Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-01-20
A nRAvH Arm NOBLE MAN

Is CAssIrs N. CI.AY-and as sincere and
honest rs he is noble and brave. The Cincin-
natl Gazette Of Tuesday gives his late speech
at Frankfort KY, in full. 1t is very lengthy,
and would I'll not less than two pages of our
paper, otherwise We should give it entirc-but
under the circumstances being unable 10 do so.
We shall take occasion to give occasional e1-
tracts. 1t is an able vindication OF the prin-
ciples of the Republican party against the
misrepresentation Of Messrs. Magoffin aud
Breckenridge, and a triumphant defence Of
Mr.. Seward and other prominent men of the
party against the sianderous imputations of
those gentlemen. He commanded the respect
and attention of his audience. among whom
there we're doubtless hundreds. as there are
thousands throughout the State, who agree with
him in sentiment, but in consequence OF tie
state of terrorism got up by the Shareholders,
who control public sentiment, are deferred from
openly avoN ing their convictions.
Speaking of the scene exhibited i'll the State
House yard the night of the speech and during
its delivery. a correspondent of the Cincinnati
Commercial says:
SCORES of candles, brought by willing
hands, partially dispelled the darkness and
showed the heavy frame, the white hair, and
the flashing eye of Clay as he stood in relief
against the grey pillars Of the Capital. A
large number of influential shareholders were
present, but the majority were non-slavehold
ers. and none knew where they came FROM
His voice rang out SO loud and clear that all
the city within three or four squares was his
audience"
We give the concluding portion of the
speech, including what he had to say of Hell
peris book. The closing paragraph is sublime
ly eloquent
"There is a man in Carolina whose father
was born, it is said, upon North Carolina soil,
and we know not how many centuries before
his ancestors lived there, and it SO happened
that he belonged TO that large class of North
Carolina that may be called the working class,
the non-Slavchold,r. He saw the influence OF
slavery upon the interests of that class of men.
| and he broke away from the trammels of that
- Stitl DAOiiSSNA ~ " cAnN hS WING Uc
that however good a thing slave labor is for
! the stakeholder, free labor is better for the nom
| Shareholders. He takes up the census of the
United States and he complies it all unques-
toned. and shows how the institution Of the
| South nfftcts the mass. He appeals to these
masses and asks them to see for themselves and
act upon their knowledge thus obtained. Ifthis
thing is not according to the doctrine of JEFF
E.rson, it is what / believe was pretty good
Democracy once?
Now abont this book I am going to be
frank. | did recommend this book. | say I
have read this book carefully, and there is not
a single incendiary doctrine in it-there is not
q single appeal to the slave. T. it be i~nsurrec-
ton among a people protesting TO be free to
appeal to the legal white voters of the country
for whoss protection the Constitution PROCESSES
10 be made, to rise from u serfoonl TO the same
power and control of the government that the
free laborcrs and free people ofthe North have
Gone, it is insurrcctionarv.
Let me go one step further. and say, thai
there were some places in that book published
by him that We did not regard us just and in
asmuch as we conceived that the shareholders
held their property on the tenure that the Bit
ish held it. we thought it was a political ques-
tion-we thought that the Shareholders should
not I've Ia xed. ! wrote to him that that was a
foolish thing, but it was understood that all
these Objectionable things should be expunged,
as Mr.. Blair, of Missouri, has said. He SAYS
it was understood that these parts were to be
stricken out, not they were incendiary, but that
it was a bluHder not to be urged.
l tell you, gentleman, | stand on Helpers
prmphlet, and you may make the most of what
/ say.
(Cries of "Go on" and ave will stand by
you all mighty
have stood by you all the long days Of my
youth and manhood, extinguished all the aspi-
ration of ambition, suffered ignominy and cor
tempt, been denounced, spurned and avoided
by the men whose interests I was arguing, by
the white man. and wronged by the black man;
but still holding myself true to one purpose, /
stand there still What to me now are the
rosy tints of life, with my hair silvercd over,
with my sinews stifFencd with age in the
course Of human events, ] hrve but little time
to remain here. say Kentuckians. come war,
come peace, I rust m God I may have The for