, 1860-01-13
CASsICS n. CLAY III THE CAPITAL OF ZEN.
TECKY.
The static House shut Against Him.

Correspondents Of The Cincinnati Conme.Sz,.l
FnA.KTox7, Jan. 10, 1sjp.
An announcement, though from mouth to
mouth only, that e. II. ClnY would speak some
number Of the Democratic State Convention
delegates, md dled the streets at an early hour.
ii VAS rumore1 that he would be attacked it he
persisted in speaking during the present excite
n,eut, but beyond shutting him out OF the State
House, no indisnities we're offered: H. said:
GsbboD, said that Of the vistue.,- courage and
SINCERITY are tue greatest; --You- know that ]
! never speak Of my courage, aud + regard bosst-,
ing as one Of the worst faults Of class of my
fellow. citizens, but the circumstances of to-
night justify me in alluding 10 the proyerbial
courage Of yours, | come here to.nght, one
against million, it may be. .AsI have gone
abroad all over this Commonweaith, it has been
iuslnuated tina. as John Brown intiu.idat.d Fir-
gluia, intended to bully all Kentucky, aud for
this reason it would be best 70 silence me .ulto-
gether. Your known courage is sufficient re-
ouke to this. Your women and children have
no fears. There il one who should be sacred
from publicity, but am justified in holding up
thisletter from Cash. Clay's wife, in which size
: says nothing Of personal safety. That il, Of
s.ua1i account indeed, bus she hopes that ID
night will viud;cate the great cause deny
the charge that personal conflict vas intended
ary would lepiy to passages Of the inaugural
Of Gov- NaKotdu aud the speech Of Vice t'Eesl-
dent Bseckinridge. They are brave and hon!
ornble uen, but they are fallible. Humble
as an.-not SO much as allowed the peo-
Pies hall to speak in, l um still & citizen,
aud shall exercise the rights OF one
| Whatever has been said nguinst me, you be-
Iieye think what speak. lam an enaseipa-
tionist- He is not dangerous who avows his
sentiments. Mr.. Clay alluded to tho expulsion
| Of John G. Fee and some nineteen others from
Madison County, and declared Fee pure acd
upright man, though he [Clay) did not aEree
With him in his assumption OF not being amen
able to the laws, and had warned him hs should
not sustain him therein. H (Ciay) fought nu-
derthc Constitution aud The laws, but the act OF
driving Fec out Was !awiess and urjustiGable.
| Fes and his associates had preached no ne.
god, but had built ssT mills mud school houses,
and tonight the neglected youth Of the noun
tain districts, who had no other tea hers and
no other friends, rs the reports in your State
archives attest, condemn their expulsion
| Fee had no Starpe's rifles, had never appsor-
ed The act Of John Brown, but was u peaceabe
aud deroted Christian preacher. Mr. Clay, had
written these fac:s to the Madison County pa-
ters bad not been allowed to reach their destiua.
tion in tina 10 aisabuse the popular mind, and
| the most useful teachers aud workers iu Mad.
i5on County were driven forth.
| Senator Ereckinridgc las alluded to the posi-
| ton Of Senator Seward, in terms that require i
protest from me. Elsewhere the statesman oil
New York vii; vindicate himeeif; but here in
Kentucky, where the press is net free, and lib.
;erty Of speech not universal, he has right IL
| expect defence ut my hands 3fr. Clay proceed
ed to show that by higher law" Seward III.
tended the same rererent acknowledgement o
| IN oTerruling Providence, mud Of the eterna
supremacy Of Divine Law, that every statesman
and good citizen acknowledged in other terms
| Mr.. Clay was impressiyely eloquent in this part
lie next proceeded to de:eul Stewards exprcs
| SIGN in regard to the irrepressib!e conflict
aud showed that the Representatives Of Soutl
Carolina and othEr slaye States, and the edi,ol
Of the louisville Courier to day so jubiiant oycl
Gu'hries triumph, had announced the "irlc
Tuere was I'll irrepre$sible conflict" aud il
became his hearers to examine we'll before they
chose their side; there were hundreds iu Frank
fort. tonight, aud tens of thousands in Ken
tucky, who, iftheF dared to speak their thoughts
would proclaim opposition not onlr to I siay.
code in Territories, but to slavery here Il
home.
After these opening remarks, Mr. Clay pro
ceeded to IN elaborate argument in vindscalfol
Of the principles Of the Kepub!icanparty agalns
the aspersions Of Breckinriage and Nagofhn
The scene in the State House yard was striking
Scores Of candles, brought By willing hands
the heavy framc, the white hair, and the tlasi.
ing eye Of Clay, as be stood in relief sgalns. IT,
grey pillars Of the Capitol. 4 large number o
Influential shareholders were present, but III
majority were non-slayeboldtr., aud none knes
where they came from. Ills voice rung out s.
loud and clear that oil the city, within tbrcr o
four squares, was lis audience. :. S.