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Nimilnjr.
rr GEORGE IIARRERT.
O Day moat cahn, most bright!
Tho fruit of thin, the next world’* bud i
The endorsement of supremo delight,
Writ by * friend end with lii* blood ;
The couch of time ; care'* balm end bey;
The week woro derk but for thy light:
Thy torch doth *bow the wey.
From the Baltimore Sen.
Mr. Clnj’a I.rttrr, To tho I»nI»llo.
The variona-nnd conflicting reports which here
been in circulation, ill regard to my intentions
with respect to tho next Presidency, appear to me
to furuish the proper occasion for the fujl, frank,
and oxplicit exposition of my feelings, wishes and
viow* upon that subject, w hich it is now my pur.
pose to make. With a strong disinclination to the
nse of nty unmo again in connection with that of
fice, l lull my reatdence in December last, under
a determination to announce to the public, iusoine
suitable form, my desire not to be thought of as a
candidate. In my absence, I frequently expressed
to different gentlemen my unwillingness to be
thought of as a candidate. In my absence, I fre
quently expressed to different gcnllemcu my un
willingness to be again iu that attitude, but thougli
no one waa authorized to publish my decisiun one
way or tho other, having reserved tho right to do
so exclusively to mysclr, ou reflection, 1 thought it
due to ray friends to consult with them before I
took a final and decisive step.
Accordingly, within tho course of the last three
months, I Imvo had an opportunity of conversing
fully and freely with them. Many of them have
■ addressed to roc the strongest appeals and the
most curnest entreaties, bulb verbally and written,
to dissuadu me froifl executing iny intended pur
pose. They represented to me that the withdraw
al of my name would be fatal to the success, and
perhaps lead to the dissolution of the party with
w hich I have been associated, particularly in the
free States; that at no former period did there
exist so great a probability of my election, if 1
would content to the nse of my name; that the
great States of New York and Ohio would in all
probability cast their votes for mo; that New York
would more certainly bestow her luflrage upon
me than any other candidate; that Ohio would
give her vote to no candidate residing in the slave
States but tome: that there is a belter prospect
linn Ind heretofore at any time existed; tint Penn
sylvania would unite wiihlhcm; that no candidate
can be elected without tho coiv.urreuce of two of
these three States, and none could be defeated np-
ou whom ail of them should he united; that great
numbers of our fellow-citizen*, both of native and
foreign birth, who wore deceived, and therefore
voted against me at the Inst election, are now ea
ger for su opportunity of bestowing their suffrages
upon rae; that whilst there is a strong and decided
preference for me entertained by tho great body
of the Whig party throughout tho United States,
they—the friends to whom I refer—are convinced
that I am more avuiluhlo than any candidate that
could he presented for the American people. I
do nut pretend to vouch for tho accuracy of all
these representations, a!:hough I do not entertain a
doubt Unit they have beeu honestly made and are
sincerely bcleived. It h is been moreover urged
to me that tho great obligations under which I
have beeu hitherto placed by a largo portion of
tho people of the United Status, the fall foico of
which uo one can bo more sensible of than I am.
demand that 1 should not withhold the nse of my
name if it should be requested; and i have been
reminded of frequent declarations which I have
made, that whilst life and health remain, a man it
bound to reudor his best ten-ices upoi. tho call of
his country.
Since my return home, I have anxiously deliber
ated upon my duty tomvself, to my priucipl-g, to
my friends, und nbuvo all, to my country. The
conflict between my unaffected desire to routiuue
in private life, as most congenial to my feelings and
condition, and my wish laithfully to perform all
iny public duties, has been pniufid aud cmhnrass-
ing. If I refuse tho me of my name, and those in
jurious consequences should ensue which have been
►o confidently predicted by my friends, I should
justly incur their reproaches, and the reproaches
of my own heart; aud if, on the contrary, 1 should
assent to the use of my name, whatever” the result
might be, I shall escape both. I have therefore
finally decided to leave to the National Convention,
whic h is to assemble next Juno, the con-ideration
of my name, in connection wilb such others as may
be presented to it, make a selection of a suitable
candidate for President of ihe United States;—
and wiutever nay be the issue of its lair and full
deliberations, it will raeut with my prompt mid
cheerful acquiescence. I: will he sctu from wliat
1 have related, that there was reason to anticipate
that 1 would decline giving my consent to the use
of my name as a candidate for the Presidency of
the Uuitcd States. Owing, perhaps, to this, as
weHas other causes, tnnny of my Mends nud fel-
li>w citizens inve avowed n preference for, and
directed their attention to the distinguished names
of other citizens of the United States. 1 take plea
sure in truly declaring that I have uo regrets to ex
press—uo complaints—no reproaches to make on
aecoiiutof any such preference, which I am fully
persniidt.nl are generally founded ou honest nud pa
triotic conviction*. H. CLAY.
To our Correspondent “Chnthnni,’’ rand all
pnrlies concerned.
As we have been alluded to by our correspond
ent "Chatham," iu connection will; tho matter in
controversy between himself and "Georgian,” wo
have to say, that iu this, as in all other thing* per
taining to our editorial functions, we will sluijie
onr own courae. While we yield to no press in
the nation in earnest, hearty devotiou to the prin
ciples of Democracy—or in an honest purpose to
give impulse and success to that party—we yet
will not obstmet the free interchange of opiniou
between members of oarpolitical faith, at to inter
nal policy. Tbeae matter! we have ever consid
ered of subordinate importance, and tliiuk they
leave a margin for harmless differences. Whether
they do or not, we never will arrogate to ourselves
the fearful power of guiding the minds of the
Democratic Party of Georgia, by uur leading strings.
Nor do we believe that any party editor haa this
light; and so he never yields to friend or foe, in a
struggle to maintain those radical aud essential
differences betwecu his political chnreh and oth
ers, ho may safely, nay. he most, submit quet
lions of internal economy to tho members of bis
party. And we here take occasion to aay to “Chat
ham,” “Georgian,” and all partite concerned, that
the Telegraph is, and always shall be while we
conduct it, accessible to any Democrat who may
desire to give Isis views to the party as to men or
measures, subject only to such restrictions as are
usually necessarily enforced by the conductors of
every wl-U regulated press. So far as doctrinal
points go, these we must defend as well agaiust
the heterodox as against the old aud common foe.
Aud it has really surprised ns to see that innuv are
to uncharitable, or so bliudly bigoted, we know
not which, ns to suppose that we are either favor
ing. giviug ‘aid and comfort” to, or iu open lengne,
with all the notions expressed in these columns
by onr correspondent*. Surely, tho past conduct
of Ibis journal should have satisfied all who read
it, that we do uot mince matters, when we think
the occasion demands plain speech of us. So far
as our candidates are concerned, when we choose
to speak of them at all, it will be ou uur own res
ponsibility ; hut of this where is the necessity,
where the propriety, so long as we, ns a party,
delegate the choice of them to conventions?—
Either repudiate their authority altogether, or
yield implicitly to their gnidance. There is, there
cau be, no consistent middle courae. Free en
quiry, projected not by a factious spirit, can do
no harm to any man or set of men. You may have
more quiet, less agitation by stifling it, hut we ra
tbor think it would L>e an ominous stillness, rather
indicalivo of an unmanly, puny, and subdned spi
rit, too suppressed to "heave its head,” than of
the mettle and subordination of tho well drilled
and well disciplined.
Macon Theatre.—Mr. Forbes, the experienced
and gentlemanly Manager of tho Charleston, Sa
vannah and Augnsta Theatres, we are glad to state,
intern’s opening tho Theatre iu this city for a short
season, with a strong and talented Company—com
mencing this, or to-morrow evening.
The Races.—The friends of the Turf must not
forget..that the Spring Races over the Centra]
Course, near this city, will commence on Tuesday
next, the 2d iust. The best horses in the State—
together with several crack nags from South Caro,
liua—are now ou the ground, and great sport is
expected.
The proprietors of ihc Central Coarse have done
a great deal fur thecomfort of visitoisat this Track,
and we hope lheir enterprise will be most liberally
;e warded.
Texas
Apsti*, Texas, Mrrch 17,1S18.
The present Legislature of Texas i« equal in
**. n ! •“>’ lb 11 ? baa ever been collected from
this State. There is some sparkling talent, aud
much good bard sense, but perhaps too much lax
ity of morals. Tberixis not a tithe of the disposi
tion in this body, that there was in the last, to reptt-
date the public debt, Iboagh I regret that no gen
eral Juw* have beeu passed making provision for
its payment. Several projects have beeu introdu
ced, but uonc, to fur. seem to have met with suc
cor*- Tho last Legislature would cnlctt.iin uo
proposition of the kind. I think the next will do
whnt It ought, judging from the feeling exhibited
by this.
Austin is one of the roost delightful sites iu the
world, and healthy withul. IV briber the seat of
government remains here after 1850, is a question
mnch moment, undoubtedly to the interest of-
the city ; but in my estimation Auatiu will con-
liuno to improve iu either case. Settlers are ope
ning Tunas hi every direction adjacent to towu, and
planting corn, cottou and sugar caue, all of w liich,
produce abundantly, It is also a fine range for
. settle and sheep. A few year* has produced large
•docks, lb St have cost nothing but the herding.
There is au Irishman here that ouly eight years
ago commenced with half a dozen cows, which
cost $33. Now iiu has some 800 heaiL Many
similar ernes could be named. There is a man
living below, called"old cow cooper,” who it is be
lioved lias thirty thousand bead of cattle having
rummeoced less than twcuty year* hack with oue
cow. A prudent, careful man can’t help becoming
rich liy rasing stock in this country The fact is
plain—no slallingor feeding being necessary; neith-
er is the possoaion of lanu compulsory. The free
rango is open »o all. _ Farmiug, too pays tremen
dously. .It is almost incredible, nevertheless n fact
that here, where corn can be raised with so little
trouble less than at any other place iu the world it
>■ worth one dollar per Irashel. Irish potatoes # 3
50 land are now brought from New Orleans.—
Flour $ 15. Butter 10c., whilo cows with calves
are worth |8. Many other articles of proviriou*
ars equally high. S|«.-nking of raising coni, Mr.
Feaae.onu of the highly respectful delegation !’i uni
Brazoria, informed uie that he has two negro*—
man aud wifo—that raise never lest than 1000 bu
shel* of corn each year with their own bauds, be
sides [performing other labor. Although white
men are so averse to labor in this warm climate,
they endure great fatigae and exposure camping
nn the low ground for mouths, rather than nuke u
house to sleep in. Travelling, too,, for weeks and
uioath*, seems a pleasure, without seeing the in
side of a dwelling or shelter other Ibau their camp
wagons. They Mini it from their infancy, as do
niirNorUicru pcqylp to labor. Tberearo two hoys,
not 12. yearn of a-••.that ride every two week«700
mile* ou mules, Jurying the mail from this to tho
East, and back.
The Suprranit Court is now iu session here in all
its dignity, holding its session in wliat was recently
a grocery, partly cleared to give it a chance. The
judges have a raised platform, nn which are placed
their raw cowhide (hair up) sets chair* Tho la v-
vers have thoir lilnekstonvs. Chi ttys, gtorkie* and
brief* in front of them, on the bar” of tho grocery
using f>r teats wliat they can get, very few ul them
enjoying the luxury of chairs, Texas make. The
Governor still occupies the log house, one end for
reception, the other fur bis sleeping room and pri
vate secretary. The Secretary of State is equally
provided for Whrre ho will receive yon with ninth
alandaes*. gentleman at he is, showing you the ar-
ohievet of the lute Republic if you desire. There
is no want of comfort in any department, if of ele-
fiance. Thera are several diatuiuguished person
age* here at preteul. Among them Maj. Neigh
bours,(the celebrated Indian fighter and peace
maker) CapL Rosa anc Col. Bell. "Mote fhivans,
the wild mau of the woods,” and the "lion. Mr.
Mosley,” in then own sphere, attnut equal respect
■O'; attention.
i he wheels of government seem new to lie roll
*og smooth ly.— Correspondence Journal of Commerce,
From Mexico.—Our New Orleaus files are to
the 20th inst. They contain no newtof importance.
Gen. Scott had not arrived at New Orleans, tbou-h
he was daily expected. *
[transmitted or magnetic telegraph.)
Arrival of the Sarah Sands.
For tho following despatch of the new* by this
steamer, received in this city on Saturday, we are
indebted to the courtesy of onr neighbors of the
Journal & Messenger:
Arrived at New York 21st 51. Sailed from Liv
erpool 3d last. Great exci'eincut in Europe. War
commenced iu Sardinia. Austrian troops expelled
from Poland. Russia organizing and sending troops
South—in which movement the is likely to be op-
E osed by Prussia. Frrnch tirade.; marching North,
uglaiid and Ireland quiet.
Grain and Flour Markets dull. Flour 27 a 28»,
Wheut 7 a 8s. per 70 lbs. Corn 26 a 30s. Lard
a 2s. lower. Receipts of grain large—weather
film, and prospect of harvest good.
Trade at Manchester ouebauged. Woolen mar
ket at Leeds improved.
Storks dull on account offailnreain London
Cotton.—Bowed Georgia (Uplands) R a |)
Orleans 3] a 6). Sales of the week 24,670 bales.
These accounts leave the Cotton Market pre
cisely as at the sailing of the lost steamer.
Jnst ns we go to press, the Acadia ia announced
at Boston. News not throngh. When we receive
our despatches, we shall at oneo issno an ex
giving th-j intelligence by this steam Tr.
TcLEGRAm Sooth—Tho wires are now stretch*
ed several miles in the direction of Columbus,
though we understand operations have been sus
pended for a short time, the stock of wire having
been exhausted. We understand the line will not
be completed to Columbus nntil about the middle
of May.
IjI Gen. Twiggs passed through Charleston ou
Tuesday last, ou bis way to Washington City.
Slur Building in Georgia.—The Savannah
Republican says; Mr. Lassere, tho builder of Mr.
Lama’s fine new ship, which was put up nt Bruns
wick, is now getting out timber for another ship,
and bis present expectation is to take contracts for
two ships to be put together there, of considera
ble size.
Money Matter* in New York.
The New Ytirirffottnial of Commerce, speaking
of the efiect of the French Revolution upon tho
money market in that city, says:—
"The arrangements past nud present for the ship
ment of specie, in ronsequeiice of the pnuic in
France, probably extend to a million of dollars.—
Our bank* had been accumulating specie for some
weeks, and a good deal of this specie has accumu
lated out of the banks. The exportation ot a mil
lion, will leave in the banks aud sub-treasury from
five and n half to six millions ef coin. From day
to day the government loans, iu the shape of treas*-
nry notes, ahsortl all surplus sums, and prevent
any state of the market from allowing money to be
come plenty.
The Express says r—
“The money mnrkct ia a little more stringent.—
The hank* watch with interest tho export oi spe
cie. Good notes sell iu tho street at 10 to 12 per
cent, per ann.
‘ Government securities are very firm. Treasu
ry Notes were in demaud, at the close of the day,
at 2 j premium.”
13* The Riclimoi
•t Mr.Clnv did no
■ ami;,|i,ti; f.,
d "'big thinks it nufortnnate
““here to his resolution not
l '*e Presidency,, with which
■ ■'ir, ui. lead uf following tho
Mr. Clat’s Letter.—As thecopy of Mr. Clay’s
Letter to the public, in this day’s paper is from the
Telegraphic Report, it may not be ainias to sub
join the following, which we find in the National
Intelligebcer of the 19th inst.
Mr. Clat’s Letter.—When the telegraphic
report of the letter of Mr. Clay to the Public reach
ed us through the Philadelphia ami Baltimore pa
per*, we dia not feel at liberty to withhold it
from our reader*, though apprehending possible
errors in the transmission. Wo have now before
ns tbe printed copy ns roreived from Lexington.
On com paring it with tho-telegraphed copy wo
find the latter to have beeu surprisingly accurate
upon tho whole.
1? ROM WASHINGTON.
[correspondence or Tin: okorgia telegraph.)
WASHINGTON CITY. April 16th, 1813.
It is worthy of note that, save Mr. Mnngniu, no
Federal Senator who saw lit to he among the miss
ing when Mr Allen's Resolutions were put to vote,
has come forward to declare that Aho principle
they embraced meets his hearty approbation.—
Mangum did this, on the day after the passage of
the Resolutions. There were some twelve or thir
teen of these gentlemen who, though not daring to
openly repudiate sympathy with the movement of
tbo French people, could not be brought to the re
pudiation of the principles of their creed, which is
really at the huttgm agaiust this Revolution. It is to
bo hoped that the Democratic Trees, the country,
over, will call public attention to tho fact: that
though nominally uiianiniouidy passed, these Res
olutions were shirked by quite half tho Federal
members of ihe U. S. Senate.
Yesterday, tbe Seunto passed, for peibaps the
fifth or sixth time, a Bill for tbo purchase of tbe
Madison papers. Between you and I, this is mere
ly a way of giviug the venerable widow of James
Madison a National gratuity. As well as I wish
the good old lady, I regret to see the system of
granting gratuities introduced into this Govern.
men». Yonr readers will hardly fail to recollect
that tho famous Coon Cviigress commenced the
system, by douatiiig twenty-five thousand dollars
to the widow of Jeii'l Harrison, who bad not a
tithe of tbe just claim ou tlse public parse which
this relic of past times possesses. The papers, in
themselves, are supposed to be valuable; yet there
is no warrant in Ihe law or tiie Constitution, rejus
tify tbe enactment of this bill, I fancy. The fact
is, its friends avow that it is iuteiided but as a
gratuity. I ihotilJ, therefore, much prefer re have
seeu it bear ou it* face tho name of a gift to Mrs*
Madison, as being a far less dangerous method of
illegally appropriating the public fuuds.
Trouble with the Texaa Indians is, I fear, again
anticipated at tbe War Department. Collisions
between them aud the German settlers are daily
taking place; the latter (uuder the act of the Tex
as Legislature, cluiming the fnb-right right to tbe
lands occupied by the Savages for centuries,) with
out compensating the former for moviugoff, are
constantly encroaching upon them. Iu some in.
stauces of late, white settlors have taken posses
sion of ludian improvements, driving away the
occupants tax* cercnonic. This sort of thing can
hardly fail to give ns a border war for our amuse
ment.
The quid nuocs declare (doubtless truly,) that
on Monday night last, Mnjor Bliss, Pendleton, of
Va, Stephens, of tia., and Crittenden were, for
three good long hours, shut up together, arranging
something for the beuefit of "expediency,"—wilh
which the Major (who had intended to remain
here a week longer,) started off for Baton Rouge,
at peep of day, next morning. Well iufonned
politicians appear to take it fur granted that the
Major bears a letter, beseeching the General to
throw aside tbe un-party mask, and avow unadul
terated Federalism ; which, if so, will prove uu-
fortunate, as Mr. Clay’s letter subsequently pro
mulgated, renders it certain that no avowal of
Wbiggery will obtain the nomination for the Com
mander of tbe Army of Occupation.
The Tylcrites are, of course, furious about Clay's
letter, as is apparent in tbe epistle of "cousin Cas
sius,” published iu tlm Courier So Enquirer of Fri
day last. It is thought in political circles, that
this handicraft of Cassias will go far towards sc*
curing Clay the nomination—as his censure is praise
at tbe Sonth, while in the North, the honest anti-
slavery Whigs have come so to abominate Cassius,
ou account of hit notorious want of stability of
character and principle, that, to be disliked by him
on persoual grounds, will prove a feather in the
cart of the Embodiment.
There is no telling, precisely, when Scott may
be looked for, hut I fancy he will reach the Fed
eral City within tbe next thirty days. Hi* squad
of Cuugrcssinual supporters for tbe nnmiuatiou
appear eager jost now, that bo should make his
appearance here. Between yon aud I, nothing else
can su serve to destroy his prospect fur the nomL
nation ; for, when not engaged iu the immediate
discharge of bis duties, he is the moat insufferable
mau the country holds. While he is, iudecd, lit
tle else save “fuss aud feathers,” at the bead of
the army,”—when iu Washington, his extravagant
airs aud graces render him tbe laughing stock of
the t»wn. 1 trust your readers will not misunder
stand me as detracting koto bis military merit—
for I sincerely regard him a* the model Soldier of
the age.
Ilis presence in Washington is really all that is
wauling, just now, to drive from the minds of the
Federal leaders, all thought of taking him np.
Clay’s address to ibe public has not apparently
strengthened bis chance for the nomination, tbe
calculations with which it abdunds being so utter
ly nonsensical as to render him tbe butt of all the
quid mines on the Northern Atlantic coast. By
looking closely to the Northern Federal papers,
you will perceive that, while professing to endorse
the paper, a tone of mortifieatiou and chagrin runs
through their comments npou it. It it questiona
ble in my mind, whether it will not do much to
produce hi* abaudoumeut for Clayton—McLean
being out of Ihc question, ou accouutuf his well-
known private sympathy with Abolitionism.
While wbiggery is in this box, the difficulty in
the democratic party in New-York is becoming
wider and more incurable. From present appear
ances, tho Barnburner wing will present itself at
the Convention in an attitude so oppressively hos
tile to tho Nationality of our party, as to insure its
rejection almost without a hearing.
SYLVIAS.
Abolitionum at Washington.—Tbo Washing
ton correspondent of tho Cliurlestoii Evening
News, gives the following acconutof Ihe receu t
attempt at Slave stealing at the Capital:
The Abolitionists, despairing of snccess in their
importunities to iuduce Congress to declare ail tiie
slaves in tbe District of Columbia free, have resort
ed, more extensively than ever, to thoft. Hereto
fore, one negro haa beeu taken at a time. Embold
ened by success, filly have suddenly disappeared,
in accordance with the schemes previously con
cocted. Last week a schooner came all tits way
Irorn Philadelphia to tell a load of wood! The
cnptaiu disposed of it at a sacrifice, so anxious was
lie to return home! He set sail early ou Suuday
morning, and took wilb him ns a cargo about fifty
of the most valuuble slaves of this city aud George
town. 8ome of them robbed their masters, steal
ing silver spoons and other valuables which were
pocketsble. A steamboat was despatched down
the Potomac iu pursuit, aud arrangements were
forthwith made iu Baltimore, through tiie telegraph
for the arrest of the fugitives us they cnuio iuto
Chesapeake Bay. We huve many iu Washington,
rogues in heart, who come here from tiie North,
and, under tbe guise of respectability, clandestine
ly despoil onr citizens of their property.
By tho following from our Telegraphic corres-
ponilcut, it will be perceived what such attempts
are likely to result iu:
Baltimore, April 29, 1818.
There is tremendous excitement in Washington,
arising from the endeavor of certain slaves to es-
caj>e from tbeirowners. Attempts have beeu made
to mob tho offico of tho National Era, an Abolition
paper.
Kkstocrt—Tho Drmf
of Kentucky has nominn
Governor.
rune State Convention
cd Austin A. King for
CyTho Correspondent of the Picaynne, wri
ting from tbe City of Mexico, says that when San.
ta Anna waa preparing for the defence of that city
Mackintosh, tbe English agent there, leut the gov.
eminent $600,000, on condition that it should be
paid on the 1st of April, failing which he sbnnld
receive 5,000,000 in Muxicau bond*. Tbe mouey
was furnished at the rote of 20,000 a day. Mack
intosh has notified tho government at Queretaro
that be intends to claim the full satisfaction of bis
bond, and the fact has thrown tho government iu
to quandary.
Mr. Clat and Kissing.—Mnniiliui, at ihe hnll at
the Broadway Theatre, maliciously declnred llint
‘several dem torn women covered the face of tho
old roou with a most superfluous quantity of Itooge.
—Major Xoah.
FBOB NEW-YORK.
(correspondence or the Georgia telxgrph.]
' NEW-YOBK, April 12.
To attempt to crain the (tiring incidents of the
week that has gone - by, since I addressed yon last,
into tbe four pages to Avhicb ray letter must be
limited, would belike the attempt of Faint U’hal’s-
his-name, to dip np the Ocean witli a scollop shell.
The arrival of the Washington'fruin Southampton,
and the Hibernia, two uightszgo from Liverpool,
with new* from Europo to the 25tli March, has
kept up thejixeitement which the first news of
tho revolutiuh in France produced a month ago.
But the dnyg for being astonished are passed.—
Hardly any event could now disturb the tranquil
amazement of our wonder-loving citizens; like tho
Sailor who was blown np by an accidental explo
sion at the Theatre, they stand ull prepared fur tiie
next act of the great drama that it is now going
on, let it be w hat it may. The effect of the news
from France has not been so extensive among our
merchants having business couuexions with tiiat
country, as might have beeu anticipated from the
uumerous stoppages that have taken place among
the merchants aud manufactures of Fraucc. But
the end is not yet. We must hare worse times
before wc hnvo better. Tbe deinoustratiuus of
sympathy on the part of our citizens, towards tbe
now Republic of France, although enthusiastic,
showy and imposing, came almost entirely from
citizens of foreign birth; there were but veuy few
Americans wbo took part in tho proceedings
in the Park; tiie greater part of tbe orators,
and in fact of the crowd, were Frenchmen,
Pules, Swiss, Germans, Swedes, Italians, Irish,
English, Scotch and Welch. Tho better class of
people in New York, have so much business of
tbeir own to attend to, that they have no time to
waste a poll the affairs of Foreign nations. There
is a deep feeling oi sympathy for tbe French na
tion among our people, however, which displays
itself in private circles; but our respectabilities
have a great abhorrence of making a display of
their foelings iu public.
Tbe Will of John Jacob Astor has beeu an all
pervading topic of conversation, since it has been
made puulic, aud the people huve canvassed the
mutter with as much earnestness, ns though they
were personally interested in tho bestowal of bis
millions. He died worth ouly twenty millions but
he had giveu away some ten or fifteen millions to
bis children previous to his death. Very properly
be keqneathed his property to his children, wbo
had a better natural and legal right to it tliau any
body else. Many people have called him mean
because be gave but four hundred thousand dol
lars for a public library in this city, and left but
two hundred dollars a year to Mr. Halleck, the
Puct,whu was his clerk. But small as these be
quests sound, when compared with tbe enormous
wealth of Mr. Astor, they are truly magnificent
per it, and infinitely greater than any other New-
Yorker has ever bestowed iu a similar manner.—
He is the first man wbo has ever bequeathed uuy
thiug at all for tbe beuefit of the citizens of New
York, and the only American that I ever heard of,
wbo settled a pension upon a l’oct. Mr. Halleck
had no special claims upon him; be had been em
ployed some fifteen years as the Book-keeper of
Mr. Astor at a salary of fifteen hundred dollars,
and di.-nbtles* meu equally competent, could have
been hired for n much less sum. As Mr. Astor has
uot taken hia estate with him, it it probable, that
Mr. Halleck will be employed during the remain
der of bis life in the office which he now holds,aud
being unmarried—although, entre nctu, he lias a
couple ot handsome daughters—licit well provid
ed for. It is a long while since Mr. Halleck pub
lished a line of I’oetjy, he wrote himself out at a
very early age aud has been reposing very serene-
ly the past twenty rears on his lnort-ls. lie loves
to take his ease, and has no aversion to a glass
provided B contains something drinkuble. You
may seo)iim almost every day about two o’clock,
eating his dinner by himself in the Restaurant of
Tammany Hull, not the choicest spot for eating iu
the whole city by any meaus, but it is classical
ground to him, and iu the evening, yon may see
him sauntering about the Book-stores, into Wiley &
Putnam’s or Bartlett & Welford’s turning over the
rich and rare editions of European works to be
found on the counters of those delightful saunter
ing place* for inen of refined tastes. Mr. Astor
most intimate friends, those whom he loved to he-
ntuw his leisure hours upon were men of genius,
merit aud learning. He allowed Mr. Cogshall, ont
of the first classical scholars in the country, and
nuce a partner of Geo, Bancroft’s iu school-keep
ing. a salary of fifteen hundred dollars, to recoin,
pense him for making out an imaginary catalogue
of Books for the Librnnr,nnd for the enjoyment of
hi* conversation. Washington Irving was con
stoutly wilh him. and is oneof bis Executors. His
grand-fou, Charles A. Bristcd, a young mau of ex
tensive erudition and a very excellent writer,
seems to have been his greatest favorite among all
his grand childrcu, for he ha* bequeathed him u
larger amount of property than any other.
The Barou de Trobriaml, whom I mentioned iu
one of my letters, as having married Miss Jones of
this city, left hero on Saturday in tbo stenmer Uni
ted States for Liverpool, hearer of despatches to
our Miuister iu Paris. The Barou, is an excellent
Artist, aud very lively writer, and although ho was
born to a title, I believe it a Republican iu feeling.
In fact Republicanism is now fashionable ull over
tbe world aud especially iu Europe. Iu Paris, just
now, Americans are almost the only lions. We
are likely to bo flooded with Books on France.—
Some twenty ore already in the press, from the
peus of gentlemen recently returned from Pais.
Among the rest is one ou modern French Litera
ture by Mr. William Chase, formerly ofBidtimore
but at present re aiding iu Boston.
There are now open to the public id this ciiy,
four galleries of Paintings, each of them possess
ing pictures of very great merit. They are the
National Academy of Design, the New York Gal
lery of Fine Arts, a collection of the works of Colo
tbe Landscape Painter, and a noble gallery of
Paiutiugs by the old masters, contain chef d’ouvrcs
by Titian, Rubens. Murillo and other masters.—
Besides these exhibitions, there is tho Equestrian
Portrait of Queen Victoria, painted by Count d 1
Orsay on exhibition^at Masonic Hall. The por
trait of the Queen is really a fine picture, and at a
work of Art is infinitely superior to anything that
1 could have aulicipatad from the noble Amateur.
The Spriug Fashions have but just began to
bad with the trees. Ladies wear anenoncs in
their bats, and you begin to see in Broad way-
signs of warm weather in tbe light blossom color
ed dress which are instinctively worn’ at this sea
son. But the city ta wretchedly dusty and disa
greeable. Tbe Municipal electiou took place the
day before yesterday, which resulted iu the elec
tion of tbo Democratic Mayor, by a majority of
1091. Tho boardof aldermen comprises 10 whig*
and 8 democrats; tho board of assistants 9 of each
—a tie. Last year, the board of aidermen com
prised 11 wbigs, 6 democrats, and 1 Dativer tho as
sistants 11 whig*, and 7 democrats.
Yours truly, BROADWAY
uo removals from office. The Alius House Com
missioner nominated by tho Democratic party,
who was not tainted wilh Proviso-ism, was elected
by about 4000 majority, which ii a pretty near ap
proximation to the Democratic strength in this city.
The letter of Mr. Clay, confessing his readiness
to cuter the political field once more, and run for
the Presidency next fall, lies placed tho Whigs
here in a rather uncomfortable fix. They canuot
avoid nominating him, even though they be cer
tain of defeat. Tho letter has caused a good deal
of surprise on all hands, and not u little vexation
to many of his professed friends. Somebody has
taken the trouble to analyse tho letter, and finds
that it contains seventy-five reiterations of tiie per
sonal pronoun in tiie siugular number. Cassius
M. Clay lias had the indiscretion to publish a very
Iuug aud very flimsy letter, addressed lo his dis
tinguished relation, in tho Courier So Enquirer,
and avows himself tho personal enemy of the great
embodiment of Whig principles. Cassius is still
here, but he is uot much of a lion ; he is, in truth,
a small man, who has, by tbe force of circumstan
ces, contrived to mako a great deal of noise; he
will be forgotten soon, and never again heard of.
All subjects have been abandoned by tbe great
aud engrossing topic of the French Revolution; the
war in Mexico, the Treaty of Peace, the Leonidas
Letter, the Gaines case, the dirty streets, tho times,
the weather, thciufiuenza, the price of stocks, all
and everything have been forgotten, in couscqnouce
of the French news. But the poetry and romance
of the newB have begun to fade away; the rain
bow has evaporated, aud a dull misty sky re-
mnios. People begin to doabt fur the future, and
the Marsaillaise is uot chanted so often and so Ins-
tily as it was a fortnight since; there is to be
graud Vivc-la-Repnbiiqne Ball at the Park Theatre
next week, to-bc-sure, but the excitement of the
Revolution is past here. Oue of the saddest events
for us, connected with the great event, has been
tbe failure of three large and respectable mercan
tile houses ; that of Fox and Livinganston, which
occurred last week, has caused great regret and
uot u little surprise. Messrs. Fox & Livingston
were the owners and agents of the largest line of
Havre packets; they were the sons-iu-law of Fran
cis Depan, whose business and wealth they inher
ited, aud were looked upon as the staunchest, as
they were the most upright and intelligent mer
chants in the city. They may resume again, when
order shall be restored ia Paris. Another effect of
the Revolution has been to suspend, fur awhile,
the construction of a very grand marble building
which Stewart was about to erect iu addition to
the store which he now occupies ou the corner of
Broad and Chambers street. Tbe building was to Lo
commenced uu the first of May, but Mr. Stewart
says, if tbe French manufacturers cease work, be
doesn’t know where he will find goods to fill up
his establishment with. Tbo effect of the news on
Wall street lias not been marked in. the price of
permanent stocks, whicli have continued to keep
up to a healthy point. One of the great finan
ciers of Wall street, au old bachelor on the wintry
side uf fifty, who took it into bis foolish head a
short time since to marry a very beautiful and dash
ing young lady, on whom bo settled a hundred
thousand dollars as a marriage portion, it is now
rumored is desirous of obtaining a divorce, and the
worst part of it is, that they say he will succeed if
he tries.
The Italian Opera is becomiug insipid to our
fashionables; there our Blare, Enani, aud Truffi
delight them uo longer. Beueditti is becumin:
bore, even in EJgdrdo’, Biscaccianti no longer
creates a sensation iu Lncia, and Beuedantaui is
voted too noisy iu A’obiter. Vendi is brassy and
blustering; ttie novelty of the Opera house has
worn off, aud with it has gone all its attraction. So,
after ull, it appears that people did uot goto the
Opera from a lovo of art, hut from a love of ex*
citrnv-'ut and novelty, and notoriety, and bccanse
it was fashionable. It was a fine place fur show
ing off a new dress, and was favorable to flirting ;
but as people cannot live upon syllabubs and ice
creams, although such things are very well once
or twice a mouth, the Ojiera has palled upon the
taste, and the very first people do uot patronize
it. It.was only a costly luxury, and not a necessi
ty like the Theatre. The regular theatres are all
doing surprisingly well, excepting tiie I’ark, which
is closed, to bo ro-opened by-and-by wilh more
splendor, when Fanny Butler and Macready come
over. To-night a new comedy is to bo produced
at the Broadway -Theatre, called Romance aud
Reality. The author is John Bingham, who is a
tolerably good actor, and a tolerably clever writer
for tbe Magazines; it is not unlikely that be will
produce a tolerably goad comedy. But these are
not tbe days of tolerable*, there are too many tol
erably good things to bo bad tolerably cheap; it
requires something intolerably bad, or prodigious
ly good, to create a sensation. Have you any idea
of tho difficulty of getting a new play put upon the
stage T Probably not, if you have never tried.—
Mr. Murdock recently endeavored to prevail upon
the managers of some of the theatres here to bring
ont the tragedy of Leisler, which ho bad accept
ed from a literary friend, but could not succeed ;
he offered to guarantee them against loss, and be
at ull nccesaary expenses of new dresses, scenery.
Sec., but they would not conspnt. So be took his
tragedy to Philadelphia, where it was produced at
the Arch Street Theatre, and unequivocally
damned with very faint praise.
The two steamers for Europe, to leave this week,
are t oth nearly full of passengers; the tide of trav
el aci-oss tho Atlantic this spring has been unusually
strong. Clergymen, artists, politicians, and phi
losophers are flocking over to witness the first
christalizatiouiof democracy in France, and to be
pretout at the next abdication.
Yours. BROADWAY.
York.
Clay vs. Clay.
We givo in another column, the Letter of Mr.
Clay to “the Public,” in which.he takes ihegrouud
that he is the strongest and most available Whig in
the Government. It remains to he seen whether
he will find backers enough in the National Con veil,
tion to endorse his opinion in this regard. This
letter speaks for itself, and we submit it to the
reader without further comment at present.
We also subjoin below, the Letter of Cassius M.
Clay, published under his own signature, in tho
New-York Courier So Enquirer. As tiie campaign
progresses, wo anticipate many Manifestoes, aud
much amusing cross-firing between tho Clay and
Taylor wings of Wbiggery. The battle promises
to be interesting; and we shall dnly chronicle ev
ery important movement. Here is the first gun
from “good Cassius.”-"
NEWWORK, April 13, 1848. *
Hon. Henry ClxtI
Sir—In the Tribune of tliis morning I find a let
ter dated Ashland, April 10th, 1548, over your sig
nature. The letter is addressed, I presume to tho
American people. If I did not know you well,tho
intervening space of tlireo days between its date
and its arrival here, would lead mo to suspect its
authenticity. If your determination to allow your
name to go before the Philadelphia Convention as
a candidate for the Presidency had been in accor
dance merely with your wishes and individual
judgment, I should have kept a respectful silence.
But ns yourdetermination is based upon the ^sup
posed interest of the Whig party, I shall venture,
unasked, to add my opiuion to that of tho numer
ous Whigs to whom you refer. When I tell you
tbut royalty rarely hears the truth, you will think,
no doubt, that I repeat a very stale dogma, if not . , rl euai
altogether out of place ia a republic. But there the election upon yonr popularity here d**" 1 *
are parasites in republics as well as in despotisms, atrates that vour name ia .. 11 1 .. TliC -&-
and of those you havo a very liberal portion just
uow. Were I to claim to be your personal friend,
I might better, perhaps, accomplish my purposes;
but as I have never avowed one class of sentiments
whilst in reality holding another, I tell you frankly
that, although from my earliest youth I had been
something more than a cold admirer of yourself, so
when you started, on the 14th of August, 1845, to
tho Virginia Springs, leaving your frieuds and fam
ily to murder me in my sick bed, for vindicating
those principles which you had taught me, iu your
speeches, at least, I ceased to beyour friend, and
became, by the uccessity of my nature, your ene
my. What shall I say to you now, then, will have
the more weight, because you willsee that it comes
from an honest, if uot an unprejudiced mau; whilst
I shall attempt to divest myself of the individual
and speak as the member of a great party.
I shall then take up your letter in its proper or
der. In saying that you had “a strong disinclina
tion to the use of iny (your) name iu connection
in Baltimore—in Cincinnati—and j„ v
have ventured against the friends of T.o
•‘Ihe liberty ofepceth.” The verdict of , "
gainst your son lately in Kentucky, oiHit »*
you aud them, that we are uot vet u *«k.‘i
floury Clay, * ^* e * «v*a ^
It is true that this is iu you dero ,'»» ••
General Taylor; but you are best playing,'* h
life-long game: for when did ever lftn l (° or
spare no enemy or n—friendt I coii"rai,,l,7 L V
upon your determinatiuu at last to denon*** >'"•»
Native American party, to whom y uu « '‘ Ce ,li «
couraging letters during the last c ***
which they were kind
cau do so with impunity! The Native a ' ^° u
party is dead! But w hellier the memoi-v'"'',!** 1 *
Irish and other foreigners will be as easy » r
ting a * rang as you are in not remembenos
remains to be seen! Space compels me to ^ n - , ° rc ’ r (
the long roll of your self advocacy and couGn*
self to two specific'll tiuns. Yuu seem to thirl-
Ohio will not go for any “one residin', ij, o * f“*t
slates” bat you; anil that N*ew York "woolif _ 6
certainly bestow her vote on you
candidate.” ” 7 ul “ci-
Ohio went for von, by the Western rererr
which I assisted in getting for van, bec a nl V0!f '
were suspected of truth, in declaiming acoinrt!|Y t *
ry! I bad too much resect for your tal,»t,
(•ose that you would aguiu attempt the fim* oT
low game! No.your Junus-fased reodutioniitl
iugtuii, deceive no longer the blindest "!j n y*‘
Besides, if ihe free North wouhl not tr.ke voa* 7
tbe question w as Clap and no sieve lerrito r , 2*
they taketbe issue which youcoverllv ten.l—.c
Clay aud no free territory?
With regard to Now York, you teem ,
to havo forgotten the fact that the Whig
of tho legislature have declared that ihe^hl.i-7-0
go for “any other whig,” to clhse the Lath rf
your paitiziras here! The crty electiou of a tv„ M
cratic Mayor iu New York, whilst your frieudsZ
tho election upon yonr popularity here den!,!
stratus that your name is indeed “.11 powedW^
rnunffH n W luff niiHiirilv >nin . _* .
NEW-YORK, April 18, 1848.
I wrote my*last letter in the midst of the turmoil
aud hurry scurry of a hotly contested municipal
election. The city was in a shocking uproar, the
streets dnsty, the people mad with excitement,
tbo weather dismal, and every kiud of rational
amusement and all sober pursuits for the tirno ne
glected. Happily it is all over now- The Whigs
lost their Mayor without the Democrats gaining
one. Mr. llavemeyer was elected, and tho orgaua
of tho Baru-burner patrty claim hi* electiou ns an
abolition triumph. What abolitionism or pro-sla
very had to do with the matter, I do not clearly
understand, but I believe that Mr. llavemeyer is
claimed for a Wilmot Treviso mau. Tho Whigs
maintain their power in the Common Council, and
both parties arc held in check so that there will be
CST’Tbe Eunqienn correspondent of the New
York Commercial, thus describes the very summa
ry process by which tho revolution in Hesse Cas-
sel was effected:
“Tho Electors of Ilosse Cassel (a small state
with about 700,000 inhabitants) was deaf to all ap
peals from the people. Tho mop therefore de
termined to bse force. Seeing this he fled iuto his
gardetisand attempted to escape. He was caught
however, by a gigantic blacksmith, who carried
him back to his drawing room. The man then
locked the door aud demnnde l compliance with
tbe |Miptilardeinaudt. The Elector still said no!
The blacksmilb thou, by way of giviug an example
of physical force, smashed with one blow of his
arm u highly ornamented table into at- ms. This
done he shook his fist at the Elector, and told him
he should never leave the room till he had yielded
all hat was required of him. Tho result neod
hardly bo told. The Electors cousouted. The
blacksmith, however, was a practical innn and
was uot <lis|>osed to trust the promise of a Prince
without fortifyinghimself with collateraTovidence.
He compelled the Elector to write a proclamation
willingly accorded ull his people’sjust request.
This was forthwith promulgated ; and thus by one
brawny ann and the rough good nature of its pos
sessor a state was saved. The Elector and his
people are no won the best terms, nnd seem not
to know how to make enough ot each other."
with that office,” courtesy leads me to confine my
self to the remark that you deceive yourself—bat
no one else! So soon as you were defeated iu tbe
last electiou, n committee of yonr frieuds from
Frankfort wailed upon you cud condoled with
you on that melancholy event You responded in
a mauner that led me, almost with the power ol
certainty, to remark to some friends that Heury
Clay is a candidate again for the Presidency. Time
attests my sagacity.
So strong was my conviction that you would be
a candidate, when letters were read in'the Con
vention of tho “Whig friends of Geii. Taylor” iu
the State House at Frankfort, from ihe Hou. J.J.
Crittenden, Hou. Charles S. Morehead, and Hun.
J. P Gaines, begging ns not to nominate Geuoral
Taylor, aud thus push you from the track, and say-
iug that you would on your return home retire
from the canvass, iu the presence uf the thousands
there assembled I ruse up and declared that al
though I respected these geutlemeu I bad not the
least coufideuce that you would in truth withdraw.
Time attests my sagacity. After you had gone on
to New Y’ork, and delegates were chosen to the
National Convention whilst you were the city’s
guest, and it was again asserted that you would
decline on your return home, I said nn, you refus
ed to go to New York last Summer, you would uot
have gone uow, unless you had determined to run
for the Presidency. Time nttesls the truth of the
prediction. You say that your frieuds represent
that “the withdrawal of my name would he fatal
to their success.” If they so speak to you, they
speak a different language elsewhere. I have been
told that all tho members of Congress from our
own State but one told you that you could uot be
elected, and that divers others whom I could name
told you ihe same thing. But if tbeae reports be
untrue, allow me to tell yon that I have heard al
most universally that your name would ngniu
bring ns defeat. Iu that opiniou 1 concur, aud I
will give you my reasons. Because I am m.l
guiltless myself, nnd because of the bad taste if
tiie thiug. I will not urge objections to your pri
vate character- Neither will I press yourpresrige
of ill-luck, iu saying that ail the inea-itres which
you have urged npou ihe people, except tho Mis
souri compromise, have been erased from the
ttitueboofc. For we lament in common, tbe full
of the tariff, the- bank, and internal improvements,
under your lead! I shall enufiue myself then to the
question of availibility. Three times have we
run you and three times your name has brought us
defeat! So soon as Gen. Wm. H. Harrison had
-brought us up from a miserable niiuority, wl er
you had left us, to a large majority, you hurried ou
to Washington, when Mr. Tyler uuder Mr. Web
ster’s lead was doing good service to the country
and party, mid by attempting to force nn him and
es the “obsolete Bunk’’ which we had pur|>ose!y
'slurred iu the canvass, you brought us to a speedy
minority.
A “long timo ago,” being too old to perform the
comparatively light duties of Senator, you gave
the public a farewell address and retired from pub
lic life. The democratic party by the excess, of
its numbers, was at once split into widely separa
ted fragments. Messrs. Cass, Calhoun, Van Bu-
reu, Tyler, Polk, aud others, were ull pressing tbeir
claims with a bitterness before unknown to the
party. “Whom the gods wish to destroy, they
first make mad.” They determined to bring Tex
as iuto thcUuion, avowedly to break down tbe flow
er of tbe free North, and to make this nations
slave empire. The frieuds of liberty rallied once
more, and in spite of your Missouri compromise,
and your consistant denunciation of all real anti-
slavery action, your Raleigh letter made you by
some fatality our candidate once more. The dem
ocratic feeds were nt once cared up by the great
er hatred of Henry Clay*. Mr. Van Buren, who
had taken a similar ground with yourself, but who
could uot unite the party, was overthrown, and
Mr. James K. Polk substituted. Notwithstanding
tho claims of other wbigs, I will uow restrict my
self to saying your equals, were postponed who uo
one now doubts could have been elccied; we. the
Whig party, all united ou you. We fought with
the ardor of brotherhood, and with the moral pow
er of n nobie cause. Our success seemed certain.
Now once more,by that fatality which attends you,
you come out in your Gazette letter, and disclaim
any sympathy with emancipation. It is true there
was u little inconsistency iu this, inasmuch as you
lmd always avowed just the opposite doctrine; but
as yuu wrote to me "go on good Cassius,” I thought,
at last all things would come out right. This,
however, was a small affair between you and me,
aud our abolition friends. But all at ouce, you
came out in your Alabama letter; when you would
“not reject a permanint acquisition of territory on ac
count of a temporary institution 1 .” This was a very
different affair. It lay at'the foundation of the
whole contest. You “changed front.” The wbigs
of the Nprtli were disgusted. They had nothing
left to cotitend for. The battle was lust. We felt
our country’s wminds iu yonr person. We paid
your debts, we condoled with you in yonr retire
ment once more, and raised monuments to your
memory! Ouce more tho excesses uf the Demo
cratic Party, began to exhibit themselves.
. _ Tho
unconstitutional annexation of Texas, and the Pres- |B P
idcnlia! war, began to stir the souls of indignant I ed me,* for from that moment,
freeman. Seeing that wo were in a minority, and main object of this declauatiou, and I saw aiy«
without the sympathies of the people—having ex- | compelled to proclaim, in a inanifo»to. the injusj'c®'
turned out to the war, and once more wo slcod.ly I in order to bring tlidra iuto tho Held, tb*3M****
brought ourselves np from a minority where you aided-by sums borrowed ornny own responsibility!
had lignin left as, iuto n majority. The Admiuis- j nnd even with my own funds, which I deposit
trillion had all the responsibility of tho lossofhon- I in the terensury of the army. This array stood in.
or, men, nud money, by the war, onr Whig goner- need of every’ element indispensable to _msk' ! *
It appeared impossible that lt . C0 H
als reaped alL the glory. The success of our party
was certain. The public, with a unanimity never
before seen in this country, looked to our man; u
mail who, growing too great for the powers at
Washington, was left to pei ish with a handful of
men belore twenty thousand troops in the enemy’s
country. But Zachary Taylor was not tbe man
to die, to accommodate cither President Polk or
bisally Santa Anna! The battle of Buena Vista fix-
hearts of this people'.—
movement, u o|>|icaicu mumoosuiw , .
begin hostilities, for it lacked cverylhrag ra .
middle of winter.. Nevertheless, the cawi'*M5
opened; potstit reasons demanded it.
tionnry tendencies commenced to penetrate '. 11
headquarters, demoralization was beginning; 111
few hours, more, than five hundred men of draw*
ent corps of tbe army had forsaken their ■
indigence iucrcased suffering nnd it became p 1 ^
feraole to end the matter, under the blo'va ,
enemy, than to behold tbe troops diminish by “
Sertion and criminal suggestions. My destmy B
always impelled me to march in tho midst ot da.
gers.
Let it be said to the glorj
tional army, it was hy its i
1 honor of then 1 *
'incv and resig 0 ; 1 '
ZIP The Constituent Assembly of France—says
the N. Y. Courier^ Enquirer—is to consistof900
members. Of cuurse, uo existing buildiug, adapt
ed to Legislative purposes, conld contain such an
assembly. Accordingly, we see that a decree of I c d General Tiylor in the
22d March opens n credit of 250.000 francs to the Neitheryon, nor the wire worker* of party, uortbe
Minister of Public Works, in order that ho may T^sideutcan cousehim or hisftiends to “surren-
, r#1 u ; dcr'i fhe noaeiHiM soldier was generous enough
cause to be put up m the gardens of the old Cham-, togt * Te . pnrt ,, g compliment to yoor name by
ber of Depaue?, a temporary building for the ac- j saying newouhlhnve preferred you to himself to
commodttliou of this new Assembly. They must J lead os on once more to tho battle. You have tu- -j — - j
work sharp to havo hud it reudy in time, for the I k t an hini ntW * ' von,! JmHtodfetel} your friends of tiou that I'was enabled to combat tbe
■ , , , - .. .. : the “secret circular,” uuder the pretence of being his entrenchments at Buena Vi*ts;.*usUtnso>ag
appointed day of n.ectmg was tho 20th inst. j -tho friends of General Taylor. 1 * stab him to tbe by these same qualities, I was empowered.
