Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1860 — Page 2

THE RENSSELAER GAZETTE. RENSSELAER. IND. Wednesday, January is. iB6O.

Republican County Convention!

There will be a Republican County Convention held in Rensselaer, at 12 o'clock AL, on Wednesday the 35th of January, 1860, for the purpose of appointing delegates to the State Convention, which will meet at Indianapolis sometime in February, to nominate a State ticket, and to appoint delegates to the Republican National Convention at Chicago. We cordially invite all % meet with us “who are opposed to the policy of the Administration; to Federal corruption and usurpation; to the Extension of Slavery into the Territories; to the new and dangerous political doctrine that the Constitution, of its own force, carries Slavery into the Territories of the Union; to the re-opening of the African Slave Trade; enunciated by Cass in the Leclerc Letters, and are in favor of the admission of Kansas . under the Constitution recently Adopted by its people, and of preserving the integrity of the Union, and the supremacy of the Constitution and laws passed in pursuance thereof, against the conspiracy of the leaders of the Sectional party,” who are continually, in Congress and out of it, threatening to subvert, the one and dissolve tho other if the doctrine promulgated in the Died Scott decision, and indorsed by Buchanan in his last message,, that Slavery is National and Freedom Sectional—Slavery the rule and Freedom the exception, is not made the rule and practice of this Government. By order of the Committee. E. WRIGHT, Bres t. J. M. Stackhouse, Sec’y.

lIELIGIOIS NOTICES. The second Quarterly Meeting of the Al. E. Church, will come ofl' at this place on the 21st and 22d inst. C. B. Mock. The Rev.JVlr. Houston, of Crawfordsville, will preach at Rensselaer on Sunday, the 22 day of January, at the Baptist Church. By Order. The Rev. Mr; Schocky, of Danville, 111., will preach at the Baptist Church in this place on Saturday evening, the 28th inst., and on Sunday morning, the 29th at eleven o’clock. By order. .i IK7” Don't forget the Republican Convention at the Court House next Wednesday. - 027“ The Republican State Central Committee have designated the 22d day of February as the day for our State Convention. The call invites all opposed to the present corrupt Administration.

THE SPEAKERSEHIP.

There has been no ballot for Speaker within the last few days. The latest absurdify talked of the Democrats and South Americans should unite and elect Eduard Everett Speaker of the House. It is said that the Constitution does not prohibit the election of an outsider as Speaker.

J. A. BERRY.

Our old friend, J. A. Berry, formerly editor of the Expositor of this place, dropped into our office this^morning, looking hale and hearty, with a broad smile on bis goodhumored face. He is engaged in picking up “ items” for the forthcoming State Directory of Mr. Hawes, of Indianapolis. He leaves to-morrow or next day.

FLORIDA SHOWING HER PLUCK.

The following resolution has been introduced in the Legislature of Florida: “ Resolved, That in the event of the election of a President by a Northern party, opposed to slavery as it exists in tiie Southern States, it will be the duty of Southern States to prevent his inauguration, or to take some measures in common to protect themselves, and, as one of. the Southern . Statesr-Florida hereby pledges herself to do her duty.” I lorida is very plucky for a State that polled at the Presidential election in 1856, a less number of votes by 3,000 than were polled for Mr. Colfax in this district two years ago. Nebraska Legislature has abolished Slavery, in that Territory, and passed a bill providing fora Constitutional Convention. Tho Omaha Nebraskian of the 10th inst. says that Gov. Black vetoed the bill abolishing slavery in the Territory. _ Perfectly Democratic

"IRREPRESSIBLE CONFLICT."

