New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-03-27
TgE TRIBUNE.
MORNING, MARCH 81
.crans Rally OF the Wings The Demo

-crand Rally OF the wings! The Demo.
1Uh;z Young Men OF the City and CoontY oil Ne"
invited 10 ally National Hall, Capai.s''-et OF
rHURsDAY EVENING, March 2Sih at hai' pa'' sever
,.loct TO respond TO The nomination OF
MORRIS FRANKLIN for Mayor
r. Mechanics and Working iien OF the City and COUNTY
arr pecalIy attend and lend their AID TO the
es a sad d. s meeting
order OF the De"0eI1 baVp RSHsM 1 Chairman
CHaRLEs X TAYLoI, }sscretarie. ,nh % 3tis
~ We ought sooner 10 hara acknowledge our iHue'',
ness to Nesss ADAMS Co for the hrs; receipt OIL a 0y
th Caledonia on SATURDAY, morning and TO essrs
On and " GRsESE P NJ. of Boston for farther ah1
more abundant supply The latter Were ol"aIoe' " a" -
press arranged IN concert win ''e roSs o ~ p
sa..-s,.xery Men! Hear Cassius NJ. Clay!
The following letter from CAssIus M. CLAY to
ore of the many who have written him for an ex-
nressien of his views respecting the Presidency
has been transmitted Us for publication. We ask
all opponents of Slavery to give 1t that consider
alton to which the character, ability, and well
known, emphatic Anti-Slavery sentiment OF the
writer entitle it. He has Just given new proof
of the sincerity and depth of his conviction by
emancipating all his oon Slopes-thus divesting
himself of legally entrenched Rights of Property
worth some $4,000. Let the man who has done
more. risked more sacrificed more, for Enamel
patton than CAss1Us NJ. CLAY condemn the de.
cision announced in the following noble declara-
ton
Commu ncated FOR The n. Y. Tribune.
LEXINGTON, KY. March 20, 1874.
WI. MCKINNEY, Esq. Mayor Of Dayton, Ohio.
Dear SIR Your letter of February 10Th last, was
in due time received, and have waited thus long
with the intention of not answering it at ALL because
as | am private citizen, not seeking Office al the
hands of the People, it mis- hit place in the
presumptuous attitude OF attempting to influence, by
mere weight Of opinion, the votes ofmy countrymer
in their choice of President: when neither my age
experience, nor fame, warranted the assumption
But since the reception Of your letter, have receiv
ed many of similar import from Liberty men am
Anti-Slavery Wings in most of the Northern States
pressing upon me an expression OF opinion, in such
manner that should prove false 10 that spirit oil
candor which proudly cherish characteristic oil
the principles which advocate did l. through any
affectation ofhumty remain longer silent. You asl,
me, "Will you, you live and are able TO vote al the
approaching Presidential election, vote To- Henry
Clay for President 1.-THE Third Party. or Liberty
men, should have an Electoral Ticket in your State,
would you vote that ticket preference? Were you
citizen Of Ohio, which of these tickets would You
vote 2" The last two questions are such us would
require curious other suppositions TO BIZ made before
7 du;ya IN
and all the parties concerned, which would be too
rolumnous for the space OF single letter: und, for
all practical purposes, they will be sufficiently an
swered in my reply to the first question that, Is
my most decided determination TO rote for HENRY
CLAY for President" Men never have and never
will in all cases, think alike: all Governments ne
eessarily sacrifice, to some extent, OF individual
will: that is the best Government 10 each individual
which fosters or allows the most OF what that indi-
dividual believes to be conducive 10 his best interests.
The question then is not Can | find some man 10
vote for among seventeen millions, who thinks IN all
respects as myself? bat, Who is the man. all things
present and remote considered willmosprobably
be able by success to give ehecuation to those great
measures which deem conducive TO my welfare,
and the welfare of my whole country This ques-
ton every voter in the Republic must determine for
himself: For myself, after looking calmly upon all
the surrounding circumstances Conscience, Patri-
otsm and fothers prefer the term enlightened self
interest, consran to vote for Henry Clay. The
Tariff, the Currency, the Lands, Economy, Execu-
tive and Ministerial Responsibility, and many other
interests, all depend, in my humble Judgment, on
Mr. Claws ecton for beneficial determination
And if he is elected the decision of 1910 passed by
the People, will be confirmed, and the policy of the
Country settled Then, and (such is the anarchy
Of the public miud not till then shall we have time
to look aboutus, aud project that other great reform
the reduction of American Slavery TO its consttu
tiona limits, and 10 concentrate the united condem
nation of the civilized world 10 It's final and uterex
tincsion.
Mr.. Clay is indeed Stakeholder wish he were
not. Yet it does not become me- who have so lately
ceased TO be Shareholder myself, to condemn him.
1t is not my province TO defend MIR, Clay: this he
is abundantly able TO do himself 1t remains witt
posterity to determine how much shall be due hin
for the glorious impulse his erven spirit has given
Liberty throughout the world: and with them also
to say, how much shall be subuacted from this ap
probation, for his having only failed 10 do all tina
could be done in this holy cause Cyrus, Themis
tocles, Plato, Cato, Aristdes Demosthenes, Cincin
nstus and Cicero sacrificed to base heather gods
yet no man, because they knew not the true God
viii say that they were not religious, great good
and patriotic men. t. B. Macaulay, one of the mos
acute and enlightened men of this or any era in his
review of the life of Francis Bacon justly says:
1--WE should think it unjust 10 call ST. Louis {
wicked man because, in an age in which federation
was generally regarded sin, he prosecuted here
tics. We should think it unjust to call Cowper
friend, John Newton t hypocrite and monster, be
cause at q time when the Slave-tradc was common