Evansville Journal, Volume 11, Number 44, Evansville, Vanderburgh County, 30 October 1845 — Page 2

THE JOURNAL.

'Not Caesar's weal, bat that of Rome." THURSDAY, OCTOBER. 30, 1845. MEMPHIS CONVENTION. In anothercolumn will be found a portion of the proceedings ol a very large and enthusiastic meeting. hld by our citizens on .Saturday last, for 'the purpose of giving expression to their views relative to the objects of the great Western and Southern Convention, which is to assemble at Memphis, Tenn. on the 12th proximo, and of appointing dele gates thereto. No city on the Ohio river, to say the least, is more deeplj interested iu the whole system of Western Improvements which it is contemplated to advance and es tablish by the action of tins convention than Evansville, and it js cheering to perceive and to be able to assure the friends of the movement elsewhere, that her pitizen are fully alive to the fact. The removing of obstacles from the Ohio and other western rivers; the purchase ot the Louisville canal, so as to render the navigation free; the speedy com pletion through our Slate and continuation West of the Cumberland Road; the building of the proposed Atlantic and Mississipp Rail Road; the improvement of the Military and Naval defences of the South and West, embracing the erection of Armories, Depots, Navy Yards, Stations, &.c, the increase ol Western and Southern mail facilities, and the general drawing out of the capabilities and natural resources of this too long neglected portion of the Union, will be among the primary objects of this great and important Convention; and in all of them the people of this place are as deeply interested and feel themselves so, as those of any other portion of the South-west. We are clearly of the opinon that with this noble effort neither party nor local feelings should be permitted to commingle, but we nevertheless entertain the belief & must express the hope that in case it is crowned with success, upon a fair comparison -of the advantages of various points for the different improvements contemplated, those of our own will not be entirely overlooked. The Western Armory is yet to be located by Congress, and supposing our canal to the lakes completed and affording the immense w ater power it will, we think ourselves warranted bv the report of the commissioners.aswe know we are by a fair estimate of our advantages and resources, in comiug to the conclusion that this point would stand a chance for its location second to no other on the Ohio river. KTtO Id t ha ff 1 mO fir tftrrAPnna mn vital action. The leading minds of the whole Mississippi Valley are heartily engaged in the enierprsie, and every aid and encouragement, even that of the humblest individual, should be exetended to them in their righteous and praiseworthy efforts to procure for the South and West something like eveu handed justice. "The present," says the committee appointed by the convention which assembled in July, "is thought to be a favorable conjuncture for asking the consid eraiion of Congress to the West. Our pow er has begun to be known and fell in the Atlantic portion of the Union, and is plainly deemed important to be conciliated. It is, therefore, opportune to make known our eense of the negligence with which Western interests have been heretofore treated, and to demand from Congress, a just oonsidera of our necessities and rightful proportion in the distribution of the public expenditures.' CrJ-The propriety, indeed the necessity, of holding a public meeting in this county with reference to the inieiests of our Canal, is exciting the attention of pur ciiizens. The Courier suggests that a meeting be held at an early day, and several of our friends have called on us this past week who also favor the move. We learn that a meeting has already been held in Gibson, and a call mtde for one in Daviess. The other counties wilt follow soon. Tuesday eyeu-ng next, we think would accommodate our citizens as well as any other evening, it has been suggested to us as likely to do so, and we ap point it hoping there will be a general turnout. OHIO ELECTIONS. The elections in Ohio have resulted in the the complete triumph of the Whigs and the overthrow oflocofocoism. It is thusannoun ced in the Ohio papers. A Whig Governor A Whig Senate!! A W'hig House of Representative!!! A Whig Auditor of State!!!! ! A Whig Treasurer!!!!! A Whig Secretary of Slate!!!!!!! A VVhig Board of Public Works!!!!!!!! The Senate stands 21 W. to 15 L The House 44 W. to 28 L a majority of 22 on joint ballot. The Cincinnati Chronicle says that the coming Legislature will be the best in point of talents and stability of any which lias assembled in Ohio for many a year. We have had not a drop of rain for near a month dusty times these.

