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f,AT BtARBLB STATUS.
„«i*t was a great day ia Richmond, and
V 1 Twill Mmg r* remembered by her eitl
*' ~ _.„ the aunlversary of the birth.
**■ f heM«v Clay, and the appointed time
*"■ .ansuration of the beautiful marble
>' * f 5J5 , h o ladies of Virglala bod bad
»"**_ sr ,d to witness which the people bed
? ' .bled en masse.
rt'hrr «a« beautiful—clear, cool, and
p '? n the »hads sad at an early hour iv
»*.Hiic flags were swung across Main
h '<r>m various points, business houses
it«*__2 and the city presented Uieap
r*___li_rf S grand holiday. Byfo'c'ock the
r**____ra were tilled with soldieis hurrying
""'**,'«rmone* and parade gronnds, to take
i.%s in line, ladies and children were
5 ' # from point to point to get favorable
■"-.•el the military, and strangers and
»••__; were all elated at the opportunity of
___?asnor ts the memory of tbe grest West.
« ; *_ >* T , ..testnan and patriot.
,! J''j. r ;, Regiment, under tbe command of
Tl Yi> August, with the Washington No*
l " IKile*. »be Lynchburg Home Guard,
"virmville Guards, and the Virginia State
. -. formed info line on Broad street, and
''marched down !>th street to Main, and
'• r ' .-n'-Usweet, where they were shortly
' tilSTf by the Young Guard of the l?!»lh
**"rZ, snd the Junior Volunteers, and
■Sad the arrival of the Chief Marshal,
Sato ItliKegiinent of Cavalry. The first
m"_t was attended by Smith sold Armory
____t-tbe Washington National ltiiles by the
ratad States Marine Band, and the State
Vni by the new Armory Band.
steel in o'clock Copt. Bimmock, the Chief
B-BsaSl sf the day, atunded by Charles I».
jrdwes B'cbard W. Wyatt, M. C. Eggleston,
fg RcOow, Peter Lyona, James A. Caskie,
«• B Smith, Col. Samuel T. Bayly. Wm. B.
Son Boiling W. Haxall, Nat. Tyler. Chaa.
J irump. Peterfleld Treut, 1). Lee Powell,
not A. Brandor, Eugene CarrinP-on, Lieut.
,■"Lit. A. Thompson. Lieut. Col. J. P. Harri
;„ Surgeon-!. G. Lumpkin Sargeou L. T.
a_ewa 001. G. W. Richardson, Thomas P.
5-Vtor and Dr. Blair Burwell, as Assistant
eZnBSbl each wearinga white sash and blue
_ t ■•-,. aad all mounted, arrived npon the
•asas-i and the cavalry coming up soon after,
£_ tine oi procession was formed iv the fol
lseßßg order, the right restiugon Bun street:
X,.w Armory Hand.
'h'ff Marshal and Mayor of the city, in an
■••carriage, escorted by Cols. Crump, Kich
uouia Thompson, Bayly and Scott, of the
aaosi black horse troop.
J OAVALRY,
Oo_M_.inded by Col. S Mcßoe:
Troop, 15 strong, commanded by
rxotßesry W.Cox.
ihnovFr Troop, !.> strong, commanded by
>__ Wms. C. Wickham.
'.iuvfriior s tiuard, (Xi strong, commanded by
Gost Cabell. ______
Henrico Troop, *) strong, commanded by
Out Dance.
0 | Marine Band, 17 members.
grssaiaglon National Rifles, 43 strong, com
minded by Captain ShedetTer.
'Lynchburg Home Guard, t_ strong, Capt. S.
.i.iriaiid, Jr.
la::..ville Guards, Capt. R. A. Booker, M
Virginia Slate Guard, Lieut. Gay, 4o strong.
KfttST BBIMMBIII.
Col. T. P. Aticus* commanding, aided by his
gt«r T-e_t Ostoael Moore, MoJoM Fry and
Plttofl, Burgeon Watson, Assistant Surgeon
Bark-dale, Jr., Rhetor Wm. Allan aud Com
raise-TV Undgtord.
Co A, (Ofays) Capt. Elliott, el strong.
■ F, Capt. Ottry, 93 strong.
•• H. " Mitchell, ltl strong.
•• Q, " Dooley, ti_ "
» (}, " EsglM.4. "
'• !>. - Diramock, Xi "
» X (Blbss) ('apt. Maule, (19 strong.
■ h, Capt Miller, M strong.
IT'.tTH OF THB Ll>R.
Teasi (iuard, Capt. Kady, 57 strong: Ju
uorVoTaßteeis, Ctpt. Gay, .51, and marching
ncsKfißgly w p H for ' a< l» of their age.
Ii rear of tte military were invited guests,
in enrr.ap-p. First came the Orator of the
Lay au.i th- Obairmaa of the Directory in an
vms haroiiece. Clergy, accompanied by a
l)ire.:or. Ex-President Tyler and lUr»"ctors.
Officials of the State. Members of Congress.
IheFederaJ Court. Members of
Lrpslstarf. Officers of Army and Navy.—
t.iT Ciudci!, and ili.Mirjriu.lied gentlemen of
<i_- and other States, filling thirteen car
rhgn. Following these came citizens in ve
hicle, aud on horseback; the whole making
the most imposing procession we have ever
•een to Virginia.
At 11 o'clock the line of march was taken
up, aud the Hands discoursing appropriate
mn-if. the immense throng that packed the
i-iikwalki- moved forward as if impelled by
ir.tchiuery, while from every widow and
doorway peered forth the bright eyes and
fuillig faces of lovely women and happy
t-ildren, apparently rejoicing at tbe houor
:-:ii_il-iie the great departed statesman.
Itspcecessioa moved up Main toSth street,
by . c th to Franklin, up Franklin to Fonshee,
by Foo«_ee to Kroad, down Broad to !»th,
NKK* to the Capitol Square, where such a
>ce:,e presented itself as we have never before
•ftwited. Apparently every available inch
o!round we-t of the Capitol was occupied by
hdlM, children aud men: whilst around the
W'ishiiiEton Monument, in the Capitol, on the
VII lioum, at the Central Hotel, and around
th Mechanics' Institute building, tbe masses
rrmted the appearance of a sea of living
-nib and facee.
I-eOrator, invited gnests,clergy, directory.
Mil the Lady Directresses of the Clay Statue
A .ociation, were conducted to the large plat-
I .is surrounding rhe Statue, where seats had
ha prepared tor them, tbe military forming
adm column, aud as near the Stat ne as they
BsUsm. We noticed on the plutlorin Hon.
Han B. Clay, of Kentucky ; Hon. James
Ineta, of New York, and ex-President Tyler.
The Statue was covered with a linen sock, ao
'Uth could not be seen ; and near it vtts the
■;-*[> «tand, which was draped with the
aninaJ flag.
CERR-IOSIKS.
T-r _ew Armory Band, as an introductory
II bs ceremonies, played the two national
'■'; Hail Columbia," and "Star Spangled
Biarier."
W* il. Mackarlakd, Esq., the Chairman
■'• ii« Directory, arose, ami invoked order
Mtu.ttheßev.Kr. Prtbrkii., of St. James'
BJMtBsl) Church, addressed the Throne of
•rice.
Atg. j. Petebkim then arose, snd delivered
■wloUowitig eloquent snd impressive prayer:
and Everlasting God, in whom
"'live and move, and have onr being—we
warsTht* as tbe Sovereign of the 1 Universe,
"Cnmor, the high and mighty Ruler of all
■«BMiou»of tbe Earth!
