The Yazoo City Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1842-1844, 1843-03-03
FOR THE YAZoo CITY WHO
MIR. CIay's Visit to jackson


On Tuesday morning the 21st ultimo, at
half past nine O'Clock Mr.. Clay arrived at
the Rail Road depot at Vicksburg, from the
residence Of Mr.. Prentiss, accompanied by
Mr.. P. and other gentlemen, and escorted by
the military companies and a concourse Of
other citizens. The train was soon in mo-
ton, Mr.. Clay in the hindmost car. After
proceeding five or six miles Mr.. Claws car
became disabled from being overloaded, and
the foremost wheels left the rails Some Of
the passengers in the next car before it, after
considerable exerton succeeded in attracting
the attention Of the engineer, and by the
time the train stopped the disabled car had
become nearly or quite disengaged from the
others and considerably broken. Fortunate
| ly, the car kept the road and no one was in
jured. At this moment the writer descend
ed from his car, where he first on this occa-
sion, met the great statesman of the nine
teenth century, just as he was getting out OF
his broken vehicle.
Il was ten years since l last before saw
Mr.. Clay, and heard his pealing eloquence
pleading for the people at Washington Age
had crept upon him, evidently. Blu; here
was the same firm and stately step, the same
piercing eye, the same bland and open coun-
tenaBce, the heightened and unexception-
ably genteel affability of manner was the
same, the warm grip Of the hand was un-
changed, and his voice-clear, full, elevated
lengthening every word 10 a round and per-
feet pronunciation, was as young and .vigo-
rous as in the spring-tide of youth. There
was a moment Of considerable confusion in
which took the opportunity Of conducting
Mr.. Clay to my own seat. The accident de-
tanned US but five minutes, and in a short
time we had another car in place of the bro
ken one, which relieved the rest from exces.
sive burden, and on we went.
At short intervals the road side was crowd
ed with people, and the mystery was where
upon earth they all came from. At every
little stopping place crowds of all sorts o
people rushed around the cars with degre,
of eagnerness and enthusiasm that no ont
need atiemp: to describe. The la6ies-bles
|
patriotism, foremost in paying the nation
: debt Of gratitude, foremost in doing honor 1
the good and the great, and alone in strewin
flowers along the rough pathway of life, an
in lighting up the smiles of cheering, of en-
couragement and comfort to the veteran pa
triot, to balance the buffetings and dissipat
the rough opposition which great statesue
ever meet with in their efforts to do good.
must not stop to picture scenes which
;, cannot describe, but will leave the reader I
= imagine the best way he can, the appearance
. of rail road train passing through yer
!. thinly populated neighborhood, amidst group
!, and sometimes crowds Of people who occ'
sionaly seemed almost to deny US the "rigf
of way" The waving Of handkerchiefs an
tossing Of hats, the loud shouts Of "huzza f
Clay and the Constitution J" the eagernes
of him of the spade and of the plough, an
: Of matron and miss of the parlor, to grip
/, the hand and bid welcome 70 the great ma
> of the people, added wild enthusiasm to th
;, scene which none can properly appreciat
= except those who Witnessed it. In cons,
quence of having so frequently 10 stop
order to afford the people an opportunity
shaking hands with Mr.. Clay, we did n,
e arrive at the Jackson depot until near tw
: o'clock.
D. The train stopped amidst crowds ofpeOp