The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-05-04
From lhe Kentucky Woman


HENRY CLAYs OPINION OF NATURALIzED CIT
liens
Those wings who the memory and profess adj
here the political principles Of the late Henry Clay viii
be edited by reading the following What contrast il
affords the know nothing and absurd attacks upon
sthe class Of persons 10 whom Mr. Clay refers;
Extract from Mr. Cias cslebroted speech dcsqcc Of the
american system, dslteered he Senate Qf he Uaea
Stafes February 3, 1892
"The honest patient and industrious German readily
uutes with people establishes himself upon Of
fat lands fills capacious barns aud enjoys IN tranquil
lily the abundant fruits which his diligence gathers around
him. always ready to hy to the standard o. his adopted
country or of its laws when called by the duties Of pari
otism The gay, the versatile the philosophical French
man. accommodating himself cheeruly TO all the vics-
sindes of life Incorporates himself without difficulty
ia our society But, of al foreigners, anaga-
mate themselves quickly with our people rs the
natives of the Emerald Isle In Of the visions which
have passed through imagination have supposed that
ireland originally part and parcel Of this continent
aud that by extraordinary CONFUSION Of nature, IL
torn from America, add drifting across the ocean, II
placed in the unfortunate vicinity Of Great Britain.
The hearedness the generous hospitality
the careless and unceulang indifference about hui
life characterized the inhabitants of both countries.
Kentucky has been sometimes called the Ireland OF Amer
ica and have doubt that If the current Of emigration
reversed and from America upon the shores OF
Europe instead 81 bearing from Europe America every
American emgrant to Ireland would there find, every
Irish emigrant here finds hearty welcome and happy
home.p
What Just rebuke Is this the spirit OF know-no M
ngs that has seized hold Of the whig party through
out the Union and especially in Kertucky Their great
leader who founded their party and made it respectable
BIZ his matcess eoquence his undoubtea patriotism his
chiyalry and his generosity, 's scarcely grown cold in
the dark grave where he before his prolessed
followers dishonor hs memory and sandg his patriotism
by turning their backs upon the nobest OF bis cherished
principles and feelings Can any old-line whig in Ken
lucky, who loved and honorcd and almost worshpped
Henry Clay conscientionsy join in erusade-a war
TO the kne-aganst principles that ably, no.
bly, and eoqnenty advocated by their idol Can
they now with their hands their hearts and their faces
towards Heaven swear, in secret midnight eoncave
DEGRADING oath to overturn upset and destroy the very
foundaton-stone upon which Mr.. Clay sought build
his great American system Is possible that these
his eloquent words upon which they rapturousy
hung, have become cold and hteless and fall UNDECIDED
upon that drank them in almost heavenly
sic? Can any conscientious, old-line Clay wing, by act
ing in concert with this order Of know-notbings,
place seal of condemnation upon these sentiments Of
their greatest and best Will they abuse his
ny, and detract from his fair fame by saying that he
wrong that his burning words in the extract have
quoted nothing bui caprup and intended for bum
combe +? Those who wings and are
knownoth place themselves exactly in this position
They either say that their great idol mistaken
his feelings and wrong in his principles that he
the most magnificent demagogue the world ever saw.
Which position viii they take2
We believe that Henry Clay was sincere when he uttered
the above sentiments that they dictated by a cool
head and heart and that he up the time of his
DEATH knew and felt it to be antiAmercan prescribe
his fellow-men account of birth relgon--aye, he
would have scorned to do n thing And we fur
ther believe that if his glorious form could be rean-
mated with the life he possessed he would burst
from the grave where nation in have laid him. and
hur his terrible anahemas against those who have beray-
ed and deserted his principles in Kentucky If there be
such thing visit of departed spirit TO this stormug
and troubous world of ours and that that of Old Hal
stalking abroad and lowering over this fair portion
of Union which be has conseerated by his genius
eoquence what think you it would say those who were
his friends but who plot in and ia the
darkness of the of night destroy forever the
principles that his heart when he was in
the zenith of his goryf We believe that that spirit with.
one blow of its mighty arm would crush shater every
knownothng throne in the land drive out into the face
of open day those who SIT upon them and their masks
from the unseemly faces they