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We ask attention to the extract from a speech of Mir. Clay justifying Mir. Madison in taking possession of Mobile No one can read 1t without being struck with the simi- larity of our situation now and then. Mr.. Clay says the agents and emissaries of a foreign power were then intriguing to get possession of the territory. This is the case as to Texas-she has been begging to get into our Union for eight years. :" If,' says Mr. Clay, in 1840, you neglect the present suspicious moment-if you reject the prof fered boon, some other nation, profting by our errors, will seize the occasion to get a fatal footing on your southern frontier.0

 So soon as the Texian treaty was known to be. on foot, Great Britain sent an Admiral to cruise in the Gulf of Mexico, and trans ferred her Mexican minister to the United States. The great excitement which prevails in Great Britain, shows that she is determined to get a total footing on our southern frontier. if we reject the proflered boon, and Texas thinks proper 10 enter into alliance hostile to this country with Great Britain, which she may be driven into from necessity, what right would the United States have to declare war against Great Britan and Texas?

 Shall we spend fifty millions of money and sacrifice 100000 of the bravest sons of the south and west to get back from Great Britain that which we refused as gift This is the blindest and maddest folly. Great Britain could send her forces down the Tex ian rivers into the Mississippi, and reach the city of New Orleans before relief could be sent to 1t.

 Mir. Clay thought that we had right in 1910 to secure our southern frontier, inde- pendent of all title, upon "the eternal prin- ciples of self preservation"

 We ask attention to the indignant scorn with which Mr. Clay then treated the threat ened terrors of a British war, which IS now held over our heads by British partisans and emissaries in this country.

 Extract from the Speech of the Hon. HENRY

 CLAY, oa the Perdido line: Delivered in

 the House of Representatives, December

 9, 1910.

 After the purchase by the United States of LOUISIANA, dispute arose as 10 its east ern boundary. Spain claimed that the pro- vince of Florida extended to the Mississippi, while the United States claimed that Louisiana extended to the Perdido River. President MADISON solved the dispute hy taking mili- tary possession of Mobile aud Baton Rouge, and extended the jurisdiction of the United States 10 the perililo. For this act, he was assai'ed in Congress by the federal members; and was delendedby Mr. CLaY, man eloquent, argnmeniaiive, and patriotic speech of which the following noble passage Is paFi

 "The gentleman eoBceives il ungenerous that we should at shis f3ament. when Spain is eneampassea and pressed ou all sides by the iumeasa power oi her enemy. occupy West Florida. Shall we sit by passive spec tatoTs, and witness the interesting transactions Of that eolntry-transaetion winch tend, in the most eminent degree, to leoPardize our