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Mr. Clay On Annexation

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Day
12
Month
August
Year
1844
Copyright
Public Domain
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The editor of tbo Tdscaloosa (Ala.) Afon. tor, recently wrote to Mr. Clay asking him to state whether the Monitor had not justfy unc'erslood him to regard the aseent of the States at present comprising our Union es sential to the admisión of a. new Territorv and the strenuous diesent of a portion oF those Statea an insuperable obstacle to the measure. Mr. Clay responded frankly as follows: - Tribune. Mt-Dbar Sm- I received and thaok yon for your friendly letter, and the copy of the Monitor. You have justly conceived mr meaning, when I referred in my Texas letter to a considerable and respectable poriion of the Confcderacy. And you might har streng thened your construction of the paragraph by reference to the fact that, at the date of my letter, the States of Ohio, Ver mont and Massachusetts had, almost unonimously, declared against Annexation; ths Legislature of Georgia had declined to récoar mend it, and other States were believed to be opposed to the measure. Aa to the idea of my courting the AbolitionistP, it is perfec:Jr absurd. No man in the United States has been half as rauch abused by them as I hayff been. I consider the Union a great pohtical partnership; and that new members ought not to be admitted mto the concern at the eminent hazard of its dissolution. Personally, I Could have no objection to the annexation of Texajbut.í cettainly would be unwilüng to see the éxïstiog Union dissolved or senously jeopard-ed for the eake of acqiiiring Texas. If any one desire to lenow the leading and paratnount object of niy public life, the preseivation of the Union wil! furnish him the key. From developments now being máde ín South Carolina, fit is perfectly manifest f&at %' party exists in that State, seekTng a tfiseoJution of the and for that purpose cmploying the preteüt of tfteréjection of Mr. Tyler's abominable treaty. South Carolina being surrounded by slave States, would, a the event of a diseolution of the Union, suffer only coraparaüve evils; but it is otberwiae with Kentiicky. She lias the boundarie8 of the Ohio, extending five hundred miles o three free States. What would her condj tion be in the event of the greatest calaraitj that could befal this nation. In Kentucky, the Texas Question will do the Whig cause no projudice. lam glad to perceive in the proceedings of the Clay Club of Tuscaloosa, a similar belief expressed, as to Alabama. Tt was a bubbïe, blown upby MrTyler in the most exceptionable manner, for sinister purposes, and its bursting has njured nobody but Mr. Van Buren. Retaining an ogreeable recollectiorj of thö; )leasure which I derived (rom forming your acquaintbnee last spring, I remain, Your friend and obedieni servant, H. CLAY. Stephkk P. Mir.t.ER, Esq. Tuscaloosn, Ala ET The Detroit Advertiser tbreaiens Mr. Birney, with the loss of "the confidence of antisiavery incn, some ol whom have even been poit ical uboüiionists," because the lenor of hi remarksin that city was un'avorable to the Wbig jarty anii iis candulate. The Advertir thinka hat Mr. Birney "looks to the future, and in thiespect has coniniitied a fatal error." That Mr. 3irney has ncurred the displensure of the Advertiser, and of the Whig politicians ofDetroitr may be true; but that their diepleaeurc will bo;fatal" to him or his prospecta, isa poeition notvet proved. But of this we are sure, from our tnowledge of Mr. Birney, tbal if he had bcft aware (bat wh.it hjp was about to say would bring, upon him the diepleasure of the whole Whig pary, now and forever, it. would not have caimod ïitn to swerve one hair's breadih from what be conceived to be.the course maiked out by trutlimd duty. He 8 no whifïling, time-serving poltician, and henee it is not singular that hiscour,se is considered errniic and strange by those; vho cannot coneeiveof any principie of aciioit norc exalted. than the selfish hope of obtnining,by every possible ineans, temporary popularitjr md applause.ID" The Michigan Sta;e Gazette devotes half a column to the Signal and Political Abolition, md then wiiuls off by asking, very innocently, why ve are ':elernally gouging the Wiigt, n the manner we do. We vvill answcr tho quesion by asking another of tiie Gnzetie: Why irr yon eternally altacking or coaxing the Politcal Abolitionists. in the manuer you do? Why don't you let them alone? ÏÏJF The State Gazette seems to be fearful of )eíng misunderstood in its praisc ol "the AbolH tion leaders" and now comes round on the othcí ack, as follows: "Couíd ihc Signal have better untlorstood our )pinionsof the Abolition leaders, had we snid ihatthcy (the leaders) were the most underhnndcd. low-ininded. subterranoous-working, jnibtlensinuating, misrepresenting. set of par'.y lacti-, cians, in the universe? Ií it can, it ia wclcome' to our expianatioti." Any wny you picase, neighbor, only haver on mind, and stick to it. O3 The anieles of Prof. Wright England1, which wc are re-publishing Irom tfie Bostom Chronicle, must interest and instrnct ewery intelligent reader. He views things with the ey of a philanthropist, a poet, and a eiateeman, anií presen ts them to the reader with) gren eSearne and precisión. JU" The papers state, with how much irnthn we knów not, that a Dr. Richards, formerly of BeikshireCounty, Mass. has been selected'.at; Nuuvoo as a Mormon piophet, in the place of;' Smilh. It is not probable that the delpwoniUi disapi)ear immodialely. ÏÏT Tho have gnined a great victorf n Louisiana - so have the Demócrata. All' that s certainly known ia, that the Whigs havo eleo-. ted one Congressman, the Demoernis three.- - The Democrats have a majority in the Senate,.. and the Wlüg of 8 in the M)U8e. Popular vot doubtfuL

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