| Show henry clay and ashland it occurs to tho writer that a few wor words do in regard to u visit vianit which he made to henry clay ut at ashland in 1816 may not bo be without interest to our oar renders readers A very low few years lenco hanco the moo mon who have bavo seen auen und and heard clay and webster will bo be classed clashed among tile the tit that like enoch walked with willi those thona superior I 1 atoll whose presence proa eneo was not vouchsafed to every one As AB tor for webster virgilean Virgil ban vidt la badula dula it was tile merest glimpse by the moriat accident yet ct the impression loft left by it is indelible pasting through throng ti philadelphia en rou to to now new york iu august or september Bop 1852 a halt was made liy by our party which lu in C a addy at the girard house for dinner whilo wo we were waiting jit ali the reception room until apartments were assigned us it botel clerk came cume in ca a carting cOr ting with a ceremony and reverence revere nuo go 80 I 1 ia a that cl ehg of tolf su gentlemen that my curiosity was wall at ones once awakened a person of massive massive commanding command iOK frame evidently evi doutly envery in jorj feeble health aud sul pals at the moment Us out but down heavily loaning on OB a cuno acano or ambielli amb relli spoils bat al a word or r two looked nt at nobody anti anil almost immediately withdrew to lis his room but not before I 1 had heard the clerk cleric call lira him 11 mr webster We beter and at once that there could bo be but bul one such notice noticeable ablo man on this continent of that name mimo had studied his bis features fan closely oloa oly those with mo me laughed at tho the iden idea that this his was daniel webster but the next mornings newspapers con firmed my in 6 recognition lie ile was so BO dark and jaundiced in boo boa that ray my cora laciona declared ho he must maut bo be some rome oum ouan nabob on route to saratoga to lie bo cured ot of of yellow fever over ile io was bilious and saturnine in look to 0 a painful degree mail and there kliora was ana an all unutterable sadness in his grout great brown eyes stink bunk far back ia fit cavernous orbits and overhung with craggy iron gray brows but what eyes they what a ace it waal I 1 have never eon huoth or that mado ruch an impression upon raa me in respect of solid grandeur grun deur lint but it was inconceivably sail red and saddening the face aoa of it man jiin w hose successes had not rewarded lim him with happiness in thom them oi luce face oppressed and gloomed bloomed over with tho the tedium of life clays look was very vary different ile iio a and ad webster both impressed you with the fact that eliat ia seeing boring them you had a translation of tuo the phrase 11 dignity made before your djos ojos abe the phrase has bus now passed late into tho the loud doad languages hut but cloy while stately ww was not leonine leonine like webster ilia taw was undeniably 11 plain it would donld tio be unhandsome to call it ugly yet that thab would bo be the tha tack act websters face ut at rest was ono one ol of grandeur gran doar dour olayo clays at rest was not attractive though his bis tall forehead fore Loat gave tho the immediate impression ol of intellect but clays lace ace had a power of s 11 waking U up l which websters did not possess 1 which ich was in fact illimitable and when tho the man was in the passion and firo fire of his oratory you could under dAnd at once oven though you hoard board not it word of what he bo isaia why it was that hia WM il irresistible thatis that in tho the precise word for it tor for it if patrick henry did not excel him henry clay was the greatest orator that ever lived the first brat timo time I 1 over ever saw BW mr clay was on tho the street in lexington Lexing tou aver A very I 1 tall and sedate looking person clad in ia jouit a salt ol 01 black laok with a swallowtail coat a high black stock supporting a high standing collar walked leisurely along everybody touching hale imas to him and lia lae taking inking off his hat bat to everyone a a male or female I 1 largo or small amal blaek black or white so ho constant was this thia oa mr hayls part that his hat hal a tall black anti anil not very now new beavor beaver was broken in in the rim rim so sa effectually that it reminded ono ot of the hat of I 1 I 1 old oil moses ill tho 0 immemorial carrier of the old baltimore patriot 11 that is ia henry clay I 1 said lay in companion how I 1 looked at him for boy so as I 1 was lie he had bad been my idol dol from in ni lanoy alloy H how w disappointed I 1 was wasl I 1 the abo not an expressive ona due the mouth looked like the 11 scoring of a woodchopper ohop ia a log chioli lio is about to 0 o hew the forehead was tall lint but no more and the thin lauk lank silvered hair might have belonged to any ordinary head bead yet I 1 noticed at once and fifty times afterwards the peon liar grace of his hia how bow bad and the wonderful erfal estess of the great states mans spino opine nobody ever charged henry clay with lilting lacking 11 backbone back bone yet in his at least his big vertebral vort column wasse was as so ao commod ning BS as it if nude made of india rut anti ber bar often it was mr aft clays custom to dress in a dark 11 hodden gray suit auit with steel buttons all ol of american manufacture bat his swallowtail swallow tail moat became himi him ashland first flarnt timo time I 1 saw aw it leebell seemed to deserve old daniel boo a os noti notion on about it that it ought to belong to the garden of edun eden the iho house lias has been sadly changed from its original design and proportions but I 1 can still remember the old mansion as aa it was the farm as I 1 first saw it some time dioio in june jane was the prettiest bit ol of land in the world the fields fifty acre diore lots were slightly tolling rolling with here and there a clump clamp of trees loft that might have haro stood there when indians still roamed 11 tho the dark and bloody ground I 1 remember a thicket ot of young ashes on ont 1 of which a cane was sent me a stile otile and path across two fields of fresh ly mown lion blue grass anti and many fine horses and cattle at pus turo a little brook and a spring or waterhole water hole under some stately oaka o ika and wide branching walnuts a it hemp field freshly growing and alad on t the lie road ins to town a great 11 hay Y wagon load of cured brown hemp drawn by four horses on its wa way Y to market that they said said was II 11 aenry ry clays Clay fl I 1 remember the old house a brick mansion in ia tho the last century stylea central building the main floor of which was level with the abo ground rod and office wings at either end it was not lutgo largo yet respectable entirely with wilh many trees a boat about it some shrubbery and the grounds contained many ever greens and there was an attempt at pir parking kina winding walks pebbled flood with box a bower socci and vegetable garden anti and a romeral com cemetery otery effect characterized them I 1 can only recall two rooms tile the reception room or parlor in which the oily sliver er vitae vasa presented p re seated to mr clay by tho the mor chinta ints was oon con displayed and his big own receiving bom where thero there was a pio tare which he lo 10 had d got at t ghent in 1815 by somo soma dut dutch a 1 art artist 12 t represent lug a wrinkled old 0 ri woman enting soup from abdowl a und and with a woolen spoor spoon there was also conspicuous a feacy hone come rug of very gaudy pattern edward |
