{"newspaper_name": "Washington telegraph.", "edition": "01", "page": "p2", "byline": ""}
{"character_count": 1516, "word_count": 287, "ccnet_language_score": [0.9897000193595886], "ccnet_perplexity": [1368.4000244140625], "fasttext_language": ["en"]}
lays were ended in prison, where he died
of the wounds he had received IN hShiins
The battles of Athens. Why, it may be
asked, did the Athenians treat Miiiia les
thus1 It was because they feared him.
That being the case they thought it best to
punish him, innocent as he was, than be
under perpetual apprehensions oil him.
This is pretty much the case with the peo-
PIE of the United States and Henry Clay.
They have put him down (as the AiLenians
did Milliades,) not for what he hal done.
but for what he might dol Some were
really apprchensive that, if Henry Clay
should be elected, we would have a skiing
orer us''-.hat sure rrould all be enslared''-
that civil liberty would be troddcn under
foot, and host of calamities befal us, and
that '.urc rould be sold 10 England" and
all such stuff. May our country ntver sui
fer on account of its dclusion. As much
as we admire Henry Clay, we prefer seeing
him at Ashland than any where else. Like
Mitiades, he has been condemned and re


lected by his country, and we hope he vii


appeal TO his coun;rymen no more. Al


though he has never been President, be i


no less dear to his friends-all of whom


would scorn to see him ask honors or ofiic'


at the hands of his country. The last day


of Mltiades were spent in prison-;he las


days of Henry Clay should be spent a


Ashland. The measure of his fame is iuI
office cannot make him more than h


now is. He can now take the repose h


wishes, but it will be the repose of the eagl


upon the mountains height.