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ssefy rlain man. likr nyself alla nav have he, e
tpfore acted wiz he wig parry zili ..u aid ia
lertingsHenry clsy;'' To THAI Plaia man, Who
i now opposed 10 Henty Clay. ISsy, that I
have heretofore seied with The wig parry
and | eanses no reason WAY sheq,i, IT 1874,
desefi be principles and msasnresaarecsied BY
rhs Wing party 10 1870 Therefore. j ssili ail II
eisetiss Hta,y CLAY. 4 win aid II elreiins fhe
msh rAo was borain Virginia. IS ia. and O.
Psnsd a law ciiee 10 ID 1iHston. Ksatueky. in
1927, sithoo, patrons, thout tie fasors Of lie
great and cpnleni and wiihou. the meas or
nsyine hi. weekly board; but. IKE ihe bird If
love, ma, rises upon the Winds ana wings lis
way lhrcpgh ne imme ssurablr REGIONS al space,
his gigantic mind scared al Il. ,s,s as,o1iSh
-Disft-'t BIZ con- sarars. md 4 Essisia.
gaze of4he people Of Kentucky!
A, thelsge IF tweniy>two he raised bis voice
against The Alien and Ssdilion Laws. Acts. s,rik-
ing fatally atihe liberty Of speech aud The free-
dom Of The press; and such was his eloqaeace
on these occasions. that it pffpduced for him the
title II the Great commoner. In 1903, Mr.
Clay was elected as delegate 10 The Legislature
Of his adopted State, and took a pa1tin all he
leading debates before thaN body. In Decem.
Der, 1906, in. the 29ih year If his sge. he was
sent TO lhe Uniied States Senate from Koniuckv,
to serve out ihe'remainder Of Gen. Adair,s term,
Who had resigned his seat la 1909, he was e
Elected to the Legislature Of Kentucky, and afer
having filed he Office Ct lis Speaker he was a.
gain semitic The Senate of the United States. TO
bll he vacancy occasioned by the resignation of
.thes Hon. Bdckner ThufSton. IL was during This
session that he took the high ground Of protect
ing, by Tariff, American Industry, against the
pauPef labor Of Europe. II was the ground he
took in 1909 il has been sustained by him. ever
since, and you find him there now. Ia 1911. he
was sent as member to the popular branch Of
the National Legislature, and vas chosen peak
81 on The very FIRST day of lis session. In 1912,
our government appealed to arms again ST the
Expectations Of Great Britain upon our CON J.
merce. A porhon-of the members Or Congress
were opposed TO the war, but Henry Clay met
their objections with Arguments overpowefing
and conclusive: and 50 ably did he sustain fthe
Dsmocraic Administration 0! James Madison
that he repeatedly offered him seat in his cabi.
net. and important missions abroad. Henry
Clay aided in declaring war, and was appointed
BY his Government to make peace In 1917
Henry Clay, with FIVE others, was sent to nero-
ciate Treaty with England, and it is to his sa-
gleity We are indebted for the exclusive right TO
The navigation of the Mississippi. Son his return
home, he wasre-elected to The House, and again
chosen Speaker. Dnrisg this portion Of his
public life, he debsled, with great power and
ability, the important questions, OF a National
Bank, and Tariff for Protection and Revenue
Four years before, he was opposed to National
Bank, but when time and experience hae con-
tinced him eflhe sreatbeneRi and immense inn
poriance Of such an instisa,iop, be was too
much ofea patrio, TO oppose = now, id order 10
be consistent with what he once had said against
il.
He re-opened Inc Taiif question, which end
ed in The adoption Of that of 1924. The ques-
ton then was not LIMITED to Revenue, il was one
of Protection, Eiheut which, The entire indie
PNHoSoNS Va Jul W sotdNts, as
respects supply Of our essential wants, cannot
be consummated To make ourselves, 10 make
the American nation Independent, we must fur
nish our own necesssTies, our own comforts, our
ow6iuxuries principally" This was the doc
trine Of Jefferson !; it was The language of Henry
Clay then ; il is lhe.lapgusge of Henry Clay
now and yet he is denomna'ed British Jr4ig,
and those who advocate doctrines Numerically
opposite to those Of Jefferson, and maintain
principles worse ihan g Old Biear-eyed Federal
ism, and sustain measures, calculated 10 feed
the British mechanie, and starVe our own, are
the true drmOerueyf
When the Missouri: question made the Con.
federacy uemble when Thomas Jefferson said
that il seemed 10 BIN that the fre-bell of night
was tingling in his ear, and sounding the death
knell Of The Republic, whose iudcious mediation
was il that dispslrd the spprehensions of Jetfer.
son. The fears Of The Union, and re .lored tran.
guilty? IL was that Of HENRY CLiY.i
When Null i6cAtion raised its standard in The
South, and threatened us with the horrors Of civ
ilwar, who was il that stayed this intestine CON-
motion, and again saved the Union II was
HENRY CLAT the very man who deserves 10
stand, for his metitorious services, al the head
Of The American Government. "A.
So will say a majority Of the American peo-
pie, and so say !. S..