The Arkansas banner., 1848-05-09
PRENTICE ON CaMIrS N. CLAY.

"Go on good Cassias" you are certainly kicking uP dust in your party, and f it does not obscure, or seriously affect the chances of Henry Clay for the nomination, least produces some fun for the Democrats.
 The Louisville Journal, is out upon Cassius in the hcrces styie,and is public bear flight, We copy portion of the remarks of the Journal After characterisng the letter to Mir. Clay, malignant, atrocous, and cOntemptble," he aliudes to thai portion of 1t in which it is stated that the whig party paid the debts of Mr. C. after the election in lsA. It seems that this fund was made uP by contribution secretly, and il was intended that Mir. Clay should never know, by whom it was arranged. But Cassus who was one of the contributors says 10 his narnesake tive paid your debts' and the Journa takes this as insulting taunt that he had aided in liquidating the debt.
 The Journalsays:
 "There may be sill others among the cOntribu- tors, who utterly destitute of ali gencnanly feel ings and instincts w al one time another. say insnllihgly to Mr. Clay, We paid your dsbts, but weTcan answer for It that Mir. Clay will cancel all such obligations fast they thus brought 10 his skno"iedge-always, We trust. taking good care to TequITe vouchers that the amounts contributed are not from forgetfnHess any other cause over slated by the contributors.
 Cas+Ius M. Clay, in bs let CT. avows that he is MT Clafs personal encmy; and that he has. from fhe neressy of his nature, been so ever since Aug lSlt. Ibis ceTtsinly seems strange, viewed in [ nection with matter, which. ever since Cassus M. Clay's return from Mexico, has been freely spoken of in Kentucky. A Kentucky officer, Lt. Davidson, who was caPtared with C. Nj. Clay and others by tho MexicsBs at Encarnacion. stated that upon their being made prisoners, Capt. C. NJ. Clay 1 Folp g1ssI pa lfv m onlk tn taat, commander, that he was the son of the Honorable Henry Clay, who at the head of the peace par- V m the United States; and that, if he io be killed, his iustrious (afisr and the whole peace party would turn against Mexico, and execute ter rble vengeance upon her. Now, it almost seems as il there must be mistake about this thing; tor
 should hardly suppose that Cassius M. Clay, for the sake o his breath, the paliry modlcum ol anos pherc air that goes ia and out al his nose, would pass himself off upon nsuspeciing foreigner The son of a man tJ whom he ayows himseH an en- emy. We can imagine but explanation of the occurrence, if it is true. Cassius says he is Mi Clay's enemy "froln the necessity of his nat1re and perhaps he played of his chvdlic stTatagem upon the Mexican cfhce- 'lrom the necessity of his nature"
 Since writing the preceding paragraph, we have heard, good authority, piece oi tesimoBy, con 6rming the statement ol Lt. Davidson. Malor Bol- land, Who Was one cf the Encarnacion prisoners, and who recently elected 10 the United States Senate by inc Arkansas Legislature. stated. while m this city few days ago, that Capt. C. M Clay
 when The prisoners threatened with death, beg ged pitcousiy for his own life, resting his petition upon the alleged fact of his close relationship o the Hon Henry Clay, the friend of peace. Major Bor
 land does not distinctly Tecoect whether the peti
 tioner represented himself to inc Mexican the son, merely the rery r'iaiir of the Honora- te Henry Clay. Lieut. Davidson asserts positive ly that he called himself the son, and dc ubt le did At any rate, his life spared and for that liie whatever its value want of value may be, 1t seems he was indebted to his exceedingly camorous oaim of close relationship to his iIlusrious narne- sake, to whom he now claims the honor of having been at that very time pereonat enemy' Chivalry
 takes many forms, and this, We suppose, was one 1 ot them.