood, r, solved to expunge from the
page OF history all the wickedness and dark re-
cords OF the past; and to devote all his energies
to the erection of transcendant monument of
feeble headQ and yyickad hearts. ofn ,,>J
mlsrule; of selishness and sophistry; of impu-
dence and imposture; Of falsty and fraud-of''
etc. etc.-which see in the columns of our taste-
full Nous verronsi
BE pleased now, Messrs Editors, to bring in
the Wing dessert which herewith send. twill
be aptto restore the viated palates of our friends
after the foregoing nausea.
The following beautiful stanzas originally ap-
peared in an Eastern paper some years SINCE
They have lost Of their truth and force, and
are well worthy of being re-published.
HENRY CLAY.
-"Holding the principle that citizen, as
long as a single pusation remains, is under all OBJ
legation TO exert his utmost energies in the SER
vice OF his country, whether in private or public
station, my friends may assured that in either
condition shall stand erect, with spirit un-
conquered, while life endures, ready to second
ors
ty."-H. Clay.
Isl have doubtless committed many errors
and indiscretions, over which you have thrown
the broad mantle of your charity. But l can say,
and in the presence Of my God, and of this as
sembled multitude, will say that have honest.
ly and faithfully served my country-that have
never wronged it-and that, however unprepared
lament that i am to appear in the Divine pres
ence on other accounts, invoke the justice of
His judgment upon my official conduct, without
the smallest apprehension of His displeasure."-
[Speech of FL. Clay at Lexington, KY, 1921
Ay-stand erect! the cloud is broken
Above thee stands the rainbow's token
The shadow of thy onward way
Is bending into perfect day;
The ISLANDERS of the vena! train
AsSal! thy honest name in vain
For thou art still as thou hast been,
The hope of free and patriot men!
Still boasts thy lip its fiery ZEAL
Thy heart its JOY in human veal
Still Tree thy tongue to soothe or warn
Still keen its fiery shaft Of scorn--
Stll scars thy soul unamed and strong,
The ioftier for its sense Of wrong
Still first in freedoms cause to stand
The champion Of her favorite land.
Oh--what to thee were pomp and show
Aught that thy country can bestow
Her highest gifts could only take
New honorS for their wcarer's sake
They could not add awreathe to thine,
Nor brighter make thy glory shine:
No--meaner ones may borrow fame,
THINE lives through every change the same.
The Grecian, as he feeds his fiocks,
In Temples vale, on Morea's rocks
Or where the CLEAN of bright blue waters
Is caught BY Scio's white armed daughters
While dwelling on the dubious strife
Which ushered in his nations life,
Shall mingle, in his grateful lay,
BoZzARIs with the name of CLAY.
Where blush the warm skies of the South
Ger Cotopaxi's fiery MOUTH
And round the fallen Inca's graves,
The pampasrolls its breezy waves,
The patriot in his council hall
The soldier athis fortress wall
The brave. 1.-The lovely-and the free,
Shall ohei up their prayers for thee.
And where our own rude valleys smile,
And temple spire and lofty pile
Crown, like the fashions of a dream,
The slope of every mountain stream
Where industry and plenty meet,
Twin brothers in the crowded street.
Each spire aud mountain upward sent
Shall be thy fitting monument!
Still stand erect !---our hope and trust,
When law is trampled in the DUST
When Ger our fathers yet green graves
The war cry of disunof raves.
And sons of those who, side by side,
Smote down the Lionbanner's pride, i
Are girding for fraternal strife
For blow for bow-and life fer life!
Let others rob the public store,
10 buy their i'll used power once more,
Shrink back from truth, and open wide
The food-gates of corruption's tide: