Cassius M. Clay

we nave beiore artverted to the reporta n circulation to the effect that Mt-ay had sold liis slnves Souih, instead ofTiberatinp them. The following cxplanation of the mntter is addressed to ihe Cincinnati Gazette. Gbntlumbn: - Your repeated kindness war rants me in asking the liberty of making through your columns . a few statements per. sonnl to myself, cf little interest perhaps to your readers. lt s ever painful to natures far leas sensitive than my own, to obtrude their private grief upon the public ear, yet when great principies are attempted to be struck down in the froil person3 of their humblest ndvoentes, n eense of duty and inviolate fidelity ohotild snbdue nll feelings of delicacy and wounded tensibility to the vindication of the right. A trust 8lave, named Enrly, I have every reason to befiere, in 1843, killed with poison our infant child, and in 1042 attempted to poison our infnnt eince born: she is now 'm theLexington Jai!, subject to the awaoftbe country. Her motlier and brother and daugiiter I sent to New Orlonns and sold them ïhcre; because I knew ihernto be abettors of the crime of Emily, and further becauso in so doinq I was hut fulfilling the desire of my father, whose wil! as executor, I am bound by oath to fulfil - his language bcing, "I recominend in nll casej where sla ves beha ve amiss," that they Fhould be eold, and the money setlled in laml for the benefit of tho6e for whorn the trust wascreared. Ilere then is the sole foundation of the ahsnrd ftlïsëhoodö which have been going the rounds oí" the Americnn press, that insead of libernting my elaves, I "had sold tbem n?l to Jhe planters of cotton." I repeat once more. I have liberated ÏJ tiic eluves in the world that I owncd in my own right; beinginall thirlefii; nnd that ] have never at nny time in my lifesold any slnve except for crime or by their own Áeiiiéi In this last severe trinl to wluch fatc has Fiibjec'cd me, I hove done uolbing to wound my self respect or sense of right-and I had v.iinly ind-ilgod in the hope haf my misfbrtunes would have ehielded mo om iliü biiternosá oí party feeling, and savtd vv from tmints and repmnches which are oot■■run icu even wii uie venesi crimrois. í am not the mnn lo rcvcngp upon a whole race the crime of one or more individual:), and thecnpmicsof human rights anti Americjin liberty ure iiit'órmed iliat I am not fallen Trom my uncomproiniging war non ihe crimmil nsnrpatjons of le Slnve Power, niid ihat ihe righ's of tlio froe white liborerd of il. is Union nre yct lo bc viüihrnlrrf, if not nvfnod. They nre welcome to al] the ttrennrif), whicli my ralniniiirs cim tr ve to n fallí g caree for nun of rrfiVction wil! nol fil to nwrk that it was a sl.ivr, not the freo, that did the deed. WhHe 1 confesa niany infr.-ictions of the mora! luw whicli rail for rpfrihntion, npon ihis sul.jert my enscience fuijy Mqüits nie. Can nny 'jne uf my accusers say as much? or will not men once more kitnea the tont pppcti'clc pfniuny tmw coudernninir me who "dnre not tlirow the first s'one?"' ■ I Imve not at any time ft.-Mimed to be betterthnn othermen, and ivhÜMt 1 prolwa to be opon to the commnn iympatiiies of onr nature, I liuve never eef myself op asa philtmthropiirt. Let those who have honored me lor my canse be console] wuh the refltction, that itfóiigh I j-hnll ft,H hy my nwn ncJs or otherwise, my principies shall Buryive cierna] md inyjulate. C. tí. CL A Y. LeAinnrton, Ky.. May 2, 34."We nre rot disponed t( ei' in ju jmonf oi Ml Clay. bilt il oppran tl) us, tliut f theüCHlaf8 hnd liren guilty of crimn, tlie p.-oper cource wnuld hnyé boen to hand iljgm over to tlio ptin sliiiirnt of the law. If thoy were nut riiiny, Ujey ehouW hm liave been sold. Thpre i ontj senjence in ih? letrr w!:icli is a truc revelaiion of Mr. Cluy'd characier: 'I have nof at any time alumni] to be bofler thüii ntlipr men, nnfl whilst I pmfess to be "pn in tiiccoinmnti sympiitliu-s ofour nature, I li.ive uevcr eet uiyteti up as a philanlhro)ist.'' Oor readers will rpmember tliat. this expositiou by liimself is procisely whnt we euid of him last fnll - thnt he vvns controllcd by conBfderaticna of policy and the mere impulses of good fecling-, rafher than by any settled principies of plulanthropy or of moral rectitude. Where the principies of philanthropy are rejected, its fruils are not lo be rationally expected. Still we cannot but hope that "the common sympathies of our nature," united with a Inudable nmbition, will m.ike Mr. Clay very useful in tfieantislavery canee.OA proposition luis been introduced info the Chnmbcr of Deputies of Mexico that Sonta Anna, Canalizo, and the fonr ex-Ministers who tonk part in issuing the decree of ïlie 29th of November, closing the ee6sion of Congrees, iriáy avoid a tiial upon the condition ofexpatrialing themselves for the term of ten years. At the sanie time snother propo6ition was 6ubmitted io the same effect, tbat nn absolute amnesty should be granted to all tJ)P6e Generáis and otlier ofiicerp, comprehended in the circular of the 61 11 of January, depriving thein of their command, Sta, even tl 10 iifrl i they had been already scnlcnccd.- Neither of these propositions havo been acted upon. ff In District No. 9. of Massachusetts, there have been something like ten or a dozen trials atelecting a memberof Congress, but all in vain. The Liberty larty have the balance of power there, and thus farhave most efiectually usedit to prevent the eleclion of any proslavery candidate. The Plymouth Memorial hopes no more election days will be nppointed, by the Governor and Council.flCThe propositicn before the N. Y. Hiatorical Society to aller the name of "America" to Allegania, or somel hing olie, wnsindefinitely postponed at n ver full meeting of the Society, nfier a worm dBCU68Íon. ThO whole aflair was excQcdingly ridicn lous. But antiquarians are priviliged to spcud thcir time nnd ii)lcllcct6 on trifles. ■