The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1861-03-30
cAssIUs N. CLAY.

has given or Will give suca
satisfaction to its supporters as
The appointment of Cassius n. Clay, OF
Kentucky, as Minister to Spain. Hero, pa
triot, statesman. phiianLhropist. blamslsss
in private and incorruptible and answering i
in public life, Cassius II. Clay has stood
for two decades the defender of the faith
in the slave States. It has mattered not
through what dangers his path has led him,
what constant self-abregation it has demand
ed of him, whose hatred it has invited nor
whose support it has lost. what social ostra-
cism it has produced nor what private
wrongs it has given him TO suffer, he has
been through all changes, in all places, and
among all people, the same heroic and con-
slant devotee at the shrine of truth and
Justice, and has never once failed to preserve |
a character worthy and equal to that of the
great cause he was called upon to represent
and defend His has been ''the voice of one
crying in the wilderness" and if, indeed. he
has stood among watchful and relentless
foes "like reed shaken by the wind" it
has been the foundation upon which he
stood that shook, not he. In his own glow
ing and maiestically pathetic utterance,
when addressing the people of his native
State, at Frankfort, year ago. in defense of
Republicanism, upon that night when eV-
erything combined to make the scene sub
lime-when the houses were closed against
him, when threats and curses and denuncia-
tons loaded the heavy air, when the very
elements seemed angry, and the only light
which disclosed his noble form was the
torches scattered through the crowd-he
has stood among the people of the slave
States ''thiough all the the long days of his
youth and manhood, suffered ignominy and
contempt, extinguished all the aspirations of
honorable ambition, been denounced. spurn-
ed and avoided by him whose interests he
was defending-by the white man, and
wronged by the black man. His sinews
stifened with age and the frosts that never
melt settled upon his brow-what to him
now are the rosy tints of youth and hope %
And yet then and there he uttered this sub
lime prayer: 81 pray God, Kentuckians,
that it may be my fortune to live and die
here, and that although the millions may
depart from me. there may be one in Ken
lucky true to the last, whose aspirations,
however visionary, however theoretical,
may be true to the banner which wonld
have float over US. The same old banner
of 1789-each stripe with the progress of
the ages. paling into brighter galaxy OF
stars. In the immortal language of Web
ster, its motto no such miserable interrog
atory as sWhat is all this worth ?'' nor
those other words of delusion and folly,
slavery and Union; far less slavery first
and Union afterwards; and still less slavery
with or without Union; but his own glori-
Gus sentiments-for the which and with the
which, 1 walk backwards with flial piety
and cover his late political nakedness--' LIB
ERrY AND UNION, nov anu 'Io.4 d: do aRt
insepa-able r"
These words give at once the character
and history of Clay. What a successor tC
,, slavery William Preston!
1t is known to many that Mr.. Clay wa
pressed by numberless admirers for sea
in Mr. Lincoln's Cabinet, and those wht
, know him best know well that he is no
more remarkable for fearless courage, thai
for statesmanlike attainments and ability
, which circumstances and his unaffected
modesty have prevented from coming g.
O much into light. He would have honore'
any Cabinet position to which Mr.. Lincol
could have called him. But he feared les
4 his long devotion to the cause and the ha
. tired he had won from Southern leader
might embarrass the Administration, an
with characteristic self-forgetfulness, pei
emptorily demanded of his friends TO with
draw his name. His present appointmer
= was by no means of his seeking, and he {
first declined it. But our relations wit
;. Spain and her jealousy in regard to Cub
pointed TO him as the fttest man in the ns
l. ton for the place. and at the urgent and a
most imperative solicitation of the PresideH
and his Cabinet he withdrew his declin;
ton and accepted. The country is honore
:, by the presence of such a nobleman, at q
= aristocratic foreign court; and the unta
nished fare of Cassius Clay, "like the lig
of the untitled stars shall shine forever"
no
r. Through some mistake, the Offices OF Ma
W shat, Potawatomie Agent, and Recorder
&c Lecompton, have been filed by Kansas me
r. We had supposed that gentlemanly lllinOi
at ans would be appointed to these places
he we presume none could be found who wou
RS take them. They probably want somethi
ut better. The following dispatch to
lis Leavenworth Times tells the simple and u
OF expected story:
nd NoRRow, o., MARCH %, 1861.
led To ]. Kemp Bartlett:-AcDowell. ID
* shall Deitzler, Potawatomie Indian Age
and Lines, Receiver at Lecompton. a
pointed and confirmed yesterday.
ID THos. EwIEG, Jr.
VS. They are good men, and their friends
ie- be gratifed at their appointment. Mr.. B
Dowell is present Mayor of Leavenwor
nat Mr.. Deitzler was true and prominent
r. nublican In ''the times that tried me