Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-08-18
Hon. James B. Clay.

The election returns presented in another column indicate unmistakably the election to Congress of the distinguished son of glorious old Kentucky, whose name heads this arti- cle.
 James B. Clay is elected to represent the people of the Ashland District of Kentucky, in the Congress of the United States.
 Elected to represent the District consecrated by the genius of his great sire: the district hon. ored as his home in life and sanctified as the resting place of his dust in death.
 Elected, too, let all the world know, in spite of the ungenerous opposition of men who cal led themselves the friends of Clay the father, and who chaunted peace to his memory, while they strove with diabolcal zeal to throttle the son!
 Elected, too, let posterity remember, in spite of efforts made, and means used, such as have never been introduced by any men of any party, under any circumstances, in any politl- cal contest, had since Kentucky was a State and we people.
 Distraction itself, Topped up again and spread in riot over earth her leprous shaver, and stayed her poisonous breath in despair, on witnessing the more completely hendish per fectness with which Mir. Clay's assailants have done their work, than she herself could do, since his manly refusal to become the tool of an unprnciped faction, and his indignant de- nuncations of basphemous, reasonable oaths, secrets, and of its contempnble mummeries.
 His enemies charged that he "sold' the name of Clay to the democracy, through greed of office They measured his patriotic inn pulses by their own office -hungered, thirsty souls, and clamered like bevy of uncean birds around the proud eagle, when he has stricken his prey. When he was offered one of the best offices in the gift of the Federal Government, were the words of these harpies fulfilled? Let the voice of the gallant yeo marry of the Ashland district answer! James B. Clay is NOT the lackied and betited minis ter to proud foreign court. He is the ser want and gallant representative of people who guard the bones of his Jather! They have been his bulwark, and have formed around him an Ashland Phaanx, against which all the assaults of his foes have been dashed in pieces and hurled back upon their own heads. A thousand gallant Kentucky hearts have been his shield and his defense.
 The cruel, keen edged tongue of falsehood has done its worst, but has utterly failed to be- foul his hearthstone or tarntsh his name, and Jas B. Clay comes forth from the most gallant canvass ever made in Kentucky, vindcated by the sons of the men his father taught, and by a people who best knew all his faults, and who, also, know his virtues.
 Mir. Clay entered the canvass against an overwhelming majority majority declared by the organs of the faction that fought against him to be much greater than that of Fillmore over Buchanan; majority large enough to have rendered the declension of the nomina- tion certain of one less conscious in his own of ha ir reproachable voters of his own district, than MT. Clay. He did accept nomination, and commenced a canvass his enemies denounced as little less than madness. The event has justified his confidence and proven that he has read the hearts of Kentuckians better than Know Nottingham can ever do. Thus have his enemies perShed.
 Our readers will recollect that we have, on all fitting occasions, fearlessly defended MT. Clay from the reckless and even infamous as- saults made upon him since the advent of Know Nottingham in Kentucky, and that at the close of the Presidential canvass last fal predicted for him a brilliant career at no distant day. We advocated his nomination, and have never for one moment doubted his success. Our prophecy is fultilled; our sin cerest prayers and desires of our hearts are gratitied, and we think the proudest ambition of MT. Clay is realized by his electiou to Con- gress from the gallant district his father repre-, sented so long and so well.
 Let not the enemies of this young Clay lay the tlattering uncton to their souls, that the star of h's destiny has now eliminated. Not so James B. Clay is now hailed as a son worthy of his fathers great name, and is des- tined to make his mark in the ensuing Con- gress; and in the coming future will yet carve out name and attain position seldom reach ed by the best intellectS of this free and favor | ed land.--I0uiSuiHe Times