Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1848-05-13


# the opportunity of secretly laying Mr..
Clay under q peeiniaty obligation, with
The view of being able to iannt him with it
upon s1ttie future OCCASION, K lowing al tho
sumo iitno thai the illHstrious statesman
would scutn to accept such an obligation
fron him If asate of lis snitfce, - nare
lifah We aie prepared t, shy There may
be still others lt1bng he contributors. vth0i
utterly destitute u all gentlrtninly feelings
and instincts, will, at nne tim or other,
say insultingly 10 Mr.. Clay, ave paid
your debts,' but we can answer for it that
Mr.. Clay will cancel all such obi cations
SO fast ~ they are thus brought 70 bis
knowledge always, we trust, taking good
care 10 require vpic hers that the amounts
cont ihuted are not, ftom lorgetGd4tss or
any other cause, Oyefstatpd Ivy the con-
tftlntofs.
Cassius VI. Clay, In his letter, syows
that he IL MIR CIay's personal enemy nd
that he has, from he necessity ofhis nature,
been so yer since Augu t, 1916. This
certainly seems strange. viewed In coh-
n%erti0n with d matter, which, ever since
Cassius NJ. Clay's return f om Mexiro,
has been freely spoken Of in Kentucky.
A Kentucky officer, Lieut.. Davidson.
who was captured with c. NJ. Clay and
others by the Mexicans at Enclrnaeion.
stated. that, Upon their being mad prison.
ers, Capt. g. VI. CLAY protested earnestly
ih Spanish, to the Mexican commander,
that he was The son Of the Hon. Henry
Clay, who was at the head If the peace
party in the United States and that, II
he wetr to he killed, his illustriot,s fnfher
and te whole peace party would turn
against Mexico, and execute terrible ypn-
geauce upon her. Now, il almost seems
as il there must be sumo mistake nbott
this thing f1r we should hardly supp Isa
that Cassrus H. Clay, for III s,ke Of his
breath, the plltry III dictnn Of atnosplip IL
air that gOe Ia attI ont at his pose, W uld
pass hinlself off upon an uususp ctlI1 lot-
eigner ds the son of q liian to whom h.
nvows himself an enemy. We can in.
agine but one explanation Of the occur.
renee. if il Is true. Cnssius says h. is
Mr.. lays enemy ''lrum The necessity u
his nature !" aud perhaps be- played IF
his chivalric stratagpl upon the NeHiran
officer iron The necessity ofhis nature"
Since writing the preceding paragraph.
we have heard, 9n good authority. d piece
Of testimony, confirming the stltcmant If
Lieut.. Davidson. MAJOR Dorland. who
was one d the Bncarnae on prisoners, and
who was rec ntIy elected 10 The u. y. Sen
to hF the Arkansas begisl tturp, stated
willie III this city, a few dh S ag0, that
Capt @. VI. Clay. when the prisoners
W re threatened with death legged nit.
'ous J for bis own life, res ing his petition
upon the alleged fact If lis close relation
hip to the non. Henry Clay, the fficad of
peace. Major Borland DOES not distinctly
recoIIect y neither the .. ]titiuner represent.
d himself 10 the Mexieans as the soa. or
merely be rery neur r. laiipe Of the Hon.
Henry Clay. Lieut.. Davidson asserts
sSit vely that hs called himself the son,
aud no doubt he did. At any rate, his
lie was spared and for thai life, whH ev.
"r its value or want nfy tIue may be, il
srtns he was indebted to his exceedingly
c'aHiorotls claim ofriose relationship to his
tiIusIrious natnasake, to whom he now
claims the honor of having been Mt that
very timt a personal easmyt Chivairy
takes many forms, aud this, we suppose,
WAS one Of them.
The account, then, stands thus. IN 1874,
Cassin. NJ. Clay paid a small sum of
money for tie Hon. Henry Clay, without
he lion. Henry CIay's Knowledge, and,
he makes a pub ic boast oil II. In ls47,
he Hon. Henry Clay, by the influence nj
his great name, nsed without his knowl-
edge, saved the life of Cassius NJ. Clay,
AMI he makes no boast It it, public or pri.
va'e. As, however, the money was worth
something and the life may be worth 10th.
ing, we freely admit that the Hon. Henry
Clay is the drbtor 10 the full mount Of
Cas,ius' pc 'ntiary contribution. Henry
Cay undoubtedly considers the money re-
ceivcd from Cassius as a burden IT, him,
aud sooner than keep it, h would threw II
away. If CassiUs considers the life, for
which he is indebted 10 Henry Clay, u
burden, he can throw it away or not, just