Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1845-09-25
LETTER FROM CAsslUs NJ. CLAY.

LETTER FROM CASSlUS NJ. Ola
The following letter from c. NJ. Clay was written
in reply to a letter from the Cincinnati Committee,
appointed at the meeting of the citizens of that
place to take some measures relative to the Press
Of the True American. Their letter is dated Au-
gust 81. 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.
LEXINGTON, KY, Sept. 4, lS45.
Benz Urner, James s Glascoe. Jacob Ernst, Oil
yer Lowell, Geo. W. Phillips, X. G. Mitchell,
James Calhoun.
GENrLEMEN-I have Just received your letter of
the 9th ult enclosing the proceedings of the cltl-
zens of Cincinnat and their resolutions in public
meeting.
Their words of kindness and generous apprecia-
ton, and noble and dignifed avowal, moved me
more than all the studied crueltes and wrongs OF
my enemies, though was unnerved by disease and
threatened, for long days and nights, with horr-
BILE DEATH
thank you that you have not allowed the cal
luminous manifesto of the revoutoniss of the 18Th
of August TO weaken your confidence in my loyalty
to the constitution and laws. thank you, that you
have nothing in the past to cause you to lose
confidence in the FUTURE that my = measures ana
means" will be " safe, practical and peaceable."
thank YOU that you deem my work high and ask
Divine protection on me and on it.
Yon, gentlemen, have taken me upon trust the
time for my defence will come with my ro-estaD
lSneu uedlJl, WHcI; NcIuic w S'!' 90, 'N ~ q
will not be revoked by Kentucky and the world.
shall auIe to only one charge going the rounds
OF the papcrs-thot thero was compromise oe,
tween me and the Rebels Of the 18th, and that
agreed TO- discontinue the PG6Hcatlon OF Tie rue
American, provided they would spare 'he press
1t IS unnecessary Tor me TO say TO YOU VINO nave
scenmy letter addressed to the meeting, as well as
my previous handbilis addressed to the people, that
this story is calumnious and morally mpossble.-
IL Is enough tlot the Conl.hiItee u 5'Hy nave "u
lhorlsed lhe Lexington observer anu NVP'''r' "
state mat no sucn proposition came rom me OF u'y
OF my lrehus' ms aien'Pt i"eIe.oIe' 70 ucs-oy
me, is OF piece win triS Whole outrage OIL crueI!
and wroDg Us shail DC uue 10 sIo" d. so"ii do w!
health vii. allow
hope shall be able to show That am hci'he
a"mad-man nor " iunatc'
They who sent BACK from lhermopy1 inc suo
lime message, 10 tell II at i;aceu@moh 'lal we
died IN obedience to her laws the roman wac
returned to captivity ana 10 dealn, mat ms couitr!
might be saVed--Sydney, llampaen, ana l'usSeil
Emmett, who uttered the mlSIly instincts Oh u grca
soul, the man dies, put MS memory ives -Au
ANS who exclaimed survive or perish, am 10
the declaratlon"-l Henry, who cried, Tive me I'D
erty or give me DEATH" were all, IN the eyes o
these men, "madmen" and fanatics"
1t was necessary that some one should bear tn
standard OF Liberty into the enemys camp, and b!
so doing, whether he stood ortel arouse thus grea
nation from the lethargy and death, which have
come over the splnto once Tree people. 1t ma
been the policy OF wise statesman, IN all ages, t.
clothe the humblcst citizen with the concentrate
power and lnvloablllty OF the whole empire. !
was enough for one, amidst the widest oaroarlan'
to say, 81 am Roman Citizen and he was safe
No country in Europe is so careful OF lnd'vldua
and national glory as France, the first nation OF Eu
rope, and England, but few years ago, was read
to peril her thirty millions of lives on the rescue {
single subject 1t cannot, therefore, be less tina
madness in the American people, it they eXpec
long to live as nation, and not TO fall an easy sac
rihce TO foreign aggression, or internal anarchy
despotsm, to look coolly on, when even the hun
hlest Of those contendlng Tor constitutional bert
and national honor are overborne and tramP!e
down IN the battle. surely mat hatoh cannot liV
long, far less be free, that sees, time after TIM
whatever OF spirit and manly independence ma
anywhere exhibit Itself, crushed ana utterly eXtii
gulshed
/ thank you, then, and the people OF Cincinnati
my fellow citizens, men gathered under the sam
national Constitution, to which owe allegianc
and which owes me protection, brothers OF the sam
blood, inherltlng the same proud recoliectlons
the past, and looking in the future to the same IL
separable destiny, that you have not covered b'
fore the slave power but that you stood by II
triendless, the powerless, the tallen and dared
speak out for constitutional republicanlsm and etc
nal justice, which have been violated In my perso