The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1844-10-10
PIOm the North sl.ls Wing.
TO THE sL.SDRRERs OF HEN
RY CLAY.

M ALAl.
We commend 10 your specisl notice The
Testimony Of yaur Own party leaders.
Hon. James Buchanan. Of Pennsylyanis,
sas nominated for President in your De.
mocrasie convention. consequently stood
high m you ranks As parry leader. In
1870 Nc. Buchanan said, :. The Wing
party had in Mr. Clay candidate Of whom
they may have been Justly proul-a man
NJ boli and.fearless hears man Of high
and commanding eloquence. and man Of
dIlinguished ability. Although opposed
10 his political principles, YET have ever
felt for him The highest regard"
I Nov here is the testimony of, we
think, BY FAR the ablesi statesman If yaur
party-a man who served with Mr.. Clay
for-2o years, and who knew him init
maiely, and Is wiGhal tho much Of q gen.
ileman u permit party prejudice or pre-
dilee,ion TO- blind his mind 10 exalted
worth. 100 noble. 10 suffer hi. charity and
benerolence TO be eiIiaguished By > diff.
ference Of political creeds.
Again. some OF the violent parlizan De
democratic presses are leeming with abuse
ofHenry Clay (ernanaling from the caldron
of Kendall & Co, but calculated only TO
sc Id cad blister their own cunsciencesl
by quoting from John Randolph, scraps
Of abuse that dropped occasionally from
the lips Of that eccentric, and sometimes
morose, but extraordinary man. Byway
Of set OF, in justice ~ HE memory, snd
in honor TO the creates, living statesman
Of the euuntry--yoH k.low ,Sho zee mean
---spsry body kaoDs--we quote the con-
fessions Of Nc. Randolph. when he kneu
he carried the sentence Of death in his
conscious bosoE-and who doubts tina,
he was homes, on the verge of eternity!
Thea John Randolph spoke Of Henry
Clay las can be sl,es,ed by authority
which cannot be refuied) in these terms
Of deserved commendalion-in his last
public speech ever made to the people. in
the county Of Buckingham, Va, Mr. Ran
dolph said:
Gentlemen, I am filled with the mos,
gloomy approximations for the fate Of the
Union. | cannot express to you how deep
ly arm penetrated with sense of the
Danger which al this moment threatens
its existence. If Madison filed the Ex
ecutise chair he might be bullied into
some compromise. IL Monroe was III
power. ne might be coaxed into some adj
jusIment of his difficulty. But Jackson
10 obstinate. headsrong, and fond offigh,.
| fear matters must come 10 all open up
ture. II 40, this Uniun is gone" Then
pausing for near minute, raising his
finger in that emphatic manner so pecu-
liar to his action as speaker, and seem
ing as it were 10 breathe more freely. he
continued J." There is one man, and one
man only, who can save his Union. That
man is Henry Clay. know he has the
power-l believe he will be found to have
the patriotism aad i,nness equal to the
occasion"
Shortly efler this. Mr.. Randolph pro-
ceede'l on through Washington to Phila.
delphis, where in the course OF few
months he died. He arrived in. the for
ne' city alter the Compromise bill had
passed. Deeply impressed with the great
! and valuable srrvice which Mr.. CLAW had
jus. rendered the country, he had himself
conveyed TO The Senate Chamber, then too
p ainly exhibiting in his face and appear
sncs he rasages Of thai fatal disease to
which he was so soon TO fail victim,
| where thesn Two brilliant ryl nraiinrs
and prod,gally gifted favorites OF nature
me. for the last time. As Mr. Clay APP
Pro ehed 10 salute him, NJ. Randolph
laid:
! Mr. Clay, you perceive | am dying.
Yes. cir, ! am dying, but thank God, |
have strength enough yet left TO return you
my poor acknowledgements for having
saved the Union."i