The weekly intelligencer., 1898-03-26

Cas,iUs n. Clay's Bad Example t.
Young Americans.
The following article was written BY
Mr.. Goorge Wilson, OF this city, anc
/ published in the January number o
the Quarry City Magazine, Warrens
burg, Mo:
/ he press Bus lately been giving us
II good deal out OF the lie of this
renarkable uaa, and lately he gave Q
sketch Of his lfc 10 reporter. Men
who knew him we'll say that he has
given 1t substantially as it was. That
ne WAS II man OF great courage is
beyond doubt. But hundreds, thou
sands, millions Of men of equal courage
have lived and not marred the record
of their lives with the savagery that
MIR. Clay did his The Zulus who
charged to the very u1uzzles of the
EnglIsh cannon, having themselves
only spears-uny of them would have
been match for Mr.. Clay; and good
breed OF ball dog is as brave as it Is
possible for anything to be that
breathe5 the breath of life. 1t is
greatly to the credit of Mr.. Clay that
he had the common sense aud courage
ito attack slavery. Slavery is brutality,
and it may make more or less of the
brute of the slave holder, and brutal
Izcs or keeps brutal the slave. Mr.
Clay's record as speaker against
slavery is marred, not frightened, by
the incident of the bully, Brown, try
ing TO break up his anti slave.y meet
ing, and his receiving a bullet from
Brown, and In turn cutting off Browns
nose, ears, and otherwise carving him.
there were better ways to have man.
aged 1t; and the lesson thar anti
slavery men ought to have taught was
anti-brutalIty as well. Two men, Mr..
Clay says, took their own lives rather
than face him in single combat. 1t
would be more satisfactory to the
average man not TO have to accept this
statement on eX parte evidence, for old
mems memories fail. But taking It
for true, what a picture 1t makes!
What thought for man of eighty
odd to nurse as no sits almost deserted
by his fireside, knowing that in very
few years at fdrthest he must close his
eventual and now burdensome life!
From personal experience and feel
ing, as well as from observation of the
actions of other men, know that the
savage is bat little way below the
surface with nearly every Civilized
mau-certainly with great majority.
For most men 1t Is easier to drop back
to the plane of the ancestral savage
within than to climb to q plane of
more civilized action than that of our
birth and age. In the worlds history
there have been several great teachers
Tho have arisen; and the lesson that
they have all taught is that of love, not
hate; of help, not hurt; for brother
man to man. They have spoken of
from one to another and said,
''All these things do the beasts to each |
other" They have shewn US that in
all animal creation below man the rule |
is TO rend and tear; and they have |
sand to men, lyon ought to get On |
higher plane than the auadruPeds, and
the birds of prey, and the serpents. |
Mutually preying on each other is the
law of their existence, and they can
never be anything but what they are
low IN the scale of existence. Mutual
love aud helpfulness ought to be your
wrest from nature her secrets and to
get control of her mighty forces for the
benefit of msnklnd.' Twenty-Five GEN.
Iuries ago Buddha taught this to India;
nearly Two thousand years ago Jesus
taught 1t In Palestine, and this was the
lesson taught by Confucius in China.
To me the blackest chapter in diplo- !
macy IS the attempt to smuggle through
a treaty with England called ''Peace
Treaty." whose main pur, ose is to
enable England to attack some other
nations that she does not now attack
for fear we NAV be on her back when
she does so. In the sacred name ut
peace they were helping England to go
ID war.
With one exception Mr. Clsy's state
has the WOrst name of any state la the
union for these fatal or dangerous
brawls and personal encounters.
Bot tho experience of war shows
hat the type of man engaged in them
has not the best and highset type OF
In general the better and
higher the moral and intellectual char
aoter of the men the better and more
reliable soldiers they were. | knew
one of the greatest desperadoes in the
country and thought he wonld be =
iger in battle, but when batteries were
anu guns were clubbed and
was powder burnt, he was
never on the spot when it was done.
The bravest soldier is not generally
cruel person; he fights from higher
motives And whilst there can be no
doubt Of Mr.. Clay's courage, 1t sesms
from his own account that there was an
element of Nero-lIke cruelty In his
nature. This quality always raises a
suspicion in my mind that nearer or
farther back in his ancestry thsre Is
strain of some Other than Aryan blood
10 the veins of the possessor OF such =
nature For though the northmen
we're very feroclous, there seems not to
nave been that gloating in cruelty that
marks the Weyler type and that seems
% have been handed down fran the
and to have come into the
ATysn Ph9nicians from their long resi-
ienoe in North Africa and mixing with
lark faces there, or to have come from
, Mougol mixture, as Huns. Mr..
Clay's surname tends to confirm this
80 ~ 10 S"SS" SPciiub VI tno
German word, Klee, surname. II
means Glover, aud the German comes
rom the Scandinavian Kloever, which
: nearer to our form of the word. This
name probably comes down for long
Ime from clover leaf, that was the
coat OF arms of some ancient warrior.
Aud AS tins is one of the forms of the
'acred three sign of the Phenicisn re-
igion, It Is trail that leads from Mr..
Clay in Kentucky back to Phenlcian
ancestry. The Fhenicians we're 10
Ireland, and they may have taken their
'acred sign there before 1t was Chris
ian emblem. And from there Mr.
lnt's nnprstGr's may have come to
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