The above words are heard about as frequently in these latters days as are disunion sentiments from Democratic Congressmen. When Mr. Seward expressed it as his opinion, at Iloch'aster, that there was an “irrepressible conflict” between free and slave labor, and that agitation of slavery would not cease until all the States should become either free or elave, the Democrats held up their hands in holy horror and indignation. In their estimation, a freeman cannot express an opinion as to the evils inevitably following in the footsteps of slavery, without being an incendiary and a traitor to his country; while the slaveholder may howl disunion sentiments with impunity, if he but adhere to the Democratic party and support ' the two-faced Cincinnati platform. We o.re I?'.. to remarks by the accounts we Juiiy rea d o f parties being driven ,ro m their homes in the slaveholding States. Sometimes they escape without further indignity than being forced to leave the location of their adoption under circumstances that impute disgrace to them, and sometimes they receive as a memento of Southern chivalry a coat of tar and feathers. The fact that there is at present in all the slave States an “irrepressible conflict,” is patent to every reading man. The zealous upholders of the “peculiar institution” appear to be gifted with Argus eyes to aid them in discovering incendiaries under everv possible disguise. The selling of Helper’s book is no longer the only offense that a peddler can be guilty of in the South. A Rev. Mr. Worth, formerly a Democratic Senator in this State, has been imprisoned for peddling “Fleetwood’s Life of Christ.” Such a work, or any other work that inculcates peace and brotherly love between man and man, we freely admit, must be an incendiary . work-in a land of slaves. A week or two ago twelve families were driven from their , homes and property in Madison county, Ky., • for no other reason under the sun than that they believed the holding of men in slavery ' to be wrong. Nothern schoolmasters and; sehoolmams arc driven from their homes as as unsafe persons to be harbored in slave ' communities. “Knowledge is power.” The ; Virginia House of Delegates has adopted a • resolution instructing the committee on schools and colleges to inquire into the expediency of prohibiting School Commissioners throughout the Commonwealth from subscribing to any teacher, male or female, who ; hails from the North, unless they shall have ' resided in Virginia for at least ten successive years. Arkansas; and Missouri have en- • • I acted laws reducing' free negroes to slavery, unless they leave the State before a certain ' day. Tennessee and other State Legislatures talk of doing the same thing. But persons need not be guilty of abolitionism themselves in order to be driven from their homes. The have only to. be seen in the company of some incendiary fellow, and straightway they are ordered out the .States The Atlanta (Ga.) Southern Confederacy, of the Bth inst., has the following: “Messrs. J. N. and E. 11.I 1 . Williams re incidentally referrad to in an editorial in his paper on the sth inst. That reference was in connection with a notice of a Mr. Newcomb, a dry goods clerk of this city, who had been retailing abolition sentiments in various places. The aforesaid j Nevycomb, in addition to other bad and treasoiia- ' ble conduct, had drank a toast to ‘Ossawatoinie • Bro\yn,’ &c. We learned that the Messrs. Wil- | liana's were present, and tipped their glasses to the infamous sentiment, but on an investigation of the matter, we are assured by good authority that these young men were not present at the time Newcomb drank the toast. “But it appears that, on Tuesday evening last, the Messrs. Williams, in company with the aforesaid Newcomb, went to a dancing party of Prof. Johnson’s, at Hayden Hail, and there caused a ; disturbance which came well nigh costing some of the party their lives. , “The you ng Messrs. Williamsmay bctnti'tely in- i nocent of the charge of Abolitionism, but, to say the ' least, they have subjected th.emse.vDes to suspicion, by '■ associating with the said Newcomb, who has fled the city." 1 (_ The tame paper contains the following i significant paragraph: “We regard every man in our midst an enemy j to the institutions of tho South, who does not ; boldly declare that he or she believes African slave- i ry to be a social, a moral and a political blessing- i Any person holding other than these sentiment.;, j whether born at the South or North, is unsound, and should be requested to leave the country. Now is the time to talk plainly and act plainly. 'Pho Southern people cannot be too vigilant.” But the above features do not indicate the most dangerous features (to the South) of the ‘irrepressible conflict.” They only show that the Southern people are “riled,” and are acting without reason or sense. There is one feature of tho “conflict” that must strike terror into the heart of every Southern man, when he calmly considers the matter. We allude to the fact that dishonest men, owing honest debts, are taking advantage of the present sensitiveness of the Southern mind. They denounce as abolitionists men to whom they may be in debt, procure their expulsion in disgrace from the country, and thus escape paying their just dutis. This has already been done. The New York Tribune of the 11th inst gives u long account*of the troubles of James Crangle, an Irishman by birth, educated to the law, and who emigrated to this country two years and a half ago. Shortly after his arrival he was employed as clerk by Gray &. Turley, dry goods merchants of Savannah and Augusta. After remaining in their employ for sOrne time they dismissed him, before the contract lijae was completed. He I brought suit before a Justice of the Peace., ’in Savannah for his salary under the e<-n

