Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1845-10-31
HENRY CLAY.


We learn from the New York Courier
that Mr. CoIton's Life and Times Of fHrR,y
Cay is rapidly passing through the press,
and the first volume will soon I've ready for
delivery, The wide scope which the ma
ture of the subject Will present, and the u
Universal regard in which lhp character and
services Of Mr.. Clay are held, have created
deep and general interest in the public
mind in this forthcoming work, We have
reason to believe thatit will fully answer
the pubic expectation, The following pass
sage gives very interesting and graphic
sketch of one of the very many allie and
eloquent speeches Of Mr.. Clay which have
never been published:
Among the lost speeches of Mr.. Clay,
the memory Of which lives while they who
heard them live, ard the thought Of which
awakes as 10 new life the feelings they
produced, was one delivered at Lexington,
as late as May, l843; the occasion and his
tory Of which are as follow; After Mr., CLAW
had retired from the Senate of the United
States, in l842, ill the next year, during
which time it was expected he would be
nominated for President in 1914, great eff
forts were made in Kentucky, and through
out the Union, by his political opponents,
not only to villliy him, but to bring into odia
um the tWenty-seVenth Congress, which
was the. last in which MI. Clay had had
seat as Senator, and the endeavors of which
were chiefly directed to establish the policy
and measures called for by the political rev-
outon Of 1870. Mr.. Clay was virtually
traduced by some base persons in Ltxihg.
ton and that neighbol hood. As perpetu-
al dropping wears stone, so these inces-
SAINT Attacks, though false and foul, and
known to be such, if unnotced and unre-
PEELED, might produce injurious effects on
the common mind. He therefore resolved,
and caused a notice to be published, that
he would meet his felIow-cilizens of Fay.
cite and the adjoining counties, at Lexing.
ton, on day specified, 10 orepel these char
ges. His friends, whom on this occasion
he had not consulted, regretted the step as
being unnecessary. They thought these
attacks unworthy Of notice. This differ.
ence of opinion was painful to Mr.. Clay,
and no doubt contributed not a little to that
depth and power Of feeling which he man.
itested on that occasion. The notice brought
together great concourse of people, whom
no place but the public square could ac-
commodate. The patriarch stateman was
to appear before his old friends and neigh,
bors Of forty years standing, once mare and
for The last time, in that capacity in which
he had not been heard for many years, and
in which no one ever expected TO hear
him again. And it was the vile tongue OF
calumny that was to he counteracted.
The following account of the address
was furnished for the authur by highly
respected felIow.citizehs Of Mr.. Clay, and
the words of the opening, as quoted, are
exact. When Mr. Clay rose, he was ev.
denty much excited. He commenced by
saying, with marked emphasis--"Fellow.
citizens: am now an old man--quiie an
old man" Here he bent himself down.
ward. "Bn yet, It will be found, am not
too old TO vindicate my principles, to stand
by my friends, or to defend myself, "--rais4
ing his voice louder ard louder, at each
successive member Of the sentence, and
elevatng his person IN most impressive
manner. He then proceeded.
"ll so happens that have again located
myself in the practice Of my profession, in
an office within few rods Of the one which