Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1845-08-28
lsLAvOCRATIC OUTRAGE
,CASSIUS M. CLAY AND THE SDAVEHOL-
DERS OF KENTUCKY.

DERS OF KENTUCKY.
On the 18th of August committee Of meeting
of citizens of Lexington sent letter TO Mr.. Clay,
telling him in substance that the continuance Of
his paper would be dangerous to the peace of com
munty TO this he replied in a very decisive let
ter, saying" Go tell your secret conclavc Of cow
ardly assassins that c. M. Clay knows his rights
and how to defend them" This was followed by
the following noble appeal to the public
KrNrUcKIANs:-You see this attempt of these
tyrants, worse than the thirty despoiS who lorded it
over the once free Athens, now to enslave you.-
Men who regard law-men who regard all their
liberties as not to be sacrificed to a single pecuni-
airy interest," to say the least of doubtful value
lovers of justice-enemies of blood-laborers of
all classes-you for whom have sacrificed so much,
where will you be found when this battle between
Liberty and Slavery is to be fought? | cannot !
will not, dare not question on which side you will
be found If you stand by me like men, our coun-
try will yet be free, but if you foter now, perish
with less regret when ! remember that the people
of my native State, of whom have been so proud,
and whom have loved so much, are already slaves.
c. NJ CLAY.
Lexington, Aug. II, 1645.
A public meeting was called to be holden on
Monday of last week, and a mob seemed to be i'm
pending.
F.. s. The following tells the disgracefu story
this will prove one of the seyerest blows ever dealt
to Slavery.
Cassius NJ clay and The Ao5oaacy.--A post
script in the Louisville Journal states that the OK
citement in Lexington on the 18th inst, was very
great and an attack upon Mr.. Clay's office was
very generally expected. In anticipation Of such
an assault Mr. Clay made his will, armed himself,
and being too i'll to sit up sent in bed to be
pied by him during the day.
At the meeting on Monday, the correspondence
between the Committee and Mr.. Clay was read, and
Mr. II. f. Marshall read an address, of which, as
well as of the issue Of the whole affair, cores
pondent Of the Maysvillc (Ky) Eagle gives the fol-
lowing account:
"During the reading of extracts from the True
American Of last Tuesday and from Clay's circu-
lars subsequently issued, had expected to see and
hear evident and repeated manifestations OF out
breaking indgnation but not a solitary word was
uttered, and no worshippng assembly was ever
more orderly or observed prolounder silence.
"Mr. Marshall then proceeded to read an adj
dress prepared for the occasion by committee Ct
gentlemen, most clearly defending the constltu-
tonal rights Of the Southern States, and OF md
viduas, in regard to the great question that haC
called them together Exposing, by the introduce
ton of facts, Mr.. Clay's postion-his avowed OBJ
ect in the publication of his paper-his connection
with the Northern abolitonists the imminent dan
ger and utter impracticability Of suffering him t'
continue his mad Career-and closing with resolu
tons expressive Of the determination of the citi
not to suffer the publication Of tins or any 9th
er abolition paper in Lexington or its vicinity ant
appointing a committee of sixty gentlemen to pro
coed Immediately to the office of the American
take possession Of the type and printing apparatus
and forward it to Cincinnati by railroad, sublec
there to Mr.. Clay's order-which commission thes,
gentlemen are now discharging, as | understand
peaceably and without resistance, the least show o
which would have resulted in the instant and ute
annhaton of the whole establishment"
The Eagle says that after boxing up Mr.. Clay
printing materials, the meeting re-assembled, bu
its proceedings had not reached them.
The same paper states that the excitement man
Tested in Lexington and throughout Fayette ant
the adjoining countless had also similarly compelled
the suspension of the Christian Intelligencer,'
Methodist paper published in Georgetown, Scot
county.
The New-York Tribune publishes the followin.
letter from a correspondent at Cincinnati. The
Tribune says-"It speaks in language as eloquen
as it is Justly indignant, of an outrage upon th
Freedom of the Press, which will yet recoil witt
stunning force upon its short-sighted and infatuat
ed authors"
Auor On 1919