Evansville Journal, Volume 10, Number 38, Evansville, Vanderburgh County, 29 August 1844 — Page 2

ADDRESS OF SEMMES. . Tlic following are the"remarks pf Samuel M.

oemrnea, tusq. upon the topics to which his atlentiou was called by the Clay Club

of Cumberland, Md. and delivered at the public square, on Friday evening, June 28, 1841. Fellow-Citizens: I appear before you

iu oucuience ioa request maue ot me oy

the Cumberland Clay Club. Were I to con

sult myownhealih and inclinations, I should

avoid all active participation in the political

discussious of the day. But the time has ar

rived when, l conscientiously reel, that as

one interested irrthe honor and well beinjr

t . . .. . ' i.

ui inv country, i am iiui ainoeuy iu cuiisuii

my private wisues aioneto me enure negtoct

rf mv nrtiin1 rtutipe. Tmnpllprt tHprf-fiirp

no less by a sense of duty, than by a desire to gratify my political friends, Have I come

Jiere to-night tor the purpose ot addressing

" you. .

Ju November next, the people ot these

United States are required by the constitu

tion and laws under which we live, to meet

at their respective places of holding the elec

tiaiis. to exercise one ol the highest attrib

utes of sovereign- power the, liberty-o

choosing their chief executive officer. Jn no government under the sun are the people

"so well secured iu the exercise of this rihl

as the people of the United States. And

becomes us, out of gratitude to God,to use

ihe utmost Circumspection, and caution the choice of ouf rulers.

In the regulation of our political conduct

fellow-citizens, our first care, almost our on

il and religious lrherty. You all know what it was that led to the first settlement of a

christian people upon our shores. Rathe

than submit to religious intolerance at home, "our puritau forefathers did . not hesitate'to

sunder the ties which bound them to ,then . native bad, and to give up all those domes

tic associations and endearments which con

stitute so lare a share of the sum of human

happiness. Yes! they were content to -give

up their domestic altars and fires to brave

all the dangers of the ocean tempest to ru

the risk of disease and famine, and to expose themselves to the depredations of Indian savoses and beasts of prey, for die sake

merely that they might have a place where they could worship God according to the dictates of their, own consciences.' Aud

heie permit me, my Catholic fellow-citizens , my Irish and German friends, to ask, what was it that first inspired you with the thought of emigration. ' What sentiment of the hu- " man heart is it that was found strong enough - to oblige you to tear yourselves away from - your kindred, your country and friends, and - to seek new homes in a foreign land? Was it not your love for civil and religious liberty?. And how comes it that you preferred , to take refuge under the government of the -United States? ' There were other republics established on the contineut of America besides onr own there were republics too where the Catholic religion was almost ex-

clusiveiy professed and practiced. But you

.preferred the United States, and why? Be

cause it was the land of Washington? You

preferred our country, because it was the

country of Washington. TJut were there no 1-w-vl t i I 1 ri i r c in I U a I it - y- f W- r i ri rrt m

- and to what pirty did he belong? General

Washinston was a federalist a federalist of

the old school. And yet how common is it

in the party contest of the present day; hov

common has it been in all our past political

contests, to near the name ol federalists ap-

plied as a term of reproach. I have thus in

troduced the name of Washington, and re- : ferred you to his political creed, for the purpose of showing you, my Irish and German

friends, that even the venerated Father of

his country, whose name first attracted you

to our country, whose name first attracted

you to our shores, was not exempt from the

foulest aspersions political calumny and de

traction: and that if some of the wicked and

malignant tools of party faction in his day

could be credited, even he, the great found

er of American liberty, meditated treason to

liis country and mankind.

If, therefure, the great and good Washing Km mil lil nnt fisc.infi calmruiv untl rlplrar.

tion, bee ause he happened to think that the

doctrines ot the old teueral party were war- - ranted by the constitution, and to preserve

- our liberties, how can it be expected that

' anv public manor anv no it.cal oirtv siuce

the days of Washington, can escape slander

- nnd misrepresentation! How can it be ex

if the West that Henry Clay, the whig " candidate for the presidency God blessv ' ; himt) can escape detraction and abiise? No! no! it seem3 natural to men to revile

anu calumniate ineir uesc lncuua ami me

" greater the benefactor the greater the abuse

He have the highest nutlionty tor saying

we have the authority of. Holy .Writ, itself

-. for sayinn tiial no man is a prophet m his

." 'own counfiy. The aim and object , of this

- .im-'II creature called man. Eftpma In be.

