Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1860 — CASSIUS M. CLAY IN KENTUCKY. [ARTICLE]

CASSIUS M. CLAY IN KENTUCKY.

[From the Cincinnati Commercial.

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. •