The Arkansas banner., 1844-08-07
Ffom Me Kentucky leonlaa, Julg 5.

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 F-om Me Kentucky leomaa, July 2.
 THE GATHERING AT LEXINGTON.
 .IHere. is ao contest in Kenucdg,o (said a Whig paper here; ) 'sthere is no contest in Kentucky,n echoes the Whig press abroad Who looked upon the sir 8s0usaad DEMO- CRAFTS wheeling out of Lexington towards their place of rendezvous on Saturday last, and said in the sincerity of his heart, there is no contest in kenmcky2 Not so, we ven ture to affirm, thought Mr CLAY and his PRtyY COUNCIL, as they gazed from the Win- dows of BRENNAN7s HoTEL upon the mighty array of the INTERPRETED, that de6led in heightened procession before them With pealing artillery, crashing music, and glitter ing poke-boughs waving overhead, the exuIt- ing and crowding thousands, must have seem ed to the appalled, and fearstrcken soul of Mr. Clay, terrible as the host that bore down upon the den of the doomed Macbeth, with BIRNAM's shadowy wood for banners They scere his neighbors, his former friends, and once his constituency; but tempered with, often betrayed, and at length forsaken, by HIM whom they had honored, and trusted and built up, they had issued forth in their awakened wrath, multerng their stem chi dings round the very temple of their false DAGoN. Their fiery hearts glowed like sheathed lightning midst the racking clouds, and their changed voices swelled round their shrinking victim, in the audible and unequiv- beating tones of prophecy. As Mr. Clay looked upon this risen tempest and listened to it's boding warnings, how palpable and near must he have deemed the application of his familiar maxim, that '.I'RUTH IS MIGHTY, AND PUBLIC JUSTICE CERTAIN"
 They were FARMER BAND, who had dropped their sickles in the harvest field, left their ploughs in the furrow, and gone up to the merry .fcfe of Kentucly's emancipation Men of, sterling qualities, cool, calculating, and patriotic, and above silly impulses or sudden impressions, but acting from convie- tions the offspring of an ardent love of eoun- try, and intelligent investigation of its true and genuine interests Friends to tried prin- ciples, and proof against all imposture or de- ceptiye promises; intent on consummating the revolution i'll this Commonwealth so au- spiciously begun, and starting Kentucky on a new career of glory and prosperity.
 Assembled amid smiling welcomes and cor- dial hospitality of the high-souled Democracy of Fayette, the massive battalions, after being formed in the city, were early put in motion for Maxwell's Springs, beautiful and classic grove selected as the sic for their entertain ment, about mile from Lexington This ancient and most charming of Kentucky's cities, where of yore the very streets would have been barricadoed against the admission of an assemblage bearing in their midst the banners of hostility to Mir. Clay, opened wide its portals to the reception of our brave mus ter, (as to redeemng friends and giving in to the infectious enthusiasm inspired by theY presence, mingled its irrepressible sympatLNs with the ennobling and animating spirit of the spectacle. As the long, deep column of carriages, horsemen, and foot, threaded the streets and dedonched towards the country, it was saluted from every point of observation by the beaming and enraptured eountenanees of the thousands upon thousands, whose ca ger curiosity neither party discipline nor par ty bigotry could shut out from the glowing exhibition
 Arrived upon the ground, the great multi tude encircled rostrum built meath the Wa wing shade, where from eleven till near three o'clock they listened to the ardent and match- less eloquence of Thos r. Marshall, poured out in burning anathemas upon the political crimes and folies of Mr. Clay, transcending in the power and terror ofits impeachment the irving bolts of BURKE and SHERIDAN, launched in the BRITISH PARLIAMENT against the plunderer and oppressor of India. New CT in the purer and better days of the VICTIM himself, when mantling with the inspiration of conscious honor and patriotism, he beat back the assaulting TIrANs of Federalism from the fane of the constitution, did the flame of his terrible denunciation blast along its way with more retributiye severity, than did the parallel castigation of Mf. Marshall scar is 'eag along dis serpentine and erery- sided public career. There was nothing vins dictive, unjust, or calumnious n the posecu-