•km we consider Tby He .yens, the work
.•Thy Augers—the moon ami the stars, which
MSB ha»t erdaiassV-.we a:r> constrained to
**. * What is man, that Thou art mindful of
■gi mi ths t-. u 0 f man, that Thou visitest
t,' B J. Wt » ra sar « lhJ,t Thou hsst been
™Mloli.f _~ Thou hast distinguished us by
»* w_towal of many and preat blessings,
__ i m i ,UIa ' a "d spirium'. As we are so
_■_»__ tJl * l ,ar| Bkers of Thy bounty, may we
, '•"le.iour ladeotedae s, and b« concerned
•■cc funh Thy ..raise.
» tawing this day a memorial to oa* of our
ww-nieu, whom we delight to honor, we
hr-M-S?*" a, *° a memorial of our gratitude
.In i * Koodiiesß toward us. We acknow
f-£ l * in •*•*• post, we have uot loved
TlM *. or "beyed Thee as ws
«" 1 w have done. Pardon our sins, snd
w:. ou , r repentance sincere. May a deep
:"'f ufo "r guilt aud helplessness lead us
*if m * "»e glad tldinga of shlva'iou, aud
'-»-Tk V *' wUu crateful hearts, the essagnace
*.._. n *« "mad* Him to be aiu for us.
*___£**_ 90 •»=. thst we might be made the
gSjiHJimefOad i 0 Hitn." May wera
<*t*_rt. ?° w tar *ely our national prosperity
«W r»?i i Pon th * din " u *'o«» of pare snd uade
**_ tnr Ma J r e,ICB *"•<* svsry one of as
*'___• ." p *', r * oua l Interest in Christ, »o that
f'sxii.,. rlook uu •" Thss as ourrecon-
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*.«-_?_.° "* *■ aad aaa nation.
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VOL. XVIL—NO. 89. RICHMOND. VA., FRIDAY, APRIL 13,1860. PRICE ONI CENT.
aad to Thee. Do Thou assist us, we be
seech Thee, that, under Ike Influence of Thy
holy spirit, we may have grsce to follow the
good example of all Thy eervsaU, who, ho v.
lag flaiebed their course ou earth, do now root
from their labors; so that, at tbe but, we
may haveour perfect consummation and bliss,
both in body aad soul, iv Thy Heavenly King,
dora.
And now, our Heavenly Father, we pray
Thee to bless our country, our whole country
that all things may be so ordered and settled!
upon the best and surest foundations, that
peace and happiness, trnth snd justice, reli
gion nnd piety, may be established among us
for nil generations.
Behold, also, with Thy favor, and bless Thy
servants, the President of the United States,
the Governor of this Commonwealth, and all
others iv authority; ond so replenish them
with tbe grace of Thy Holy Spirit, that they
may always incline to Thy will, and walk in
Thy way. Hear us, in these onr imperfect
prayers; and, in mercy, anawer and bless us,
tor tbe sake of onr only Mediator and Advo
cate, Jesus Christ—and, "unto Him toot is
able to keep us from falling, and to present ns
faultless before tbe presence of His glory
with exceeding joy—to the only wise God, our
Saviour, be glory snd majesty, dominion and
power, both now and ever. Amen!"
The Armory Band played another piece of
music, at the conclusion of which
Wm. H. Ma< kaiilam>, Fsq., arose, and in
troduced the orator of the day, in the follow
ing appropriate remarks:
Ladies nnd Gentlemen . Tbe long-cherished de
sign has reached at leSjgdh it* confirmation. The
.■ ntne of Jhe illustrious RseMttor is in it* place,
aud a'VrJttts Only the appropriate ceremonies to
be unveiled and displayed. Woman's patriot,
ism projected, aud it was her constancy which
has triumphed, in the success of tbe uoble
conception, to transmit to future ages the ex
act lineament.* of the heroic statesman who
served to render his own age memorable.—
Tbe statue of Henry Clay is in iv becoming
position, in grounds hallowed by memorials to
Washington aud his companions. Future
generations will be grateful for tbe faithful
resemblance of the great man, whose memo
ry, as an incentive to lofty aud intrepid
statesmanship, neither time nor mutations
can obscure. In the clear light which circled
his life, the world beheld, not as through a
glass darkly, the Independence, determina
tion, devotion, wisdom, which, above and be
youd applause, or homage, or place, preferred
and ever held fast the testimony of a good con.
science. [Applause.J
But I delay the gratification in reserve for
you. It is the privilege of my distinguished
friend to speak to you of tbe patriot, whom
many of us were permitted to know and re
vere—l need not say with what eloquence and
how veil. I have the honor to introduce
Beimj.vrin Johnson Barhoi'U, Esq., of Or
ange.
Mr. Barbour arose aiul addressed the mul
titude before him as follows :
Genius and patriotism have always found
their truest and purest human reward in
the love and sympathy of Woman. History
tells us that the women of Athens wer* accus
tomed to crown Pericles with garlands after
a successful oration. We remember that the
daughters of Eugland raised a commemorative
statue to Wellington, composed of tbe cap
tured cannon of his splendid victories—and
Southern matrons and Southern maidens,
pleading through the graceful eloquence of a
Northern orator, have rescued Mount Ver
non from dilapidation aud decay, and made it
the trysting spot of the nation.
lv beautiful accordance with these exam
ples, the women ol Virginia nre about to wit
ness the fail realisation of their efforts to
honor a great aud fearless patriot—eloquent
aaPerhtlea, brave as Wellington, and next to
Wasiiisoton, the foremost man of all our
country.
I have been kindly asked to lend my hum
ble aid in inaugurating this votive offering;
and though I shrank unaffectedly Lorn the po
sition, I conld not find it in my heart to refuse
the request. Added to this was tbe feeling
that I should be grossly delinquent in neg
lecting the opportunity to offer my grateful
homage to the memory of a national benefac
tor—and if all other motives had failed in
their persuasive influence, pardon me for say.
ing, that I could not have resisted her silent
appeal who first taught me to love and honor
the tiame and character of Hknuv Clay.
We may consider it fortunate, that so great
an interval of time has fallen between the
origiu and completion of this patriotic pur
pose. To the skillfuland faithful artist it has
granted nearly the twenty years which the
ancients thought necessary for the perfection
of any great work. It has delayed the inau
guration until the South has discovered the
startliug necessity of collecting her scattered
elements of strength, and there seems to be a
high poetic justice iv seising this moment to
present the image of the great advocate of do
mestic industry to whom every suit of home
made cloth will bea tacit complimeut-andeve
«ry factory that shall rise an involuntary mon
ument. It has silenced the cavils of those who
objected to raising a statue toa living man—it
enabled that man to vindicate and increase his
title to the honor, to make the pedestal as it
werebtoaeher and stronger and higher. It has
sealed lhe approval of contemporaries with
the judgment of posterity. Above all, it has
enabled every true-hearted American, without
reference to his particular political creed or
party associations, to unite iv the ceremonies
of this day. When the head ot the m ardered
Cicero was presented by Popilius v Mark
Antony, he gazed awhile at the livid features
of the man before whom he himself had so of
ten turned pale, and then exclaimed: fit is
enough—there is an end of tbe proscription."
Unbiassed, then, by any dread of arousing
discordant feelings, I approach my great
theme, with no other fear than of my utter
incapacity to rise to tbe height of its great ar
gument; but, cousoled by tbe thought that I
am only called to toucha chord, which, under
tbe influences of the occasion, is already trem
bling with choicest music—that if I can strike
the key-note, your affection will complete tbe
strain—that if I falter or fail iv words, it will
be sufficient to lay my band on the Nation's
heart, still throbbing with gratitude and love
for Heury Clay. Fur it is not here alone that
these honors are paid to n. great memory.—
This day will present the unparalleled specta
cle of the erection of three statues of the same
man, at points remote from each other by
hundreds aud thousands of miles. Iv Virgi
nia, in Kentucky, and at New Orleans, multi
tudes are collected at this moment to hear the
nory of bis noble deeds, aud welcome the
similitude of his form and features. 1 can
imagine no more touching proof of the na
tionality of the man, thau this fact present*.
