The Texas Question Settled

- W e areable to announce to our readers, on the authority of the Detroit Advertiser, that the project for the annexation of Texas has been defeatecV. So that no longer need danger be apprehended from this source. For this great achievement we are indebted, it seems, to the nomination of Mr. CJay ! The Southern Whigs were so overeóme with gratitude to the Northern Whigs for their support of a Slaveholder, thát they have resolved to stand by the North against the admission of Texas. Political Aboljtionists may as well disband, when their interests and views are so well cared for by Mr. Clay and the Whigs! So thinks our Detroit neighbor. Hear him:"We believe that the nomination of Henry Clay, so much abused by political abolitionists, has in itself defeated the annexation project. The Southern Whigs, grateful for the zeal and unanimity with which Northern Whigs have rallied for their favorite leader, have resolved to stand by their Northern brethren on the Texas question, even at the expense of Southern sectional interests. They have gone for the union of the Whigs for tbe sake of the Union, and of Henry Clay. The Locofocos dare not adrnit "Texas in opposition to the whole body of Northern and Southern Whigs. Thus, Northern Whigs by their prudent course of policy have done more to check the grovvth of negro slavery than the political abolitionists could do in a century, if their ephemer.il party could by any miracle last so long."The Signal ot Liberty, chiming in as usual with the Locofoco papers, charges Mr. Clay with having declared that the Graves and Cilley duel would be but a 'lnine dcnfs bubble." It speaks of it as a well known and conceded fact. We know of.no authority for it but the lowest and coarsest partisan ioui-nals, whose constant task it ís to defame the great Western Statesman. - Det. Adv. Our authority for the statement was an article from the Philanthropist of Cincinnati, in which Mr. Wise is representad as having made the statement in the National Intelligencer. The article in the Philanthropist commences thus: HENRY CLAY AND THE CILLEY DUEL.The referencfi Mi'. Adatns Iaioly made in in the House, to the wel! known Ciüey rluel, lias Ird to sfimp ïrcterestm"1 devolopements. - It wil! be recollectcd, that Mr. Wise mpiicated Mr. Clay os being concerned in tliat bloody transaction. A statement recent ly ap ppared in the InteMitreneer, designed to shnw the injustice of the charge. To this Mr. Wise. rejoins in such a way asto place Mr. CIiv in a most unenviabie prpdicament. "No man," says lie, "feit at liberty or bound, at ihe time, to staïe the nnme or the advice of all the private friende who knew of the matter, and who were consult ed about it. Mr. Clav's friende, particnlnrly. were anxious for obvious leasous, not to involve hijs name, e?pecm!ly, in the nffuir. Thus many confidenünl factp remained tmknown on bothsides. Mr. Clay himself, it i trup, whilst all dis friendo were tremblinsr lest the part he took in it should discloeed, boldly carne to me find paid: Sir,itis a wncday'sbvhhle! If ihey tcant to know whol I did in ihemutle telt 'Hum to cal, me bt-fure. theni, and Iwill teü them. Thi e.xnited my admiration al ihe time, and was efïècMia] (o prevent me from minecessarily bringinrr hij name before the eommiilep. Jt was not my wish that he shonld he callee?, and he has norciUed." This being tme, and it is certainlv in perfect keeping witli the rhwacter and post Iiíbtory of Henry Clay, what are we to think of a man who can Jightly sppak of the cold bloodpf] mnrder of a fellow being ns "anine day's bubble?" And this is one of the God's of the American people! Further extracts are then given from the article of Mr. Wise, in which he affirms that Mr. Clay wrotë the challenge with his own hand, urged Mr. Wise to be .the bearer of it, when Wise protested against the terms as barbarous and unusual, Mr. Clay said that no Kentuckian could back out from a rifle &c. These particulars we have before published. Our authority then, is a written statement of Henry A. Wise. That wonld have been accounted first rate by the Whigs in 1840. We fully believe his statements in this case, as we have never seen them denied.