- to bring every thing down to bis own level. No sooner therefore does one appear who is gifted by nature and nature's God with all the endowments of superiority, than he immedietely becomes an objec.t of envy

and detraction. It is owing to this propen-

- Bity in poor frail human nature, that we are

indebted for much oflhe calumny and abuse that have been lavished upon Mr. Clay. But ! though I am aware that reckless and unprincipled politicians are capable of resorting to

- - any thing mat is HKeiy to neip ineir cause yet 1 did not anticipate that an attempt

would be made by falsehood and rnvsrop esentation. to enlist the religious prejudices . - of my Cat'.ioiic brethren against Mr. Clay in .i t.'.. ru

tne present comei. ,rur ui an liicuiyingu'shed public men known "to our people,

most tolerant and liberal to th various sects f . i u . .1

of the chrisuan reunion especially to ine

. roman catholics, Witliout being particular-

" - ly wedded to the tenets of any of the chns

fian sects, he has been equally the friend of . all, Ofvou, my catholic fc-ll.)w-cTtizens,and

your religion, be has upon all occasions ex 'v. pressed, both in public and in private, senti

-- ' ments of ihs greatest respect. ind Delias shown particularly by his course in-regard

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of his sympathies, and of his most generous exertions. -

In the year 1818, Mr. Clay was a member

f the House of Representatives, and when

the Bill providing for the civil and diplomat

ic expenditures ot that year came up for con-

ideration, Mr. Clay moved to insert an item

f 18,000 for the salary and outfit of a min

ster to Brazil, under the following circum

stances. Jhe several provinces of South

America had long been under the dominion

ofSpainhy the right of conquest. In'lhe

footsteps of the'eonqueror were scattered the

seeds of Christianity but nothing more.

'Spam had erected upon the ruins of the

thrones of Montezuma and the Incas of Pe

ru the most .stupendous system, of colonial

despotism that the world ever saw." The

grand object of her system was to render the Souih American provinces, constituting one

of the largest portions of the world, exclusively subservient 1o her in. all things. To

effect this aim of her policy, says Mi. Clay,

"she locked up fcpanish America from all the

rest of the world, and prohibited, under the

severest penalties, any foreigner from enter

ing any part of if. 1 o keep the natives themselves ignorant of each other, and. of the

strength and resources of the several parts

of her American possessions, she next pro

hibited the inhabitants of one vice-royalty or

government from visiting those of another

so that tne inhabitants or Mexico tor exam

ple, were not allowed to enter the vice-roy

alty of New. Greuada. The agriculture ot

the South American provinces was so regu

lated and restricted as to prevent all collision

with the agncultuieofthe peninsula. Where

nature by the character and composition of

the soil, had coramanded,the abominable sys

tern of Spain forbade, the growth of certain

articles ' 'Thus tho olive and the vine, to which Spanish America was so well adoptedrwere prohibited wherever their culture could in terfere with the olive and the vine of the peninsula. The commerce of the country, in the direction and objects of , the exports

and imports, was also subjected to the narrow and selfish views of Span, and fettered by the odious spirit of monopoly existing in Cadiz. She sought, by scattering discord among the several castes of her American population, and by a debasing course of edu

cation, to perpetuate her oppression. v bat-

worship the same uod with us. l heir pray

ers are offered up m their temples to the

same Redeemer, whose intercession we ex

pect to save us. Nor is there anything in

the catholic' religion unfavorable to treedom.

he amongst the leading men in Congress felt interest enough for youy to 'speak even the truth! And has Mr. Clay from that time

to the present ever said or done any thing inconsistent with the friendly conduct and

All religions united with government are sentiment which he had previously shown to more or less inimical to government. Allsep- the Catholics and their religion? Nclno!

arated from government are compatible with But on the contrary he has uniformly treat

liber1y.r

"It the people of bpanisu America have

not already gone as far, in religious toleration, as we have, the difference in their con

dition from burs should not be forgotten.-

Every thing is progressive; and, in time, I

linnA in CPA i hpm lmitntinrr in I r i a raarart

ed us withjhe utmosfrespect and consider

ation, lloman Catholics have equally shared with the Christians of all other denomina

tions, not only the fostering care and protection of Mr. Clay as a public man but they

have been alike the objects of his private

bounty. 1 hey have shared equally with oth

our example. But grant that the people of ers the attentions of Mr. Clay in social life,