tract, and obtained judgment. Gray &. Turley appealed to the Supreme Court, and the judgment below was affirmed. “This end, however,” says the Trt&wne, "was not gained without some difficulty. Three lawyers successively’ threw up his case, after delaying it for several months, and he at length carried his suit through and brought it to a successful issue by acting as his own counsel. But even here was not an end to the legal obstacles in the way of justice. With the judgments in his hand he went to one after another of the officers of the law in Savannah,but could find none who would execute the duties of their office against a weji-known, influential and wealthy house, in behalfot a poor an j fricn j| es ’ Irishman. He appealed to the Solicitor-Gen-eral, Julian Hartndge, !ay the conduct of T iese delinouOtit officials before the Grand Out it was only to meet with a refusal ! from that gentleman, on the ground that an j indictment against them would also involve ' one against the attorneys for the defendants.” Hopeless of finding redress in Savannah, | Mr. Crangle went to Agusta, trusting that ; there, where Gray &. Turley are holders of | real estate, he would find officers who would i execute the law against them, but he trus i ted in vain. While there an agent of a Vig- ■ ilance Committee ordered him to leave the • State, he being charged with beinga“d d ; Abolitionist.” Mr. Crangle refused to com- • ply, and was thrown into jail. The next day he was brought to trial charged with endeavoring to incite insurrection among slaves. The only evidence against him was that of a bar-keeper who had heard a brother of Mr. Gray, of the firm of Gray & Turley, say that “Crangle was a d J Abolitionist and rascal, and ought to be put out of the way!” He was acquitted, but required to pay the cost, which he could not do, as the parties who arrested him had robbed him of a pocket-book containing nearly a hundred dollars. He was then thrown into jail and suffered a further imprisonment of thirtythree hours. Finding that there was no hope of release, he sent for his counsel and borrowed sufficient money to pay the cost and carry him to a free State. On releasing him the Justice advised him to be off-imme-diately, as there were “boys enough about to string him up.” As Crangle had every jjeason to believe the Justice, he left immediately for New York. When matters come to such a pass, that debtors denounce creditors as Abolitionists, it is time tho South were putting a sudden end to this insane war on all who do not approve of their institutions, although they are willing to acquiesce in the existing state of affairs. If this is allowed to go oil, soon personal enemies, who are too cowardly and mean to do a good or honorable act, will vent their personal spleen on their betters, by secretly managing to have them denounced aS : incendiaries, This is horrible to contain- ’ plate, and illustrates the “irrepressible con- ; ilct” in the Sou'h in a fearful light.

THE DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION.

UuuL’las Trituiiiiiiuiit, The Democratic State Convention met at Indianapolis last Wednesday, (11th inst.) The Journal gives th’e following account ol the manner delegates entered the Convention: “In order to carry out the rule of the Central Committee to admit only delegates and reporters, some rather novel expedients had to be adopted to insure the purity of the attendance. A little box, like a degraded pulpit, was erected on the pavement in front of the theater door, and in it was stationed a doorkeeper, and alongside of him was one of Marshal Robinson’s deputies, and on the other side two or three oilier Cerberuses. Once past these the lucky holder of a ticket was met. by a sort of hog chute, running up the middle of the wide staircase, making a passage just wide enough lor one or two men to get up without rubbing holes in their breeches, at the head of which were two or three more of the Democratic strainers deputed to catch any adulteration of Democratic purity that might manage to elude the guardians at the door. From that point entrance was easy enough.” We will not undertake to give the full proceedings of the Convention, but m.’i' • I chronicle the acts performed by it. Itpe-.-. ' through a stormy session oi’ two days, ' often two or more speakers were trying to address the Convention at the same time. The first test vote between the Douglas and Buchanan men was on temporary chairman. Judge Lowry, (Douglas.) received 189| votes, and Judge Perkins, (Buchanan,) received 174 A votes —the Douglas faction winning by 15 votes. John L. Rbbenson then moved that Judge Lowry be declared permanent chairman, and Gov. Willard seconded the motion, which was unanimously carried. The Buchanan men “caved” gracefully when they found, they were beaten. The Convention did no more business on Wednesday, except to appoint a committee to investigate the rights of the contesting delegates. Seven counties were contested. The committee did nut complete its labors until Thursday morning, and then reported in favor of tiie Douglas delegates, in every instances, except where the delegates themselves compromised their difficulties. On Thursday, the great contest was on instructing the delegates to Charleston. The Douglas men desired to instruct for their loader, and the Buchaneers insisted on not instructing, but leaving the matter to the ; District Conventions. This controversy creI ated great excitement for a while, but the Douglasites carried their way by two to one. j The vote in favor of instructing for Douglas t ,vrs 365, to 129 agains’. Deafening cheer w

