The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-10-24
From the Kentucky Flag.
MIR, Claws Barbecue,

| o. The last Lexington Reporter contains long
list OF names (without their consent, no doubt
| OF both parties, to act in some one of the sew
eral committees on the great festival day of the
18th inst, and at the same time, the editor in-
vites the friends of the Union, at home and
abroad, to misunderstanding out heavy blows on
| the Disunionists, without pretending to know
| that he has been one of the humble instruments
in producing all the evils of which he complains,
| 1t is time this organized system Of deception
should cease. 1t is most perfect humbug, and
must in time work own its downfall buta little
effort at this moment may bring that about the
sooner. We all recollect the newspaper blow
ing, and how Fanny Ellsler was caressed, in the
great eastern cities but on her arrival in New
Orleans, it happened that few Kentucky ladies
were at the hotel and it was quickly made known
to the landlord they could not remain in the
house with a woman of bad character Fanny
had to leave, and from tat time occupied her
proper place in society while in the United
States. From this, it will be seen that little
leaven purified the whole lump, and it will be the
same now, If the p ople OF Kentucky will do
their duty.
Some will and ought to attend. Those who
struggled with Mr.. Clay in 1919, against the
New Constitution, and in 1850 against its adop-
ton, may feel called on The two governors
who set Miss Webster and Fairbanks free, and
the functonary who received her into his family,
and drove her about in his carriage, after her re-
lease from the penitentiary, may also attend.-
But those whose property has been stolen
those who stand condemned by the Abolition
lists as degraded wretches, cannot 90 to this fes-
tival with any pleasure. We may all thank Mr.
Clay for the effort he made to moderate the fierce
zeal Of his Abolition friends but as he failed
for the very best of reasons-as he failed to
bring back his relation, c. NJ Clay, to a course
of policy, so he has failed with his Northern
friends; they all suppose he WAS il, earnest for
merly, and now merely bending to the times.
1t is well known that the union OF the orator
Of Ashland with the Puritanical Aboliiionists of
Boston, in 1925, has produced tbs disturbances
and agitation which has distracted the country
from the date Of their overthrow, in 1928. Mr..
Clay advocated enamel patton and the alteration
Of the Constitution, so as to exclude the veto
power Of the President. No man of any sense
will deny that both of these measures, or indeed
that one Of them, would dissolve the Union.-
At the same time, the measures of the Purttans
Of Boston were marked by the greatest violence
against Southern Institutions
A singular incident occurs in the lives of these
two great men; Mr.. Senator Seward writes the
life of one, and MIR. Editor Prentice that of the
other-a noble pair from the same quarter of
the Union-would make valuable cargo for
Liberia or liayti, if they could stand the sea
SiCedt.
Even now, after Mr.. Clay by his union with
the North, has done all the harm he can, should
be forgiven, if he repcnts and lays the blame at
his own door, and not on the Ignorance of the
people as he did in 1912 at Lexington, in his
virgin slavery speech Apart from everything
else, the bad treatment which Mr.. Clay has re-
ceived from his abolition friends, pleads strongly
for the sympathy Of his State. He has been
urged on to run for the Presidency in 1882
and IA, at periods when the Democratic party
was the strongest aud not the slightest prospect
of success existed, while by management and in-
trgue he was left out in 1886, 40 and '4s, when
the suspension of the banks and the Mexican
war had reduced the Democratic party to the very
weakest state
The question at all times before the people
should be, who are the true friends of the Union!
the people of the South who are contented with
the Constitution as it came from the hands of
our fathers ! or those who have been in the prac-
tice of violating its letter and spirit for twenty
five years, and expect to escape disgrace by ira,
ducng others, who refuse to submit to wrongs
which no Independent people on earth ever bore
more patiently!
UNION.