Mr. Clay's Mendenhall Speech

We have published this speech en tf re, from the N. Y. Tribune, chiefly for the purpose of giving toour readers Mr.CIay's views against all eflbrts for emancipation. On this point heapeaks with sufficient precisión. Hia rëasons for not emancipating lus shives - that it would be cruel to turn tbem ou: on the world. &c. will receive the contempt they merit. It belongs to him, for whose benefit they have been rendëred thus helpfess. not only to free them, but provide for thcir necessities. One class of hisslaves, he says; would not leave liíin íf tbey could. Bui this clasa secms to.be composed of Charles only, whoBe domestic relations induce hitn to stay, and who also hopes hereafter to receive freedom, and something more. But the very cnumeration of a c'ass of slaves who would not leave Mr. Clay if thoy could, pre-supposee that the remaindcr xoould leavo him if they had the power; and consequently he holds them against their will, without paying them wages, by f orce. - What a republicanl We have many Whig readers and stibacribers: all of them will of courseread this speech. Liberty men ought to read it, because it is the advice which Mr. Clay gives to all Abolitionists - "Go home and mind your own business, and leave other people to lako care ot theirs! Limit your henevolent cxertion to your own neighborhood." HF The Marshall Expounder has come to the belief that "a thorough investigatiori of the Texas question, in its relations to slavery, would tnake every abolitionist in the countyan advococato of Annexauon"! This looks rather impudent, at first sight, coming as it does from a party plcdged to utter hostility to the anti-slavery cause; but perhaps the abilities of the Editor of the Expounder may be sufficient to. make Mr. Polk into an Abolitionist - until after election!-Soppose he try his hand at an argument to how that Polk 9 more favorable to Abolition than Clay? Read the noticeof the Arcade Convention, in thecommunicatior of our brother of the quill. The friends of Liberty in New York are animatcd with that spirit of persoverance which is the harbinger of sucecee,