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ee and reported back with request of the committee
to be discharged from its consideration, which
Cured in The for this that it APP
peared to have no practical object of public utility.
1t should not be forgotten that the transmission of Mr.
Cays resolutions promptly from Cincinnati to Pha-
delphia was by Morses telegraph
y-The Philadelphia News is respectfully notified that
proosheets OF part of the official dispatches
Monday the only offices in that city which specially
requested it by telegraphc messages. There was Of
course, no "undue exercise Of official favor"
Mr.. CIny's Speech missouri Compromise.
The following letter from Kentucky reminds us Of Mr.
Cays speech We would ask any of correspondents,
who had copy of it, to send it us, if supposed
there any copy of it exant Our decided impression
is that the speech reported 1t delivered
the sh of February, 1920, and the National nellgencer
merely reports that it more than four hours long
We have not been able to find the speech subsequently
reported in file of that Journal though it is filed with
speeches in both houses on the Missouri question We
have examined three different collections of Mr. Cays
speeches. and is not to be found in any of them Col
ton, his life of Mr. Clay, speaks of the speech but his
description of the whole affair is ntoeraby meagre
The file of the National ntellgencer furnishes two other
speeches of the orator upon the Missouri question: but
they short and made in the earlier stages of the dis
cusson, proposition not to admit the State of Maine
into the Union until Missouri was also admitted Mr.
Clay supported this proposition
To tie Editor of the Union:
The politics of the country at this juncture so full
of interest to every patriot, that knowledge OF small
matters may be of some importance to the editor OF
leading public journal The documents which have Ia
ken the pains prepare may be- perhaps already known
to you. allude to Mr.. Clay's speech the Missouri
Compromise From all learn that speech was not
publshed at any rate, does not appear in the book
containing Mr. Ciays speeches. Here is extract from
letter addressed to the editor of the Kentucky Reporter
published at Lexington. Kentucky That paper was then
fully as much as now devoted to the interests of Mr.
Clay Mr. Smith, the editor, being his devoted friend
politician. The facts stated may be all familiar
you. You may have MIR. Clay's speech enre butf you
another time, which maintains the ground taken
in the speech on the Missouri Compromise
Cry OF WASHINGTON, Feb. II, 1920
To the Editor of the Reporter:
In the of his speech he Mr. Cayl adduced one
analogy, struck those in favor of the par
tcuarly the delegation from that Sate-wh no little sur
mont into the Union, a warm dispute had arisen be-
tween her and New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and
which was ultimately referred to Congress Congress
therefore, in order they conceived to terminate this
troversy passed, in 779 resolutions which nded
four separate Jurisdictions at the time in the
territory This was, in its nature impossible, par
men and exercised them in every section of the State
Under these circumstances Vermont deemed it duty she
owed herself to take decisive part aud IN appeal TO
the impartial word the governor and council declared
hat the Congress OF the United States had right TO in
termedde in the internal policy and government OF Yer
mont; that the existed Independently of any Of the
thirteen United States and not accountable TO them or 10
and that the State of Vermont
represented in Congress- and could submit resolu-
ssed without their consent Congress further
told by the governor and council in spirited remonsrance
9n 1888 that, by their articles, they
lice OF any the United States and least all with that
of Vermont from which they had received any dele
gated authority; and that Vermont had good right
independence Congress, and much authority pass
resolutions prescribing measures Congress- Congress
had prescribe measures to them"
The application OF this fact made in mastery
and ingenious manner, and the inference drawn from
so conclusive, that the eastern gentlemen quite stag
gered and what very unaccountable the Vermont dele
cation themselves seemed II they had been wholly unac
prise An appeal also made the State of Pennsy
vania by Mr. Clay that required all the ingenuity and dex
tery of Mr. Sergeant who followed him several hours
attempt get over; but this after ALL he elected but
partially and chain well put together and
twned around that links have yet been bro
ken. y IS The principal force OF his mind was oil
rected the establishments OF the great and paramount
prime constitution gives right TO prescribe
ashed by the conclusive and logical train OF
sonnp . This 5 certainly OF the most moment
important aud interesting questions, that has ataed
Congress for many years. and will form
history that will be referred to for many centu
This whole letter. which fills nearly two columns of
the Reporter closely printed full of interest," but have
quoted enough show not only Mr. Cays opinion then,
but also an important fact the history OF New England
The extracts from the letter are copied literally and ex
actly.