Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1843-08-03
From hs Raleigh IN. C. J Register July %
A VISIT FROM HENRY CLAY.

Clay has consented 20 honor the Old
North State with bis presence, next spring.
The timely enumeration OF the fact Will
ena BILE ihe Wings of the State 10 be fully
prepared for his reception--and no spot
can be found in this Union, where more
heartfelt and enthusiastic welcome will
be extended to him. Every heart will
give forth the feelings Of ecstacy that
have been pent up for years, for Henry
Clay IS emphatically the peoples man !;
and although persons may differ with him
ON political matters, no man, who is a
man, doubts bis patriotism, bis integrity,
his talents and his ability to administer
the Executive duties OF the NatioD.--
Once, the humble Mill boy of the Slashes,
without friends or influence to aid him,
he now stands, by his own powers,
proud monument Of the justice and wis
dom ofour Institutions. And, when the
proper time arrives, an enthusiasm will be
exhibited on the subject of his visit, that
will throw the exciting scenes of 1910 in
to the back ground:
RALEIGH, June, 1913.
SIR: By Committee appointed for
that purpose, you were invited 20 attend
the Wing Convention held in this place
in the month of April 1912. Your an
swer, assigning reasons which prevented
your acceptance of that invitation, de.
clared that you long entertained an ar
dent desire to visit North Carolina, and,
though obliged TO postpone that visit, you
hoped God would spare you 10 make it
at some future time. At the close OF the
last Session of the General Assembly, a
meeting of the Wing members Of that
body was held, by which the undersigned
were appointed Committee to remind
you OF your contemplated visit, 10 express
on the part Of the Wings of North CARROLL
ia, their ANXIOUS wish to see you amongst
them, and most respectfully, yet earnest.
ly, to claim on their behalf the perform
ance of your promise at such time as will
be most agreeable to yourself.
That paying us visit will be attended
with fatigue and Inconvenience to you,
we are fully aware, but the Wings of the
State have strong CLAIMS upon your con-
sderation. They have long admired
you at distance as the boldest, mos,
consistent and ablest asserter of those
principles, on which depend the honor
and welfare OF our country; and they
now desire to see with their own eyes,
and to he ar with their own ears, upon the
soil Of their own State, one, whom it is
no disparagement of the excellence OF
others, to regard as the first living Patr.
OF of America.
10 the midst of the distraction, disgust,
and dismay, produced by the then recent
DETECTION of the President hom t great
party to whom he owed his elevation, the
Wings Of this State, in their Convention
of 1912, were the first to assume deeid-
ed position, and to announce settled pur-
pose. They declared you their choice
Tor tho first office Of their country with
out qualification or condition; and to this
declaration they, as one man. now stead
lastly adhere. They desire your eleva.
tion TO that Office not only as just &C.
acknowledgement Of your past services, but
also and chiefly, because from you in
that high station, they hope (what they
hope from no other) the restoration OF
our country to that glorious and happy
state, from which by misgovernment and
corruption, by treachery and selfshness,
by knavery acting upon ambitious imbe.
cility; by wanton disregard of every
obligation, personal and social, we have
been unhapply displaced and degraded.
For such apeope so true and devoted
in their attachment and so pure in their
purposes-ior such cause, so deeply in.
teresting so awfully 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 the Wings Of
North Carolina, ask on your part fulfil
ment of your engagement; and we look
forward, with eager hope, 10 the day when
our constituents may add to the cherished
recollection of their lives this also, that
they have seen and heard HENRY CLAY.
Your friends and fellow citizens,
b. F. MOORE,
ID. NJ. BARRINGER.
MICHAEL FRANCIS,
ANDREW JOINER,
THOMAS ALLISON.
II. b, ELLIOTT,
A S MOVE,
JOHN A. YOUNG,
s. z. ALLEN,
c. G. LIMB,
A. c. EHRtNGHAUS,
TOD r. CALDWELL,
ALFRED DOCKERY.
Hon. HENRY CLAY.
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