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been so.


| do not know that l should have referred to
this transaction if did not believe this last incl
dent had no small influence on an important pub
lie event in Mr. Clay's life. | allude TO the cec-
bratel compromise on the action OF the larltt OF
1928, bv the Senate of South Carolina.


| need not recapitulate the circumstances
which precipitated that measure, or the fearful
situation in which the country was placed, when
Mr. Clay and Mr. Calhoun, standing as II were,
over the troubled water, approached nearer to
each other to still the angry flood. Apart from
all public considerations which could adequately
find their origin in his own patriotism, have al
ways believed, although pride and delcacy have
hitherto forbid an explanation, that the touch OF
our hands on the old battle field, on the banks Of
the Potomac, was not without It's influence on
Mr.. Clay, when uniting his eXcrtions TO those OF
MIR. Calhoun, to compose this seemingly disas-
trous quarrel, he took an anxious and friendly
estimate of what he deemed the difficulty Of my
own position. But, in the viciSSitudes of all hu-
man things, how strangely the relations of party
had been changed Here, on the one hand, was
Gen. jackson, to whom South Carolina had ded.
icated the embodied spirit of all her sons, belea-
guering her with his troops, and Mr.. Clay, who
had been the unspared object of her reproach,
striving to avert a conflict.


feel, sir, that the country owes MN d large
debt Of gratitude for his eSer'ions at this conjunc
ture and that the South has never done hm JUS
tice. | desire not to be misunderstood There
was no day in the week, Sundays excepted, on
which the volunteers which | had the honor
to command, at that time, in Charleston, would
not have gone out and have given General Jack,
sons regulars battle, if this was to have decided
the issue, Notwithstanding our just appreciation
of the skill and galanlry of the distinguished OF
ficer to whom their command had been contided,
and who, on trying occasion, added TO his
concillation. But, we knew that, on the discharge
OF the first musket, the streets of our city would
run with fraternal blood. Mr.. Clay lent his hand
to stay the torrent. Can we, then, regard with
indifference the services such man rendered at
such time


| You viii permit me to remark that now take
no part in the politics of the country. L have not