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 A. H. SEVER.
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JUSTICE TO MR. CLAY.-We would respectfully inquire of our correspondent, 'sBoson,' if he has not awarded credit to Mr. Clay, for his course upon our present ''Pre-emption Law," to which he is not untitled? s'Boston'' to think that Mir Claws vote in favor of that law is evidence of an abate men of his well known bitter hostility to western settlers on the public lands. We are of opinion that the history of that Law, and Mr Clay's course upon, will shew that, far from passing by his aid d actually passed ia spite of las decided opposition and that when finally, he voted for it, upon its pas sage he did greatly ogain his ae, and only that by doing so, he might pass the Distribution Bill, , of which it was part If we be right in this opin- ion then it follows in this instance, as in most oth- of his public life, that Mir Clay has done good deed only from compulsion, and not from choice and even in this, that he has coupled it with much of evil as to more than counterbalance the good If we be wrong in this opinion, it is easy to show it. and we are open to correction. EFhat says the Ga- eeHe /?