Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1860 — Mr, Clay's Speech. [ARTICLE]

Mr, Clay's Speech.

We are glad to notice a general disposition among the Opposition journals of Kentucky to treffT Ytre recent exposition of Republican principles by Cassius M. Clay with candor. The following notice of it, which appeared in the Frankfort , is copied into other papers of the Stato without dissent or comment: “There was nothing in the speech of Mr. Clay to which the most ultra pro-slavery man might not have listened without feeling; that his self-respect had been violated; for while the speaker forcibly and fearlessly proclaimed his determined opposition to the institution, his sentiments were avowed without insult to those who differed from him. The speech was a moderate one in tone and language, and dictated, we thought, by a c mediatory spirit. It was an attempt, in many respects successful, to show how and wherein the Republican party had been misrepresented by Magoffin and Senator Breck- ; inridge, aad to place the principles of that I organization in what he believed to be their true light before the people of Kentucky. Mr. Clay has generally been regarded as an ultra anti-slavery man, as he certainly is, yet there were few who heard him who, whilo widely differing even from the comparatively moderate doctrines asserted in his speech, ■ did not concede if Mr. Clay represented truly ■the principles of the Republican party, they ' were not quite so desperate a set of scamps as they had been led to believe.”