Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-09-04
NICE between Mr. c. M. Clay and the meeting Of the
Lerinrtnn .4na.,lsL 1olh. 1916.

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citizens:-
Lexington, August 18Th, lo45'
C. M. CLAY, Esq,-Sir-We have been directed
by the Committee of the meeting held on yesterday, al
the Courthouse, as its officers to inform you that the
sptess, type &C.. of the "TUe American" paper, have
been carefully put up and shipped by railroad to Gin
cinnat to the care of Messrs January d Taylor sub
feet to your ORDER and that the charges and expenses
upon them have been paid. With Oproper respect We
have the honor to be- &c.
GEO. w. JOHNSON, Chairman
J. B. CLAY, Secretary.
From the Boston Morning Chronicle.
irF@The following from the Cincinnati Herald Of
Friday, contains the latest information we have in re-
gard to Mr. c. NJ Clay's health. The Louisville Times
confirms the account Of his dangerous condition The
excitement the persecution the failure of all his friends
and desertion of his great patron have probably crush
ed hun to the earth The remarks of the editor of the
Herald are so ratenal in spirit 50 candid, Just and
sincere, that we copy them also, expressing
sentiments in regard to Mr. c. M. Clays proceedings
EXINGTON.-CASSIUS M. CLAY.
A respected correspondent writing from Lexington
on the 10TH 81 have been here for the last four days.
and have witnessed four days of sysemazcd mob-aw,
or unlawful force employed without confusion noise,
to stop the liberty of the press"
The proceedings, he says, were conducted peacea-
bly, shut had the editor been able to do what he intend
ed, 1T would have been bloody scene."
lie communicates the sad intelligence that in the O.
pinion of the attending physician, "Cassius NJ. Clay
will die" "lfhe had been in full health, many say he
would not have been interrupted"
ellis press is packed up, and on its way to Cincinnati
-Ae took every care they say, to njure nothing Mr.
Clay has made his will supposng that his sublunar mis-
sion is closed He with that vew gave the KEYS fhs
Office to the committee sixty, and told them the bust
ness was in their hands"
III was we presume i'll consequence this conviction
ofbe approach of DEATH that he abandoned all thought
V aoo+ r. nbvsical force as inmated in the closing
aanb ofiis last appeal to his felowcitizens, which
i0 ofca and dwelling" he said, care undeended
o,t NV tbo laws ofmy country-to the sacred lnylof-
ability ofwhch confde myself and properly anu o
those laws you are the sole guardians -,o,.ohold
Tftbis man dies he will be victim to these
inc roobocrats. Ills blood will be upon the heads OF
4be noone of Favette and Lexington. we puDIScn al
rnt of thc CLOSING scenes ofths terrible DRAMA lIoi
tb nisvle Journal together with the last appear Vi
AZ C1y to his fellow citizens They are so pamul ulo'
-yo cannot hear to dwell upon them The appeal coz
tains concessions which Mr. Clay nerer 'coWa maze
in his ricbt mind Exhausted by typhus 1eVel TlnCr
had lasted for thirty five days-a lever "ilooo
;e exnnnded uponthe brain and nervous system
lb more than anv other prostraes mans mora alu
;tlloctual enarnics-seized with relapse
h ooss;yo faticue and excitement ~
5t;os oj friends having no sympathy WIN lilc ou'o
% a ,oarost to his hea-distracted, proStrateu'
J,,;nrr We tr1,st his mission is not yet fulllleu'
,r,bo ,rooo oy,ipeA-Yescrday morning there was
drr1Ud If norsons on the landing, looking at ule
qleo ~ tno Of the True American, which had just
.yoJ from Lexington According to the representa-
a., made 70 ms every thing in sad pght-the
uo tion to pieces and tlmbled out the wharf, in
Pnlote disorder in the dirt, and the boxes Of type
broken up and exposed. The respectable mobocrats
did not execute their task in a very worlmanlike man
ner The property is consigned to January d Taylor
Cincinnati Herald, %.
WHAT WILL CAssUs CLAY DO?-The New York
Tribune of Saturday. says that Mr.. c. nj. Clay is re-
covering This is good news, and will revive the in
onirv what will he do next? Many have supposed he
would follow his press to Cincinnati, and revive the
T-Io American on the soil which the law has made
oe and which ten years. labor of the aboitionss has
~H rendGfeu safe. The editor of the Baltimore
%S@ly Visitor, kindred spirit in similar circumstan-
ces says, he will not be driven out ofKentucky-
ton Chronicle
ANOTHER EfFEor-We learn verbally, that the ex-
eement manifested in Lexington, and throughout Fay
et'o and the adjoining counties, had also similarly
compelled the Suspension of the "Chrstian Intelligence
or" Methodist published in Georgetown Scott coun-
~ The editor of the Intelligencer, though accused
VI abolltlonlsm, pertnaciousy disavowed such sen-
ments. He was however, strong in his condemnation
OF the men and measures the purposes and action OF
the late Louisville convention. His paper has thus
been involved in common fate with its avowed anti
slavery ot T,exinpton-.lIISDue Eagle.