C. M. Clay's Tour

At the Temple in Boston, Mr. Claj was received with much enthusiasm. Af ter referring to the flattering reception he had every where met with at the North, he said: "Iowethc Whig party nothing They, with the Democratie party, have proscribed me for opinion's sake! (Excitement.) I stand, therefore, by myself, and speak for myself, upon my own responsibility, trusting to God to secure me justice." After an eloquent exordium against slavery, in which he hoped to seo itfal), and fall forever, he said: "I have no doubt I shall be called an enemy to the South in thus expressing my sentiments - I have been denounced by the parties at the South for these principies, but I owe them for nothing - not even for my life! They may denounc me i f the}' choose; I defy the pros la ery si'irtt here and every where. stand as the representative of fi ve hundrec thousand free white laborers of Ken tucky, and put them against the thirty one thousand slaveholders, in making an swer for my justification." After going through with Annexation &c, he concluded by asking them to vot for Henry Clay in the following indirec manner: "I care not what may be the subordínate opinions of Henry Clay upon this subject - I shall act for myself. "Cassius front slavery tcill deliver Cassius." - (Tremendous applause.)But, fellow citizens, can Wun. L. Gar rison save you frotn the doom which seem to await us? No. Can James G. Bir ney save you from the evils of annexa tion? His friends admit that he canno noto be elected to the Presidency. Who then, can save you? (A. few feeble voices in the gallery, Henry Clay, Hen ry Clay.") It only remains forme tosay, act for yourselves fellow citizens, act for yourselves: stanc by your country; stand by the Union a it is - ■" Union and Libery, one and insep arable." The Boston Chronicle says that Mr Clay's labors are working well for the Liberty party. The Middlesex Standard, a Liberty paper, has a notïce of his speech in Low ell. The Standard says: "When he carne to speak of the en croachments of slavery upon the rights and interests of freemen and free labor and the duties of the North, he evidently feit a stricture across the chest. It wa hard talkingeven for Cassius Cla)'. He could exclaim. "Cassius from slavery wil deliver Cassius," but neither Cassius, noi Brutus, nor "all the gods at once" coulc deliver him from thedeep embarrassment of his position when he went down to Egypt for help. He needed the legs of a Colossus and the agility of Sam Patch to leap from premises to conclusions. He had made slavery too haggard a monstei so soon to invite us to a fraternal hug, even for Ih is once. When he attemptedto define Henry Clay's position - to distinguish between his personal opinions anc views, and what were called his pledges againsl annexationf his good angel left him. He faltered. He was in a false position. "We are sorry for Cassius M. Clay. - In allowing himself to be thus made an instrument for destroying the organized anti-slavery of the North, he is depriving himself of all ability for further usefulness in the cause of Freedom. He puts himself in the hands of its bitterest enemies, and becomes tbeir tooi and instrument in their desperate, but, thank Heaven! futile attempts to break up the Liberty party, and leave the Slave Power without an antagonist. He cannot materially injure the Liberty cause; but he can destroy his own reputation as a man of principie and a sincere and devoted friend of freedom; and this he is in a jair icay to do:'The Syracuse Freeman says: "We do not, now, nor have we from the beginning believed that the sympathies ofC. M. Clay areso much with the Liberty party, as to justify the encouragements of his efforts to win our confidence. Our opinión is that while he is laboring at the north to excite the admiration of the friends of Liberty, he is perfectly indifferent to the effect that his doctrines may produce, only so that they may be favorable to the election of Henry Clay. At the same time Henry is unconcerned about the effect of Cassius's labors, so long as they can be turned to the advancement of his election - which is easily done by Henry's keeping his southern face well turned soulh, while Cassius figures north. Our warning to aboJitionists is, heed not the electioneering of C. M. Clay. We believe his mission any thing but good to abolition." The Essex County Washingtonian says: "Mr. Clay's lecture before the Whigs on Monday night was ultra Whig to the core. There wasn't a spice of anti-slavery in it from beginning to the end. He ridiculed the idea that man-stealing was any disqualification for the presidency, and qtioted a Methodist priest by the name' of Bascom, to provo that Henry Clay's character was as good as any body's outside the church!' He said Ihat it was not only the law of Nature that birds and fshes should prey upon each other, but that men should do likewise - and in this way he explained the fact, that wherever his favorito tariff scheme had had full play porerty and famine had invariably ensued. He said Mr. Clay toas infavvor of emantipation in the grain-growing Slaies, bui opposéd to it, whether gradual or immediate, in the planting States, beCAÜSB IN THE Ï-ATTJER THE WHïtfiS ANIBLACKS COULDN'T LIVE IN AMITY, UNLESS IN THE AM1CABLE RELATION OP JWAjSTER and slaveü He also made the profound remark that, as there were more people on the globe than it could feed, it was a part of their inscrulable destiny that some of them should live at the others's expense! [ConsoJing to the laborers, very!] He was opposed to inquiring into the moral character of political candidates, because God had said in the holy Bible that there is none perfect!! Mixed in with these and many other foolish remarks, were some trite moral reflections which seemed noblcr than usual from their contrast to the rest of the I ture. Iconfess myself to have been griev" ously disappointed. I expected to hear as able a lecture as the orators's awkward position would admit of- but I must say, that a more lame, grovelling, superficial and dishonest address, can never have disgraoed human lips. It was a gross insult to his audience, and I was rejoiced to see that, excepting a Cew rhetorical flourishes, it was received with a most appropriate coldness." Garrison, of the Liberator, speaks of him as "acting as a decoy duck" for the VVhig party. He say s:"I scarcely know what to think of Mr. Clay. I con only say that he did not impress me favorably. It was evident to me that his moral code was no higher than that ofthe mere politician, which is so low as ever to sacrifico the future tothe present, and principie to - He is an enthusiastic admirer of Henrv Clay, and wants to make him the President of the United States, knowing him to be an incorrigible man-thief !" "Practically, therefore, I think Cassius M. Clay is to be regarded as tlie most dangerous foe to the cause of e?nancipalion noto in the field."