New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-03-16

hnod thc ouacos OF mchpcr o' INC hNB"a'u'eo OF
Kentucky and i,s Speaker, member OF Congress
and is Speaker United States Senator. Foreign
Ncgotissor Secretary of State under one President,
and the frat choice Of another for the same high
Office we could not help thinking that that boy was
surely destined 20 rid his country Of much of the
evil Of that system of bondage to which certain
Senators had imagined the Massachusetts candi
date for London embassy to be rather inimical.
Il ensrated from Virginia "a the State Of Kentucky
now nearly forty I'VE years ago. said Mr.. Cay 10 his
brother Senators when bidding them farewell; went
as an orphan who had not yet attained the q MAORI
tywho had never recognized fathers smile felt his
nyesswthout the favor Of The crest
with imperfect and inadequate education, limited 70
the Ordinary business and pursuits Of life but
had set my foot her generous soil when YES
seized and embraced with parental fondness csresed IS
though had been favorte child, and patronized WIZ
liberal ana unboundee munhcence from mat feroa 'n
highest honors Of the State have been freely bestowes
upon me- and aerward In the darkest hour OF caunhy
aud de,racton when seemed TO be forsaken by All the
rest OF the world she threw her broad and impenetrsoe
shield around and bearing me up so In her courage
arms repealed the poisoned shafts that were aimed at
my destruction and vindicated my good name against
every false and uofounded assault
When a mad bull some years since, gored and
killed Mr.. Clay's charger and threw the rider
several feet from the spot, he was almost niracu
lousy spared uninjured--when the carriage upset
and crushed his fellow traveller n moment, be
again escaped unhurt-and even in his duel laI
dueling is wrong with the fretful and eccentric
Randolph. who had iusulted him in the most cruel
and bitter language he could think Of and was one
of the best shots in Virginia, Henry Clay was safe
MIR. Randolph, his eyes filed with tears, said to
General Hamilton,
hare dseriS cd 10 rtcece icith0u returning Gays
IRE; nothing shall induce me 70 harm hdir OF is heooi
ri not make his Vife widow or has eiidrtn orphans
Tr tears c0d Be shed orsT hts gr0ts 6H tha ute goo
Tr9ina rests on my bosom there Is not IN ms de rTd
enc iadriduol 10 poy his tribtie 70 mine
Mr.. Clay is honest and strict in ell money mat
tiers even to proverb. AS Speaker Of the House
of Representatives and as Secretary OF State mil
lions of dollars passed through his hands but the
most malicious of his enemies, and ne has some
never dreamed ofchsrging him with the misapplica'
ton of a single dollar. He abhors Republication,
that dark and foul spot upon the American name
and character" Raleigh speech j was frugal Of
toe public W. elth-be and Adams only expending
thirteen millions year during their four-years Ad'
ministration, while the Government which put
them down spent in another four years, lao mil
lions much OF it sunk in the morasses OF Florida or
wasted in eless removals Of Indian tribes and the
men now in power are throwing away still larger
sum on their hobby of annexing Mexico, and con-
quering peace. They trust to hired regiments OF
regular troops-Mr. Clay confded in the spirit
which anmates and nerves the arms OF q free
people
When the embargo was laid on, Mr.. Clay stoodup
as its chsmpion-when our fighting and protective
Navy was in its infancy, he proved himself one OF
its warnest and most efficient friends-as Secrets-
~ of State his efforts to obtain for the Republic
the free navigation of the st. Lawrence were un-
tiring-he denounced il as an anomaly that the pa
triotic citizens of the District of Columbia were
deprived of any practical voice in the affairs oil the
nation whose Seat of Government that District is
"a uniform mode of electing the Electors of resi-
debt and that by the district system, is much de-
sired by him, as the general ticket smothers the
minority of a State altogether-his noble defence
of the oppressed Cherokees against the cruel con
duct of Georgia is well known-on the question Of
Banking he went with Washington, Madison, Mar
shall and Monroe, firmly opposing the safety fund
and petbank systems and truly predicting their
speedy downfall
He introduced resolutions into the Senate when
the Wings for moment got power, for diminish
ing the enormous expense oi the Federal Ju'
dietary, but it has been inereased-tor the reduc'
ton OF sinecure Embassies, but their number is
extended-for the abolition OF useless institutions
and electioneering offices, and the curtailment oil
all unnecessary ex penses but when, IN the history
of this country or continent did westeful extravs
eance io every deparme nt of the State riot ss
il has done of late years The moved that the
Heads Of Departments be directed to report, ss
,bot az he sh
or retrenchments made in their Offices, bat Mr.
Forwards proposition among others, to remove
seventeen eleetioneering instruments at Sl'9OO
year under the siDecure name Of measurers here
is not entertained yet-he was the first to move
for the Restriction of the Franking Privilege, but
his opponents speedily placed it in the old parti'
san position. with IA 900 Postmasters privileged
to stamp FREE on correspondence, and Mr. Cave
johnson to Gull and weed in that garden-snd Mr.
Claws Resolutions are the first on record 10 the
Senate in favor of the blessing of cheap Letter
Postage.
Protection to Home Industry-the Manufacturer
near the Farmer-protection and encouragement
to that best most steady and most valuable oil
all Markets, whether in peace or war, HoME
MARKET, was alike the principle and policy OF
W
Monroe; Calhoun veered round from it, and struck
upon the breakers Of Notification but in Mr. Clay
there was no change. Next to the preservation oil
the Union. as to which the farewell admonition OF
the Father of his Country has been ever before
him aud his guide he has advocated the most ample
freedom OF trade within the Union but the encour-
agement of home fabrics as compared with those
Of foreixn lands is the darling wish OF his heart
az it is adding strength and beauty to the land OF
his natiyty-as soon as SOC, forty two years ago,
Mr.. Clay was a Senator Of this Union, and one OF
his earliest efforts was to obtain grant Of land as
fund for constructing much required canal pub
lie roads applying to all the States had better be
made, he thinks, by Congress. Since then, he has
been almost continually engaged In the pubic
service
One Of his brothers was bred mechanic, and
some years since he replied to an address OF the
cabinet m akers of Columbia, My only surviving
full brother vas once very excellent cabinet