[AFTER the election of general Jackson as president of the United
States, Mr. Clay having retired to private life at his former
residence in Kentucky, was occasionally invited to meet his
friends and neighbors at public entertainments, where large
concourses always assembled to manifest for him their continued
regard and confidence. On one of these occasions he made the
following speech, in which he contrasts the proscriptive course
of Jackson’s administration in removals from office, with that
adopted and pursued by previous presidents. He also alludes to
other subjects of prominent public interest.]