New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-12-31
cassias N. Clay in rep., to K. Vi. Walsh.


The Gators Of tie yatioast isisitscnev'
Gsx1LENxs have cut the following from your
paper understood 10 be from Mr. W alh, your Paris
Correspondent I do not expect to 'ntrn'e my
sentiments or principes into any sheet where tney
are unwelcor,e am willing for every IMAM In lbs
Uno,, TO stand or fall by MS deserts. sthoosh
I feel the Injustice Of one-sided accounts which
have reached the public ear through the great rass
OF the Southern Press-yeto of thai neither DO com
plain, have calculated the cost and am willing
TO abide my time but deem i, but simple ana L
you please reluctant justice that Misrepresentation
should not be s,ereotyped in your columns without
/, s.,, conn,er suggestions i was threatened with
,nobs By the three Guy papers before published
single number of the True American This deter
ranation was never given up by my adversanes'
The alleged cause of the outbreak was mere pre-
text TO carry out preirranged violence, am pre-
pared 10 prove what is we'll known here, that ar
rangements were made to attack my Office long
before the 1lih number OF the True American, the al
legged cause OF offence That my sickness waa
taken advantage of in order 10 spread calunny with
effect, knowing could not take the stump and de-
fend myself That the cry of insurrecuon was basey
faISS Is proven Dy lLr liidl hN~'C +" a. NN' $500
have not been any preparations taken to guaro
against them II is true that ny purposes are e1
ceptire," 10 the language of your correspondent
because am in earnest about overthrowing slavery
aud for no other cause. Ii cannot be alleged tnat
the tone of the Louisville Journal or Of the Ohtis'
,ian Inteicencer was "exceptive' OF spirit which
wouId make them necessarily excepuve, yet the
same despotis is exercised over them as over the
Trpe American. say that there is more liberty OF
the press in Germany, France, and especially IN
England than In the Slave States-tor what are
fines and imprisonment to the summary despotlsm
OF the Slave Statesl
Mr.. Walsh may be very great paragraphist and
literary caterer, but is utterly unsuited TO sit in
Judgment when great principles of Liberty are at
stake-a man whose bread depends upon his sub
servience to certain clique is necessarily e.
ceptice" among true freedom men!
Your obedient servant, G. M. CLAY.
NIB. If you will not publish this-send ii to
the Newly York Tribune, or any independent press.
C.. NJ. c.
a You will see that Lord JOHN RUSSELL improved the
occasion of An address civic authorities OF Edn
burgh TO assign Great Britain the advantage OF greater
freedom in the expression OF opinion than exists IN our
Republic He awaited himself OF the case of CAssIus
NJ CLAY, in Kentucky but did not exhibit 1t fairly or
ingeuiously Doubtless his Lordship knows that the
question OF abolition in Slave State ia necessarily e.
cere according TO the spirit strain, and purpose with
which publicly treated la honest augmentation it
would general inference or uniavorable com
parison respecting American liberty OF the press or toe
tongue. There is not a community in Europe which
woud not have acted the hentuckians have DONE or
indeed with more prompt decision and coercion II
placed under the same circumstance
Ecy The Editors Of the In;elligencer having de-
cined to publish the above without modification
The Tribune very heartily welcomes it to its col
umns And we are glad of so good an opportunity
to say that Mr. Walsh ought to find some other
channel for his nsdons and incessan; pettliogging
for Annexation, aggression in Oregon. and every
scheme of Polkism, than the columns of leading
Wing paper. He is Palpably writing TO keep his
Office which is all very natural but it IS not fair to
give him the use of the lnteligencers columns to
trade upon. ia. Ir'o""e'