I arose and Were long continued by the Dou- • glas men. The champion had triumphed by a most decisive majority, arid they Were ready to raise thereof off the building with their exultant noise. The following are the delegates appointed to Charleston: DELEGATES FOR THE STATE AT LARGE. E. M. Huntington, Robert Lowry, S. H. Buskirk and J. B. Foley. District delegates. Ist District—Smith Miller, John S. Gavitt. 2d—-J. B. Norman, S. K. Wolfe. 3d—H. W. Harrington,?. C. Dunning. 4th—J. V. Bemusdaffer, C. B. Bentley. □ th—Lase. Develin, W. W. Frybarger. 6th—W. H. Talbott, J. M. Gregg. 7th—Dr. E. Reed, H. K. Wilson. Bth—L. B. Stockton, I. C. Elston. 9th —G. Hathaway, S. A. Hall. 10th—Pliny Hoagland, G. W. McConnell. 11th—j. B. Coffroth, Wm. Garver. The following is a list of Electors for President and Vice President: ELECTORS FOR THE STATE AT LARGE. Cyrus L. Dunham and J. C. Walker. Alternates—A. A. Hammond and Paris C. Dunning. DISTRICT ELECTORS. Ist District—J. M. Shanklin; j 2d—W. F, Sherrod; 3d —J. S. Hester; 4th—D. D. Jones; sth—W. A. Bickle; 6th—A. B. Condit; 7th—W. M. Franklin; Bth—W. C. Kise; 9th—R. P. Effinger; 10th—W. S. Smith; 11th—A. Steel. The following are the candidates nominated for State offices. Cyrus L. Dunham declined being a candidate for Governor and nominated Thomas A. Hendricks for that office, who was unanimously elected: STATE TICKET. For Governor— Thomas A. Hendricks, of Shelby. Lieut. Governor--D- -ft To ;■••.■ ■W. . Secretary of iSLro - 'Vj. jiao; ,S ... , of W ayne. Treasurer of Stat’— Nathaniel Cunning- • ham, of Vigo. Auditor cf Slate— Joseph Pristine, ol'Foun- • tain. Attorney General— Oscar B. Hord, of Decatur. Superintendent of Public Instruction— Sam. L 7 Rugg, of Allen. Clerk of Supreme Court— Cornelius O’Brien, of Dearborn. Reporter of Supreme Court — M. C. Kerr, of Floyd. The resolutions adopted are very lolig find we can only give a synopsis pi them. The first favors a strict construction of the Constitution, and that ii is inexpedient and dangerous to exercise doubt; I .!' Constitutional powers. The second repudiates all sectional par- I ties and platforms concerning domestic slavery. * The third indorses the principles contained in the organic laws establishing the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska. The fourth says that it has been fully demonstrated that by the uniform application of this Democratic principle to the organization of Territories, and to the admission of new States, with or without domestic slavery, as they may elect, the equal rights of all the States may be preserved intact. Fifth, refers to the contest now going on for the Speakership at Washington, and calls on the Democrats from Indiana to stand firmly by the regular nominee of the Democratic party. Sixth, discountenances the political agitation of the slavery question. Seventh, tavors the honorable and peaceful acquisition ot Cuba. Eighth, denounces the laws recently enacted in Massach.isctts, in regard to foreign I born citizens. Ninth, oppos s the efforts of the so-called Republican party to kindle anev the fires of fanaticism and the est.abii diment of laws' calculated to infringe on the rights of the people. Tenth, wishes success to the Administration of James Buchanan, and on all proper occasions will defend his actions when carrying out the principles of the Democratic party against uie unjust attack.-, of lb Republican party. Eleventh, indorses the Administration el Gov. Willard. Twelfth, instructs the delegates to Charleston Convention to vote as a unit for Stephen A. Douglas as the candidate for the Presidency. Thiiteenth, protests against all acts or inflammatory appeals which tend to ma e the Union less pcr ect.or to jeopard:.-e ■: c.'stmb the domestic ti\. • quility, or mar ti ■ spirit <>( harmony, confidence and concession upon which the Union was termed by our fathers. Fourteenth, denounces the Harper’s Ferry raid. Fifteenth, favors a homestead law to actual settlers on the public lands. Sixteenth, accepts the decision o! the Supreme Court as but the evidence of the true meaning of the Constitution. Seventeenth, re-aflirms the principles contained in the Cincinnati Platform, as expounded by Mr. Buchanan’s letter of acceptance.

