Fraud!

In the Iife of Clay by Junius, [Tract No. 4,] Mr. Clay's published sentiments on Duelling are thusstated: "But Mr. Clay is now an aniZ-duellist, if wc undcr.stand bim. "I owe it to the community to say," he publicly observed in later years, "thal no man in it holds in decper abhorrence than I do, that pernicious practice. lts true corrective will be found, when all shall unite, as all ought to unite, in its unqualified proscription." ín Prentice's Iife of Clay, p. 297, and in the New World edition oC the Iife of Clay, and in all otlier places where we have seen the quolation, it reads thus: ;I oweit to the community to say, that [whatever heretofore I may have done, OR )JY INEVITABLE CIRCUM8TANCES MIGHT BE FORCEDTODO,] no man in it holds in deeper -abhorrence than 1 do. that pernicious practice," &c. Now what are we to think of the integrity of a writer, who will thus, for party purpöses, deliberately mutílate the statements of his own candidate? The words in bracketts were evidently expunged on purpose to keep the true position of Mr. Clay from the eyes of his i-eaders. Such an omission is tantamouat to preconcerted falsehood; for it is scarcely possibie to imagine tbat such an alteration of Mr. Clay's writings could be accidental. In its moral aspeets, how much better is this than the Roorback forgery?