The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1852-06-24

spEKcH or GEN. LESLIE CooMBs ON THE
REcEPrroE OF rHE CLAt MEDALLIOS.-The
Wings of Pennsylvania and Philadelphia
City, on Wednesday afternoon, presented
the Kentucky delegates to the Wing National
Convention with Clay Medallion, Tue
Baltimore sun says-'it is not only an ad-
mirable specimen of Art,bu most accurate
likeness of the illustrious Statesman" Gen.
Leslie CoOmbs, in answer to the address of
Major Gilpin madethe following appropriate
and touching reply:
"Mr. Mayor; and gentlemen of Pennsyl-
vania: have been deputed by the Ken
lucky delegation to express to you their pro-
found acknowledgement for the honor you
have done them on this occasion in present.
ing to them this beautiful likeness Of their
venerated and most beloved fellow-citizen,
Henry Clay; and to assure you that no words
at their command can adequately convey to
you the deep emotions which now fill their
hearts.
If Mr.. Clay were in the meridian of his
fame and power, the envious and malignant
might dcprecate the value of such an act OF
kindness and regard; but prostrate as he is'
on q sick bed, with no power, no patronage,
no places to bestow, we all no that nothing
but the promptings of greattul and generous
hearts could stimulate such an action on your
mart. and, as such, il touches ours most deep
iy.
II is to the rising sun of political position
that men are sometimes found disposed to
"bcnd the pregnant hinges of the knee, that
thrift may follow. .fawning." But when the
lightnng's flash shall bear the news of this
last act of your unalterable devotion to the
ears of Henry Clay another thrill of grateful
acknowledgment will warm his heart toward
old and ong-tried friends, who have ever ad-
hered to his fortunes through storm and sun
shine; sometimes even "faithfu found among
the faithless."
Gentlemen, there is Providence above
us-all-wise and overruling-that shapes
the destinies of men and nations. More than
half century ago it took an orphan boy
widows son-by the hand, in the Slashei
of Hanover, and has led him on from pinnacle
to pinnacle, from one great deed Of self-de
votion to another, until now he stands on al
eminence of human glory higher than Chin
borazos' loftiest peak with Mount Olympu
piled upon it, and there, when truthful histor!
shall do him Justice, h will stand forever
while the petty slanderers of his fame vii
only find themselves dishonorable graves il
the caves und gorges at the base,
Gentlemen, we will bear back with us t
Kentucky this last token of your love, an
deposite in the capitol, long to be locke
upon with fearful eyes and throbbing heart
by our children and our children's children
, when they shall read Of the great and patrl
otic services of Henry Clay, unrewarded
they have been by his promotion to the high
est office in the gift OF their fathers.
Again we returnyou our thanks for thl
high honor, and beg you to present them ac
=, ceptaby to our friends in Pennsylvania
whom you represent. And may you be eT
= abled also, on your return, to assure the
= that the great cause to which Henry Clt
has devoted his life, has been sustained al
promoted by the harmonious termination
U our deliberations on this most momeDto
q occasion--that the Constitution has bee
triumphant and the UNION SAFE.