New-York daily tribune., 1842-12-29
From the Naichez Courier, Dec is.
lIr. Clay q. NntcneZ.

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had been deputed FOR the purpose, ssluted MN II
the following fergid and beautiful address
"SIR: In the name of our feilow-citizens
come TO bid YOU welcome 10 our city we pause
from the excitement of politics 10 offer, without
| distinction OF party, the homage due to exalted
meri; and distinguished talent. One of the no5ies'
characteristics of the American people is the pride
which they all feel in those that contribute to the
National glory. In turning over our eyenttul his.
tory we find your nnne, sir stamped in letters OF
/ light upon many ofits pages The same pen that
records our extraordinary progress, our glorious
competition, both in peace ana ia war, with the
most colossal power on earth, and our present hlgh
attitude among the family of empires, must at the
same time preserve the memory OF your patriotic
services.
"Sif, we bid you welceme-not as serfs and
vassals come to pay tribute TO tyrant-not in the
spirit of farty, which proscribes every thing that
is not at;ired in particular livery, but as frienes
as Mississippians, as Americans grateful for the
past, we come, SIR, men Of eUery creed, to shake
you by the hand.
From this eminence you behold TWO States
ready to do you honor. Louisiana, the child of
The noblest nation of Europe, now rejecting upon
our Ueon the lus,rc OF its parcntage; and Missis-
sipp, whose sons and daushte still remember,
amid the waste of years, the clarion oolce that,
during the darkest period of the late wsr, rang
through the halls of Congress-hhDg their hearts
with your own indorniiable courage and cheering
our country TO the conflict
q Nor can we forget, sir, the stand you took, at
important epoch, for the advancement of popu-
lar independence in other portions of the world.
q In South America, which bad groaned for
years under the inlcton Of despotism, and in that
far distant classic land, whose noble monuments,
erected in age of liberty had been for centuries
polluted by the slave. These mute memorials Of
former grandeur felt your generous sympathies,
and her fallen columns responded, like the famous
statue of Memmon, to the spirit tones from another
hemisphere.
The sentiments you uttered then have been
adopted among the most cherished recollections
of the nations and the pulse of liberty yet beats
feebly and ftfully in those unhappy regions, we
still have reason to believe that despotism will
soon perish from the earth. Not indeed, by the
pangs of protracted revolution. Not by the same
series of sanguinaEy spasms that stain the leaves
of history, but by the rapid advance Of ratiora
conceptions of liberty and law. Conceptions, sir,
which your memorable speeches so eloquently ex-
press.
In receiving you thus, sir we desire likewise
to do honor to the State from which you ceme-a
we stand and by the many gifted inteAects she has
sent among u.s. We desire to do honor to Ken
lucky, the pioneer of the West, whose march to
la!le and always to victory, is paved in every di-
sons.
If you would find their graues, go search the
country of their enemy.
9" For all this, sir; for your sake and for hers,
we bid you wELcoME-wELcoME to Mississippi"
Mr.. CLAY answered. in substance as before
in our paper of Wednesday last IIo
referred to the gratifying union of all parties In
his reception, and drew picture of the happy
consequences of the management of party contests
BY feelings of personal malignity and
marked by strict observance of justice he
spoke emphatically of the undoubted truth, that
the masses of all parties were always animated
by fair intercourse and honest convictions he
thanked Mr.. Claiborne for the compliment to the
noble State so long represented by him in the Ma
tonal councils, and after comp palenting the clti-
zens of Natchez for their enterprise and persever-
ance, in subduing the caami;es which had eeset
them since his last visit, he closed by assuring all
present that the occasion of his present arrival and
their sautation should be treasured among his most
pleasant recoliections.
WHAT CHANeE.-Somc ten or twelve years
ago, HENRY CLAY passed down the Mississippi,
on his way to New Orleans. The boat on which
he was a passenger stopped for short while at
Memphis Only some three or four persons, at
the farthest not over half dszen called 10 see
him and pay their respects TO the man OF whom
the entire West has ever had cause to be proud
This was in the hey-day of Jacksonisn. The false
and calumnous charge of 20 bargain and intrigue
had swept like withering sirocco over his fair
fame and it was only here and there that an lndi-
vdual could be found bold enough 70 do him even
commen reverence. But-tliank God =" J. RUTH
IS oMNIPorENT AND PUBLIC JUSTICE CERTAIN.
4 few days ago, this same HENRY CLAY agaln
landed upon our shores, not as then to be grcetea
bv only two or three faithful friends but to receive
the spontaneous homage OF more than thousand
hearts, kinded with admiration for his lofty cha
racter and burning with gratitude for his public
services The cold suspicion, the deep haie, the
rooted prejudice had all passed away and politica!
friends and opponents alike pressed eagerly for
ward to testify by their acts their appreciation OF
his worth as a man and their respect for him Us
a statesman What a change! Twelve years ago
his name was hssing and by-word-to-day 1t
hath power to stir the heart like the blast OF cla-
ron and rouse into intense action tho noblest ener-
gies and impulses of the patriots soul.
in contem plating this change we are torclbiy re-
minded of the mothers charge ts her son, so beau
tifully expressed by Bishep Doane-
What is that raoiherl
The Eagle. boy.
Proudly c,reerng MS course OF loyi
Firm on his Incanian pinions reiyiag,
He breasts the dark Storm, the red bolt deiyipg,
His wing on the wind ans his eye on the sun
He swervss got hair bat bears onward right on;
Boy! may the Eagles flight ever be thine,
Upward and onwsrd aad true 10 ,ae iins"
It's this noble fortitude-,his uufiinching hdslity
to right purposes through good report and through
evil report, which has wrought this mighty change
in the public estimation of Henry CLAY, and