Spanish America are ignorant and incom I and have always been received with the same petent for free government, to whom is that cordial welcome under his hospitable roof at

ignorance to be ascribed?, . Is it not the exe-j Ashland. For these reasons Mr. Clay lias crable system of Spain, which she seeks a- always been admired and respected by' the

gain to establish and to perpetuate? So far intelligent Roman Catholics of this country,

uom chilling our hearts, it ought to increase and particularly by the Catholic clergy. Not

our solicitude for our unfortunate brethren, long since two of ray Irish friends got engag T. T . . i I i 1. 1 m a

it ougni to animate us to desire the redemp- ed in a political dispute the one being in

tion or the minds and the bodies or unborn favor ot Mr. V an Buren and the other in tamillions from the brutifying effects of asys-l vorof Mr. Clay and after they had discuss-

tem whose tendency is to stifle the faculties led their differences for a while, they proposcf the soul, and to degrade men to the levelled to "end the controversy by calling, upon

of beasts. - I would invoke the spirits of our

departed athers. vv as it for yourselves only

that you nooiy iougmi io, no: it was

the chaind that were forging for your poster-

fatfier McElroy of Frederick (who had stop

ped a while in Cumberland on his way to the

West) and celling ilim to -say Which of the

two man, Van Buren or Clay, he preferred.

ity, that made you fly to arms, and scattering That remarkable and good man at first said, the elements of these chains to the winds, my children I dont like 1q say which of the you transmitted to us the rich inheritence of two I prefer for; it is not right that I should

liberty." , allow my opinion to be quoted lor xne pur-

Such, in part, were Ihe liberal, philanthro

pic and magnanimous sentiments which Mr,

Clay expressed on that occasion.',. But al

though he sustained his motion with unsur

passed eloquence and force, yet he failed to

counteract the opposition raised against it in congress. When the vote was taken, there

were ouly forty-five members, including Mr.

Clay", who voted forthe motion, whilst there

were one huudredand hlieen who voted a

gainst it. I notice this vote for the purpose

of showing you, my catholic brethren, that

Mr. Clay was your friend when friends were

scarce, and therefore deserves to be the more

appreciated. 'Amongst those who voted with

Mr. C. in supportot his motion, I ought not

to forget to mention that I find the name of

William Henry Harkisox-ouc late lamen

ted President. Yes! Clay and Harrison were

pose of influencing your votes but they in

sisted that he should lot his opinion be known

to them, and he then said, well, I have always preferred Mr. Clay to Mr. Van Buren, because Mr. Clay has been a better fiiend to us than Mr. Van Buren. " -

In Mr. Clay's recent tour through the

South who received him more cordially

met him with a more open hearted welcome and treated him with more marked attention

than the Roman Catholics. To whatsoever'

town he came where there was a Catholic

institution, he' was immediately waited on

by the heads" of if. ; The Catholic clergy

every where turned out to greet him andl

saw it remarked in one of the newspapers of

theday how delighted and happy the sisters

of charity and dther ladies, belonging to one

of the catholic female institutions of the south

ever concerned public law, or the science of men 0f the same liberal and philanthropic seemed to he at a visit paid to the institution

governmeut,or that tended to give vigor and

freedom and expansion to the intellect, were

prohibited. .?- .

It may well be supposed that a govern

ment whose policy was so. despotic and sel

fish as that of Spain towards her South A

merican provinces, should become odious to

the governed. And therefore our brethren

aye our catholic brethren of South America

at length rose up, and m the majesty and

strength of a people determined to be free,

they shook off the yoke of subjugation to

Spain. They availed themselves of the op

portunity secured to them by the long and

desperate wars which were carried on by Napoleon against the nations, of Europe, in

which Spam was involved, and had to strug

gle for existence at home they availed themselves of this opportunity to declare

their independence, and having gallantly

minus tneir souis were cast in me same

mould of noble sympaty with their fellow-

creatures, and during their public service at every sHage'ofl'ife, were always found on the

side of liberty and humanity.