I can invoke no language that would uot mar
tbe grandeur of iv simple statement.
By what means did he win in life the love
and gratitude of a nation, aud what is his title
to these posthumous honors l By the exhibi
tion of a comprehensive and untiring patriot
ism—best described by bimself, because most
deeply and truly felt: "A high, exalted, sab
lime patriotism, which, soaring towards hea
ven, rises far above all mean, low or selfish
things; which to absorbed by one soul-trans
porting thought of the good snd glory of one's
country—that patriotism which, catching iv
inspiration from tbe immortal God, and leav
ing at an immeasurable distance below all
lesser grovelling personal interests and feel
ings, animates and prompts to deeds of self
sacrifice, ot valor, of devotion, aad of death
itself—that is public virtue; that is the noblest
and sublimest of all virtues." This is the mag
nificent definition of tbe patriotism which
dwelt in bis heart and was made manifest in
his actions. Let us recall some of these.
You do not expect, I am sure, any tame reci
tal of tbe incidents of bis life; for the full
biography of Henry Clay would be the history
of his country for the time in wbich he Uvea.
A rapid sketch is all that 1 deem necessary.—
if I pause for a moment to speak o* some of
the scenes and iacldenU of his earlier days, it
is not because I suppose bis mother State for
getful of these things—Virginia never honored
him with her electoral vote, but she does not re
quire to be reminded of the birth-place or of the
birth-day of her great son—and he never for*
got hie origin or ceased to love the land of bis
nativity, because of her neglect. Hie was the
gift of genius, which ths Mended powers of
earth cannot rival or imitate; but circum
stances aad conditions frequently deiermiee
whether It obeli shine with benignant light,
or with tbe lurid glare of an " archangel loot;"
whether, is the case ot the statesman, it shall
bs perverted to tbe purposes of selfish am hi
tion, or seek iv reward is tbe welfare and
happiness of iv country.
Henry Olay was a child of tbe Revolution
one of iv first born. He was a native ef that
county of Hanover, as be told iv citizens ia
lbta, which wss the first la tbe Revolution to
raise iv areas under tbe eloquence oi Fatriek ;
Henry to dafoess ef American liberty. Tbe ,
thunder of that eloquence was still roUiag .
through the lend whoa Mr. Clay was a you Ik, ;
and If they are correct who coa tend that tbe
shoraeiertseeivee its laevitabes bias within ,
liVUmluof eblldhood, wscaßeosllrlß-ogio* ,
(Re eon trelllag lafleeoes of that high example ,
open the impressible miud of the young an. |
trlot. HsusverrsoogadjaaAas he bea touch- <
logly told us, a t-uhereumila or fond cereae- i
sirucuou free* ads devoted motker wss iade_
poadeeee—ladeeeprlsnst for himself and foebr»
coaotry. It become the motto ofhisheerl and I
of Bsossißktyintellsct; Itwos sumped upon 1
•eery land whose people Were seeking or con.
trading for that priceless Jewel of bis eoel.
. 1 8o *>«* a .'**«_s»«atsoaty tsodedto iscrease
this feeling. After a short sojourn in this city
which witnessed aud acknowledged the Brat
flashings of bis brilliant mind, as it after,
wards delighted to bask la tbe noontide of Its
splendor, he went ss su orphan dot to tbe
State of Kentucky. It was the theatre of all
others to expand, strengthen and confirm bis
loftysspirt. He oast his Hubs among a hardy
robust, intelligent people; be breathed an at
mosphere where timidity or morbid sensibili
ty conld not survive. It woe only the "lord
of the Hon heart and eagle eye," who could
make his way among the bold and energetic
pioneers of Western life: and he became the
idol ef that people of whom be was ut ouce
the mirror and the exemplar. Frank gallant
cordial and warm-hearted, he won ihelr aflVc
tions; bold and resolute as theraselve*
h« commanded and retaiued their entire con
fidence. With one bound he took his position
as au advocate in the front rank of the legal
profession -and in the primary meetings of
the people, by his simple, straight-forward
unaffected eloquence, he controlled masses oi"
men who would have laughed to scorn the
tinsel of the rhetorician. His first speech on
national affairs was in reference to the alien
and eedition laws. Tbe people listened in un
broken silence, but tbe power of tbe orator
had stirred the feelings of the multitude to
their utmost depths, and at its close he was
seized and borne in triumph through the
streets of Lexington. From that, moment his
course was onward and upward. Kentucky
never refused him any oftlce in her Rift, aud
oltener. bestowed them without solicitation.
Well might his utterance toil and his feelings
overpower him. when, in 1842, he attempted
to express his gratitude to a State which had
embraced him with parental fondness, caress
ed him as though he had been a favorite son,
patronized him with unbounded munificence,
and, when assailed by the rest of the world,
interposed her broad and impenetrable shield
and repelled the poisoned shafts aimed for his
destruction.
Mr. Clays thoughts were early turned, as
we hove seen, to national affairs, and espe
cially to the dangers which then threatened
our infant Republic. In the present time of
rapid and easy intercourse between all parts
of our vast country—when the journey that
once occupied weeks is performed readily and
without fatigue iv a day—we can scarcely do
justice to the statesmen who contended 'fifty
years ago for the construction of works of in
ternal improvement by the General Govern
ment, At the close of the Revolution ours
wa* a small population, thinly scattered over
an immense area, the different communities
separated by unbroken forests, mountainous
barriers and unimproved rivers. Washington
aud Jefferson wera at once deeply impressed
with tbe incalculable importance, the vital
necessity, of connecting the Western with the
Eastern Territories. Itevund and above tbe
commercial interests were, the hijfh political
considerations involved. With the Spaniards
011 their right aud tbe English on their left, it
was feared that the people of the West
wonld be lured into commercial treaties
with one or both ot those nations, which
would at once draw a fatal line of sepa
ration between them and their Eastern
brethren. Hence the necessity, as Washing,
ton said in his letter to Governor Harrison, of
applying the cement of interest to bind all
parts of the Union together—especially of unit
ing that part which lies immediately West of
us to the middle States. The way was plain,
he said, to avoid the threatened danger. Im
mediate interest and remote political advan
tages proved the necessity of extending the in
land navigation of the Eastern waters, con
necting them as far as possible with the West
ern, aud thus binding those people to us.es
he hoped, by a chain which could never be
broken.
Kentucky was the especial object of solicita
tion on the part of Spain in her effort to alien
ate the West from the Union, aud some of the
more impatient spirits of that State, believing
that their local interests had long been neg
lected, if not systematically betrayed, especi
ally iv reference to the navigation of the Mis
sissippi, seemed ready to urge the separation
and independence of the Whole couutry West
of tbe Alleghauies. Louisiana soon afterwards
passed into the possession of the French, and
all dangers to our Uuiuii in that quarter were
dissipated by its purchase under the auspices
of Mr. Jefferson ; and the great Vallej having
secured an outlet to the sea on the South, na
turally desired to complete the purpose pro
jected by Washington in securing a closer con
nection with the East.
It may be a subject of wonder, almost of
of mirth to us, that Spain should have been
able to create auy alarm ou the subject of our
Union—but it may teach us a valuable lesson
of humility when we contrast her present
with her former condition, and remember that
we leel not more secure iv our haugtuy
strength than she did iv her pride and power.