Eighteenth, opposes the re-opening of the African slave trade. Nineteenth, that naturalized citizens, after declaring their intention to become citizens of our government, are entitled to its protection in foreign lands, the same as native born citizens.

JOHN LETCHER TEN YEARS AGO.

The Wheeling Intelligencer thus contrasts the rank pro-slavery sentiments of Governor Letcher’s late message, in winch he said that the South would dissolve the Union if a Republican President be elected, with those of the Ruffner pamphlet, endorsed by him ten or twelve years ago. Said Dr. Ruffner and John Letcher: “We esteem it a sad and humiliating fact, wh ch should penetrate the heart of every Virginian, that from the year 1790 to this time, Virginia has lost more people by emigration than all the old Free States together. Up to 1840, when the last census was taken, (this was said, recollect, in 1847,) she had lost more by nearly two hundred thousand. She has sent, or rather we should say, she has driven from her soil at least one-third of all the emigrants who have gone from the old States to the new. More than another third ha\e gone Irom the other old slave States. Many of these multitudes who have left the slave States, have shunned the regions oi slavery, and s ttied in the free cuttntries of the West. They were general.y industrious and ei.terprising white men, who found by sad experience, that a country of slaves was not the country for them. It is a truth, a certain truth, that slavery drives free laborers, farmers, mechanics, and all, and some of the best of them, too, out of the country, and fills their places with negroes. What is it but slavery that makes Marylanders, Carolinians, and especially old and new Virginians, liy their country at such rates] Some go because they cLslike slavery, and desire to get away from it; others because they have gloomy forebodings of what is to befal the slave States, and seek to have their families in a countiy ot happier prospects; others because they cannot get profitable employment among slaveholders; others, industrous and high spirited working men, will not stay in a country where slavery degrades the working man.” So much for one extract. It will serve '. > show what Mr, Letcher’s opinions were in the prime of his lile and strength. Compare this with his message.

A FIGHT AT INDIANAPOLIS.

Cyrus L. Dunham and Col. May hud a passage of words in the Convention on Thursday forenoon, which resulted in a fight in the afternoon, which is described as follows in the Atlas: “As Mr. Dunham was proceeding to the Palmer House in company with Dr. Eddy, Col. May, who stood on the corner by the Bates House, crossed over, and calling to Mr. Dunham, said he wished to speak to him. Dunham replied, ‘You can’t speak to me.' ” “At this reply the Colonel * liauld ofT ' and struck a heavy blow at Dunham, which the latter parried and returned with ;i severe count? 1- on May’s forehead over the eye, which put a large aiid Ugly looking gash. Several other blows passed, those oi Mr. Dunham doing considerable execution, but spectators interfered in a moment, and parted the combatants. Col May was badly bruised and cut. Mr. Dunham escaped without but a scratch or two. It was the universal opinion, so far as we could hear, that the Col. would have been badly whipped if they had not been separated, though he is much the larger ma a of the two, and of great strength.” “ The parties were subsequently arrested and brought before the Mayor, when they gave their word of honor to keep the peace toward each other, and to appear again on Friday, at 2 P. M., when the case would be examined by his honor.” The case come up on Friday, and was settled by Mr. Dunham going Cui May’s bail for the fine and costs.

