New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-07-01
The Death of Henry Clay.


The Death of Henry Clay.
This morning our columns are clothed ins
black in honor of the memory Of the great Amer |
lean Statesman. So brief was our notice of hisE
death, that yesterday we were able only par
tally to pay this mark of honor to the distin-s
guished dead.
The melancholy announcement cast u solemns
gloom over our entire community, Wing andi
democrat recognized a great national mistor-'
tune; and wing and democrat spoke sorrow;
fully of the sad but not unexpected event. Our,
it will he noted, have designated to-
morrow as a day of solemn mourning, and re-
spectful eommemoration.
To-day, we, ourself, would pay a brief edito-
rial tribute to the memory of the Distinguished
Statesman and great hearted patriot our own
Kentucky gave to the Union. But, we know
not how it is, words fail us. Henry Clay has
always been to us more than any other man.
memory of early childhood, glory of boyhood
IAN idol of manhood. We have believed in him,
even in the gloomiest hour of his political for
tunes, as the Christian martyr believed inI
christian faith. One of the golden dreams and
most impassoned hopes of our life has always
been that he would one day be the President
Ia magnificent President Of our glorious Union.
Henry Clay was to us political faith, POLITICAL
religion, the very model of chivalry, the imper-
Isonotion of honor, the embodiment Of generous
kindness. He was, in our view, defiant of OPT
position, but never, never for one moment, mali
lcious; brave, but forbearing and quick to-
repair an inadvertent wrong; ambitious, but
and in the strictest rule Of princi-
|ple; imperative and yet conciliatory where
|great principles were involved; confident in his
lown convictions, but always willing to hear and
Judge rightly fearless of any living creature,
but yet as kindly and generous as brave. He
was to us the impersonation Of all the fine ele-
iments of a Richard Cour de Lion, Bayard and
IN Hampton. His fame and services were ma
tional, but in early boyhood we looked upon
|himsas the peculiar glory of our State. He was
Tits pillar Of light, and to-day Kentucky, more
than any other portion of the Union, is sadly
|darkened in his death, and if Eentuckians arc
feeble in their culogy it is because they are so
deeply sorrowful in their loss.
!Scott and decentralization Meeting.
We are informed, and requested to say, that
THE Wing Ratification Meeting will positively
take place this evening, as heretofore announced.
The enthusiasm the occasion is calculated to-
elicit will be sadly chastened by the great ma
tional loss we yesterday announced. In the
death of Henry Clay, the good and great, andI
brave hearted old man, not only is the countrys
poorer in the deprivation of Il powerful mind /
an eloquent tongue and a true and manly heart;
but, if we may be permitted to speak thus, the
wings of the Union have lost their right arm of,
powerin the death of Il leader universally recog-
nized as possessing a national fame and de-
serving national gratitude.
But sorrowful and ohastened as may be the
feeling of affection, our wing friends, in the
general mourning for the great dead, will yeti
give brave and true testimony to their faithl
in the representative of living principles-thes
they have fought for, for years, ands
which their great statesmen have so brilliantly
and earnestly supported.
They will testify that they have faith in the,
Hero Of Chippewa, of Lundy's Lane, and al
hundred battles-that they have faith in Ora.
ham, North Cardinals manly, independently
bravely spoken son,
Scott has spoken the watchwords of Southern
faith and vigilance-has spoken them when the
had already been given him, when he
had no mere canvassing interest to serve, and
has spoken them with no faltering in a single
accent For nearly half century the soldier
of the Union. grown gray in its service, and in
that service preserved by Providence in the
midst of the battles perilous storm Of bullets,
he has large claims upon national sympathy,
respect and admiration. The victor of so many
brilliant battles in behalf of his country, that
country will scarcely see him inglorously de-
Heated now.
Graham is a brave-heated and true hearted
man-a man every inch of him, proud in con-
'scious honesty of purpose, and self-reliant in
this honest pride. He is plain, fairly spoken,
independent gentleman, and would speak the
political faith that is in him, if for so doing he
died a martyr at the stake. He is man to
stand by and confde in, and has ever stood high
lin the esteem of such men Us Calhoun, Clay,
Webster, Fillmore.
In behalf of this ticket, we already see, the
whigs of New Orleans will make an imposing
They will enthusiastically rally
Ito the support of Scott and Graham, and the
Hero of Lundys Lane will find them all faith
fully and zealously enlisted for the campaign
!They will lay down their arms only when they
|haye, in concert with the great wing party OF
1.-THE Union, borne him triumphantly into the
white House.
Scorr RANGERS Scott Rangers will as
semble at their room over the pearl " at
O'clock, precisely, this evening, whence they will
march in procession to the Wing Ratification
Meeting in Canal street. .t
We are indebted to the officers Of the steamer W
Clifton, for Louisyilles papers
Weare indebted to the clerk of the magnificent stealne,
Reindeer for Louisville papers.
We are indebted to the officers of the mall steamer Flo
rida for Mobile papers
RESIGNATION OF MR WEBsrnR--A letter from Washing.
ton says that Secretary Webster has expressed his ten
on of resignng he arrange the business Of
the State Department As Mr. Lawrence is coming home
it is supposed the mission to England may rendered tt
him.
MINISTER FROM GuATLMAlA.-ou the 2lst ut Senol
Don Felipe Molina who has for time past been
credited TO this Government Charge dAaires Of the