Clay Club Dedication

For some weeks the upper portion of our town has been graced by a tal!, tapering pole, with a sluffed coon on its eummit, surmounting the stnrs an.d 6tripes of ihe Union. Hav inrr fuiled to asceilain of what this exhibition was emblematic, we resolved to avail ourselvee of an invitation to attend the dedication of the Club house, on Tueeday last. - The congregation was so great that the meet ing ndjourned to theCourt House square. - - Severa! songs were sung, rather indifferently, we thought. A band of music was present; nlso severa! banners; and the skin of a Coon, placed on a small tamerack tree, with a board stgn over him, the two lower corners of which were ornamented by a coon's tail danglinp from each. Thisf-ame old coon was placed n honorable prnximity with the President of the day. His stiperscription was in coon languagp, thus: "Now TVHEN YOU GET INTO DE KRAT, tilat will bk fout fore many a daï, And end in lrcti.v Harry Clay, i'lï. sit üpon dis trke, Looking wbrry glad."After introductory remarks by Judije Clarke, j of Waehtenaw, Mr. Howard, of Detroit, well known by the appellation of "Honest Jake," tooi; the stand. He commenced withaneuloo-y of Mr. Cl;iy as the "Mili boy of the ' Slashes," "Ihe Farmer (!) of Ashland," &c. In definirjg the Whiff principies, he avovved 1 himself for a wcll regtilated National Bank. I As to the distribuí ion of the Land Revenue, he thought it a very desirable measure, a" the i states were heavily in debt. Michigon owed ] $6,000,000, ond couldnot pay its leal j est. How necessary then to have this dividend from the National Treasnry tn help! - [How much this dividend would help in paying our debts, moy he suanised from the fact, that the annual dividend of Uir State is aboui $15.000. Great help that.] He gave Ty Ier ' a deserved castigation for his nefarious J tempts to annex Texas, and plunge the í try into war, and add foreirn slave Stntes to ( the Union. He deprecated the union of these j States because the peculiar institutons of the ] South were "hostife or incompatible" wuh ihe interest of hirge portions of the norihern people. Mr. []owaid louched on other topics, n nd ppoke with abiüty. Mr. Emmons, a lawyer of Detroit, was ( very happy in his illustrations and mannerof speaking, more so than his l cessor, although in point of argument he was his inferior. He undertook to ' swerthe inquiry why "That Same Oíd ' Coon" was brought there. lt was not L as emblematic of any principie - not at all - but the Locos taunted them wíth r ing the "Coon party" - as they had c merJy done with being the "Log Cabin party." This might be consideredas a kind oCiül of indict7nent,preferred against them by the Locos, which the Whigs place upon their banners, and will conquer their adversarles with this charge l played before the whole community. - This, no doubt, was as good a defence of l thiscontemptible coon foolerv as a f troit lawyer could make; but when every f body knows "the indictment" to be iruc, viz - the manufacture of a system of torious humbuggery for the purpose of L getting votes- (ta system that ] edly has no principie in itjf) might it not be expedient to keep it out of sight? l This open defence of this combination of unmixeó humbuggery by the leaders of the , party, deserves the reprobation of every srood citizen.In referring to Gen Cass, Mr. Emmonsthought his name should be mentioned without the C - "an Ass, a Jackass." This display of legal wit, however, elicited but little praise; and in the opinión of sensible men men, it arguec neither good manners, good policy, nor good sense. On one point, Iiowever, Mr. Emmons was right. He insisted on the necessity of a continual repetición of Whig truths. It was an established principie of human nature, that a long continued repetition of any truth vvould ultimately secure assent and the practice of it, from persons who would utteriy reject itat itsfirst annunciation. It support of this position, he appealed to hisfory - to the experience of the nursery - to common observation in practical life - and to the untiring repet itions of moral truths by the clergy. We thought this hint vvould be of essential service to Liberty men. Spend little time with politicians; but whenever you meet your honest neighbor, teil him kindly some Liberty truth - when you meet him again, teil him again, and by continual repetition, kindly spoken, the truth will make a permanent lodgment. This was the Apostolic rule - "in meeknessinstructing those that oppose themselves." Tryit! Mr. Barstow, a ihird lawyer from Detroit, was the next speaker. He was loud in voice, vehement in gesture, sweeping in assertions, and certainly gained but little credit with the more sensible part of audience, though his address was highly applauded by the rest. Mr. Fuller, of Washtenaw, -was the last speaker on the occasion before the evening. He began by wishing he had some "Hard eider," and extolled its social virtues. After going over many topes he referred to the Liberty party. - We have noticed his remarks elsewhere. On the whole, we were fully convinced hat the Whigs are determined to enact over again the humbugs of 1840, with additions and improvements, and that on hese is their main reliance. One of the speakers very truly remarked, "Youcari't ar gut down Whig songs.'"