The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-08-25
THE ABOLITION PRESS IN KENTUCKY

We shall republish in tomorrow evenings
"Union" the proceedings of the meeting Of the
town of Lexington and the county of Fayette in re-
laton to the press of Cassius M. Clay. The adj
dress and resolutions, which were presented by
Thomas F. Marshall, esq, and unanimously adopt
ed by the meeting, written with great force and
breathe proper spirit. Indeed, we rarely see any
proceeding, which, under similar circumstances,
was conducted with frmer, yet more moderate
temper There was no riot, no mob, no violence
and no bloodshed. The people were determined to
put down a nuisance among them, which threatened
to disturb the peace of their hearths and their home
steads; and the effort was SO calm, yet so decided,
that Mr.. Cassi',s M. Clay saw at once it was
his interest and his duty to submit. The effect Of
this moral lesson will be TO teach the abolitionsis
the necessity Of practising forbearance towards
the peculiar institutions Of large portion of the
Union, protected, it should be- by the guarantees
Of the constitution ITSELF No similar attempt will
ever be made to disturb the peace of the southern
or western States, by the establishment Of an abo-
ton press within their bosom. II will dampen the
spirit of aboltionsm itself, whilst the slave. holding
States will be left at liberty to preserve or to alter
their own institutions, according to their own sound
discretion.
The movement in Lexington was that of the peo-
pie. There was no party spirit about il. Indeed
both parties united in it, ofthc committee of sixty
we understand forty-four were wings. Mr.. Henry
Clay not present; for he left Ashland on Satur-
day, the 18th instant, visit to the White Sui
phur springs Of Virginia. But his son and partner
j. B. Clay, esq, was an active member of the com
mt,ee of sixty.
The situation of Mr. Cassius M. Clay is as much
object of commiseration as it is of rdicule. II
seems, before he had commenced the publication of
his paper he employed scientific engineers in for
tfying CHS ofce) against attack, and prepared the
means of destroying the lives of his fellow-citizens
in mines Of gunpowder, stands of muskes, and
pieces of cannon" His engineer was Pole, who
had been employed in the wars of Europe. The
pixies, which he had manufactured for the purpose
were heavy and deadly in their construction. He
had made an ostentatious parade of these warlike
preparations; yet the frmness Of the people overcame
his own madness, and the result has demonstrated
that "Othcllo's occupations (realy) gone" His
Office has been removed to Cincinnati and il the
champion returns to his vocation, he goes back with
shattered means and diminished energy We con-
graduate the country that the storm has blown by so
quietly.
II now appears that two birds have been killed by
the same stone, as we learn by the following para
graph in the "Maysville Eagle" Of the Goth inst:
ANOTHER EFFECTIVE learned verbally, on yesterday
morning that the excitement manifested in Lexington and
throughout Fayette and the adjoining counties had
similarly compelled the suspension Of the Christian nte
gencera Methodist paper published in Georgetown, Scott
The editor of the pdof
abolitlonism pernaciously dsavowcd such sentiments
He however strong In his