, 1859-08-01

Aswc predicted the dispatch from Louisville
TO the Cincinnati Commercidt stating that Cassius
Il. Clay would take the stump for Bell for
Governor, turns out to have been u cauard, and
was intended for political effect Mr.. Clay spoke
in coyington, Ky, on Friday night last to IN
audience Of fifteen hundred people. The fol-
lowing synopsis Of his speech is from the Com
tn<reial Of Saturday:
SUBSTANCE or Nh. Glars REMARKS.
Mr. Clay said that he had taken no public mart
in the excited canvass now drawing to close,
but Ind chcerfully responded to \ call from his
friends fur political address in Corington. He
wss NJ humble representative Of the Republican
organization, aad he only asked Of the Wings
aud Democrats, and Americans Of the city, =.
respectful hearing.
The people Of these States were engaged in
no new controversy, and il was wc1l to rcco.-
nize the features OF struggle as old as the
world-the struggle between the class IN pos
session Of iseg.simate power, mud the people
who would he free Of that power The pusses-
sors arc conserratives-conserrat OF mon
arclicat prerosutiyes, Of privileges Of caste, Of
tllc material advantage for the daY, derived
from the owne rshiu Of labor. Napoleon l.
expressed lis view Of tue conflict Of principles
By declaring that Europe was bound to be Cos
sack or Republican. So here in America it is
inevitable lha. MS nation we must be the Pro-
pagandists Of s1avcty-and thAt in its worst
tofm-orof Freedom.
To the men uf Kentucky be wished to pre-
sent this living issue, - Would they hare a COM
was tue cxccrublo feature Of human slavery that
it degraded not the African, but tue condition
Of labor. The idea Of the independence Of these
States was the establishment Of federated
union OF States in which the right Of all men to
all the sweet rewards Of labur-health, sleep,
u II. # L..
Should be universally recognized. The fathers
ofthe Republic too iondly hoped this rccogui.
ton Hus secured by tue War Of Independence.
But in the Convention th6t ffn1ncd tle Const-
tulion, tile slave power rose, and demanded the
indirect recognition Of slavery and Elegalizution
ofthe Stare trade for term Of years The fatal
spirit Of ofcompromise prevailed, and, rather than
60 back to English allegiance und IA axation with
out representation, the runners Of that iustru-
meut legalized tie Stare trade. The slave power
grew apAce: Kentucky, and Tennessee, and Al
abama and Louisiana were gained. Even the
compromise Of 1920 carried slavery west Of the
Mississippi, and the compromise Of 1850 con.
taincd still greater CONCESSIONS &f6N
Were the people Of Kentucky prepared 70
stand by and be committed TO the support Of
s!arery prppagandism, BY the small minority
who had hithcfto represented the State:
The present Gubertanoria1 contest had noth-
ing in it 10 enlist the enthusiasm or the care Of
kentuckians. Your Bells and Magoflins were
qunrrcllug about ns<asaFfs, and saedsurte only
neither Vi them dared to risk full discussion
on the pr;ac;p2as underlying the extension or re-
jccton Of slavery iu tho territories. lie (Mr.
ism There was nothing III the present canvass
that touched the heart OF the pcopse-nothing
that challenged the interested attention Of ma-
turity or evoked the enthusiasm Of youth.
lie repeated that the question, which most Of
nli interested twenty-five out Of every thirty Of
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