Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-01-12
CassIus NJ. Clay at the Capitol OF
Kentucky.

Kentucky.
Tie State House Doors Closed on HinI-He
Speaks to Il Vast audience from the Por-
tjco IN Fr0at-Arows Being an EDIdneipd-
fionist-I iHdicGteS tie PGtrOtiSm If
.Se,-drd.
FnAxKFoGT, Jan. II.-Cassius II. Clay
spoke last night to q vast audience, from
the Portico of the State House. the doors
having been closed ON him. lie avowcd
being an emancipationist, and indicated
the patriotism of Seward. There WAS no
disturbance.
Especial despatch to tho Cincinnati Commercial
FnANKFoET. jan IO.-AnannOuncement
though from mouth to mouth only, that e.
NJ. Clay would speak somewhere in Frank
fort tonight, detained Il large number of
the Democratic State Convention dele
gates, and filled the streets at an early
hour; it was rHmorcd that he would be at
tackled if he persisted in speaking during
the present excitement, but beyond shut
ting him out of the State House, no indig-
nity was offered. He sNid : Kentuckians,
the prOfOundest of historians, Gibbons,
said that of the virtues, courage and sim
ccrity are the greatest; You know that
never speak of my courage, and regard
Boosting as one of the worst faults of -
class of my fellow citizens. but the cir
cumstances of tonight justify me in al
Iuding to the prOvcrbial courage of Ken
tuckians. Relying upon that courage of
yours, come here tonight, one against
million, it may he. As l have gone
abroad all over this Commonwealth, 1t has
been insinuated that as John Brown intim-
idated Virginia, intended to bully al
Kentucky, and for this reason it would be
best to silence mealtogcther. NOurknown
courage is sufficient rcbuke 10 this.
Your women and children have no fears.
There is one who should he sacred from
publicity, but am justified in holding up
this letter from Cash. Clay's wife, in which
she says nothing of my personal safety
That is of small account indeed, but she
hopes that tonight ! will Vindicatc the
great cause deny the charge that per-
Sonal conflict was intended by the an
nouncement that on the 10th of JEnua-y
would reply to passages of the inaugural
of Gov. Magoifin and the speech of Vice
President Breckenridge. They are brave
aud honorable men, but they are fallible.
Humble as | am-not so much as allowed
the peoples hall to speak in, am still a
citizen, and shall exercise the rights of
one Whatever has been said against me,
you believe, think what | speak. l am
an emancipatiOnist. He is not dangerous
who avOwS his sentiments. Mr. Clay
alluded to the expulsion Of John C. Fee
and some nineteen others from Madison
county, and declared Fee pure and up
right man, though he (Clay) did not agree
with him in his assumption of not being
amendable to the laws, and had warned
him he should not sustain him therein
He (Clayl fought under the Constitution
and the laws, but the act of driving Fee
out was lawless and unjustifiablc. Fec
and his associates had preached no new
god. but had built saw mills aud school
houses. and to- night the neglected youth
of the mountain districts, who had no 9th
or teachers and no other friends, as the
reports in your State archives attest, con-
denim their expulsion.
Fee had no Shnrpe's rifles. had never
approved the act of john Brown, but was
peaceablc and devoted Christian preacher.
Mr.. Clay had written these facts to the
Madison county paper. and to the Cincinnati
papers. but the letters had not been al
lowed to reach their destination in time To
disabuse the popular mind, and the most
useful teachers and workers in Madison
county were driven forth.
INDICATIONS OF SEWARD.
Senator Breckenridge has alluded to the
position of Senator Seward, in terms that
require protest from me. Elsewhere the
statesman of New York will vindicate HIM
self, but here in Kentucky, 'rhSre The press
IL not free and EBertY Of speerh not unirsrSal.
he has right to expect defense ut my
hands. Mr.. Clay proceeded to show that
by '.higher law, Seward intended the
same reverent acknowledgement of an
Overruling Providence, and of the eternal
supremacy of Divine Law, that cvory
statesman aud good citizen acknowledged
In other terms. Mr. Clay was impressive
~ l6qaent in this part. He next proceed
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