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fl Card.--Mr McDuffee was right in SUD- posing that had no unfriendly feeling in the publication to which he refers. Indeed, could have none, his ccurtesies to me have been such as to inspire a very different sen timent. We go together on some subjects con- nccted with tha broad construction doctrines, and only regret that weNpart on the Bank question: But, upon this subject, have ever felt peculiar solicitude, and am free to con- less that shall never cease to exercise that highly valued right, secured to me in common with every citizen, freely to express my opin- ions concerning 1t, & to employ every fail-wea- pon tending to its complete demolition. To this end did believe, that the information had received, though anonymous, might be laid before the public, for what it was worth.- Ard, in so doing, did consider it fair and equal venture-lf true, had an undoubted right to all its advantage. false, flat de- nlal from such high standing as that occu- pied by MT McDuffie would, as it has done, put the matter to rest, and place him and his cause upon better ground. Besides, it would afford him an opportunity of stopping the cir culation of report which, he must believe, he would have to meet; for, fit could come to me in an anonymous shape, itwould go, if it had not already gone, in that, CT some other way, to thousand others, and would, at last be found in every mouth.

 Anonymous information, in political matters IS not always to be despised. History is full ot instructive lessons to the contrary. Apart from the memorable instance in our own an- nals, with which know Mir McDuffie is ia miliar, would beg to call his attention to the celebrated case found at the 63d page of Hume's 5th volume of England. Placing Congress in the same situation, what would he have thought, if he had received such letter as Mat, and for fear of it's being con- sdered an ''equivocal endorsement, or thro' cold and calculating dread-f, indeed, there really were any necessity for dread--of pro- secution for libel, had kept it to myselfo- Could it be justified? Now, dreadful as was the design of that case, in my opinion, it forms no comparison, in reference to consequences, with the one communicated to me, provided it had proved equally true. That in it's re- suit, was confined to a huctuating religious impulse, and would, perhaps, have ended with the HUes of few Individuals, in a gov elnment where the people were easily satis- fled with any master. This might have stretched it's cancerous flores throughout our whole political institutions, and terminated the liberties ofa country. where free princi- pies have made the last best stand known to the world.

 At all events, Mir McDuffie can have no just ground of complaint. The matter has ended to his own advantage, and what is bet ter, to the prompt vindication of the charac- ter of the government.

 A. s. CLAYTON.