. Some years afterwards, in the year 1824,

the catholic religion was again introduced into the debates in congress Mr. Clay being

at that time also a member of the house of

representatives. It was the same session at

which the law known as the tarifl of 1SJ4,

by Mr. Clay

So far from anticipating that an effort

would be made to prejudice the Roman

catholics against Mr. Clay, by accusing him of holding sentiments unfriendly to them" as

a christian sect, I had really thought it like

ly that we should hear him .assailed by the

enemies of the catholic religion, because of

his having been too liberal in his views aud conduct towards the Roman catholics. But

lam gratified to find that this effort has been

catholics; he was one of the earliest benefactors of the church of St. Augustine. Like the father othis country, Mr, Clay too, as I have shown you, is the friend of catholics; and those who are capable of traducing him with the false charge of being inimical to catholics and their religion, are not too good

to unite with the mob that destroyed the letters and papers and picture of Washington I beg, however, to be distinctly understood,

that in nothins that 1 have said, do I mean

in the remotest.degree ;o identify the great political party opposed to Mr. Clay with the vile democracies to which I have alluded, as having so wantonly oppressed and degraded mankind. I have sought to show merely that we must invariably look to the sober intelligent and reflecting portion of the American people for our protection and security in those rights of Conscience aud of property which are secured to us by the Constitution and laws undef which we live. - But I feel that I have said enough about Religion. For God's sake let us keep it out

ot the party discussions ot the day. Let us

not suffer ourselves to be operated upon by

charges brought against this party or that

party, because some of its members may be

known to be hostile to our religion. In de

termining which party to support-look to the principles the merits the conduct and his

tory of the candidates of the different parties.

Ihe Whigs have presented for your support

Henry Clay, of Kent ucky-atid ihe anti-Tariff

party has presented James Iv. Folk, ot len'

nessee.

Let us proceed 1 to inquire, whether Mr.

Clay can be objectionable to you, my Irish and German friends upon any ground and

let us then see whether there is any thing

in the history the political, merits and principles of Mr.'Polk, which Can recommend

him to your support. .It is alleged against

Mr. Clay, I am told, that he was in favor of

changing the naturalization laws, and of depriving foreigners of the present opportunities secured to them under our constitution and laws, of acquiring the rights of citizen

ship." s I take this public occasion to say that

the charge, bj whomsoever made, is not tnre' Mr. Clay, on the conlrary, ha3.'tiniformily shown, both by his public and private course, that he is opposed to any change in the na

turalization laws, and for this reason the Na

tive American party cannot consistently support him for the Presidency and it has nev

er yet, so far as I know ot. believe, voted on any occasion with the friends of Mr. Clay.

The conduct and feelings of Mr.- Clay to

wards foreigners, have always been of the most liberal and friendly character. Who can forget his noble and eloquent sentiments

when alluding to foreigners, in the great speech which he delivered in Congress in defence of the American System, in the year

To ihe Editor of die Cumberland Civilian. , : CmiBERLASD, July 2d, 1844. Dear Sir: I received on Saturday evening last, through the hands of my friend William Price, Esq. ari account of the proceedings of a public meeting held at Hagerstown, in March, 1829, in honor of Mr. Clat when on his return home from Washington, after the termination of Mr. Adam's administration; aud I regret exceedingly that ths

proceedings were not in my possession, in

lime to have enabled me to introduce them

in my address, delivered on Friday evening last, as I should not now have to trouble you by this reference to them. At this meeting, a speech was made by Mr. Clay, and a toast given. The Irish Catholic Emancipation

Bill happened to be then pending before the British Parliament, and was one ot the great political topics of the day. In the speech made by Mr. Clay, he alluded to the subject and spoke out with his characteristic eloquence aud force in favor of the measure, at one which greatly interested him as a friend of Ireland and mankind; and when he concluded he gave thelollowing toast: "Success to the Irish Catholic in his nobis struggle for Irish Liberty." - Very respect full v, yours, SAMUEL M. SEMMES.

was passed. Mr. Philip P. Barbour, of Vir- made, not by catholics, but by reckless poli-

ginia, well known afterwards as a distinguish ticians who profess to belong to other chris

tian denominations by men, who areI veri-.

ly believe, at heart the worst enemies of '.he Roman catholics. It must be so. The man

wrUa .can deliberately take advantage jif your

want of information, my Irish and , German

friends, by asserting before you directly or

indirectly, that the Clay party the Whigs-

ed supporter of General Jackson, and who

in reward for his political services was made a judge of the supreme court, was then a

member of the bouse, and the leader of tho j opositiou to Mr. Clay and the tariff. And it!