WHIG STATE CQNVENTION. j We have not heretofore noticed the suggestion of the State Journal for holding a Siate Convention at Indianapolis, on the 9th of January next. We weie merely waiting to see what our brethren of the North had to sty, being ourself always ready to inake any slight sacrifice of opinion in such matters to insure harmony in the party. They have very generally spoken in favor of the suggestion, and we are content. " . -! The following extracts from an article in the last Wabash Express upon this subject meet ojir views exactly, and we adopt them as our own, with the exception that we have no preferences any of the gentlemen mentioned will satisfy us. They are all good and true Whigs and shall have out hearty support and we hope and belive the support of our party in this section if nominated. "The whigs must be well organized and go into the coining contest as one man, dis

carding minor and personal considerations and giving their ticket the heartiest support, if they wish victory to perch again upon their standard. It s too true, that we were beaten before, but the majority against us is not so great as to sink the heart, or palsy the exer lion of even one good whig, it may be over come, triumphantly overcome by using the proper vigilance and those means without which, nothing of any magnitude can be ac complished. "We should form no entangling alliances or make any plefgea before we fully know how they might operate for or against the common cause, the cause of whig principles and the prosperity and future well-being of the State. In connection with the canvass we have seen the following names mentioned by the different papers of the Slate, any of whom perhaps, would elicit the strength of the whig party, among whom however, we do not find the name that we would prefer as our standard bearer next summer. The names we have noticed are these. O. H fcxiTH, S. Bigger, S C. Sample, S. W. Parker, J. T. Elliott, and J. II. Thomp son. We profess however, not to be one ol the "impracticables," and the choice of the party with which we act, would meet our de cided support. Upon this subject, we like the spirit of. the "Palladium" and we adopi his language." "We have, however, no personal prefer ences, aside from the union of the party, and will give our hearty, support to the nomina tion winch may be made." "Let the Convention bring forward the best and strongest men of the State; we will lay aside all feelings except that for their sue. cess, and whatever we may be able to do iu the contest, shall be in support of the ticket hat may be presented for the suffrages ol the whigs. We are of the school of Jimmi Jones; and the mo'.to of "fight on fight ever," should be adopted by every whig of the Union. Reverses should whet the en ergie3 of the defeated, until they in time should wrest the country from the abyss ihat seems ready to swallow it. THE MORMONS. The Mormons have made a proposal to the Qtiincy Committee to leave the State next Spring, and ask to be let alone until that time that they may be able to sell their farms aud otherproperty preparatory toremoval. Their destination is said to be west of the Rocky Mountains. They say that they had before the late disturbances intended to remove from the State; that they now have four com panies organized of one hundred families each, anH are organizing six oher companies of a like number each, preparatory to a re rnoval; that these, numbering five or six thou, sand souls, including the 12, the Hih coun cil, the trustees and all the Church Author ities, intend to leave at the time we have stated, independent of the contingency or selling their property. And that the othei members of the church are anxious to remove wiih them, if they can get the means. They intend, they say, to remove to some distant point, where they will not infringe or be in fringed upon. They say they will not sacri fice their property or give it away, or suffer 't to be illegally wrested from them. They will not sow any wheat this fall ; nor will any of them plant any more grain of any descrip tion, if they cm get away. They promise to appoint committees in Nauvoo and the Mormon settlements to give information to purchasers. And they say that if all tins does pot convince the people that they are in earnest they will give a sign soon which cannot be mistaken. "They will leave then." A circular frddressed by the "Council ol Twelve" to the Mormons throughout the U Slates urges on the saints to sell their prop erty for horses, mules, such articles as will be serviceable on the journey and in their distant homes. William Smith, The Patriarch," who is at present tarrying in the City of St. Louis, as we learn from the Reporter of the 21st inst has also issued a "proclamation" to the saints scattered throughout the United States, warn ing them against the tyranny, corruption, and licentiousness of Bringham Youug and his

