Eloquent Extract

Cassius M. Clay has come out in a series of anieles in the Lexington Intelligencer, Ky.? denouncing slavery in unquahlied terms, pro■ving that it is the icorst the eun shone upon, and consluding one of hls articles as followF: "Though no Atheniaii trumpeter may hurry through the assemblee! and terrified people in bitter anguish, crying aloud - "Will no onc peak for his country?" ye?, from mute k. unresis'.ingsufiering èz. down-lrodden innocence lliere comea up á language, no less powerful, to awaken wliatever of sympathy and manly indignation may be trcaBiired up in bosoms, nurtured on Kentucky soil, - ricli In associaons every way calculated to fostcr all that is jusi, honest and true - without wlnch chiv.alry is a crime, and honor but an empty sound ! For them once more then, I denounce those who would by legislalion or olherwise, fix the bond of perpetual slavery and the sluvetradr. upon my native state. In the nnme of those, who in all ages have been entitled to the first care íc protection of men, I denounce it. In ihcnameof them, who, in :?G, like those who sent back from Thermopyke the sublime rrieseare, 'ro tek at Lacedemon that we died here in cbedience to her Jawa,' illustrated by their blood the glorious doctrines which they taught, I denounce iD. 1 1 the name of Christianity, ogainst vvhose every lovely nnd soul etirring eentjment, it forever wars,I denounce it. In the name of ndvancing civihzation which for more llian a centurv, has wilh steady pace moved on leaving the Cimmerian regions pf slavery and the slave trade, far in the irrevocable and melancholy past, I denounce it. In the name of the first great law, which at Creation's hirlh, was impressed upon man, selfdeciice, unchangcable and immortal os the image in which he was fiiehioned, and in Jlis name, whose Iikene38 man was deemed j)Ot unworthy to wear, I denouncb slavühv AND THB SI. AVE TRAPE FOREVKR." Js not lliis singular language to bc used by pne who is himself a s!ave-holder? 03" The Liberty vote in Calo, N. Y. wa? 86 out of 376. Lastfiill, 24. The Liberty vote in Port Byron was 76, ín Cicero, 83.