was Mr. Barbour who had thought proper in the course of one of the arguments which he

maintained it by vanquishing the armies sent made against the tariff, to assail ihe catholic are bhmeable for the destruction ol the

against them by Spain after the fall of Ja- religion, and he did it iu the following state I

poleon, the inendsot liberty in tins nem:s- 0f tue case. The friends of domestic mdus-

to the emancipation of South America, that

patholic countries were the especial objects;

phere, with Mr. Clay at their head, believed that the time had now come when the eldest

and most powerful of the American repub

lics might filly and justly take the lead in

acknowledging that independence, lhese

were the circumstances, fellow-citizens, un

der which Mr. Clay submitted his motion for

the salary and outfit of a Minister to Brazil,

as the oldest and most stable of the indepen

dent governments of Soutlv America. Ihe

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principal grounu taken in oppsmon to mis

motion was that the people of South America

were too ignorant and -superstitious to be fit

for the enjoyment of republican government,

and that they were consequently not worthy

of the sympathies of our people. And this

imputed ignorance and superstition was

maiuly attributed by the opponents of Mr Clay, to the influence of the- Catholic re

hgion. 1 wish we had the time,-fellow-cit

izens, to read the whole of the speech which was delivered by Mr. Clay on that occasion in support of his motion, and in

reply to the arguments of his opponents, but we have not, and I therefore content myself with reading to you the following ex

tract: ' "But it is sometimes said that they (the people of South America) are too ignorant and too superstitious to admit of ihe exis

tence of free government. This charge "of

ignorance "is ofien urged by .persons themselves actually ignorant of the real.condition of that people. I deny the alleged fact of ignorance; I deny the inference from that fact, if it were true, that they want capacity for free government, and I refuse assent to the further conclusion, if the fact were true and the inference jusf, that we are to be in

different to their fate. All the writers of the

most, eslabli? bed authority ,Dupons, Humbolt, and others, concur in assigning to the peo pie of Spmish America, great quickness,

genius, and particular aptnuae ioi ine acquisition of the exact seiences,and others which they have been allowed to cultivate. In astronomy,geology, mineralogy.chemislry, bot

any, &c. they are allowed to make distin-

gu shed proficiency. I hey justly boast ot their Abzale, Velasquos, and Gama, and other illustrious contributors to science They

have nine universities, and iu the city of

Mexico, it is affirmed by Humbolt, that there are more solid scientific establishments than in any cily even of North America. I would refer to the mess ige ot the supreme director of La Plata, which I shall hereafter have occasion to use for another purpose, as a model

of fine composition ofa state paper, challenging a comparison with any, the most celebrated that ever issued from the pen of Jeffer

son or Madison. Gentlemen will egreg'ouslv-

err if they form their opinions ol the present

moral. condition ot Spinish America, from

what it was under the debasing svstern of

Spain. The ei'dit years' levolution in whirl

it has been engaged, lias already produced a

DOWerllll eiiect. H.aucauuu una uceu aiieuu

ed to, and genius developed. The fact is not therefore true that the imputed ignorance

exists."

With regird to the'r superstition, they

try had vindicated the tariff policy by pointing to the experience ofother nations. They

referred to fepain and contrasted her then

condition with the past.. Formerly, they said, Spain was prosperous and happy, be

cause she encouraged her home industry, but

churches, private houses and other properly,

as well as the lives of the Roman catholics,

by the recent mobs of Philadelphia certain

ly your enemy. He seeks, by a falsehood

of this sort, to enlist-your votes against Mr. Clay your early,' long-tried, and faithful

friend. . He seeks to withdraw you from that

political partv to whose liberal and enlight-

she was now poor, they said, and the reason ened views of national policy, you have been

was, because she had ceased to encourage hom manufactures, and had totally abandoned her domestic policy. Mr. Barbour contended in reply that theJchange in the condition arid fortunes of the Spanish people could not justly be attributed to any particular change in the policy of their government but that their want of prosperity was owing to the religion -to the catholic religion

which they professed; and that no country

could be prosperous and great where that re

ligion was the prevailing religion of the peo-

mainly indebted for the-opportunities you have enjoyed in this country of making the means of support, and of acquiring Tvealth

standing and influence. He seeks to poison

the chief fountains of your domestic peace

and happiness by breaking up your' fellow

ship with your tieighborsj-and planting bitter

hatred and dire revenge in bosoms which had heretofore "delighted in cultivating for one another the growth of christian love and charity. He is plotting for you .that very

ruin and oppression which he professes to

pie. Now, my catholic brethren hear what deprecate. Yes! my catholic brethren, if

