Fromthe Ohio Statesman.
Henry Shameful conduct-baSe hy-
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Henry Czay-1ShaneetuJ copdNct.6aSe hy-


ocricy-desecratio' Of the sa66ath.
The Kentucky Yeoman, the democratic State
paper of kentucky, relates the following astonnd'
ing story of Mr.. Clay Who can support such
a man for any office


~ or his observance or breach of the Sabbath,
we will not assert whether he respects of disre-
CARDS it. whether he keeps it holy or profanes it.
We-will relate an incident which has just trans
Oil ed and as we do it on the most respectable 1o
adthoritg, zoe challenge its contradiction.


"a, few days since, Mr.. G w. Maupin, the
wbip member elect 10 the Legislature Of Ken
lucky from the county of Madison, being called
to Lexington on business, and detained there until
the Sabbath, proposed to some friends in the city
to accompany him to Ashland and honor him
with an introduction to that puissant embodiment
of whig principles for whom he had been voting
some thirty years, without ever enjoying the plea
sure of a personal acquaintance. The friend or
friends to whom his request was preferred, being
prevented by some cause from accompanying him,
he proceeded alone and on foot to the residence
of Mr. Clay. Arrived at the dwelling, he enquir-
ed ofthe servant for his master, and was informed
Mr.. Clay was unweff and could not be Seem. Re-
fdciaft to return without accomplishing the object
of his visit he insisted upon the servant again ans
nouncmg his desreto his master On the second
summons Mr., Clay followed the servant to the
door. Here the plain old farmer explained the
motive of his importantly, ailedging the very DIS
tant intervals of time at which he>yiSited Lexing-
ton, and his ardent curiosity to see the man whom
his father before him had supported, and whose
constituent he had himself been for more than
thirty years, as an apology for his intrusion. Mr.
Clay, after hearing hir1 through replied, with an
air and tone of outraged piety he 1ecer reeei0ed
pisits on the Sabbath" The abashed and humbled