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Henry CLAY rs MIssOURL-On Friday last
we hung up in our office half n sseet ot PAPER.
s;cnifving that all who would like 10 see " Henry
cur uezt Pres,denf,' would please put down
their names Before night the word flew like
wiid.frc around tovn--up and down streets
among Wigs and Loeo-F ocos-an1 people ot
cvcry sect. class, age and business, tha, the
PLrnnr was ready. and before night roll sevc-
raj feet long wa. filed up. The nsxi morning We
attached another ,hce, OF blank p,pcr 10 the roll.
and in le., than an hour it Wa filed up, and a
dozen Who WISHED 20 sim had to keep cool until
.n,'h. sheet AMI waters could bc got ready In
,no,I-r hour = democrat cane in u enlist unsor
the banner Of - our Harry and 10 snd oehold the
Wigs had monopolised all the last sheet win
heir name, We soon wafered on another, and
down went the name of one Of Nj. Van Burens
best a1d warrncst friends. As may well bc I'm
agined we were somewhat astonlshed. and asked
him if he was really in earnest IN putting down
his name among the friends of Henry Clay " Ia
earnest" he replied " why yes, ye. Sir, an IN
earnest ard every Democrat IN the country should
now go and do likewise But We asked, what
he had seen lately that mad altered his poliii-
cal opinion.l Sir, he answered, :" have been
in business in thi, city fcI nearly ten years. Some
wears ago when We nad branch OF the United
States down here on Main-strest. there was a.
va,s plenty, plenty Of exchange in market upon
eyerv business point in the Union. If oGr mer-
chant. or mechanic. wanted any amount OF sx-
change. great or small, we could always get IT q,
the counter of ha, branch Bsnk and have Oh
mined thousands Of dollars there upon New-fork
and Boston for less than one per cent. Vow Sir
it is scarce to get for any price and II 1t can DE
found. twenty and thirty per cent above the cur
rencv of the city j. demanded for 1t. and we must
nav that or 20 without 1t, and be ruinrd cy the
nro,cs, of our note. in the East. In those good
old bnsincs, times, all our Banks in the West
paid down the ready specie for their bills, and
never thought OF closing their doors on our rea-
souable demands for discounts. fes, Sir, go IN
heart and hand for Henry Clay. The fact Is Sir'
the Democratic party hate thi. excitement that the
Wings are getting up for Mr.. Clay, and yet itcan.t
be stopped, and they know it. Aad If you think
il strange to see the name of one Democrat on that
list can tell you that YOU Will see stranger thing,
VET in tha, line. The most honest and calm aud
discerning of the party will come up and sign that
pledee by hundreds. Ne earthly power can keep
Mr.. Clay from the pos, he ought TO have had long
aro." We .traightway went and ~a'-red on ak
sheets in.tanter to the Pledge, and there are now
several ward. of names on ii.


St Louis Republican, July IL.