HENRY CLAY.
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Ii is maxim with the advocates of the
"diyine right Of Kings" that "Republics


are ungrateiul," aud the history Of our
country may 80 far, perhaps, to strength.


en- its force. Certain it is, that in the


heat of partizan warfare, the services


men render their country are often for


Cotton or overlooked, and it slelt for pos


terity to discover their truo merits, and


render TO their memory that justice,
which while living, they claimed in vain.


Of the many Patriots, whose names
adorn the pages Of American history, but
few have enjoyed, during their active
participation in public affairs, an unin-
terrupted sunshine of popular favor


BY far, the greater number have, SOON
er or later, been found 10 witness the de-
cline of their:popularity, and permit some
more successful aspirant to grasp the re-
ward TO which they were, perhaps, en-
inentIy entitled. Yet, we are not with
out instances of redeeming brilliancy,
to disprove the maxim above quoted, and
the names OF MADISON and CLINTON will
long be remembered as furnishing in
stances, pregnan; with proof, of the ulti-
mate triumph Of truth over error, and
the positive tendency of our Institutions,
to reward the Patriots services with the
highest objects Of the Patriots ambition.
We believe the time has now arrived,
when the American people, actualed by
those motives, and impelled by those no.
bic impulses, which sometimes move the
mighty mass as one man, are about TO