Call for a Stale Convention in Indinna.

At a meeting of the Republican State Central Committee, held at Indianapolis on Wednesday, the following call for a Convention was agreed upon, and signed ly all the members of the Committee present: T it* people of Indiana who are opposed to the policy of the presen' Administration of the Ge neral Government, to Federal corruption and usurpation, to llie : se-n of Slavery into the Terri - "•’u =, to t: . n -w and dangerous political docli" that io- Constitution, of its owi. fur:', carries i-'.m.t iy into ail the Territories of the I lited States, to the re-opening of ti “ Aiiiran Slave! Trade; and who are in favor ol the immediate admission of Kansas into ilm Union, under the Constitution recently adopted by its people, of restoring the Federal Administration to a system oi risio economy and to the principles oi Wa.-oinglon and Jeffei son, of maintaining inviolate the rights of the States, andot defending the so; 1 ol every State from lawless invasion, and of preservi ig the integrity of the Union and the supremacy of the Constitution and laws passed in pursuance -thereof against the conspiracy of the leaders of a sectional party to resist the majority principle as established in the National Government, even at the expense of its existence; who are opposed to the present profligate and reckless Administration of the State Government of Indiana and its disregard of the laws in its management of the pecuniary fffairs of the Slate, and who aie in favor of restoring the State Government to a system of strict economy and subo.dinat' : to the laws of the State; who are in favor of the passage of laws against the embezzlement of the people’s money by the State officers; and who are in favor of an honest administration of State affairs, aie requested to meet in their respective counties on a day to be agreed upon by them, and elect delegates to attend a Mass State Convention, to be held in Indianapolis, on the 22d day of February, 1860, to nominate candidates for State officers ami to appoint delegates to attend the National Convention, to be held at Chicago, on the 13th of June next, to nominate candidates for President and Vice President of the United States. ,M. C. GyrißFß, of Jefferson.

Chairman of Republican State Cen. Com. John W. Ray, of Clark. Thomas C. Slaughter, of HarrisonAlfred Hays, of Scott. John R. Cravens, of Jefferson. Isaac Rector, of Lawrence. Simeon Stansifer, of Bartholomew. D. G. Rabb, of Ohio. Abram Hendricks, of Decatur. P. Hackleman, of Rush. Nelson Trusler, of Fayette, John S. Lyle, of Wayne. IhomasM. Brown, of RandolphBenjamin Harrison, of Marion. Joseph Miller, of Hendricks. A. S. Griggs, of Morgan. Col. Thomas H. Nelson, of Vigo. D. C. Donohue, of Putnam. Gen. George K. Steele, of Parkc11. Larabee, of MontgomeryG. O. Behm, of Tippacanoe. G. D. Wagner, of Warren. D. G. Rose, of Laporte. R. L. Milroy, of Jasper. M. L. Demothe, of Porter. Judge E. W. Metcalfe, of Eikhart. William Mitchell, of Noble. C. S. Parish, of Wabash. James A. Stretch, of Grant. T. C. Philips, of Howard.

[From the Cincinnati Commercial.

CASSIUS M. CLAY IN KENTUCKY.

