Cassius M. Clay

When this gentlumnn waa on bis northern otir last fall, we freely expressed our opinión of liis cotirse. He has recently wt'uten a Jeter to the Boston AtJas, in wbicb the followng explanation occurss I ow e ii ta nrv own humble name to say, hat I did not, whilst ft the North, José time o vindicnte myeeïl from the many misrepresentationsawd tïnjost iroputations which bnre1 wV ceased to follow me, even now. The Texas resolutions presented by me,in the Kenucky legisialure, in 1836, so generally pubislietf, are not at all contradiclory of tny Bbseqoortl ópinions. I was in favor of TexaBunion, hen, necause of my love of "liberty' he fhg Onder which shefoiight; but whenshw ramplsd iinder foot her war-worn standard- and, in the moment of triumph, forgot justice nnd mereja and defied the God of battles, by estoblishing perpetual slavery; then, the same mpnlse that bef ore moved me to stand by her with ?nonnjaná ivord, led me to flenounceher before the world. The idea thnt Texas could come i:) as a "nw Srate,ft was just. such a was to be expectad-íVom n yotith ef tvrentvfivr; nnd I am not of that cfass of wise men, vho bnnst that they have Hvcd ïohgand learned nothino1. The oibor unjnst msinuatrotw ngninst me nre such as 1 hope I carr Iie áown, and are not worthy of intrusión uporrtrre pubic ear. The kindness shown me - or rather he en use of rny humble advocacv by the eople of Massa chnsetts nnd of "the whoie Norih, for which I sliall ever be gratefuf, nake8 me bold in tho avowal of my full confadence that they will noiv be true to themseleves - to Libeity - to Mankind - to God, Youis truly,