The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1843-08-02
FROM THE RALEIGH REGISTER.
A VISIT FROM HENRY CLAY.

II will be seen from the Interesting Cor.
respondence, which We subloin, that Mr..
Clay has consented 10 honor the Old North
State with his presence, next Spring. The
timely annuncatlon Of the fact will enable
the Wings of the State to be fully prepar
Cd Tor his reception-and no spot can be
found IN this Union, where a more heart.
eli and enthusiastic welcome will be ex.
tended TO him. Every heart will give
forth the feelings Of ecstasy that have been
pent up for years, for Henry Clay is en-
lphaIically the Peoples man and although
persons may differ with him on political
matters, no man, who is man, doubts his
patriotism, his integrity, his talents and
his ability to administer the Executive du-
ties of the Nation. Once, the humble Mill
boy Of the Slashes, without friends or in.
fiuence TO aid him, he now stands, by his
own power, proud monument of the JUS
tice and wisdom OF our Institutions. And.
when the proper time arrives, an enthusi.
asm will be exhibited on the subject OF his
visit, that will throw the exciting scenes
of 1910 into the background.
RALEIGH, JrNE, lsd3.
Sir BY Committee appointed for that
purpose, you were invited to attend the
Wing Convention held in this place in the
month Of April, 1912. Your answer, as.
signing reasons which prevented your ac.
ceptance Of that invitation, declared that
you had long entertained an ardent desire
to visit North Carolina, and, though, oh.
lIged TO postpone that visit, you hoped God
would spare you TO make il at some future
time. At the close OF the last Session Of
the General Assembly, meeting of the
Wing members of that body was held, bv
which the undersigned were appointed
Committee TO remind you of your contem.
plated visit, TO express on the part of the
Wings of North Carolina, their anxious
wish to see you amongst them, and most
respectfully, yet earnestly, to claim on
their behalf tue performance Of your prom.
Use al such time as will be most agreeable
to yourself.
That paying us visit viii be attended
with fatigue and inconvenience to you, we
are fully aware, but the Wings of the
State hare strong claims upon your con.
sideration. They have long admired you
al distance, as the boldest, most consis.
tent and ablest asserter Of those principles
on which depended the honor and welfare
of our country; and they now desire TO
see with their own eyes, and TO hear with
their own ears, upon the soil Of their own
State, one, whom il is no disparagemen, of
the excellence Of others, to regard as the
first living Patriot of America.
In the midst of the distraction, disgust
and disInay, produced by the then recent
detection of the President from the great
party to whom no owed his elevation, the
Wings of this State, in their Convention
Of 1912, were the first TO assume o dec-
dcd position, and 10 announce a settled
purpose. They declared you their choice
for the FIRST office of their country without
qualification or condition; and TO this de.
claratlon they, as one man now steadiastly
adhere. They desire your elevation TO
that Office not only as a inst acknowledge
ment OF your past services, but also and
chiefly, because from you in that high sta
ton, they hope (what they hope from no
other) the restoration of our country 10
that glorious and happy state, from which
by mlsgovcrnment and corruption, by
ireachery and selfishness, by knavery act
ing upon ambitious imbccilily, by wan
ton disregard of every obligation, personal
and social, we have been unhappily dis
placed and degraded.
For such people-so true and devoted
in their attachment and so pure in their
purposes--ior such a cause, so deeply in.
teresting, so awtully sacred to enlightened
patriotism, we know YOU are ever ready TO
make any sacrifice.
We do, therefore, according to our in.
structions, and on behalf of tho Wings of
North Carolina, ask on your part fulfil.