It certainly is refreshing to see how little the
patriots of a past age suspected tbe "irrepres
sible conflicts" of the present. They feared that
tbe Republic would break to pieces from its
own weight, the lack of coherence, the isola
tion of its parts—they sought accordingly to
diminish or obliterate the natural obstacles
which divided our people. In tbe simplicity
of their patriotism tbey believed that intima
cy would lie the parent of friendship. It was
reserved for modern statesmen, of a very dif
ferent type, to discover the evils of a closer
connection, and to warn us of the hatred
which must spring from a more perfect Union.
Adopting, naturally, the policy projected in
the purer age, and by the sages of tbe Repub
lic, Mr. Clay became at once the champion of
that cause which involved the highest aud best
interests, as he believed, of his own immedi
ate section, aud in a scarcely less degree of the
whole country.
Coupled with this devotion to internal im
provements was his desire to build up the
manufactures of bis country as an important
element of independence. These he considered
the right and left hands of power. The Colo
nial system of Great Britain hod deprived us
of the power of manufacturing the raw ma
terials we produced. Even Lord Chatham,
with all bis fondness for freedom and b is sym
pathy with the struggling Colonies, had de
clared that we should not be allowed to
make a hobnail for ourselves. The noise
of trip hammers and rolling mills
wonld have been considered as treasonable
as Patrick Henry's denunciation of George
the Third; aud when we had achieved our
freedom, we were impelled by pride, princi
ple and feeling, to build up our manufactures,
and thus fully demonstrate our independence
of a country whose fabrics were regarded as
the badges of servitude.
This rapid glance at his earlier political life,
its theatre and incidents, furnishes us with a
key to Mr. Clay's whole policy, steadily main
tained—at least, never departed from except
when, for the sake of peace, it seemed neces
sary to sacrifice something of policy; for he
might well say, with tbe Athenian orator, that
he sometimes went contrary to himself, but
never to the Republic.
To strengthen and perpetuate our Union;
to make it independent of all other nations;
to hind its different ports together by noble
roads—the Appian and Flaminian Ways of
the Western Republic ; to clear out its rivers:
to connect iv lakes; to extend its internal and
expand its external commerce—these were the
animating objects of Henry Clay's statesman
ship when he stepped upon the stage of na
tional legislation.
lie soon had tbe opportunity to prove that
his patriotism did not lac'r the heroic element;
that lie was as keenly alhre to tbe honor as
the material prosperity of bis country. It
may almost be said that he declared the second
war against Great Britain. His speeches were
so many trumpet calls to his countrymen to
repel the systematic itiFol -nee and tyranny of
a government which hoped, that since Wash
ington was gone, we might be reduced again
by force or fraud to colonial vassalage. In the
management of this question, Mr. Clay exhib
ited so many qualities of a great commander
urged a feeble aud almost prostrate country
to take ap arms against a mighty power, with
each sublime audacity that it was seriously
contemplated, if not actually proposed by Mr.
Madison, to place him st the head ot oar army.
Tbs design waa abandoned, because his ser
vices in Congress were ludispensable. It is
only left for us to imagine how for he would
have been able to avoid or reverse the disas
ters which fell upon our arms in tbe com
mencement of the conflict. We should be mind
ful of ths sneer to which ws may expose our
selves by becoming prophets of the past; nor
should ws forget how many instances oar own
age furnishes of tbe biting truth of tbe sen
tence passed by tbe historian on Golba, "Om
nium consensu, empax imperii—Nisi imptras
..rf—but of this ws may rest ensured, that
he would have instilled, on a sterner field,
what be claimed la the civic contest, when
he thanked bis Crod that he had given
him a spirit wbich feared aotblag bat lv
Maker. The example of a serene intrepid
ity; or. If necessary, of a daring courage,
would he va been offered te our soldiers. "F«r
-tuaeV'asßossoet said, "would bays bast ao
power over aim. either la tbe sells Re foresaw
nave been toe spirit ef the undaunted and ■
daantlase Hector, who aeitberaoked nor cared
for signs, or emass\ or BBeposss
# Witboatn sign, sis sword the braes sssa draws.
AnoMhs aa eases hst bu Ceeatri 's esses.' -
The feasor of the coaotry vindicated, Mr. ,
Clay was called to take part ia ike Begotia- '
neanoß ob tbs probable valM ef tbe subma
rine telegraph, that the obnoxious orders in
council which constituted tbe salient point in
our controversy with England, hod been re.
yoked many days before tbe declaration of
war on onr part, and peace hod been conclu
ded several weeks before tbe battle of ibe
Eighth of January.
Returning to America, Mr. Clay wm wel.
corned by the plaudits of the whole country,
and resuming his place In Congress, nnder
what he regarded as the greater necessity, re
newed his plans for tbeeucouragement of do.
raestic industry and tbe development of the
national resources by works of internal im>
provemeut. To these be now added, by a
change of opinion, the advocacy of a Nation
al Bank, rendered necessary ia the judgment
of a large majority of tbe leading men, by tbe
financial condition of the country. These
measures, together with his celebrated Land
Bill, introduced at a later period, rounded oft
and completed tbe national system with
wbich his name, his eloquence, and his fame
have been, and will be iudissotubly connected. .
A passing word is dne to the brilliant epi
sode in Mr. Clay's Congressional career,when,
with all the energy of his ardent nature, and
the full power of bis fiery eloquence, he advo
cated the cause of the patriots of South Amer
ica, and somewhat later, of insurgent Greece.
His speeches on these subjects ure among the
finest of his life—one of them was translated
by order of Bolivar and read at the head ot ,
thearmy to animate the fitful courage of his
troops. To those who now behold the dis
turbed aud pitiable condition of onr South
ern neighbors—or to those who coldly judge
of the policy or morality of nations by their
success or failure, ibtwrVToris ia behalf of
opppressed and struggling nationalities, ritay ,
appear to be visionary and improper—bnt
they are honorable to the nature of the man,
and show as he nobly said, that his sympa
thies were with the masses of mankind. May
the counsels offered in vain to another peo- '
pie return to find favor here, and exert their
happiest influence upon his own countrymen!
In the Missouri question was now present
ed ou the national arena that fearful issue
which threatened the existence of onrUuion.
Mr. Clay wou his grand title ot Pacificator by '
what was vainly regarded as a final settle
ment of tbe question—bnt which was, in
trutb, but the dropping of the curtain on the '
first act of a distracting drama destined at
iutervnls to convulse tbe nation for forty
years, and whose end is not yet.
Under the prestige of this success and the
subsequent incidents of his Congressional
life, he came before the American people in
1821 as a candidate for tne Presidency, and
trom that moment we may date his decline in
popular tavor. Up to that period he had been
borne along on a flood-tide of popularity, and
there is scarcely a reasonable doubt that if his
had been one of the three names presented to
the House of Representatives, he would have
been promptly elected to the Presidency. As
it was, be was obliged to make his selection
among his rivals: and this fact, together with
his acceptance of office uuder Mr. Adams, cast
a disastrous influence upon his political for
tunes,from which he was never able to recover.
Now that the mists aud prejudices of party
have passed from this subject, now aboard ap.
pears the charge that be who had repeatedly
refused Cabinet appoint men ts and foreign
missions from Madison and Monroe, should
have bartered his honor, sold his birthright
for a position which, so far from advancing
his prospects of promotion, actually weakened
them by withdrawing him from "the public
eye. But this obvious view was forgotten,
or not duly weighed in the excitement of the
moment. Even Geueral .Lafayette's explicit
averment that Mr. Clay had privately assured
him, sometime beiore the contingency occur.
red, that if he should be required to decide be
tween Adams and Jackson, he must choose
the former, was vainly offered to men who had
determined to see nothing but baseness in
what wa< really a self-deuying and chivalrous
act. It was sufficient IVr party purposes that
ou tbe surface there was a show of combina
tion, and the slander ouce propagated, sank
deep into the hearts of the people.
