Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-07-18

Therefore, all such lottery schemes, circulars
or tickets, addressed either to a postmaster or
or assistant postmaster, must be excluded from
| the mail, together with all other transient
| matter of this kind, addressed simply to an
office and not to any individual.
Under these circumstances, those sending
| such schemes through the mails without the
| prepayment Of postage, under pretence that
| they are newspapers, or under any other pre-
! tencc, will find the game costing them far
more than it comes to, as at least nine out of
| every ten of them will fail to reach those to
whom they may be addressed, under the meas
ures taken by the department to detect their
| presence in the mails.
James B. Clay on the Stump.-This gentle
man, the surviving SON of Henry Clay, and
the owner of Ashland, has, it seems, taken to
the stump against Know Nothingism, and bids
| fair to prove himself worthy of the blood that
courses in his veins. As there is, doubtless,
great curiosity to learn tho views, on the all
| absorbing topic, Ct him whose principles and
| sentiments must, more nearly than those Of
any one else, be modelled after those of this
gentleman's revered father, we copy from a
Frankfort (Ky.) paper the following report of
his remarks, and those of another gentleman,
who, for many years past, has been at the
head of the Wing party in Kentucky: with
| whom his influence, resulting from his high
character, enlightenment, nerve, and attain
ments has been unbounded. We may add
that he (Mr. Beck is now being enthusiastically
sustained for Congress by the Democratic party
of his district, who nObly waive all minor con-
siderations to aid ia the election of patriotic
gentleman opposed to the most dangerous cabal
| that ever essayed to undermine free institu-
| tons.
From the kentucky Statesman, July 10
| Yesterday was great day in this city 1t
being court day, great many people from the
country were in the city. 1t had previously
been announced that Mr.. James b. Beck, one
of the most distinguished and able lawyers in
| our city, and Mr.. James b. Clay, son of the
| sage of Ashland, and owner of the old family
seat, would address the people on the political
topics of the day. There was great anxiety to
hear both gentlemen, and at the appointed
hour the court house was filled to overlooking.
| Mr.. Beck spoke first. He has always been
a Wing, though man of Independent thought
| and action. He spoke for two hours, and made
| one of the most able and efficient arguments
| against Know Nothingism that we have lis
| tened TO during the present contest
His speech, throughout, was powerful, argu-
mentative, convincing, conclusive, and told
| with tremendous effect upon his audience.
The next gentleman who took the stand was
| Mr. James b. Clay, who, as we have already
| remarked, is the son Of the great statesman,
and has succeeded to the paternal estate of
| Ashland
| Mr.. Clay said that this was his first effort at
a public speech, and nothing less than the
| profound interest which he felt in the great
| questions at issue, could induce him 70 appear
/ on this occasion. Never before had such ex-
| traordinary, such alarming, such novel ques-
/ tiOns been presented for the political consider
| alton of the American people His apprehen-
| sions were aroused in view Of them, and he
sometimes trcmblcd for the fate of his country
| The idea that this government was to be taken
| into the keeping of a secret, POLITICAL oath
| bound organization, which set up unconstitu-
| tional test-oaths, and the members of which
| were bound TO each other by the most terrible
| obligations. was to him most alarming, and
| should, in his judgment, arouse the apprehen-
sions Of every patriotic man in the whole
| country. l-E
Mr.. Clay denied that the platform put forth
| by the late Know Nothing convention at
| Philadelphia, was the real platform Of the
| party-paTty did call them, said he; no,
they a re not party in any proper acceptation
| of the term. Parties have heretofore been
| open, public and above board; but this is
| secret, oath-bound political Organization,
| which Is seeking after the political power of
| the country, by ways and means unknown To
the law, and In palpable disregard of the long
established usages of the people and the his
| tory Of the government. 1t sought political
power, not by open and fair means, but by
| secret plottings, by cabalistic passwords, By
| signs and grips, unknown to the people at
large, and in paIpable violation of the whole
| spirit and genius Of the government.
No, he said, the true platform of this extra
| ordinary organization is to be found in their
| oaths and ritual. There were to be found the
| things which they were sworn to do and to carry
| OUT and looking into these oaths and ritual he
found that their objects were to strike at the
| citizens of foreign birth, at the immigrants
| from other countries. to disfranchise, to de-
| grade and disgrace them, by depriving them
| not only of the right to Amcricanize themselves
| but by eating them eff from the rights of hos
| pitality and humanity. They also sought to
disfranchise and degrade another class Of our
| citizens, whether native born foreign, On
| account of their religious opinions, in plain
| violation of the constitution of the country,
and regardless Of the plainest dictates of JUS
| tice and humanity.
| Mr. Clay said that rather than submit any
| extended remarks of his own on these subjects
he had chosen to collate the expressed and au-
thentic opinions of the old fathers of the re-
public; and he read extensively from the wri-
tings of Washington, of Jefferson, OF Madison,
Of Jackson, of Quincy and others.
| lie concluded his happy effort by saying
that though the old wing party, with which he
had always acted, was broken and dispersed,
| yet he appeared there as one of the old rear
guard of that once powerful and great party;
and in that capacity he protested against this
new secret organization, as fraught with dam
| ger to his country and its liberties; and he
called upon all the old liners of the whig par
| ty to join him in the protest.
Now, and Them would rather be an
itinerant Methodist preacher than President
Of the United States.'' --
A short time thereafter-took 81 900 clerk.
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Monday, July 10th, he "gave all present