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meath, or the waters under the earth. But, worse still A few days afterwards, business called me to Frankfort. When l reached that vilage-f beg pardon-city, I 6eheee- | was vending my way to the hotel once kept by a departed friend, where had spent six months of the year for nearly forty years No horse I ever rode or drove but well knew where the stable of this hotel was. Indeed, it almost seemed as if my old gig knew its resting place. But my host with whom ] had spent so many happy years, had passed off, and another was to be my landlord. For it's former owners sake, sought the house not the then landlord; but when reached it, To, and behold, the Wings had raised a huge pole before the door of the hotel, and half-mast high, hung the Stars and Stripes of my country, while above was raised the star and noated the flag of Henry Clay What said 10 myself. has 1t come 10 this, that cannot eat and drink in the house of de- parted friend and Democrat, but through the grace and by the leave of Henry Clay My horse stood still, knowing that he was at the stopping place. l applied the whip to hl'h. He refused to move l gave him another. He still maintained his ground, until a third, more severe, drove him ahead, when ne moved, but with reluctant step. that proved that he, like myself, passed, for the first time, a house that had, from youth to old age, been to me a second home. Yes, Whigs, you that love men more than your country, may eat and drink, for your money, by his grace and for the glory of Henry Clay, but were your fathers alive, they would pray <" God to forgive you, for you know not what you do."
 But, besides these charms and spells to woo the dear people to Mir. Clay, Mir. Clay and his clubs seem to have turned the Pfesi- dent of the United States into very devil, to frighten the people with. The other day, heard Mr. Clay declare, at the court house door in the city of Lexington, 10 the crowd that surrounded him, that John Tyler was as base a traitor as Benedict Arnold or Aaron Burr-that he was dishonored and dishon- orable man, aud that no honorable man ought or would hold office under him; that for his treaehery to his party, he ought to be desort- ed, so that he should be compelled to resign. think give his words; know give the substance of them, as the hundreds that heard him can testify, as well as myself Iconless was utterly astounded when 1 heard MT. Clay, oXce so remarkable for the proprieties of speech in human intercourse, under the weight of at least three score and ten years, voeiferate from the stump, charges against the President, in language so coarse, l will not say islanders, of the very kind, and al- most in the very words, that were made against himself, and which consigned him to the precincts of Ashland, where think may say without vanity, if had been out of exis- tence, he might have remained until this day.
 1Ir. Clay, of all men living, should be the last man to charge treason against man for refusing to obey the orders of party. Nor do think he should now, late i'll life, admit, much less call, Aaron Burr traitor 1rea- son against, or assertion of, a=party, was charged upon Mr. Clay, in the election of Mir. Adams, by George Kremer. and every black mouth who felt disappointed at his Vote for Mr. Adams, and every press friendly to General Jackson, from Maine to New Orleans, mics sparing of their charges of the treason of Aaron Burr, and importing a conneXion between ALr. Clay and him. Who has forgot the John Downing plot, and John Down ing's affidavit And who has forgotten how sorely Mr. Clay complained of the charges and abuse thus heaped upon him' And yet Mir. Clay's mouth was not then closed. He responded to the charges, and was heard by the country. Is itnot strange that Mir Clay, who felt and complained so much of the in- justice done him, should have selected the very subjects to charge President Tyler with treachery for, and have resortcd to the gross language that was applied to himself, when he well knew that the President of the United States was and is restrained ny the nature of his office, from vindcating his character from aspersion? believed Mr. Clay uniustly treated, as do President Tyler, and to re- store him 10 office and the confidence of his country, spent four years of my life turn ing my back upon my family and interest, battled faithfully, as you Democrats know, for him, until reduced your numbers from two-th]rds of'the Legislature, to a minority; and then, with my own vote, and that of my friends, sent him into the Senate; retiring myself, as hoped, forever from political life. And God Is my witness, that although have seen little to commend in Mir. Glay's course since 1853, and much to condemn, could not hear such charges against him as he has made against President Tyler, but with strong disapprobation. And, Ipay, who is his John Tyler that is pronounced a traitor ahd dis honored man by Mir. Clay and his partisans? John Tyler is a patriot son of one of the fathers of the RevoIution-the son ofa cotenl- porary of Patrick Henry, of R. II. Lee, of Robert C. Nicholas, and host of worthies besides. The son of Chancellor and Gov ernor of his native State-a State renowned for Statesmen and heroes--a State that gave birth to our Washington, and to our inde- pendence--a State in which the fame and virtues of the father followed the son. The subject of the scurriity and abuse of the Clay faction, John Tyler, from earliest youth, was a laYorte of his mother State, and gave pro- mise of hls future greatness. Attwenty, he was elected member of the Legislature of Virginia, where he more than realized the Hopes his country had entertained of the fu-