The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1844-10-16
n no CAsSIUS.

Here is another epislle, before the ink is dry
on the paper in which leave was taken of that
which we were assured was the last. But this.
it seems, has found its way into the newspapers
without the least agency of either Cassins M. or
Henry Clay. The public will naturally inquire
how this occurred. Ii is thus stated in the AL
bany Atlas:
DouBLE-D EALrNG.--The following letter, as we
learn from the Evening Journal, from which we
take it, was written by Henry Clay to his kius-
man, Cassius NJ. Clay, and was sent, under CO.
yer, TO the Hon. Willis Green. Mr.. G.. forwar-
ded it from Washington, under cover, 10 Mr.. B..
Blunt, Of the New York Tribune, for Mr.. G. M.
Clay. Mr.. Greeley, it is said, lost the letter
from hls pocket, and / it was found and published
in the New York Democrat.
CONFIDENTIAL.
"AsHLAND, Sept. Is, 1874.
"My DEAR SIR: | received your favor of the
10th instant, in which you state that you will be
in Boston on the 10Th, where it is impossible
this letter can reach you; andI therefore send it
to the Hon. Willis Green, to be forwarded 10
you.
| am perfectly persuaded of your friendly in
~tent;ons, and feel grateful for them. But you
Can have no conception unless you had been
here, of the injury, which your letter 10 the Iri-
6une was doing; and that was nothing in compa-
rison to that which it was likely TO inhict upon
the wing cause in the States of Tennessee.
North Carolina, and Georgia. Our friend John
Speed Smith, as we'll as others, thought it even
endangered the State of Kentucky. This eff
feet resulted from your undertaking to speak of
my private feelings and those of my near and
particular friends, and your statement that you
had been ten years operating in the abolition
cause.
"Under these circumstances, there was an alb
solute necessity for the note which | published,
although | regretted it extremely. | endeavor-
ed SO 10 shape it as not TO wound your feelings,
and | hope did not.
clad you been here you would have concur
red with myself and other friends in thinking it
indispensable.
"You must be we'll aware of the very great
del;cacy of my position.
CAT the North | am represented as an ultra
supporter Of the institution of slavery, whilst at
the South | am described as an abolitionist: when
| am neither 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 you. There, you are even represent
ed as being my son; hence the necessity of the
greatest cIrcumspection, and especially that
should avoid committing mo.
"You are watched wherever you 60, and eve
ry word you publicly express will be tortured
aud perverted as my own are.
"After all, / am afraid you are too s~anguine
in supposing that any considerable number of
the liberty men can be induced TO support me,
How can that be expected after they have voted
against Mr.. Slade?
"With assurances of my thankfulness for your
friendly purposes, and with my best respects for
Mrs. Clay,
81 am truly and faithfully your friend,
II. CLAY.
&C. M. Clay, esq"
The New York Democrat in an article intro
ductory to this letter, says:
awe feel il due to Mr.. Cassius M. Clay, TO
state, that OH Saturday afternoon, he called al
our office in company with bis friend, Mr.. MEL
rath, of the Tribune, and examined the original
letter, of which the following is a copy. After
perusing it, and examining the signature thereto,
he in the most manly and honorable manner,
admitted that it was a genuine letter from Mr..
Clay to him, and that the signature attached
thereto was the genuine signature of Henry Clay.
And Mr.. M'Elrath added that they knew the
circumstances under which it was sent. With
these circumstances we have nothing whatever
TO do at present.