Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1842-07-22
WOE VIII
EEr. Clay's SsrecE,
T THE BARBAcUG, LEXINGTON, KY

franklin, to briOg down the lipbrning
from Heaven, 10 enable me to ba
heard by this immense multitude. I
should have TO invoke to my aid, and TO
throw into my voice, its Ioudest lhpn.
ders' As cannot 40 that, hope | shall
BIO excused for such an use Of nv Inn 10
as IS practicable and not Inconsistent
with the preservation of nv health. -
And | tee' that il is our first duty, to ex.
press our obligations to a kind and boun
tlIul Providence, for the copious and
genial showers with which he has Just
blessed our Iand-a refreshment of
which it stood much in need. For one,
! offer to Him my humble and dutiCuI
thanks. The Inconvenience to US, on
this festive occasion, is very sIirht,
while the sum Of good which these time
lyra!ins will produce Is very great and
encouro ping.
Fellow. citizens, | find myself nov in
n situation somewhat like one in which
was placed a few years ago when ira
yelling through to- State of Indiana,
from which my friaad (Mr. Rarldeo)
near me comes stopped at a village,
containing some four or hvo hundred
Inhabitants, and | had scarcely aIighted
before | found myself surrounded - tho
Bar room by every adult male resident
of the place. After a while, | observed
a group consulting together in one cor
ner Of the room, aud shortly after, |
was efficiently approached by one Of
them, a tall, Iank, lean, but sedate and
sober looking person. with a long face
and high cheek bones, who, addressing
me, said he was commissioned by his
%neighbcrs, TO request that | would say a
few words 10 them. Why, my good
friend, said !, should DO very happy to
do any thing crafty ing to yourself and
your neighbors, but | am very much ia
tisued and hungry and thirsty, and |
do not think the occasion is exactly SUI
table for a speech, | wish you would *
cuSe me to your friends. Well, sad he.
Mr.. Clay, | confess | thought so myself,
especially as we have no wine to offer
you to drink!
Now, ifthe worthy citizen Of Iodiana
was right in sup7osing, That a glass of
wine was a necessary preliminary, and
n precedent condition, to the delivery Of
aspeech, you have no just right to ex-
peCt one from me at this time for dur
ing the sumpluous repasI from which we
have just risen, you offered me nothing
to drink but cold water~ excellent wa
ter, it is true, from the classic fountain
Of our Iamented friend, Mr.. Maxwell,
which has so often RECALLED US on ceIe-
bralions Of our great annlversary,-
(Great %Iaughter,)
protest against snv inference OF my
being inimicaI to The Temperance cause.
On the contrary, | think it an admirable
cause, that has done great good and
will continue to do coed as .ong as legal
coercion is not employed, and it rests
exclusively upon persuasion, and its own
intrinsic merits.
| have a great and growing repng-
h""ee " sPeaN,"g l" ,ne open "'F To
a large assemo,age' But whist the
faculty OF speech remains 10 me- l can
never iee' 'nas ~rePosnance' never Ieoi
o'0eF man Sfa'eio, sensations IN max
ing my acknowledgements under such
circumstances as 'hose Wh'cn nave
brought US together. Not that | am so
pfeSomp'ooNs as TO oel'cve that have
Deen inc occasion soIeIy OF collecting
ans 'aS' multitude among the Induce'
ments' l cannot neIP 'hIoElnR that the
iat while virgin Dnfham Heller OF my
irlehd MT Bergman TINT cost S0OO,
when mas josi been served up and the
otheF good lhlDSS when nave been 50
llOeraI'y spread before US eXerted some
influence 10 S"eIj'nE 'hiS unprecedently
large meeting IOreat laughter
pRn1ni hlt feel Mr. prnriicnt in