The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1844-10-11
From the Globe.
rTOtu tne "
HENRY TO CASSIUS.

has found us way lhto Tic hc"sP"PS''
least agency of either Cassius or Henry Clay Inc
public will naturally inquire how this occurred
1t is thus stated IN the Albany Atlas:
DOUBLE pEALING.-The following letter, as
we learn from the Evening Journal, from whlch |
we take it, was written by Henry Clay to his kins-
man. Cassius M. Clay, and was sent, under cover,
to the Hon. Willis Green Mr.. q. forwarded IL
from Washington, under cover, TO Mr.. b. nun''
of New York. Mr.. Blunt delivered II 10 MI T
Greeley of the New York Tribune, for Mr. Y. M
CLAW. Mr. Greeley, it is said, lost the letter from
his pocket. and it was found and published In the
New York Democrat
TcoNFIDENTIAL
"AsHLAND, Sept. IS, 1Si4.
"MY DEAR SIR: received your favor OF the
10th instant, in which you state that you WIN oe
in Boston on the l9th where 1t Is impossiole ms
letter can reach you and therefore send 1t 10 the
Hon. Willis Green, to be forwarded toyou
81 am perfectly persuaded Of your friendly in
tentions, and feel grateful for them. But you can
have no conception, unless you had been here, OF
the injury which your letter to the 1Tiouae was
doing; aud that was nothing in comparison 10 that
which it was likely to nfCt upon the whig cause
in the States of Tennessee, North Carolina ana
Georgia Our friend John Speed Smith, as well
as others, thought it even endangered the State OF
Kentucky. This effect resulted from your under
s ,hst vou had been ten wears operating in the abo
lition cause.
"Under these circumstances, there was an obso-
lutte necessity for the note which published, al
though fesfeaeu ' ,, n"pd vour feelngs. and
hope did not
49,, 81 r,,,solf and o,her friends in thinking il in
1;sao,,snbIc ''s,
bo ,yoI aware Of the very great deli
,,o,! i oT TI r,,, ,,''0C ,,ositon
AZ ths Nurtb | am represented as an ultra-sup-
norter If the institution of slavery, whilst at the
South am described as an abolitonist; when am
neitber one nor the other As we have the same
sirname, and are, moreover. related great use is
made At the South against me, of whatever falls
from vou There, YOU are even represented as
beog INV son: hence the necessity oi the greatest
circumspecton, and especially that you should
avold committing me- ,,o,, m. and every
i w qua a'I ,,iIcly cxnress viii be tortured and
noryeT,ed as INV own are
"Afe all, ! am afraid you are too sahS'ine III
supposlng that any % ~ '1o mo How
iDc,ty o" van after thev have voted against
| Mr.. Slade,
"Wih assurances OF my thahkiu'ne9s ~. yor, e."
friendly purposes anu WIN my
-'-''' IT,, ,rrly ond faithfully. your friend,
"H. CLAY.
&C. M. CLAY, esq
The NWy York Democrat, III ah aio''e i"''o'
ductory to this letter, says:
"Wt feelH due TO ar: Cass"s M. Gay ~
Stnte NHa' o" c.;,,J ~. NJ E,Jrotb
re T,r;b,,,,e o,d ero,,ined the original letter
of aciich the folloCiag is a copy. after perusiaa
it. and examining me signature mereto' ne,
ne "a m,S' M-"'y u''a :'o''D ,',c t" ~. IJa,,
him onJ that t1e s;gnature attached thereto ira
the genuine signature Of Henry Clay. .iad Nh
.nEirath ddded that Mey hhe,c ,ne e"cu"StA'oe "''
"'neF ,'Htm !" " 10 ,er IN yo ot nre,
cnJ
5 II has been published in divers federal journa
snca ;ts first anneorance, and CLAW Junior has mad
I dozan amendments to address meetings in tn
, abolition sections of New York, in which no douI
, ho ,y;l make rood use of this letter. It's or
which he NAV make answer his purpose among
neopIe not very well informed OF Mr.. Henry Clay
: former denuncatons of them in Congress, as
means of acquiring southern favor.
f Mr. Cassius NJ Clay may hold this letter up
the abolitionists, and show itas new cormissic
=, of Mr. II. Clay TO continue his labors for him,
one who is in heart an emancipator, notwthstan
ing his public revocation of the first authority gi
Ell to act in his behalf. His denial of the feent
imputed to him by his kinsinan, Cassius, was mer
IL for effect in the slave States. His private lie
u ter, above given, is almost an admission OF Il
statement made to the aboIiuonists by his kinsma
) who sad "IJeieUe his Henry Cidy's) feeling
are ,oiil the cause IknOtC that those most il
q aneaiaLelv arithll his influence approximate
/. snyselfa sentiment up0n the subject Of siacTy
s To this statement of his kinsman, Mr. II. Cla
h for the reasons assigned in the above letter. ft
constrained to pu, in denial for the public at hom
a In card published in the Lexington Oh server,
declared that it s,cas made lcithOm any authO,i
-, from me-" and he added, $50 far as he (Ca8siu
. uent,ues 10 interpret my feelings, he has who