"Repose denied hsr requiem to h : s name.
And Folly loved the mai t» rdom of Fame."
Caudor compels us to admit that tbe accept
ance of this office was an "astounding blun
der," and, when too late, none saw it more
clearly than Mr. Clay himself. "My error,"
lie said, "in accepting the oilice, arose out of
my underrating the power of detraction and
the of ignorance, an' abiding with too
sure a confidence in the conscious integrity
and uprightness of my own motives." But, af
ter ail, why should we mourn this event.' It
. developed tbe power of the man—his true no
bility of soul—it made him the Henry Clay
now enshrined in our hearts. He lost an 0-fee,
but the nation gained the fruits of amighiy
miud, nerved to its highest power by the deter
mination to "live down" the calumny. Guilt
would have shrunk abashed from the storm of
obloquy—a tamer spirit, though innocent,
would have sunk in despondency—a heart less
patriotic would have been content to hurl
back scorn tor contumely. But Henry Clay
was guiltless, and above all such cowardice or
mean revenge. Undismayed and unrewarded,
he labored on for his country, ana this day,
now and forever, his fame is the brighter for
the foil of that black slander which be lived
t> tear from his escutcheon and trample be
neath his feet.
I will not detain you with any lengthened
recital of his struggle with that Iron Chief
tain, who has been styled "his man of desti
ny"—with what justness a later posterity must
determine, when it comes calmly to review
the incidents and results of that mighty con
test. For the present, personal antipathies
and rivalries are so mixed up with the politi
cal incidents of that period, and the ashes are
so lightly laid over tbe fierce fires that then
raged through the land, that I deem it entire
ly unsuited to the present occasion to speak of
them more fully than is needed to preserve
the unity of my narrative and do justice to tbe
subject. It is sufficient for us to
that against the most fearful odds, and against
a great popular favorite, Mr. Clay contended
with a zeal and energy unsurpassed iv our an
nals for the measures which he deemed vital
for tbe welfare of tbe nation. And when, as
he thought, thediguity of that Senate of wbich
he waa clearly chief, had been assailed, he re
pelled it with a spirit as high and defiant as
that which prompted the attack. Against the
assumption, as he regarded it, of arbitrary au
thority, he poured forth the full measure of
his imperial declamation ; and when he saw
or suspected subserviency or sycophancy to
prosperous power, he launched the lightning
of his terrible irony and scathing rebuke. But
in the midst of these fierce conflicts he was
ever ready to throw aside all personal feelings
and unite with his, most bitter opponents to
rescue his country from impending danger.—
The difficulties growing out of tbe tariff ques
tion—the threatened war with France—drew
forth aud exhibited the fullness of his patriot
ism, and the fertility of his statesmanship.
Mr. Clay now found himself at the bend of
that great party which inscribed upon its ban
ner the principles and policy of bis life, and
took his name as its watchword, whoever
might be the nominal leader. I may be allowed
to odd that it was a party whose virtues were
never fully acknowledged, perhaps never fully
recognized, until it was deemed necessary to
write its merited epitaph. Whether its mis
sion be fulfilled, remains to be seeu; but scat
tered or united, its members will be constant
to tbe memory of their noble chief.
" Thnexh no more our snnsls show
Of botttles won or banners taken,
Stilt in death, defeat, or woe.
Ours be loyalty unahakeu."
I resume my narrative at the point when
General Jackson retired from the Presidency,
leaving his country "free, prosperous aud
happy," and was succeeded by Mr. Van Bureu.
I hope and believe that I shall shock no politi
cal sensibilities by the historical statement that
his administration was a dreary failure, or by
tbe suggestion that M has never received one
tithe of the sympathy he deserved at the hands
of the nation. A landsman at tbe helm of the
Great Eastern in a hurricane, Is a feeble type
of his entire inability to direct the ship of
Sum ia that fearful financial storm which
soon burst upon the country. Whether this
proceeded from the experiments nioa the
monetary system which Mr. Clay so much
deprecated, it is foreign to my purpose to dis
cuss; but oil must agiee that there was a sin
gular coincidence between bis predictions and
the result None sorrowed more than be for
the fulfillment, or labored mors earnestly to
remedy the evil. Verdict of expulsion was
pronounced ia advance by tbe country oa tbe
existing administration, aad Mr. Clay's friends
looked forward to tto election of ISM with sa
tire confidence that be would M planed at tbe
bead of tbe goverameat, and that the Ballon
weald leap tto full benefit of Ms matased
powers. lathlstbey were dleappointed—the
contest sweat ever tto lead like a whirlwind—
the magnanimity of Mr.Otay, aad bis stisnu
om exertions contributing greatly to the vie.
Tory, which wm M brilliant ao it wm barren.
Thwarted in bis efforts to empress the Whig
policy en tto souutry, Mr. Clay retired feem
public It* ta let*, takiag asssstoa to ssske a
most impressive address, and thseveot comti- '
tabid ouch an epoch in oar IsgislsUvs history
th-Ft tbe Senate was In ao mood for farther <
beslneos that day, and Bdjoarned to pay their
living wHeanus SB honor which theretofore
had heM reserved for the dsn*.
Mew saa I eosakia metered tarns of the !
i
stand vludieated of bis country men. lie bad
surmounted every obstacle, he had
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TheßM%aetosea_«oaa*Swr.tiilheotood
Triußsehaot oo the soak!"
These, slas, were oaly load delusions. Tbe
oatlon had acquired a bsUt af voting against
him. In his various mediations, ia hia honest, i
out-spoken declarations, be bad come in sol* <
lision with tbe extreme opinions of both see*
lions—he had no t heai t a ted to tell them of their
errors, and tbe sharpness of the rebukes had
not been forgotten. And be had never flat* .
tered or yielded to the politicians, aad hie late
renewed the force of the remark of Cicero to
At;icus, that his banishment woe due rather i
to the envy of Cesar, the leor of Crosses and
the hate of Cludius, than to tbe dislike of tbe i
Momon people. And so oar "perpetual tri
bune of tbe people" was again rejected—de
feat, unexpected, saddening, crushing defeat,
came upon us. Aud who that bad bio feelings
strained to their utmost tension ia thai great .
excitement, can entirely shake oil the despond- i
eney which fell like a dark shadow oa oar
souls I—who caa al together forget tbe grief of I
that time when every friend mourned as for 1
some great personal calamity, and even his ad- i
veraoriee seemed to go sorrowing for the deed I
they had done I i
Asd yet bow nobly be bore It—exhibited ao i
personal spleen or mortified ambition; but I
lifted himself ss if unconscious ef defeat, aad I
come forth once more at his country's call to
save her from the dangers which tierce sec- 1
tionol strifes hod again brought upon her; and I
this time he returned with the battle-cry of Be I
Argeutine: i
" One effort more, one brave career, !
Must close this race of mine." <
The work of conciliation was accomplished; <
bnt even his wonderful vitality sunk beneath '
the protracted struggle. He appeared ia his '
place at the next session ; but ail saw that tue '
glorious light was fading from his noble brow.
