THE CLAY MEETING.
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On Monday the 22d inst, there was a
convention of the members of the Clay
Club, and of the Clayites generally
They mado an appearance respectable
enough as to numbers, there being proba-
bly, hundred persons present including
democrats. The first thing which occu-
pied the attention of the meeting was a
proposition made by the democrats for a
free discussion of the principles Of the
Two parties. The democrats had under
stood the wings intended having barbe-
cue, and concluded that that would afford
the most convenient opportunity for ge-
neral discussion. They accordingly at
their first public meeting, passed resolu-


tions TO that effect, (the same which ap-
peared in the Democrat Of last week) and
appointed a committee to wait on their
whig friends with the proposition. This
proposition they had had under considera-
ton until their meeting on the 22d. AT
ter the resolutions of the democratic meet
ing had been read, two of the Clay ora
tors arose in succession and professed
themselves to feel exceedingly "contempt-
el." They complained that the PROPOSE
ton was mere trick, mere bravado, an
attempt to deceive people abroad, and dis
turb the orderof their proceedings. They
complained that the "challenge' as they
termed it, had been published, and made
the impression by their remarks, that the
resolutions of the democratic meeting had
been published in the Mssissippian before
they had been communicated TO them
This was not the case; the resolutions
we're never published in the Mississippian
at all, and as to the remark made by thai
paper, we suppose it was made upon some
rumor which had reached it after the de-
mocratic meeting had been held. Il was
not made on the authority of the meeting,
but wholly on lis own responsibility
The meeting was public one which pass
OO hhO ASSoiOhAohS, utA0 IL cOtuC lutbOA vi
lis proceedings happened 10 reach the pa


pers of the neighboring towns we know
Of no mode by which it could be prevent.
ed. AS TO the resolutions being published
in the Democrat, the meeting as we have
before said was public one, every per
son knew, or might have known its pro-
ceedings; the proposition to discuss was
published along with the other acts of the
meeting, and with no sinister intention.


They said the proposition of the demo
Gratis confined the discussion to the county
of Madison, and that it was made, with
the knowledge that they Che whigs) had
already invited persons from other coun,
ties. In saying this they were guilty o.


an unjustifable assumption. The demo


Gratis did not know they had invited per-
sons from other counties, the speakers
acted on conjecture, they should have
known the truth Of what they were saying