Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-04-24
"wHERE is HENRY .CLAY1"

The Richmond Wing has an article in re-
ply to this question, which it says has been
fippantly put by some opponent of Harry
of the West" from which we make the fol-
lowing extracts:
"Where is Henry Clayl" We said he
was in New Orleans - but no, that is a mis-
take. He is not there alone. In the frozen
mountains Of the North, in the vast p~rsiries
of the West, in the crowded cities of tho
East, in the sunny plains Of the South, 60
ask the question, Where is Henry Clay !"
and a million hands will be clasped on warm
hearts, and a million voices answer, HERE |!
Tell us not that he is out of office ; that he 10
a defeated candidate that he can never at
tain the imperial purple. It may be all
true, but here, deep in the breast of a pstri.
otto people, he has an empire more powerful
and enduring than any office on earth could
give. We love the MAN, and in loving him,
we feel that we love our country, truth, hon.
or and courage - all that can ennoble the hui
man race. We love him now aver more, as
his glorious sun, every cloud Of calumny
vanishing from before its face, goes down in
calm and majestic beauty. Alas for tho
country, when that luminary descends, and
the shadows of night close upon the scene,
with nothing TO irradiate the gloom but che
feeble light of glow-worm politicians"
The question and the eloquent answer sug-
gest many other thoughts than those here
expressed, and will awaken other responses,
more true, though perhaps less poetical.-
Z" Where is Henry CHay?" In what moral
position does he stand before this nation and
the world 7 Where and how is his influence
feltl What is he doing to aid that great
work which is engrossing the mightiest in
fal1aofc Of tho ara which = Jaa;nad 90 .ose
into obscurity the arts Of politics, the skill Of
craftsmanship, the glory of the warriori-
The great work of human progress! How
does he estimate man, as man These are
the tests whereby shall be judged his claims
to the eulogies of his contemporaries, and
the honor of posterity. Let US ask of the
poor, the oppressed, the outcast of earth -
Have they heard the name of this " Immortal
patriot" this "world-renowned I" man, and
is it to them a sound of Joy and gladnessf
Does it bring a CLEAN of hope to the prison.
er's cell does the bondman hail it as a to-
ken of deliverancel Let us go to the =. sun
ny plains of the South" and hold up to the
gaze Of its e~nslaved population the picture
of Henry Clay, as portrayed in his own
words: 81 am opposed to every scheme of
emancipation gradual or Immediate" "My
slaves are fat and sleek !" And let US ask
that unhappy band, aohere is the original -
VIII ga million hands be clasped upon warm
hearts, and a million voices answer, HERE I"
Let us 60 to Ashland, where, indeed, he 10
not g out of Office" where =" he has an en-
pire as powerful " and despotic as he can
desire, and let us ask of his sirIy slaves, il
he lives deep in their patriotic hearts II
they feel that in loving him, they love "uil
that can ennoble the human race?" Ay,
let us ask that aged mother, who has seen
her children; one after another, removed from
his plantation and sold far away, if she can
not forget her wrongs while gazing on tho
enliven her cheerlsss, desolated home, with
the rays of that "glorious sun =" which 10 go
ing down " in calm and majestic beauty I"
Posterity will remember Henry Clay, and
they will remember that he was a sLAvEHoL-
DER. They will remember the single pofe
perpetuated slavery in Arkansas, by
defeating the bill which would have made
the year 1874 a jubilee to emancipated thou
there. They will remember not only
the elevated position which intellectual great
ness may have given him, but will ask on
which side of the great battle between right
and wrong, between humanity and its foes,
was that mighty intellect enlistedi And Of
what importance 10 him is the noisy breath Of
popular applause, for a few brief days COM
pared with the calm and sober judgment of
the Future, the truthful verdict of the OPP
of this nation, and the decision of his
own conscience, which are yet to be rendered
concerning him The blessing Of those who
are "ready to PERISH" is worth a thousand
fold more than all the honors which the
world has striven to heap upon him.-Pa.
Freeman.