He died as he doubtless wished to die—in the '
public service, in sight of the theatre of his
great renown, almost, uuder the flag of his I
country. Once again his body was in that *
Capitol— not as before, erect with lofty creel '
aud glittering eye; bnt prone ond pallid iv '
death. Words of earnest and truthful eulogy
were poured forth, and then commenced that j
great notional funeral march—tbe more than j
Aureliou triumph. Through Baltimore, Phil, j
odelphia, New York—and solemn silence rest. '
Ed on those great cities, aud the crowds ibat *
once came forth to hail the living form, were '
there in soilness to honor his passing bier. - <
His remains were fitly placed, the first uighi,
iv tbe old Hall of Independence, afterwards
under guards of honor in City Halls and State '
Houses; up the 11 udsou, every vessel with its I
flag at bolf-inast aud canyon booming from I
every town ami village; along the railroads
with multitudes assembled at every station to
manifest their share in the general grief;
across tbe lakes be loved so well; another
pageant at Cleveland ; wreaths of oak, of im
mortelles, of cypress, of ivy, of laurel; old '
men bursting into tears as they gawd upon his i
coffin ■ maidens pressing their lips upon it in
agony of heart; youug men bowed down by
the crushing sense thai the great chieftain, the
centre ot their love and hopes, was gone; until
at last he reached that loved Kentucky, be
neath whose green sod. with the remaius of
her own gallant sons, he wished to be laid.—
There let him rest under the epitaph suggest
ed by a gallant adversary :* "Here lies a man
who was in the public service fifty years, and
never attempted to deceive his conn try men.''
1 have thus passed in rapid and imperfect
review, the principal incidents iv tbe life of. a
man, whose greatness is attested by every
proof thatingenuity can oiler. To obtain the
full measure of nis power, we miut remem
ber the times iv which lie lived, the distin
guished men by whom he was surrounded, the
different theatres upon which be acted, and
his undoubted and undeniable superiority
wherever he nppej -cd. In the court-room,
before the people, in the legislative hall, at tbe
diplomatic board, in the cabinet council, be
was the acknowledged leader. He auded
dignity aud power to the Senatorial character,
and of leu made it more important thau the
Presidency. Unchecked except by executive
vetoes, he led the legislation of the country
for thirty years, ranging through the greatest
and most intricate questions of currency,com
merce and general polity. He built up a na
tional party, inspired it with his own enthu
siasm and bound it to him, not less by person
al affection than political sympathy. The
mere mention of his name was tbe signal for
applause in popular assemblies, and every
journey that he made was an ovation.
"His uame represents not merely on orator,
but eloquence itself." We ueed not search his
speeches for brilliancy of fancy or splendor ot
imagination. He kept no pet sentences by him
to polish at leisure into fruitless beauty —
poetry he could never quote—broke down
here, it is said, in Scott's famous patriotic
rhapsody, tbe piece of all others that he should
have remembered. His teemiug mind had no
room for the thoughts of others. He scorned
the slow pomp of diction, and grasped bis
language as the wairlor grasps his weapons
for the sudden fight. His, indeed, was the elo
qneuce of action—he vitalized bis thought, by
tbe intensity of his feelings, aud in'the ardor
of debate bis frame seemed a grand transpa
rency for the soul that burned within. He had
ou earnest, unstudied, honest eloquence, which
spoke directly to the Marts of men—a sympa
thetic power which swayed the multitude as
the wind sways the sea. He had a careless
grace and negligent grandeur in bis ordinary
attitudes—a proud or defiant port when stirred
by some master passion—and to oil these gifts
was added that wonderful voice whose slight
est note thrilled you like the touch of a mas
ter musicirsh, and in its ever varying tones of
melody and majesty, gave to his oratory the
full power of the human word.
Iv forming our estimate of his intellect, we
must not forget its versatility and promptness
of action. One might surpass him in analyti
cal skill, another iv massive Mtltonic power—
but for the statesman he had what was worth
them all—tbe talent ot rapid combination and
discrimination, the keen vision of common
sense, the thorough practical business qualifi
cation, the consummate sagacity which is
equal to any and every emergency—and that
elastic courage which rose as dangers in
creased, while those around him sometimes
cowered and hid from the coming storm. The
clearest proof of his commanding influence,
and the crowning glory of his life, was the in
stinctive confidence with which his country
men turned to him in every hour of peril—
tbe trustful faith with which they believed
that, through his knowledge of the resources
and wants of the nation, of the temper of its
peophs—by tbe aid of his comprehensive and
active mind, his warm, magnanimous heart,
he would discover tbe true disease aud apply
tbe proper remedy. And they were never de
ceived. He never failed in any trial, and wnen
the difficulties were surmounted, tbe dissen
sions healed, he left upon you a sense of re
served power, tbe belief thru he was equal to
still greater exigencies and capable of nobler
deeds.
We cannot deny that he was ambitious—but
bis ambition kept touch and time with the
welfare and honor of bis country. His re
mark that he had rather he right, than be
President sprang from no transient feeling
it was tbe needle to the compass of his soul.—
If be was too impatient at times,and regarded
prudence as timidity—if he wounded hearts
less forgiving tbau his own—if bis eminently
practical mind was too prone to ridicule what
he regarded as the idle, tf not mischievous, ab
stractions of others—if he was too uureleut
iug when he saw men sacrificing principle to
ambition, we must b->ar in mind thai these were
tbe natural, almost inevitable errors of a soul
so self-complete and brave oad honorable—
they were tbe
" —faults which daring Genius owes
Half to the ardor whtcb its birth bestows."
It is but o carping spirit that would dwell on
these things, opart from his merits, aud when
they ore brought together, solely the faults and
errors of such a maa are either hidden ia the
blase or consumed ia tbe fervor of bis patriot-
He was charged with being untrue to bio
section, bees use In all things aed at all times
he chose in regard himself, and wished to he
regarded as ao American citisea. With him
originated the claim to that title wbich ao
many have asserted, aud so few have deserv
ed, tnat be knew ho North, ao South, ao
East, no West. He always took the larger
aspect of things. He was In troth the great
repreoeatative bub of his nation, the imper
eountion of the geaius of his country, the ex*
poueet or that unpausiug, untiring Anglo.
Saxon spirit which here, snd wherever It aae
spread, fulfills a diriae purpose, converts the
wilderness iatoau empire, snd covers islands
aad continents with tbe palaeee of civilisation
and the temples of Christianity.
It wonld appear that goverameat, like tbe
physical world, is kept la He tree orbit by
opposing forces. Ia all republics there have
beea two sen of opinions ia active auisgo.
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ctossof thiseonstar, akd Mr. j-ssusm 1 sgaiM.
Ed os tbs colßwr and were pkltasnetalsoi en.
pounder of the extreme doctrines of States
Bights. Divested of lv personal fee tores, tto
antagonism Between tto Senators ef Bedth
Carolina and Kentucky wm m awrksd m ia
tbe other instance. Tbe one gloried la tbe
contemplation of the vastness of bis country—
the other thought it uecesssry to watch with
closest scrutiny. If not suspicion, She deitcste
relations or the difl'erenl mesa tors. Mr- Olsy,
s native ef one State end the adopted child ol
another, considered the divisions between the
Stales as lines which policy drew, bat which
affectum should not regard. Mr. Calhoun
watched them m jealously as tto founder of
B >me guarded bis growing walls, wbich not
even a brother might leap over with impuni
ty. One expended his time and talents In the
carioas dissection of the body politic, tracing
iv wonderful, aud to him too oftea ite fearful,
anatomy; the ottfer sought to endue it with
health aad strength, to make It instinct with
lifo aud radiant with beauty. Or, if I may odd
another illustration, tto South Carolinian, in
his more hopeful momenta, regarded tbe Union
as a Constellation, deriving Iv lustre aad
grandeur from tbe brightness of each particu
lar star; tbe Kentncklon found the image af
bis country in some grand river, like our giant
Mississippi, each valley sending iv rill and
lofty mountains speeding their torrent" to swell
its rapid tide; on iv banks he saw fertile
fields and happy homesteads—the blended
sounds of manifold industry went up from
pleasant villages and stately cities—on its bo
som were countless vessels laden with tbe pro
ducta and fabrics of & land framed in tbe pro
digality of nature—and thus erowued with ibe
trophies of Agriculture aud of Art, be saw it
rushing to the sea, and delivering to white
winged Commerce the bread to feed and the
raiment to clothe a world.
