Thc Stolen letter from MIR. Clay.
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On Friday last, the Morning NcmS gave lukc,
that it had been Offered private letter from nlr
Clay TO Cassus NJ. Clay, which it had decline
TO publish considering tho utterancc of privat,
letters not a very creditablc mode of Politca
warfare. The Ercning PoSt has since sud tha
it was also waited on with what purportcd 10 b.,
such letter, which 1t likewise declined. Ih.
News spoke of il IN terms from which we inferrcc
that ii WAS probably forgery. We did not douh;
that such was the fact until, Oh returning SUNDAY
evening from a two days absence in Wcstchcs
ter, we found that tins alleged Letter from Mr.
Clay had on Saturday morning found place IL
the Democrat, and had been recognized and
claimed by CasSlu0 M. Clay as, in his judgment,
genuine letter from Henry Clay to him, though
he had never seen nor heard OF II Til he saw it IN
the Democrat office Looking at The publishoo
letter, we saw that 1t was Just such Letter es
Mr. Clay should and OF courec would have writ
ten, and such no enemy would be likely to fab
rlcate even if he were able 10 conceive ono so
magnanimous and lust. We now learned that
N. B. Blunt, Esq. had received letter for Cas-.
sius Nj. Clay from Hon. Willis Green at Wash
ington, which letter he LETT with us to be for.
warded, and tina. this was doubtless the letter re
fered to. We enow recollect very well Mr.. Bluni's
handing us u letter for CasSius Nj. Clay, TO be
sent to him whenever We could tell where it would
reach him. Never dreaming that 1t was any thing
else than All invitation 10 speak at some Whig
Meeting, we laid the letter on our table, in the
inner Editors room OF our Office, TO be forwarded
as soon as we could be sure OF It's reaching It's
proper destination. When we next looked for it,
1t had disappearcd--a circumstance TO which we
attached no Importance. The next We heard was
Of letter from Henry Clay to Cassus NJ. Clay
having been picked up IN the mud III front OF
National Hall by some Loco-Foco, who, after
showing it round from clique to clique, and vainly
attempting to get it into the Evening Post and
Morning News finally gave i, publicity through
the Democrat-as follows:


