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A meeting of the Cl&y Club was held a few svenings since, wliich was addressed by Horice Greeley, (Editor of the New York Tribune,) and other- after which the subjoined document was circulated among the audience, and five hundred signatures obtained : - We, the undersigned, being deeply attached to Whig principies and measures, view with the deepest reprret the nomination of a candidate for our sufFrage, who is. not identified with the great fundamental principies of the Whig party ; a man who has st.ated in lus letters that he was willing to roceive the nomination of any party. Ii a declaration like this sufficient to allow us to confido in him the deep and long-cherished principie which have always been associatod in our minds with the name of Whig 1 What guaranty have we as to the siile on which, in the great political questions of the day, he will be found ï None. ïhe"truthis availalility is the ground-work upon which his ïiomination has been offected. Do we re cognize or fiud ihis word in our creed ? No! - we despise and reject it. Therefore, we cannot and will nal support General Taylor, as our candidate for the Presidency ! Devotion to our principies demanda lliat we should not. To find sucli men as Clay, fecott and Webster sacrificed in this marnier, is an indigmty we cannot tamely and quietly submit to. They have labored too long hnd faithfully to be thus abandoned. With eitlier of these as our standard bearer we will fight ardently and (there in no questioning it,) successfully; but with aiailahility for our candidate, our zeal is palsied, and ouuenthusiasm quenched. At a large and enthusiastic meeting of the Whigs of the city, (accordingto the Tribune) held on the same evening, a committee of five wera appointed from each ward, to procure aig.iers to a cali for a maas meeting of the Vhigs ol New York opposed to the Pliiladelliia nomination.