Posterity will do justice to both of these
great men—lo tbe political speculations of the
one, and the remarkable executive ability ot
the other—for therein was the difference which
mode tbelr paths more and more widely di
vergent. One was a statesman, grappling with
present difficulties; the other a dreaming phi
losopher, following principles as the Prince of
Fas tern fable followed his arrow beyond the
habitation of man, beyond the bounds of prob
ability. In their temperaments this antago
nism was equally manifest. One was tbe ora
cle of bounding hope—
"And his eye kindled
With the prophecy of glorious > cars."
The other became tbe prophet of woe, aad
trembled, like the anoient Pythoness, under
the agony of his own forebodings—
" There was a listening fear in his regard.
As if calamity had but hecua;
As if the vanward oloud. of evil davß
Had spent their inaline, and tba sullen rear
Waa with its stored thunder laboring up."
One went down to the grave in gloom and
sorrow, bewailing tbe taw of the " South—tbe
poor South"—the other with his latest articu
lation, blessed that Uniou which be believed
was to be tbe assurauce of happiness to an
" undefined, unlimited,endless, perpetual poo.
terity."
And now that he is gone, what is the
moral of the life we have been considering I—
What the resultant lesson to his countrymen!
Shall it be a dead sorrow or a living truth T
The problems in poii.ical economy which
once divided the nation, may have been solved
or merged in others of higher import. The
fleeting questions of public policy with which
bis name was once associated, may have on*
swered their purpose or yielded to others un
der changing circumstances. Banks, Tariff.,
Histributious, like antique armor, may have
come to be regarded as
" Cuuitirnus and uncouth of night.
And useless in the modern rih'lit"—
but the deep solicitude, the unflinching cour
age, the broad statesmanship with which they
were advocated, remain fresh and bright for
our admiration and imitation. He has tanght
us that tbe path of duty is tbe path of honor
that there is a sustaining power in patriot
ism—a glory in self-sacrifice, wbich venal am
bition can never know—that the hones:states
man cau win a fame above and beyond empty
aud prostituted honors—and stand defeated,
yet conqueror— rejected, yet beloved of the
nation—that the dangers which threaten our
Union are not inherent, but spring from tbe
giddiness of prosperity, thelustof power and
the recklessness of amhiliou—and that it will
be time enough to take the downward vulgar
path of dissolution and destruction when all
honorable expedients have beeu exhausted.—
Aud now, when that Union is assailed by im
patieuce aud petulance ou one side, and a fero
cious philanthropy on the other, his example
oilers us the surest means of repelling aggres
sion, of subduing agitation, and so elevating
our country that—
'• Her fair form shall stand and shine.
Make l.r.nht our days and light our dreams,
Turning to scorn with lips divine
The falsehood of extremes."
There is a deep significance in tbe general
but unconcerted movement throughout the
country to revive the memories of our de
parted staiesineu. Tbe Republic seems to ap*
peal from tbe living sons to tbe dead fathers.
Massachusetts rears the statues of Warren
and Franklin, and more recently ot Webster;
and Virginia is grouping in monumental bar.
mony aud grandeur the sages who declared
and the heroes who defended her rights ond
her independence. To-day we shall add a
statue not unworthy of this noble fellowship.
It was offered with the tender grace of wo
man's affection—it has been received into this
hallowed precinct by the Legislature of tbe
State with a promptness and kindness and
magnanimity deserving our sincerest praise
aud gratitude.
This majestic figure will stand in perfect
unison with tbe scene which presents itself
from the crest of this Oapitoltnn hill—a scene
rich in natural beauty, in the manifestations
of bumaoi-tii g arts and stirring enterpri.-e,
and all the proofs of a refined and prosperous
civilization. In tbe character and variety of
iv objects, it is congenial with tbe hopes and
aims of bis life. There is tbe lovely landscape
spreading in tbe distance—the long lines of
your railroads stretching out to bind mighty
States together—above yon is tbe canal des
tined to accomplish his cherished wish for tbe
union of the East and West—below you the
populous city, aud at its feet tbe rapid river
whose power be wonld have urged you to ap
propriate, until the mournful monotone of iv
falls was bushed in the cheerful chorus of your
factories.
Here, then, in these beautiful grounds, un
der these propitious heavens, as d udless as
his own lame, on tbe soil of bis native
State—on the very spot, perchance, where
he once stood a poor, friendless, unkaowu
boy—in the presence of thie vast multitude,
assembled from oil parU of the Union—on
his birthday gleaming in tbe calendar, and
bright in the memory of millions, we inaugu
rate the statue of tbepstriot-statesmau. Usury
Cloy, and asdic ite It to tto great cause of hu
man industry, progress aud freedom. Here
let it otand, the model aad tto monitor of hie
countrymen—th .t men may learn from It the
certain honors which await beneficent genius,
ardent patriotism and spotless integrity—
that envy, hatred, unhallowed ambition,civil
discord and sectional strife, may fly abashed
from iv presence as Aloric, tbe pestof nations,
fled frightened from the Acropolis, uuder the
quelling gaze of the statue of Minerva. Aad
let this be our porting and animating tope,
that when generation afwr generation, ond
age after age shall have passed away—wher
myriads of freemen are repoeiug in peace,
pros|»eriiy and hoßptness beaontb tto canopy
ot our country's greataese, it shell still he the
pride aad pleasure, aad perfect prtvltoje ef
tbe pilgrim of ormry cltesa, to coma hose so to
a shrine, to bow tbe toad lv honor of tto great
raea whose effigies surround him. aad to
bend the knee ia graiitade to tto God who
goya them.
Mr. Harbour wm frequently interrupted by
applause, aad whan to concluded, both ladles
end gentlemen joined ia tto toarty cheers tto.
were given aim.
Mr. MAcrABLABu agala arose, and mated
that thsmsmsat had arrived for on vetilag the
Statue; aad at a given signal tto Armory
Band struck ap a national air, tto caa eon ef
tto Payette Artillery tsgsn to Bre n solute ef
thirteen guns, aad tbe vstl fell tttnm tto Bta
too, d-eetoetag to the slew ef tto mslUtsde
tto beautiful work of art, whieheUl deeired
to see, ond which all whe bad seen Mr. (Maw
ia lito,j»r»»aounoed perfect.
Tto Status represents Mr. Clsy la a speak
ing positioß, his left toad resting en a pedes*
is], sad hU right slightly ekleoded. Ttofeoe,
to us, seemed perfect as art could make It* and
2^*S_P-SaEß_s
agala toemsd, and alms —-rrilag an Btoad
ecreetsomedletansa sM sto L -~
___. »«a rest nam
Which U to be erected e»M Btoßtaßea. mill
peeve aa oraameat ta tto Uhtotal Zam na4
will do hoaor te tto unto eTCCkw-ig.
all luarchitect. TV itaSitaM MSM» all
oigh7iorleui_l-l eoluasaSfuUtaK_
awitahesghC Tto dtataataref ttotomtta-
Msstoenltles, 4fled torn** M 00*1 MBd la
tarns. As aptainsv tt is Mtahto ermßmhes to
the architect, and when ene_sd mill anna
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StbaMQE Miasm- BB— A BSltaM-Btff
ieeees carp**, in vol via* eorieue aad Impor
tant ;in_eti.»ns of_Uw, WMiecratly trttaTto.
z&igs. s,r s^aa
WlUtom Roe*, a short *tow» since, "iimm IjT
asnoivd with his etop-daaators, *T1 .ibmi!
