Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1842-06-23
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HARRY OF THE WEST

following short, but pregnant encomium :
HENRy CLsy IN KENTrckr.-We CO.
Ply fromthe Tribune glowing account
the only one we have seen --of the great
6arbaeac given by his neighbors and fel.
low citizens, 10 Henry Clay.
AT no time since the war. has Mr..
Clay ia our Judgment, stood so favorably
before the nation as now. Faithful and
fearless, when others were timid and false
-disregarding obloquy and pursuing the
right wherever il led and at whatever per
sonal Inconvenience, he stands before the
Wings of the United States as the man
who never despaired of their principles
nor truckled to expediency. He could
not command success, but he has deserv
ed It, and IN retiring from the public coun-
ellis, when he could no longer hope to ad
vance great public measures. he has not
ceased to be the object Of affection and OF
HOPE to the true, great and resolute.
Though betrayed Wing pariy.-N. \.
Amer.
4 True, 10 the letter, every word Of i; I;
and ullerd in that manly tone, which be-
tokens that he who speaks thus neither
lorbore to praise. when the gale Of popu
lar displeasure tossed this good ship upon
her beam ends, nor now lills his cheering
voice, because the glad winds Gil her
1 sails, and urge her, through wiling seas,
4 into port.
/ II there be, ~ the entire country, one
1 public man, who has merited the praise of
nm unfaiering, unshrinking perseverance
in what he thought the public good de-
manded, 1t is Henry Clay. The AbdIel
of american politics, numbers could not
awe, desefiion could not dishenrten him.
Among innumerable false, unmoved
l UnsbakuD, unsrdnoed, unserrihed,
| Ills loyalty he kept, hs love, his zeal;
Nor numbers nor example with him wrought
To swerye from truth OF change his constant
mind
Tho single. From amids, them, forth he passed
Long way through hostile scorn, which he sus
Superior, nor Of violence G'sr'd augb;
And with retorted scorn, his back he ,u,nd
On those proud towers, 10 swift destruction
doom'd.
Such might well have been Air. Clay's
parting salulaton TO tho White House and
its inmates.
/ We won't have poor panegyrics for
him but take, from high quarters, strong
aud fine ones. Here's another;
HENRY CLAY BEYOND THE ALLEGHA-
MES. We should like TO have seen the
veteran as ne crossed the great Apala.
chan for the last time after an annual
pilgrimage Of nearly forty years, in the
service OF bis county. OF all the great
patriots whose names have ADDED lustrc to
the annals OF their country in peace and
in war, there is not one the history Of
whose life is calculated 10 excite deep
er sympathy than that of Henry Clay
More than lorty years ago he pursued the
samo route, (Which he now travelled, J
an unknown and friendless boy. The sou
OF a poor parish clergyman, with (as he
says himself deficient education, but
with a bold spirit, unsubdued and uncon-
qnerable energies. BY slow degrees he
won his way to the first place al the bar
of his adopt State, and soon after 10 the
| Congress Of the United States. What.
ever may have been his errors, none will
deny TO him an enlarged patriotism, he.
roism Of the highest stamp, magnanimlty
far beyond the measure usually preserv.
ed by politicians, and a straight forward
honesty Of purpose which has out-lived
envy and set at defiance the tongue OF
SANDER ana calumny To say that Mr..
| Clay has attached large portion OF his
countrymen to him, is but tame language;
they really love the man and honor the pa
triot. Ills parisans may be beaten at the
next election the north, on account OF
the aboitionlsts, may go against hm--
! the south may rcpuGlate him for his for
mer Efforts in behalf Of the protection OF
/ domestic industry--and the east, because
| she has favorite of her own--but he has
strong and devoted friends in every quar-,
ter, who will battle manfully in his cause,
let who may oppose him, and let conflict.
ing political interests in provincial Sec
tons, as they may, thwart the general
will. OF one thing we are satisfied, that
a large majority Of the free, unbought,
unpurchaseable citizens OF this republic
are for Henry Clay for the next President
Of the United States--at all events, they
will never be satisfied Of the contrary I'M
til they have fair and untrammeled con-
ties; for their favorte. They may be
beaten, hontrably beaten, but at least
''they wW die in harness."
MIR. CLAY.
The Lexington, Ky. Intellgencer of
the 14ih instant promises to publish IN
few days a correct copy of the speech Of
Mr.. CLAY, on The 9th inst, and the ad-
dress OF Chief Justice ROBERTSON 10 Mr..
| CLAY on the same occasion.
Speaking Of the toast which elected
the reply Of Nj. CLAY, the Frank ford
| Commonwealth says
Previous to reading the toast, the Chief
Justice made beautiful address to the
audience, in which he grouped the praci.
| pal occurrences IN the life Of Mr.. CLAY,
and 10 a mastery manner summed up the
argument, by which it was shown that in
every point of view the distinguished son
of Kentucky was entitled 10 the renown
! a