associates, and counselling them to remain

where they are, until a general conference can be held. . ' The Reporter j9: He claims t he right t o speak for the prophet s familv. and accuses Young of usurpation and the commission of great crimes in order to control the church and fleece the faithful. He denounces the contemplated rernoval to the Pacific' aa a scheme which wijl benefii Young and his associates, but ruin those who follow them. He is now in this city, and says he left Nauvoo lor fear of losing his life through the agency of Bringham Young, whose power there isabsolute, and who has a band of desperadoes at his service, ready io assissnate him or any other person whom he may order to be destroyed. He doesnoi object to the withdrawal of Young and his coadjutor, to whom he imputes the offences which have been committed, and which has excited popular indignation. The policy of the "Patriarch" is to rest Mormonism on a foundation similar to that of Christian denominations: having the Saints scatteied throughout the country, and living with the rest of the community on terms ot equality, instead of settling in large bodies, in Nauvoo. The Smith family with the mothei of the prophet, will not go with Young to Cal ifornia. The expedition is considerded as designed solely to perpetuate the power ol Younff, whilst all difficulties with the other citizens of northern Illinois can be adjusted, with less evil to the Mormons, by pursuing the course suggested by the "Patriarch,"who is opposed to all the secret acts, licentuousness, and "spiritual wife" system of the pre sent leaders a Nauvoo. lor denouncing the bumbuggery of Young, his life has been threatened, and he wishes to save those who are honest from the destructive and selfish measures of the President oi the Coun cil." The Louisville American Democrat, aftei mentioning the States and Territories that will probably be represented in the Great South-Western Convention to be held at Memphis on the 12th proximo Iowa, Illi uois, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Missis sippi, Alabama, South Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee and Pennsylvania thinks it pos sible that Indiana may also have a voice here. To this our neighbor of the Courier says, "that if the Democrat man had only seen our meeting on last Saturday night, a bout tl.is same Convention, we rather guess he would have learned something about our public spirit would'ut he, neighbor?" We think he would. And if he could only be witness of the great, desire manifes ted on all occasions by our leading men to bear their proportion of the burdens and outays necessary to the accomplishment of any public object their cheering and hearty hanks to the delegates for the willingness with which ihey neglect their, own business to attend to that of the community at large, he would learn something mote of the pub ic spirit that actuates the people of this secion. The fact is", our citizens are anything else but picayuneish they know that what s the interest of the South and West i3 heir interest, and . trifles never stop them when good is to be accomplished. STEAMBOAT COLLISION AND LOSS OF LIFE. We are indebted to a friend for an extra from the office of the Illinois State Gazette, giving an account of the sinking of the Ply mouth on her downward passage by collision with the Lady Madison, and the loss oft wenty five or thirty lives. The Plymouth passed this place on Monday last, and the acci dent all steamboat disasters are accidents uow a-days occurred about 11 o'clock that night. The following are the facts as we learn from the Gazette: "The Plymouth was bound for St. Louis. with a full cargo, about 250 tons of merchan dize, some 70 deck passengers, and a large number in the cabin. At the head of Raleigh Bar the Fulion was ahead of her, and the Lady Madison coming up. Capt.Javan was "on watch, on the hurricane deck, con vening with the Clerk and Carpenter; the fly mouth w.is on the right ot the channel. within a hundred yards of the shore, the river a mile wide; saw the Lady Madison coming up out ol the usual course, and stopped the engines, so that she might choose her own side on which to pass. The Ladv Madison is a small stern-wheel boat, The engineer of the Plymouth thinks they floated about 400 yards, and he shipped up the wheels, ready to back her, as he saw the M. keep on her course. Capt. J. hailed the Madison repeatedly, requesting them to back their engines, and keep off, but no attention seemed to be paid to it, the Madison continuing across the channel, as if endeavoring to get