Mr. Clay said m answer to this part otJMr Bar- ever you become a proscribed and distran-

boufs speech: ' .'Ichised people iu this country, it will be only

"I think," said he, "the honorable gentle when rabid Locofocos shall get the exclusive

man from Virginia does great injustice to the possession of the government, and the entire catholic religion, in specifying that as one of ascendancy over the popular mind. What the leading causes of the decline of Spain, party was it that expelled jhe votaries of our

It is a religion entitled to great respect; and Holy llehgion from their temples and erect

there is nothing in iis character incompatible ed Idol3 upon the altars of the living God,

with the highest degree of national prospen- in the days of the French" Rpvolution. It

tv. Is not France, the most polished, in was the vile democracy of Paris the parti

many other respects the most distinguished zans of Robsepierre, the locofoco Orator who state of Christendom, catholic. Is not Flan- by professing to be a dear lover of the people

ders, tlie most populous part of Europe, also I and by .constantly addressing himself to their catholic? Are the Catholic parts of SwitzeM passions and prejudices, had enthroned him-

land and of Germany,, less prosperous than self iii perfect despotism over the population

those which sire Protestant?" , of Paris." What party was it that in the days Of Spain herself, Mr. Clay spoke as fol- of Cromwell persecuted alike the catholics

lows:. " ' ' land other sects of the christian religion

"The example of Spain has been properly except that to which Praise God Barebones referred to as affording a striking proof of the and such other" wretched fanatics belonged?

calamities wnicn attend a state that aban

dons the care of its own internal industry.

Her prosperity was greatest, when the arts

brought there by the Moors,flourished most

in that kingdom, lhen she received from England her wool, and returned it in the

manufactured State; and then England was

least prosperous. The two nations have re

versed conditions Spain, after the discov

ery of America, yielding to an inordinate

passion for the gold of the Indies, sought in

It W'as the same vile class of people who whenever in any nge or country, they man

age to get into power by the arts of deception and falehood, invariably abuse their trust by practising the most abominable op

pressions upon mankind. And. who "were

they that constituted the mobs which were

recently engaged in destroying the churches

the private property and the lives of catholics

in the city ot Philadelphia? ' Not Whigs

No! ho! but the vile rabble the low and

their mines that wealth which might have 1 depraved wretches that belong to the popu-

been better created at home. Can the re-llation of every large city. Thiuk" you that

actea wun tne

ver. In one ot the

ed than by the opposite systems which they churches' whicb was struck by the lightuing

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pursueui ijugianu vy a seuuious attention I wraiu Qi me mou iu uio tiunui ui 01 nuto her home iuiustry, supplied the means of mistine, were deposited, we are told, the let

an adienterous commerce with her colonies, ters and papers of Washington, and there

ut-v. ii uuiii "iu tii iiwuil. vau luc its- lallUll VI i ciuij i"1" j - markable difference in the state of prosperi- such beings as "these ever ty of the two countries be otherwise explain- Whig party? Never! Nevei

Spain, by an utter neglect of her domestic

resources, confided altogether in those which

she derived from her colonies, and presents an instance of the' greatest adversity. Her

colonies were infinitely more valuabe than those of England, and if she had adopted a similar policy, is it unreasonable tolsuppose that, in wealth and power, she would have

surpassed that of Enghnd,"

Yes! my Catholic fellow citizens, in 1S24,

as well as in 1618, Mr Clay nooly spoke

out in delence ot your religion and though

he spoke noihing but the truth, yet who but

too was suspended the likeness of the Fa

ther of his country. Even these sacred rel

ics were not spared, but equally'fell a prey

to the demon-like vengeance of the mob. And who were they, think you so bold as to commit this funl sacrilege? 'None but ()OS those black hearted and detested villians who are kindred spirits with the vile members of these jacobinical clubs which were established in our own country in the

days of Washington, for the sole purpose of

bringing him into contempt and hatred with

the Deoole Washington was the fiiend of

A .

