e world. This gentleman, according
to his own words, had been highly favoured and blessed of the Lord,
though he did not acknowledge it; but to the contrary, he acknowledged
men, for all the blessings which God had favoured him. At a public
dinner given him at Fowler's Garden, Lexington, Kentucky, he delivered
a public speech to a very large concourse of people--in the concluding
clause of which, he says,

"And now, my friends and fellow citizens, I cannot part from
you, on possibly the last occasion of my ever publicly
addressing you, without reiterating the expression of my
thanks, from a heart overflowing with gratitude. I came
among you, now more than thirty years ago, an orphan boy
pennyless, a stranger to you all, without friends, without
the favour of the great, you took me up, cherished me,
protected me, honoured me, you have constantly poured upon
me a bold and unabated stream of innumerable favors, time
which wears out every thing has increased and strengthened
your affection for me. When I seemed deserted by almost the
whole world, and assailed by almost every tongue, and pen,
and press, you have fearlessly and manfully stood by me,
with unsurpassed zeal and undiminished friendship. When I
felt as if I should sink beneath the storm of abuse and
detraction, which was violently raging around me, I have
found myself upheld and sustained by your encouraging voices
and approving smiles. I have doubtless, committed many
faults and indiscretions, over which you have thrown the
broad mantle of your charity. But I can say, and in the
presence of God and this assembled multitude, I will say,
that I have honestly and faithfully served my country--that
I have never wronged it--and that, however unprepared, I
lament that I am to appear in the Divine presence on other
accounts, I invoke the stern justice of his judgment on my
public conduct without the slightest apprehension of his
displeasure."

Hearken to this statesman indeed, but no philanthropist, whom God sent
into Kentucky, an orphan boy, pennyless and friendless, where he not
only gave him a plenty of friends and the comforts of life, but raised
him almost to the very highest honour in the nation, where his great
talents, with which the Lord has been pleased to bless him, has gained
for him the affection of a great portion of th