below the Plymouth, or between her and the shore. The Captain of the Midisou was uot on deck at the time, but came running up in his shirt sleeves. The Plymouth had lost all headway, und the Madison's engines were not stopped until within a length of the P. She struck just at the forward hatch, cutting her clear through. Capt. J. berrcred the Madison to hold on, as they could do no more harm, and run them ashore; bu. the Madison backed off, and the Plymouth sunk immediaily, up to the boiler deck. The Captain rushed aft to restrain the passenger but many in their fright had goue over and the boat filled so radidly that no time was left for reflection. It was about twelve oi iiiiceu I1HHUIC3UCIUIC iiiw m.uusnn came up again ana tnen pacnea up, crushing the ladies' cabin; many sprang from the hurrricane deck of the Plymouth to the Madison, and fell upon the wheel, receiving broken ribs, and severe bruises, as the consequence. The panic was extreme, and the screams of the .. f.. A miRa... ft I " r m . niMJiiuiiaio Buiicicis iiiubi uorrinc. It IS supposed that 25 or 30 are missing. One I whole family is gone. One poor woman aav-

ed two other woman and a child, but lost her own husband and one child. Another lost all her fa.mily. The deck passengers who

were saved lost all their property many of them even barefooted. 'No cabin passengers were lost. "We ought to state that the night was perfectly clear, starlight, and the Captain and Pilot of the Lady Madison, upon being ques tioned, could assign no reason nor excuse for the pecu rrence.it must be attributable either to the grossest carelessness, or to the suppo sition that the Pilot was drunk. He had run the Lady Madison on the rocks opposite this place, whence she was pulled off by the Na than Hale, and came very near running into the Fulton just a few minutes before striking the Plymouth " 0r The following article from the Philadelphia United Stales Gazette is well worth a perusal at this time. It expresses truly the tears which are entertained by the true friends of the country, and may serve in some measure to prepare them for what is to come THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. The time is fast approaching for the meeting of Congress, and men begin to look with leariut toreooaiugs totne tincic -coming signs or what is to be done by the poweia that be, and "the assembled wisdom of the nation It is most uniortuuate for the country that it has no settled policy; that laws which ef fect business operations trade, commerce ana manuiaciures nave no nxeuness, no stability ho permanency with us; that the capitalist has no assurance, when he invests his money in any given branch of business, especially if it be in manufacturing, that it will uot be jeoparded or lost by the instabili ty of national legislation. For more than thirty years there has existed in the United Suited two conflicting schools of political economists; one iu fa vor of protecting American industry and enterprise againsi foreign competition, the oth er iu favor of free trade; and the contests be tween them have been carried on, upon the part ot the latter, as we think, with motezea than knowledge, and with more of denuncia tion than reason. Our readers are aware that a compromise took place between these two connecting schools in 1833, commonly called "ihe Compromise Act, which was to coniin ue for nine years. Upon the expiration of ihis act, by its own limitation, in 1842, the contest between the two schools, or parties, was again renewed, and resulted in the passage of ihe Tariff Act ot 184i, by the Whigs than which no measure ever produced more salutary effects upin a paralyzed and pros irate country, fortunately tor the country the Whigs, who are almost to a man in favor of protecting American labor and Americm enterprise, then had a majority in both branch es of Congress. The act was passed in spite of the most strenuous and determined oppo si tion, and its effdcl upon the county was like that off fresh air upon a suffocating man; new vigor aud activity were infused into every fibre of the body politic. S nco then, and under the operations of that act, we have en joyed a degree of prosperity which rarely tails to the lot ot any people. Are we to be permitted to enjoy this pros perity,or are we again to undergo the torture of new "experiments?" This is an impor tant question, and one to winch the people o the northern and middle States are anxiously seeking an answer. We have closely witched the signs of the time for some months past and confess their indications rather increase than diminish our apprehensions that the present Tariff is to be sacrificed upon the al tar of parti; that it is to die the death, not for any evil deeds of its own, but on