Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1842-06-20
Mr. Clay al Homo.

See the account OF the great Barbecue given to
MIR Clay by his neighbors. Il is the beginning Of
the great eommotion. which is to cg,ate this coun
try, until homes, men and sound Republican pru-
ciples are established in the Government. The
people will not forever submit to bc the dupes Of
Demagogues and eharlatans. BY yielding so long
as they have, the cup OF bitterness has overlooked.
They are tasting the gall, which vicious ptn.
ciples and proAigate men have forced upon them
The suffering will have the happy effect of forcing
reason and patriotism TO reassert their ascendancy.
The inquiry is going abroad; what is best TO be
done People are rejecting that in former years,
they were prosperous and happy-and they are
asking themselves; what has wrought the changed
They remember that some dozen years ago, the
Government was economically administered-ho
nesty and efficiency pervaded the public service
and every department OF industry returned rich
reward. They con over the predictions OF ruin,
which the Wings then rung in their cars, against
the mad and mischievous policy Of the then domis
nant pnr,y-they compare those predictions with
the sad rellty-and the conviction is forced upon
their minds-thu, but for disregarding the patriotic
counsels and the wise policy Of Henry Clay, the
| country would not have witnessed the deplorable
scenes which have been enacted for several years
past. We should now have been progressing ra-
pidly in the Of naton nal and indiv pros
perity, in which the Administration OF the younger
Adams left A conviction Of this sort cannot DC
without its effect upon the minds Of n peoplc-al.
ways patriotc-always alive to their interests, and
intently devoted to the happiness and glory of their
country. 1t will impercepuby draw them again
around the great man, whom, in an evil hour, they
forsook-lt will prompt them to repair the mus
,ice, which incautiously they have done him, and
urge them to seize with avidi,y the opportunity OF
advancing their own welfare, at the same time they
repair an ancient wrong TO prosecuted patriot, The
tempest Of deirsetion and iasehood has been spen,
upon his ad,-with patriotic forbearance and for
titude, worthy of the brightest names in Roman
story. he has endured the peltings of the pittess
storm, and never uttered one word of reproach
against his ungrateful countrymen. The more
holly he was pursued by the demons Of defamation
the more bitterly reviled, and the more grossly
misre presented; the more brilliantly did his patriot
ism glow aud the closer did he hug his country to
his bosom.
That country will, for its own sake, as well as
for his. gather around hm:-The old, for chershng
and tanning to a brighter fame than oil his colem
poraries, the spark OF liberty transmitted by the
heroic men, who achieved our national independ
ence: The young, for those chvalrov fires, which
the frost of age cannot subdue-All Republicans,
to do honor to Republican institu,ions-by honorne
the MILL BOY OF THE SLASHES-who has
made his name the first among men.
BY every careful observer of the signs the remarks
Of the New York American will be recognized as
just:
AT no time since the war, has Mr. Clay. in our
judgement, stood favorably before the nation as
now. Faithful and fearless, when others tmid
or ialse-disregarding obloquy and pursuing the
right wherever II led and at whatever personal in
convenience, he stands before the Wings OF the U.
Ssstss The man who never despaired Of their
principles, nor truckled 20 expediency. He could
not command success, but he has deserved il, and
| in retiring from the public councils, when he could
| no longer hope TO advance great public measures
be has not ceased to be the object OF affection and
OF HOPE to the true, great, and resolute, though
betrayed, Wing party"