Martinsburg Gazette

COMPLIMENTARY TO MR. CLAY

We have now before us the India Gazette of September 10, 1834, printed at Calcutta, in Hindostan, containing, under the head of American eloquence, the speech of the Hon. Henry Clay, of Kentucky, in the United States Senate on the President's Protest. Such a notice of him in a paper on the other side of the Globe, must be a high compliment to Mr. Clay. We knew that the speeches of American statesmen attracted much attention in Europe. but we were not prepared to believe until the reception of the paper, that any of the millions in Southern Asia ever read, at their homes, what was said in an American Congress. Who of us reads speeches delivered in India on any subject, except what our own missionaries send home of their own doings or sayings? Verily, to be known as a statesman throughout one whole continent, is no small honor, but to be quoted some ten thousand miles off in the way of a speech, requiring hours to read it, is a high honor indeed, which even those of us who are politically opposed to Mr. Clay, must rejoice to see, it confers distinction on our common country.

N. Y. Cour. & Enq.