Last Letters Of Henry Clay.
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ASHLAND, Sept. 18th, lS+4.
My DEAR SIR:-l received your favor oil the 10Th
instant, in which you state that you will be IN Bos
ton on the 10Th, where it is impossible this letter
can reach you; and |, therefore, send 1t TO the
Hon. Willis Green, to be forwarded TO you
| am perfectly persuaded of your friendly inten.
tons, and feel grateful Tor them. But you can
have no conception, unless you had been here, of
the injury which your letter 10 the Tribune was
doing; and that was nothing in comparison to that
which it was likely to infIct upon the whg cause
in the States of Tennessee, North Carolina and
Georgia. Our fri-nd John Speed Smith, az well
as Others thought it even endangered the State of
Kentucky This effect resulted from your under
taking to speak Of my private feelings and those OF
my near and particular friends, and your statement
that you had been ten years operating in the abo-
tion cause


Under these circumstances, there was an abso-
lutte necessity for the note which published, al.
Though regretted it extremely. endeavored so
to shape il az not to wound your feelings, and
hope did nor
Had you been here, you would have concurred
with myself and other friends in thinking IT indis-
pensabIe.


You must be we'll aware of the very great deli
cacy OF my position.


At the North, am represented as an ultra sup
porter of the institution OF slavery, whilst at the
am neither the other. AS we have the
same slrname, and are, moreover, related, great
use is made at the south against me, OF whatever
falls from you. There, you are even represented
as being my son hence the necessity OF the great
est circumspecton, and especially that you should
avoid committing me.


You are watched wherever you go and every
word you publicly express will be tortured and per-
verted as my own are.


After all, am afraid you are too sanguine in
supposing that any considerable number of the Ii
berty men can be induced to support me. How
can that be expected after they have voted against
Mr. Sladel


With assurances of my thankfulness for your
friendly purposes, and with my best respects for
Mrs. Clay, | am truly and faithfully,


Your friend, n. CLAY
G. M. Clay, ESQ.