Cwlsmoo, who reclprocsted bs* -fi.thiaa.Bßd
a marriage engagement woo tbe conseUueaes.
Bnt the affianced |*ir touad that ttrefrreto
tioashlp woe a moos the duress prohtaUM
by tbe lowa of Keetaeky.Jtat.tbe riem wee
easily passed, sod amc*} ia Okie tto iMtrslata
of the law wonld be rrfnoved-marrtoge be
tween Mood retntieef alone betag MotrHHt*
la that State. Thspmsowllngly stolHi #ta
cißßsii, wsss an ited ia _aatris»o«r.sjad ra
turned borne rejoicing. Tto lrlen_ls at tto
parties, however, were dissatisfied With tto
nuptial-, ond determined to separata ttoto—
Tbe girl being a lew a_oa_he ei.__w St ysaM ef
age- the period of female majority fa Ken
tucky—md till the time of her aMUTlag* toy-
Ing been under the guardlansbfp of a an
naraed Hall, to* who bad reeigeed M soon as
that event had takea plaee,a gMrdtaa aomod
Elisha Coleman, a relation of the lady's, ems
appoluted for tbe occasion, and n writ of
habeas nvpu* wss sued oa Boos, eommaa-fiag
him to produce his wife before Judge Moor*
oad sbow by whot authority she wm detain*
ed by him. The proper evidences of tbe mar
riage were produced, aad the fbet that she
was more then eighteen *nn of age, wMsB
concluded tbe period ef tor iafeacy at tto
place wbere the marriage was aolemaisad,
were produced in Court. The attorneys mr
tbe guardian claimed that aa tbe partlea were
reaidenUof Keutuckv.a morrlagsslsswlrsna
to evade the lawe of thot Stats, won null and
void. The Judge sustnined this positlos, aal-
Ilfled the marriace. ond gave tto lady into tbe
custody of Mr. Coleman.
Provincial* Bvnßßp in Errior son rot
Honor.no Treir Prinir —In tbe lfsw
Brunswick House of AeserabtT the qesotien
of the visit of tbe Prince of Wales betsg
brought up, and ths Government proposiag ta
invite him to visit New Brunswick, the mo
tion was at first voted down, because of tto
expeaae likely to be incsrred. Nest day,
however, tbe matter was reconsidered, aad the
authority to send the invitation given. Tto
course of the exceedingly thrifty aud economi
cal men who voted against tbe proposition has
been the snbiect of much osjßratfee. At Bfc
Stephens the local members who voted oa thM
side were burned in effigy. The invitation
was voted unanimously in the legislative
Council. The parsimonious members meet
have suffered great pain when they foaad
themselves done up in sackcloth and then asp
dnced to ashes. The chose of such action pro
bably exists in tbe fact that many of tto peo
ple af New Brunswick are decidedly aad per
sistently In favor of annexation to tto Uetted
Stales, and opposed to tto pareat Government
and all its representatives Bad apparent suc
cessors. Tbls occasion was doubtlessly used
to give another expression W that feel lag, aot
only on the part of the members, bums inter*
pre ling tbe sense of their ronati'ni>nU.
"Car the Ethiopian Cmanob Hi* SrisT*
We noticed some time since, la sent* of ear
exchanges, a statement that tto ehia of a cer
tain negro, living, ws think, in Bevaaaah or
Augusta. Go., was changing color and becom
ing white. We resell to mind this Instance,
from the fact that there Is aa eld aegro eaeae
of our river steamers, who toe followed tto
business of a pilot since ihis, whose skis is
now likewise changing from y\ block to the
fairest white. His neck and arms, Mfhr down
as his fingers, are ef a smooth, soft, deMmis
whiteness, that weald rival that af tto tea*
dereet, purist Circassian. His lips are of a
soft, ruddvhne, and bis face and body begin
ning to show the same radical wonderful
change. Hie name to Pern, and a more faith
ful, true-hearted servant caa't ho found. He
has been the means of rescuing from watery
graves several persons in coses of accidents to
boats ou the Chattahoochee river, ond, but a
very few years since, soy.d from drowning a
lady vow living in our city. Tba Ethiopian's
skin changes; not by his own power, it io
true: still it changes. What is the explana
tion of thft strange physiological phenome
non \—Eufnula (Ala.) Spirit.
Loan or a Sutr with Amebic aw Dis
patches.—The Lima papers record the leea
of the Peruvian ship J. F. L, owned by Mr.
Washington Booth, on American merchant of
that place. It seems she left Callao towards
the latter part of February for China, via tto
Sandwich Islands, and when two days eat.
being some .nn) wiles from lend, Sbe spraag
a leak and filled so last that all efforts to free
her of water proved unavailing, and she foun
dered. All hands took to tbe boats aad weia
unable to save onything. One boat with ale*
persons and another with foar ouoeeedsd in
reachiog the coast of Peru, near Lambayoqoe.
after being out three doys. A third boat, con
taining nine persons, had aot been beard of.—
Purser A. A. Belknap, of the Celled States
Navy, who was bound to the Sandwich Is
lands and China, was on board, ond Is among
the n umber saved. It is reported that hs lost
all his clothing aud government dispatches,
which obliges him to return to tto U oiled
States, besides some §3-000 lv oash.
She is to re Married—Mh iimulselle Pio
colomini is about to be married toaJtomaa
Count—a noblemsu of rank aad forme*.—
Mademoiselle Piccolominl's nncle givee hie
niece a splendid dowry, and she gives the re
sult of her professions, gstns to tor fsmlly.
At Dublin tor retirement from tto Stags
brought a fortnight's engagement to o cloee on
March ID, by appearing for her owa benefit ia
the ofiero of Martha. She had for soma dayo
prior been laboring uoiler a severe cold, oad
when the our tola rose she same forward and
sold: -'Kind friends, this may to tto loot time
that I will ever appear before you. lam my
111, indeed ; bat I have tried to come tore to
see you again. 1 aaa oaly slag badly. Yen
have beeu always very good to me; will yea
pardon my faults to-night t X shall do my
Fbmrbt in ths PoTonor—The PotassM
river rose higher 00 Wednesday tbaa at ear .
period for. eight year*. The Chesapeake Bod
Ohio Canal was overflown at several potato
between Cumberland aad Horpefs Ferry.—
Tbe bock water from tto river at potato be.
tween Cherry Bun aad Sir St. Joke's Rag,
extended up for more tbaa a mile to wtibia b
few fee* of the rail rood track, bat no amtertat
damage resulted to the track. At Maipss's
Ferry, Wednesday, the banks et tto Meal
were entirely submerged, sad tto lower sec
tion of the towa overflowa. Mssy mer
chants, shop-keepers aad beass-toapera were
removing their property ton (to eahmeaard
and threatened building*, ta ethers higher
situated. The armory buitdiags being protect,
ed by tto 'heavy walls surroaadlng them,
were uot at all affected by tto toed.
Acciobrt raon Furracr Gab.—Ws leera
ITom the Lawrence (Mass.) Americas, that oa
Thursday of lost week, a son of Jacob A. A Bea,
Esq., of that city, a led ef A (teen years, ween
to tto foresee, at bis r» aideoee.ond upon span
ins tbe door wm instantly eeveloued ia BM,
which, by d.sarr .ugemea! ef Hampers, tad
beee confined wlthlo, aad iasiaatl* taking are
from a lamp la tto yoang maare kam_L wm
thrown bock ward by tto shook. Mr-to Measly
goUh«d, bat aot until the lad bad taaa severe
ly, but not totally burned.
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