Henry Clay

A Lexington merchant, in conversation with the editor cf The Gazette a few day3 ago, related this interesting reminiscence of HenryClay: "Irenietnber when a youth and an enthusiastic Clay Whig of coming here during the canvass of 184-1 f rom my home in Harrodsburg, viith the Clay club of Mercer county, on whose banner was the motto, 'We Are Few, but True, ' to unite in the celebration held that year in Lexington. The barbecue was given at the race track. There a number of distinguished orators addressed the mnltitude - amoEg them Tom Corwiii, Judge Ewing, probably Jmes C. Jones of Tennessee. But after this half century, that which I now remember most distinctly and what most impressed me was this - that Mr. Clay did not go out to the grouuds. He considered it beneath the dignity of a presidential candidate to electioneer. How well I remember seeing him, as the procession in which I walked passed his office (then with his son, James B. Clay, on Short street, near the engine house), standing in the doorway with his head nncovered, and with the rare grace which few men possessed, bowiug to the passing multitude that was wild with