The Sta e House Shut Against Him. Frankfort, Jan. 10, 1859. An announcer ent though from mouth to m« uth only, that C. M. Clay would speak somewheie in’Frankfort to-night, detained a large number of the Democratic State Convention delegates, and filled the streets at an early hour, It was rumored that he would be attacked ii he persisted in speaking during the present excitement, but beyond shutting him cut of the State House, no indignities were offered. He said: Kentuckians, the profoundest of historians. Gibbon, said' that of the virtues, courage and sincerity arethe greatest; you know that I never speak of my courage, and I regard boasting as one of the worst faults of a class of my fellow citizens, but the circumstances of to-night justify me in alluding to the proverbial courage cf Kentuckians. Relying upon that courage of yours, I come here to-night, one against a million, it may be. As I have gone abroad all over this Commonwealth, it lias been insinuated that John Brow intimidated Virginia, I intended to bully nil Kentucky, and for that reason it would be best to altogether. Your known courage is sufficient rebuke to this. Your worm n .nd children have no fears, is one .vho should be sacred from publicity, but I aii’ justified in holding up this litter" from Casli. ( lay’s wile, in which she says nothing of personal safety. That is of sm:i U\icccunt indeed, but she hopes that to-night I will vindicate the great cause. I deny ti e charge that a personal conflict was intended by the announcement that on the 10th of January I would reply to passages ot the inaugural of Gov. Magoffin and the speech of Vice Presi--dent Breckenridge. They are brave and. honorable men, but they are fallible. Humble as I am—net so much as all< wed the people s hall to speak in, I am still a citizen,, and shall-* xerciie the rights of one. hatever has been said agninst me, von beltcye I think v\ hat I speak. lam an emancipationist. He is not dangerous who avows Lis sentiments. Mr. Clay alluded to the i .vnulsi >n of John G. Fee and some nineteen others from Madison County, and declared Fee a pure and upright man, though he (Clay) did not agree with him in his assumption of not being amenable to the laws,, and had warned him that he should not sustain him therein. He (Clay) fought under the Constitution and the laws, but the act of driving Fee out was lawless and unjustifiable. Fee and his associates had preached nonew god, but had built saw mills and school houses, and to-night the neglected youth of the mountain district, who had no other teachers and no ether friends, as the reports in your State archives attest,condemn their expulsion. Fee had no Sharp's rifles, had never approved the act of John Brown, but was a peaceable devout Christian preacher. Mr.. Clay had written these facts to the Madison County paper, and to the Cincinnati papers, but the letters had not been allowed to reach their destinat ion in time to disabuse the popular mind, and the most useful teachers and workers in Madison County were driven forth. Serator Breckenridge has alluded to the position of Senator Seward, in terms that re quire a proti st tr< m me. Elsewhere the statesman .4 New York will vindicate himself; but m u: in Kentucky, where the press is not tree, and liberty ot speech not univer--•.I. ; o Las a right to expect defence nt my l ands. Mr; C’t.y proceeded to show by •‘higlier law,” Seward intended the same re verent acknowiedgement of an overruling Providence, and of the eternal supremacy of Divine Law, that every statesman and good citizen acknowledged in other terms. Mr. Clay wns impressively eloquent in this part. He next proceeded to defend Sewnrd's expression in regard to the “irrepressible conflict,” and showed that the Representatives ot South Carolina and other Slave States, and the editor of the Louisville Courier, today so jubilant over Guthrie’s triumph, had announced the “irrepressible conflict” in more offensive terms. There was an “irrepressible conflict” and it became his hearers to examine well before they choose their side; there were hundreds in Frankfort to-night, and-tens of thousands in Kentucky, who, if they dared to speak their thoughts, would proclaim opposition' not only to the slave code in Territories, but to slavery here at home. Alter these opening remarks, Mr. Clay proceeded to an elaborate argument in vindication of the principles of the Republican, pursy against the aspersions of Breckervidg.l and Magoffin. The sene iu the Stale i 11-'use yurt! was striking. Stores of candles, brought by willing hands, partially dispelled the darkness, and showed the heavy frame,, the white hair, and the flashing eye of Clay, as he stood in relief against the grey pillars of the Capitol. A large number of influential slaveholders were present, but the majority were non-slavehoiders, and none knew where they came from. His. voice rung out so loud and clear that all the city, within, three or four squares, was his audience. G27“This is leap-year, boys. Look out (or •he girls. •