Mr. Clay And The War

In a late letter to some Whig Young Sien of Auburn, Mr. C!ay speaks of tho contest with Mexico as a war of "aggressioii" on our part, commenced in an e.xceptionable manner, and ïPttely to termínate in feariul issues. Here s the passage : 'For our common country I do regret the issue of the contest. liad it been otherwise, we should have preserved the Proteetive Policy, undei which we had made such rapid, encournging advanccs; tlie march ol improveuient in our rivera and harbors wou ld not havo been arrested; and above all, we should have avoided tliis uiinfw.snry war of aggression with a neiglibor torn to pieces by intern;il dissensions. The bnlliant achievcrncnts, and the glorious lnurels acquired, during its prosecution, as they are to our national pridennd character, can never compénsate for the e.ceptionnb!c manner in which it was begun, the brave aml patriotio lives which have been sacrificad, and the fearful issues whic'i, I trenible ia contemplating, may grow out of its termination. But I have not now a heart to dweil on this painful themo. I turn from it with hope and dutiful submission to Him, whose no doubt wise hut inscrutabla dispensation has permiited this awlul calamity to visit our beloved country." {C?5 The National Era saya of tho formation oí the new Antislavery Reform party by Wm. Goodell and his asseciate?, - " On this remarkable movement we shallsay but liltle. The persons engaged in il me frank nnd above-board. Tho conduct of the Liberty party has dissalisfied them, and, accordingly, as free and independent men, they have ealled a convention ofallwho agree in opinión with them ; not pretending to cali a Liberty convention, or to speal; for the Liberty party. We regret the movement, but we like to see men acting ia hdelity to their own convietions of duty. It will tend to wenken the Liberty party; particularly in Now York, by drawing olFsome of its ftiost active sdherents; but the originators of it, we presumo have no idea of prevctiting a national Liberty convention at a suitable time. - Their action is upon their own rosponsi; bility, and will not affect the course of the Liberty party, unless, indeed, it should be responded to more extensively that we now suppose t will be. In that event, it might end in the disruption and spoedy e.xtinction of our present organizalion. As they will put in nomination candidates representing fully all the principies and policy they have avowed, and committed against any organizantioa formed on the implo principie of nntagonisin to slavery,they understand cleaily enough that the Liberty party at its national convention, cannot adopt their noininees without abandoning its own position, and merging itself in the new party. We see no rcasou for apprehending that it will do thf "