; vitals. Then, sharp sighted patriots fouud out tbut , wit lists OKing 'lie fatigue# of tho desert and
North Carolina —Tho Democratic State Con- j General Tnvlor was not (be choice of the Whigs— I epidemic which-decimated it, to traverse the
that this willingness of the grateful lieurt of tbe public, and to marshal it, calm and serene, in ‘ rl1 -
people was all a sham affair: ill a word, that you of tho enemy nt Cerro Gordo.
would reluctantly consent to run again! I am a plain Tho early scones of tbo wai
spoken man-, sir; I tell you I know these men: they j of February and April,
would not have ventured to take this step without
your consent! It is true this is not fair play! It looks
to mo like political assassination! Nor will it bo
cured iu tbe eyes of all disinterested inen by the
Virit vh!--ip whi -h your friend-■ iu Frankfort—
cutiuu assembled at Raleigh on the 12th iust., and
Hon. W. N. Edwards of Warren, called to preside.
Hon. David S. Raid of Rockingham county, was j
nominated as the Democratic Candidate for Gov I
cruor, and the lion. Robert Strange and tbo lion.
W. N. Edwards, appointed Delegates at largo to 1
tiie Baltimore Convention.
p, during the months
described in 0H1e.1l
dociimeutsj.which have informed the natiou d" 1 '
every kind of 6ucrince and suffering " !i * B - •
gone in order to crown it with tbe laurels <
tory.
I was
party organization, mid the desperation of tW
who hnvo life estates in your person—you
succeed in pushing Webster, nud McLeau -!|
Seward, and Corwin, and Scott, and other/
the track once more—the dagger of your ‘•secit™
committee;nul your public inquisitors tnay kill oi*
Gen. Taylor,JuAt now—but the deceiver may be
himself deceived!—Yes, Heury Clay can never U
President of these Slates!
I have the honor to subscribe myself
ever a Whig, and your obd’tserv't
C. M, CLAY.
Sautn Aiinn’a Valcdictorr.'
Antonio Lovez de Santa Anna, Generalnf
sion, and well-deserving of his Country, to hisjdln-
countrymen :
Ou the eve of quitting tbe beloved ]snj ofmr
birib, to seek, ou a foreign soil, the qnietude (if
private life, it becomes my duty to address von fur
the last time, iu order to acquaint yon with ib 9
true motives which compel me to coudt mu ni_v«,|f
to a voluntary ostracism. Far be from uie the'idia
of opening afresh, at this solemn moment, tbs
wounds which have produced, iu the bosom of m r
country, the struggles of parties—the cuutiuual »n.
tations which have conducted us to our present
situation. A noble object dictates these liniR I
am uot impelled by pride or ambition. Indebted
to the Republic for n-thuusaud spontaneous acts uf
honor, whereby she has inscribed my nnme forever
in her auuidj, it becomes ine to satisfy her in quit-
ting her coufiues at the most critical moment
which could arrive to aay nation, and when furei-u
hands snatch from us the emblems ofoursovc-
rciguty, aiul the spoils of the immense territory
which cowardice, egotism, aud treason have caused
to fall iuto their power. In simple phrase, devoid
of oratorical parade, I will succinctly relate tiie
events as they have occurred.
You liave beeu witnesses of the course of con-
duct pursued by me from the day when the solemn
proclamation dr August, 1846, restored ine to my
couutry, iu drawing me from the exile iu which iho
hatred and rancor of factious had plunged mu —
Thp Capita! of the ualiou—ihe population (1 retch
ing from Vera Cruz to San Luis—.ire witneises
that, at that period, I was overwhelmed nilh hon
ors und praises by ull classes of society: which
more and more excited my gratitude towards iho
generous nation which placed implicit confidence
in me. Heaven bears ine witness that while.lhrre
things were passing around me. I never erased to
address iny prayers to tbe Eternal for the pros
perity aud glory of the Mexican minis.
Destiny aud the caprice* of tin tune had facilitat
ed to the arms of the United States the victories*-
passage of their standards across the waters of
the Rio Bravo; the hnpelees lie],!* of i'alo Alla and
Kesucit opeued, iu the North, the gates of the Re
public lo tho enemy who. without difficulty nnd
without resistance, occupied a considerable portiou
of the States of New Leou, Coahuila nud Taman'
lipas.
These reverses occurred while I wnslangukuiug
nu a conch of pain iu llavaua, in enure jiieiice ul
'he frequent sufferings which 1 still experience
fiom the wound received hy me at VeraCrnz while
fighting against ihe French. 1 could then listen
te the counsel of pcl-soiuil interest, and profitting
by the lessons of tho past, enjoy the tranquility of
tuy retreat, in contemplating fiour s distant conu-
try the frightful storm wliu h was soon to bu st
over my native land. I could then npprec’iate. ia
its true meaning, the baseness of political partif*
which, pressing around me, offered me the iucenur
of their adulation and solicited my regard*. Thru
I could, after my return, if I was such as my per-
roual enemies represented, again seize the power
which they should place ia my hands, c has i.-e
severely', desertion aud cuhimnv, and iminugepub
lic affairs according to the die bites of iny con
science and the exigencies of the moment. But,
to act thus, would have required a soul like lb**
of my persecutors it would require that I blioukl
compromise the Tt-xau question in a manner dis
graceful teethe dignity and the rights of the natiou.
I have preferred, aud still prefer, to undergo*
hundred dofeats rallier Ilian acquiesce iu the igno
miny of the Republic. This it was which induced
me to proceed at ouce to San Louis iu order to or
ganize ail army and dedicate uiyseli entirely to
the labors of the campaign, convinced that l left
my enemies behind me-with every facility to cur
ry oi? lheir tnacliitmlious against nty person with
out fear and without impediment: but the Ameri
cans occupied my attention much more than the
contemptible manoeuvres of political parties.
Iu tbe midst of the general disorder which tbre#
revolutions hr.d produced in every branch of the
administration, 1 formed the resolution of opposing
the invasion, although I needed all the resistance,
which however were to necessary for successful
ly conducting tho war, for all those which I h«d
created daring three years, had been iu a treat
degree destroyed in 1845. You will admit, fellow-
countrymen, that if I had postponed the defence
of the nation until tiro time when hitman proba
bility would huve been on our side, then tn»
American forces would have possessed theoiselves
of the couutry without encountering the slightest
resistance. My honor deniauded that I should
rush into the contest with only tbe resources
which circumstances had conferred upon me.—
1’alriotistti aud my own loyalty compelled me 10
sustain the foreigu war iu which the nation «'**
engaged, and to struggle at tho same time ngaint*
the efforts of civil discord, agaiust the webs woven
by suspicion and calumny.
Scarcely had I collected the men who rvrre to in
crease the army, when the pressot'theuspital, con
ducted by the most influential members of con
gress, began to attack me, declaring “that the an"J
quartered at San Luis ought to operate against n
army of invasion, and not threaten the puen
Lbi rty, as it did, by tho shadow of my nnmu; tu*
it became the army to employ the resources in -
ni-hed it by the Government, to secure the nation
al defence, and not in fomenting vice aud c**®*’
Tbo repetition of these offensive allusions disuenr.'
ed me. for from that moment, I understood ^
1 from the field
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