accoun of its paternity. The Union, which is the ac knowledged organ of the administration, has, for some time past, been giving the free trade men of South Carolina every assurance that "Mr Polk will give his best efforts to reduce the present tariff," to what it is p'eased to call "the revenue standard," which, according to Mr. McDuffie, and others of that school is, a uniform duty of twenty percent, upon every article imported. Mr. McDuffie in a late let ter, published in the Charleston Mercury, aud republished in the Union, says: "Can it be believed, that Mr. Polk bound by the uni ted ties of interests and duty to sustain the great principles of free trade and unshackled industry, which he has so ably supported through a long course of public sei vice, will now, when elected to the highest station to which ambition or patriotism can aspire, betray his political principles and sacrifice those popular masses by whose voluntary and unsolicited suffrages, he wa raised to power? 1 trust not the tale." In copying this letter, the editor of the Union, who speaks by authority, a-sures Mr. McDuffie that he has not misjudged Mr. Polk. The editor constantly talks of "the injustice and oppression of the present tariff act," evidently with a view ot prejudicing it in the minds of the people, and of inducing them to concur with Mr. Polk, Mr. McDuffie, and the free trade 'party in Congress in destroying it. He goes upon the principle that to give a thing a bad name, is to insure its destruction; and when has that party made the destruction of any thing a party measure, that it did not succeed? But we shall be told that the Pennsylvania delegaiiou will resist any and every At tempt to destroy the present tariff, under! which she is now enjoying a most unprecedenl degree of prosperity. It may be so. though we have very little confidence in their opposing any party measure. Did they not advocate the election of Mr. Polk, aud assure ihe people that he was "a better tariff man I hau Mr. Clay," when they well knew the contrary? Are such men to be trusted? We iiave no confidence in them. But suppose ihey should oppose the destruction of the tariff, can they pievent ii? We think not. The Locofoco party have a large majority in the House of Representatives, and a majority in the Senate, and we know that, with the exception of the members from New York, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts, every Locofoco is opposed to the protective policy, and some of the New York members, we believe, are also opposed to it. The establishment of the Sub treasury, and the overthrow of the present tariff, will be .the two great Polk measures of the session; that they will

be carried out, we see very little reason to

doubt, and much cause to fear. In addition to the language of the editor of the Union, we notice that other accredited orgaus of the Locofoco party are denouncing he present tariff as imqttous and oppressive: Among these are the New York News, the Richmond Lnquirer, the New xork Evening Post, and many others we could name, both at the North and the South, indicating a unanimity of opinion and purpose hostile to ihe protective policy which bodes it evil. But we shall be asked, as we have been, how Mr. Polk can, in view of his Kane letter oppose the proteciive policy? On the other hand, Mr. McDufhe asks it Mr. Polk can, after so ably supporting the great principles of free trade, through a long course of public service, now betray bis political principles? It seems evident from these interrogatories that he must prove false and faithless to one portion or another ot those who gave him their votes, and the quest ion is, whicti portion did he intend to deceive while a can didate? For ourselves, we never had a pur licle of doubt that he intended to practise up on the credulity of the friends of proiection, aud that the Kan letter was contrived for I his express purpose. VVe proclaimed this opinion during the Presidential contest: we cautioned the people of Pennsylvania uot to be deceived by it, and showed them, whal Mr. McDuffie aud Mr. Ritchie now atium, namely, that Mr. Polk had supported the principles ol free trade through his whole career in Congress, aud ihat, iu the canvass tor Governor in Tennessee in 1843, he told the people that "during the period he was iu Congress, he had steadily been opposed to a protective policy:" and further, that he had also declared the interests of the country re quired the repeal of the tariff act of '42. A majority of the people of this Slate chose, however, to be deceived by the Kane letter, aud to put trust in those who were interested iu deceiving them, and who have now got their reward for so doing, in the shape of of fices of honor and profit. Ihey