1832. Listen to me, I pray you, my Irish

and German friends,"whilst I read to you the following passage in that speech: "Mr. President, there are some foreigners who always remain exortics, and never become na

turalized in our country; whilst happily,there are many others who readily" attach themselves to our principles and our institutions. The patient, and industrious German readily unites with our people, establishes himself upon some of our fat land, fills his capacious barn, and enjoys in tranquility, the abundant fruit which his diligence gathers around him, always ready to fly to the standard of his adopted country, or of its " laws,- when

called by the duties of patriotism. The gay

the" versatile, the philanthropic Frenchman,

accommodating himself cheerfully, to the vicissitudes of life, incorporates himself without difficult'. Bufj'of all foreigners none

amalgamate themselves so quickly, with our people as the natives of the Emerald Isle. In some of the visions which have passed through my imagination, I have supposed that Ireland was originally part and parcel of this continent, and that by some extraordinary convulsion of nature, it was torn from America, and drifting across the ocean, was placed in the unfortunate vicinity of Great Britain.: The same open heartedness; the

same generous hospitality; the. same careless calculating indifference about human life,characterize the inhabitants of both countries. Kentucky hag been sometimes called the Ireland of America. .And I have no doubt, that if the current of emigration were reversed, and set from America upon the shores of Europe,instead of bearing from Europe to America,every American emigrant to Ireland would there find, as every Irish emigrant here finds a hearty welcome aud a hap

py home. - Again, to what American Senator was it to whom the distinguished literary authors of England looked upas their fiiend, and thro' whom they presented their memorial to Congress praying for the passage of an internatronal copy-right-law? It was Henry Clay. England had passed a law protecting the native literary productions of America, by requiring that before her presses should republish them in England, they should pay what

the presses of this country had to pay for

the copy-right-privilege. Mr. Clay's sense of justice as wellas of national courtesy had wrought in his mind the deliberate convic

tion that we ought to pass an international copy-right-law. And to him therefore the

memorial was sent as I have stated, and he

not only presented it, out advocated in an able speech to ihe Senate.lhe passage of the

law prayed for. But he was only feebly sup

ported a majority of the Senate being op

posed to the prayer of the memorialists some for one reason and some for another, but the

greater part, I believe, entirely because they were afraid that a different course might injure their popularity.

On all subjects and upon all occasionsMr Clay has shown the same noble-hearted, generous and magnanimous devotion to the principles of justice, liberty and philanthropy. He is one of those great men who are born not of themselves alone not for the country and times only in which they live but for the great mass ot mankiud in every clime and in every age Yes, my adopted fellow-

citizens, if you come to our country because it was the country of Whashington, you should rej'oice at the opportunity which you have at the pending Presidential election of showing your respect and love for the memory of Washington, 4y helping to place in the Chair of State which Washington filled, such a man and such a Statesman as Henry Chy.- - ,

. THE GEORGIA MAJOR ON TEXAS. . Major Jones is oat again in the Madison, Ga. Miscellany) with a letter, in which he entirely uses up the "Loktfokvfokies," be cells lliem. ; -v The Major is a Georgia planter, who jTe the world, iu his former numbers, a most amoeing history of his courtship, marriage, &c. Hie let ters are of the Jack Downing order nd the following extract from bis letter will not fail to

strike our readers with the humor of the review oflhe course of the democratic party: 'They, (the lokyfokypokies,) must think tin people's gut no more aenso than tbey h as honesty, or they wouldn't dare to try to bamboozle 'em in the way they do. A little whilo ago, they '.old " the people that the worst thing they Had agia ihe Whigs was the Domination tariff, as they

called it now tuey is runnin a ring tail stub Ob twist tariff mati from Pennaj lany for Vice-President. .J little while ago the worst feature io the bomination Whig tarin was 'discrimination'' and 'reasonable protection and they cussed Mr. Clay for that like be was a pirate, aud swore all "protection'"-' as "legalized robbery anu plunder" and now their candidate for President sea in his tetter to Mr. Kane, that he goes for'DiscfiiMiJiatins duties, and liresmable prelection toourtioma industry ." A little while ago, Mr. Martin Van Buren, and"the integrity cf their principles" de

manded that be should be elected agntn and now he's so pieen mean that salt would'nl save him, and they woutd'nt vote for him not for no consideration: A little while ago, tbey woulcl'nl touch Texas with a forty-foot pole it would We unconstitutional and dishonorable to go into annexation then but now it is the only hope of salvation, and they are determined to have it if they have to steal it. A little while ago, they was all Union men, and was gwine to hang Mr. Calhoun 'as high as Hninen,' caiise he wanted to nullify now some if 'em is for Tei as or disunion, and the balance for Texas akt bow. A little while ago, they was agin division of tha

