The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1845-09-23
IETrER FROM CAssIUS NJ. CLAY.

LETTER. FROM CASSlUS NJ. CLAY.
We find 10 the Cincinnati Gazette, oil sept
/, The following letter from c. NJ. Clay. IL
smli,ten in reply to letter from the Cinein-
natl Committee, appointed at the meeting of
the citizens of that place to take some meas
ures relative to the Press Of the True Ameri-
can. Their latter is dated Aug. 27.-The
Committee inform him that the Press is safe
and insured, and tender him their services in
any way in which they can aid him. We
have no time for comments, the letter speaks
Cur itself.
LEXINGTON, Kr. Sept. 4th, 1915.
B.nj. Urner, James s. GlascOe, JaeO5 Ernst,
O,irer LoreH, Geo. ". Philips, Il. 6.
Mitchell, James Calhoun.
GENTLEMEN: have Just received your let
Ter of the 9th ult. enclosing the proceedings
ofihe citizens of Cincinnati and their resolu
tons in public meeting.
Their words of Kindness and generous
appreciation and noble and dignilied avowal,
have moved me more than all the studied cru
elites and wrongs Of my enemies, though |
was unnerved by disease, and Threatened,
for long days and nights, with horrible
death.
thank YOU that you have not allowed the
calunnious manifesto Of the revoluIionisls Of
the 18th Of August to weakenyour confidence
in my loyalty TO the Constitution and laws.
/ thank YOU, that YOU have seen nothing in
the past to cause YOU to lose confidence in
the future, that my measures and means
l. r. al. Il III ' thank
you, that YOU deem my work'high IL holy, *
for the revereui and soul-sustaning inyocl-
zion Of Divine protection on me and on IT,
You, gentlemen, have taSen me upon
trust; the time for my defence will come
with my re-established health. when. ven
ture to say, your sentence will not be re-
voked by kentucky and the world
shall allude to only ane charge going the
rounds OF the papers-that there was com
promise between me and the Rebels OF the
18th. and that agreed to discontinue the
publication of the True American provided
they would spare the Press. 1t is unnecess-
ary for me to say to you, who have seen my
letter addressed TO the mceting.as well as my
previous handblls addressed to the people,
that this story is caumnious an1-morally i'm
possible. It's enough that the Committee
OF Sixty have authorized the Lexington OBJ
server and Reporter TO state that no such
proposition came from me or any of my
friends. The attempt, therefore, to degrade
me, on the part Of those no failed to destroy
me, is of piece with this whole outrage OF
cruelty and wrong, as shall be able to show
as soon as my health will allow.
hope shall be able to show that i am
neither 'madman' nor 'lunatic.'
They who sent back from Themopyl5e the
sublime message, go tell it at LacedGmon
that we died here in obedience to her laws
the Roman who returned TO captivity and to
death that his country might be sAved-Syd-
ncy, Hampden and RusscI-Emmett, who
uttered the mighty insiinics of a great SOU i,
the man dies hut his memory lives'-Adams,
WHIP exclaimed Survive or perish, am for
the declaration'-Henry, who cried Give
me liberty or give me DEATH were ALL in the
eyes of these men, 'madmen' and fanatics
TWAS necessary that some one should bear
the standard of Liberty into the enemy's
camp, and by so doing, whether he stood or
frllto arouse this great nation from The lethar-
~ and death, which have come over the spir-
ii of once free people. 1t has been the poll
cy Of wise statesmen in all ages, to clothe the
or and inviolability of the whule empire. 1t
was enough for one amidst the widest bar
barlans to say, Il am a Roman CITIZEN, and
he was safe. No country in Europe is SO
careful of individual and national glory as
France, the FIRST nation of Europe, and Eng
land, but few years ago. WAS ready to peril
her thirty millions Of lives on the rescue of a
single subject. 1t cannot, therefore, be less
4 a. Il.
expect long TO live as a nation, and not to fall
an easy sacrifice to foreign aggression, or IA
ternal anarchy and despoiism, TO look cody
OF. when even the humbest of those conten-
ding for the constitutional liberty and national
honor are overborne and trampled down in
the battle. Surely that nation cannot live
long, far less be free, that sees time after
time, whatever of spirit and manly indepen-
dsnce may anywhere exhibit itself, crushed
mud utterly extingushed.
| thank you then and the people of Cincin-
niti, my fellow-citizens, men gathered uadcr
the SINE national Constitution, to which
owe allegiance, and which owes me protec-
ton, brothers of the same blood, inheriiing
the same proud recollections of the past, and
looking in the future with the same insep1ra-
Bic destiny. that YOU have not covered be-
fore the slave power; but that You stood by
the frienless, the powerless, the fallen, and
dared to speak out for constitutional republi-
e1nism aud eternal justice, which have been
violated in my person. Above allan deep
ly affected by The fact, that you assembled il
'inass meeting without distinction OF party
ald as both parties here lost in overw helm.
ing subservience 10 slavery, so you of the
Free States begin 10 unite in the defence OF
your own rights aud in the cause of na,iona
Ib.riy.
If the Wings and Democrats aud Libert,
Men shall become really what they assume
then is hale my work accomplished, and tht
Republic saGe-for though my state should
sink into irrevocable despo!ism, there will be
left somewhere on this v.:o'e continent, ;
home for the exile and the oppressed.
With regard TO the Press, would briefly
remark, that my banner, 'Goi and Liberty,
will never he struck.
Though overpowered by numbers, / have
tins same unconqucrabe viii aai defiant spir-
it, as though The day had no, gone against
M. It's for those who fight Tor The wrong,
to despair in defeat.
shall not die through Modification a: