The State guard., 1848-08-15
C M. CInv and TayIor.

c. M. Clay and Taylor.
 We are astonished by the appearance in the N. Y. Tribune of tue following let ter from CAss1us NJ. CLAY to HORACE GREELEY. The late quarrel on the score of HENRY CLAY, appears to be healing up under the influence of the powerful anti slaeey sympathies which unite these two individuals. Says CAssIUs. to HORACE, s'on this most vita1 of all questions Iprefef TAYLOR because he will not veto Will mot Proviso Bill. Horace cogitates, and evidently comes to the same conclusions "The triumph of the Whig party, with its Free Soil prestige" is destined to. "lock the wheels of pro-slavery action P
 WHITE HALL,P. o. Ky. June 2s, ls4s.
 DEAR GREELEY: As you have had some time to cool as well as myself, and seem yet hesitating whether or not to go for the regular Whig nomination, you will allow me to suggest few thoughts for your consideration. We are both Wings from youth up to the present time. We certainly, then, if we should think proper at any time to change our party alliances, cannot be approached with deserting our first love for any othermotive than be- cause the Wings cease to be worthy of farther alliances. That you should hesi- tate what to do in the present emergency, when the subject of Slavery Extension comes up for immediate ac.ion, is to me a source of pleasure and hope rather than of pain or censure. Let us, then, see.
 In the first place, fairness requirs Nor thern Wings to go for Nomination. The friends. of Taylor wished to run him as an independent candidate; but no, said you and I, if "Whig, but not an ultra Whig," let him come into the Convention and stand or fall with the Wings. It can hardly be possible that you wished to bring us into counsel to DESTROY US Personal honor, then. requirs you to support Taylor, unless the Republic maniiestly would re- ceive great detriment, by your fidelity to pledges. Let us see. Can we beat Fay. Tor and Cass with free soil candidate If we can, 1 think the great question of the age requirs us to insure certainty and not trust an uncertainty. NHIGs should elect the man who will VETO ALL SLAVE EXTENSION. think you will be- lieve, with me, tha. 1.-THE TIME HAS NOT YET COME" And defeclion, then on oul part will enure to the benefit of Lewis Cass and to the injury of z. Taylor Now, however much denounced, am for the ''LEssER EVIL" 1 know no morality based upon any other PRINCIPLE, than to look around you and MAKE THE BEST of .,n xls An, other principle puts the good in the power of the bad-the scrupulous in the powerol the unscrupulous-the just in the power of the unjust, First, then, as to mem Taylor is a shareholder by birth and ha5H ---Cass a shareholder PoLITICALLY by CALCULATION. Which his the better man say Taylor. How do they stand com. mitted? Taylor says nothing upon the subject of Slavery, but claims Washing ton as his model, and declares in favor of the supremacy of Congress-. Cass holds that Congress cannot legislate against the admission of Slavery into new territories, and of course must VETO any bill pRonI. HITTING ITS INTRODUCTION. As men, then, Taylor is preferable to Cass. Now as to parties. Who will be most apt to stand for Liberty. the Wings or their op. ponents Let Texas speak Let the Mexican War speak! Let tine ultries of the South speak Let those who openly avow in Convention Gall of Mexico and Cuba' speak Again, suppose Lewis Cass President, and a bill comes up for the admission of New Mexico into the Union--or its constitution into a Territo. rial Government-and majority of Con- gress put in the Wilmot Proviso, will they stand out against the Executive Veto and claim "Free Soil or No Soil r Let the vote on Texas answer! Suppose Taylor President, and such bill up, will not the whole Whig party of the North and some large portion of the South say "Free Soil or No Soilp Let the past answer also. From Gen. Taylor's pledges, I believe that he could not interfere by Veto; for unless the law be unconstitutional he could not interfere. But with all the acts of this Government in favor of Slavery Re. striction, as ably set forth in the Utica Jefferson, think there is a moral certain ty that he could not veto. such a bill. .--l But suppose he did; would not the triumph of the Whig party with its FREE SoIL PRESTIGE be more likely to summon true men, enough to LOCK the wheels of pro- slavery action, than the same result would be likely to occur under THE PARTY WHO CLAIM TEXAS AS AN "ExrENTIoN OF THE AREA OF FREEDOM ?" Such at least are my conclusions, honestly and maturely ar rived at. On "he question: of Slavery, which to me is the most vital of all, how ever much may be denounced for incon- sistency, Taylor the shareholder is infnite- ly preferable to Cass.aola ts
 Respectfully your obedient servant
 y ez c. M. CLAY.