public lands and assumption of the debts of tbo

states now they're to make the Government ' pay the debis ot 'JVxa? and dividin out the land Intlvrv A liltl wkiU BffA tK.iv liftrt mart .1

principles than you could shake a aiick at now ihey all preach from' only one text, and that is " Polk and Ttxat or bust?" . The truth of the business is just this they saw the people was gwine to throw 'em in the next election like they did in 1 840, and thty tried every way they could in the Isst Congress to pump up some new capital same new dust- to throw iti the people's eyes ihey tried Gin. Jackson's fine and every thing else they dared to touch, but they burnt their fingers with the tariff mwl fliev war, afrnii in rniaA ihlk (rhnst of the:

- .... - - - - & bank, so they had 10 just steal old Tyler's thunder, and make the most they could of it. But mind I tell you, its gwine to brow 'em all to terlasting smash before they're done with it. That . annexation question come wheeliu into the poi ical sky, all of a sudleu like sa ne thundering big romet w ith a fiery tail, and its gwine to serve the democratic party like a taller-candle doesja skeeter Haw k, when he dabs into ibe blaze like a tarnel fool without knowing what he's about it'll swinge 'em into a perfect cracklin. The people of th is country has get too much sense to give this glorious Union away for Texas 'hey're not soon gwine to forget nor forgivo ihe men that has no more patriotism in 'em than to want us to wash , our the cementing blood of'

our brothers in a civil war.

Trier's one thing certain they can't come no

s ch gama over us wire grass boys. Tito price

ol cotton is low" enough now in ueorgia, ana we've got nq notion ol being taxed and drafted to keep up a war with Mexico or any body else.

jest to make the specnlatora's titles to ther Tax-

its lands food, so that more ol it tnav be sold

and planted, and more cotton be made to make the prico still lower. We haint got no objection to the annexation ot Texas, when it can be done honorably and fairly, if we can be satisfied that it would be better for both countries, b ut we'va got no notion of this way of "marryin in basta nnd repeniiu at leisure.1 It's no picayune speculation ther's a good many afterclaps in the business, and we'd like to "see about it'1 a litile, before we go into iTdeep. But what makes me madder than any thins else is, to sea these grate Loky Tokypokys trying to skeer the country into their measures. Drat ther infernal picters, dt the rpose we're afraid of Great Britain or General Bumsquaitle of South Carolina or the free nijjgers, or any body else? Not by a jug fuU . Texas is close to us she is kin to as in her government and her people, and we'wisb. her well bat if her citizens is got no mora anunk ii Vm ilin to on and be subjects of A -

British Queen, why, drat ther mean skin, let 'em go theyaint fit to be Americans. Bui if they tun.! nn In tliA rttnlr nnin lttvifn as ihpv haVS

done and ought to do, and wait till things "can be done decently, why then we will all do lha clean thing by 'em, and let Texas into the Union, if we can aree, or treat her as a sister republic if we cant. Whatever we do we dont ax no favors of no body, and if England goes to meddle in our family affairs, or tries to get any power over Texas that she haint any business to have, we'll mighty soon show her whose beeurnsbe's foolin with. And as for General Bum-

sauittle. 1 dont regard him no more'a I wonld

seed-tick in a water million patch. If ha could git all of Ii ia nullification heroes together, ha nought mnkea terrable racket with his drumin and fifiiu like they did tother time when they was gwine to tear up heaven and yearth bout the tariff and" akeered so many old wimmin in Charleston into the histerics but if be does so to kickin up any rumpus, I'll order out my Finevt lie Batilion with doubled barreled shot guns and d'uck shot cartridges, and if. 1 come across his three thousand men with asms in their hands I'll make 'em drap 'em monstrous quick and cut out for Texas lika rabbits from a wood afire. Jest let Gen Dunisqui ttle try to bust up this Union if be thinks best that's all I've got say to him. But I'm wasting too much time with such small poiattrs. Mr. Polk's friends in Tennessee have no expectation of carrying his ow,i State. The following bet, which for weeks past, has been offered in the Memphis Enquirer, by. a responsible gentleman, remains uutsken aud wil( retnaiu untaken : ... I now offer that 'same old' sum of 3,000 thai Clay and Frelinghtiysen wiil receive, in Novem ber next, the electoral ?tte of-Tennessee.