will soon learn how much reliance is to be placed upon such men, aud upon a letter put forth in the midst of a canvass in which the writer avows principles which he has all his life opposed; and if they pay dear for the lessou, they must comfort themselves with the old proverb, that "bought wit is the best if it is not bought too dear." THE GREAT BRITAIN. The arrival of this vessel has created quite a stir among the eastern speculators in breadstuffs, which will prove of benefit is the western farmers. She brings a full confirmation of the news of shott crop?, brought by previous arrivals and there is no longer any doubt that there will be a great scarcity of breadstuffs, not only throughout the United Kingdom, but on the Continent. . Prices have ad vanced are &. expected to advance still more, and the British press is urgent in its appeals to government for relief to the peoplein the shape of a reduction of duties. Unless large quantities of bread-stuffs are brought in from abroad, the suffering of the poorer classes, especially, will be great. Hopes are expressed that Parliament will at once abolish, for the time, the duty on Indian Corn, and thus open the dcor for an influx from the United States. The news by this arrival set speculators all agog in the east, and runners were on the instant, sent West to buy up all the grain they could, before the intelligence should have time to tr-tvel per mail. The New York Express of Wednesday says "As soon as the news be the steamer transpired, there was a good deal of excitement in the market. The Flour and Grain dealers were very active. Flour advanced nearly 50 cents per brl., and nearly 5,000 brls. were taken, mostly for export Wheat went up 9 cents., and corn was held at an ad vance. The Commercial Advertiser says--"The news is favorable for the export of bread -stuffs from this country. The failure of the potatoe crop is even more general than we ex pected; there will be a serious det'eciency in wheat, and fears are entertained that there will be a falling off in barley, oats, beans and peas. No supplies will arriva from Conti nental ports, for the same slate of affairs ex ists there. Among the measujes of relief recommended by the English papers, "the Manchester Guaidian suggests to the con sideration of parliament, when it re-assembles the entire remission of all duty on the importation of Indian Corn." Letters from Poland represent that there has been great suffering in the ancient pilatinates of Sandumir, Plock, Lublin, Augus low, as well as in the palatinate of Cracovia Famine, and all the evils in its train, had been felt. In those unfortunate provinces, entile masses of people, deprived of every necessary, wander about the country divided into bands, in search of the most loathsome food, which is oftner the most adopted to soothe their hunger than to aflord nurishment. Numberless diseases, the unavoidable consequences of destitution, rapidly diminish the number of these unfortunate meu, and sometimes drives them to acts of violence which the authorities are not always able to repress. 03r Wheat has advanced to fifty cents in this market. All kinds of grain, wo doubt not, will advance in proportion. The corn crop through this section of country is extremely good.

COLTON'S LIFE AND TIMES OF

HENRY CLAY, This work is rapidly passing through tha press, and will soon be ready for delivery. The wide scope which the nature of the subwill present, and the universal regard in which the character and services of Mr. Clay are held, have created a deep and general inter est in me puuiic mina in mis lorincoiuuig work. We have reason to believe (says the New York Courier aud Enquirer) that it will fully answer the public expectation. The following passage gives a very inter esting and graphic sketch of one the very many able and eloquent speeches ot Mr. Clav which have never been published: Among these last speeches of Mr. Clav, the memory of which lives while they who heard them live, and the thought of which awakens to new life the feelings they prodnced, was one delivered at Lexington as late as May, 1843, the occassion and history or which are as follows: "Afier Mr. Clay had retired from the Senate of the United States, 1842, until the next year during which lime it was expected he would be nominated for President in 1344. great efforts were made in Kentucky; and throughout the Union, by his political opponents not only to vilify him, but to bring into odium the twenty-seventh Congress, which was the last in which Mr. Clay had a seat as a Senator, and the endeavors of which were chiefly directed to establish the policy and measures called for by the political revolution of 1840. Mr. Clay was virulently traduced by some base persons in Lexington