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indeed, has such warm friends as Henry Clay,
and none. am sorry 20 believe, has such im.
placablc foes, for these are causeIessly such,
and do. not know the man they hate.
Ii will be some days before Mr.. CLAY appears
beiorcahe Supreme Court, and in the meantime
he is likely TO be run down BY troops Of friends,
--alfIhemore true to him, because the multi
iude believe il improbable that he will be per-
mitted TO occupy position which would give
him the patronage Of the Government.
An extraordinary speech was made in the
Senate to-day by Reverdy Johnson, Of Md
The first half of il was essentially an Admins
traiiOn speeeh,-Ihe second branch entirely
Whigish,--the third and concluding part will
come tomorrow. have never seen so many
paradoxcs crowded into so small n space, and
the whole argument thus far, indeed, is but a
bundle of contradictions. The war in one breath
was defended as "nsl and honorable" :" and in the
next as unnecessary and unconstitutional. lii
said in part first, that it was brought on 'by the
act Of Mexico, and in part second, by the act
Of the President. In one argument, the whole
Territory between the Nueces and the Rio
Grande is put down as indispulabfe Texan and
Uniled States Territory, and in the next is called
disputed Territory. Il was annexation which
brought on the war, as is said in one, and the
Resolutions Of lS45, in RnOther,-but most Of
all it was the act Of the President, ordering Gen.
eral Taylor TO march from the Nueces to the
Rio Grande,--and for Ihs order, us for the exc.
cuIion Of the act Of annexation, (ihe Resolu.
tiOns oi l845) the President is made responsible
for the war, and the strongest language is used
by the Senator in pointing TO the extent of this
responsibility. In his retirement il is said no
can claim none of the honor fIhe splendid bat.
Ties fought aud victories won, but he will rather
sec the crlrnsoncd fields of blood, made go thro'
his inslrumentaily, and hear the cries Of the
widow and the orphan who have been made TO
mourn by his unjust aud illegal acts. 1t was
your order TO the American troops which brought
on this war, and it was your violations of the
expressed will Of Congress. The Senate of the
United States had rejected treaty annexing
Texas TO the Union, because in the manner pro.
posed they knew and declared that this would
have been war. The President knew this, too,
and knowing it, he went on 10 do that which the
Senate had condemned, and lha, which he knew
Congress would not sanction.
| shall not attempt TO reconcile Mr.. Johnson,s IS
speech. 1t is, indeed, thus far wholly irreconcla-
bic, but the motive of il presume, has been to
shield the country from wrong At the expense of
truth. Like many other men, he breads what
the world may say of us, that indeed, which we
say of each other, and hence his jealousy of The
good name of our country in the estimation Of
the world.
The speech has made much remark.
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with part one but made wry faces with the home
truths against the Executive in part second
Nobody, presume, was pleased with the whole
speech, except. perhaps, the author himself and
iIwould have been much better for Mr.. Johnson's
reputation if his speech bad never been made,
Never was there better illustration Of the sol.
cmn truth that mo man cun serve Two masters"
two sets of principles, and these Il. the antipodcs
ofeoch other, than is 70 be found in This speech.
T.: d.