and that neighborhood. As a perpetual dropping wears a stone, so these incessenl at-, tack?, though false and foul, and known to be such, if unnoticed and unrepelled, might produce injurious effects on ;he common miud. He therefore resolved, and caused a notice to be published, that he would meet his fellow-citizens of Fayette and the adjoining counties at Lexington on a day specified to repel these charges. His friends whom on this occasion he had not consulted, regretted the step as being unnecessary. -They thought these attacks unworthy of notice. This difference of opinion was painful t Mr. Clay, and no doubt contributed not a little to that depth and power of feeling which he manifested on the occasion. The notice brought together a great concourse of people, whom no place but the public squara could accommodate. The patriarch-statesman was to appear before his old friends and neighbors of forty years' standing once more and for the last time in that capacity in which he had not been heard for many years and in which no one .ever expected to hear him again. And it was the vile tongue of "The following account of his address was furnished for the author by a highly respecter! fjpllmv-r! O7on nl IVTr Cnv aitftfliia vjnrAm of the opening, as quoted, are exact:' ' "When Mr. Clay arose he was evidently much excited. He commenced by saying, with marked emphasis, 'Fellow-citizens, 1 am now an old man quite an old.' Heje he bent himself downward. 'Bat yef, it will be found I am not too old to vindicate my principles, to stand by my friends, or to defend myself" raising bis voice louder and louder at each successive member of the sen- . i -1 - I- - - ieuce, ana elevating r.is person in a most impressive manner. He then proceeded : . "'It so happens that I have again located myself in the practice of my profession in an office within a few rods of one which I occupied when more than forty years ago, I first came among y u an orphan and a stranger, and jour taihers took me by the hand and made me what I am. I feel like an old stag who has been long coursed by the hunters and hounds through brakers and briers and o'er distant plains, and has at last returnf in Ins anoionl loir tv 1 -i n nr a P r i iv r and die. And yet the vile curs of party are barking at my heels and the bloodhounds of personal malignity are aiming it my throat. I SCORN and DEFY THEM, AS 1 EVER DID. ueu ue uui-reu uiesu lasi woius, ue saised him.-elf to his most erect posture, and .ftl'l.- .... 1 .1 1 . J t. elevated his hands and arms wide extended above his head, seeming to have nearly doubled the height of his tall person. The effect was overwhelming indescribable. "To have any approximate idea of the effect of this speech, which continued for hours, fully sustained throughout, in vindication of the 27th Congress, of Whig policy and principles, and in defence of the orator himself against his calumniators, one should iiave a view of all the attributes of eloquenco ascribed to Mr. Clay in this chapter, the use of scarcely one of which was wanting on i fiat occasion. Nor should it be forgo'ten ihat he was then sixty-six years old. It may be asked if any orator can be named in alt fiistory who ever produced such an effect, in so few words, and those the mere exordium oi ins oration r iney an knew that what ha said was true. '1 am an old man.' Didn't they know that? Aud the moment he said it they began to weep. When he pointed to his present office, and the place of the old one, a few rods distant, they all knew that. 1 came here more than forty years ago an orphan and a stranger.' They knew that. 'Your fathers took me by the hand and made me what 1 am. It is impossible to conceive of the effect of this. They wept like children, and only wished they could do as much. They could at least stand by him. I feci like an olJ stag.' Now he istpcakiu to Kentucky hunters. Their ears are all erect for what is coming. And by the time ho bad goue through wilh the figure and its application, the struggle between the sympathy which streamed from the eyes of some, and the indignation which clenched the fists of others of that vast multitude all knowing it was all true, every word of it was like the throes of a mountain in agony. A part of the sublimity of the spectacle consisted in a con cern what might be the fruit of such a pas- -sion; for some of his defarners were present. But when Mr. Clay rose in all the majesty ot his own loftiness, threw his arms on high. and his voice out into the heavens he stood under its canopy and said, ' scorn anddcfy them, as I ever did,' they dashed away their tears and resolved to bo as stout of heart as he, and to vindicate his honor. A reply was expected. But prudence cot the better of the purpose."