Carroll Free Press

MR. CLAY HAS SPOKEN-THE AGONY IS OVER.

The Boston Chronicle, edited by Leavitt, the national organ of the Liberty party, of the 20th inst. had the following editorial remarks, in an article on "Texas rumors."

"There is one man who could set the whole at rest by a single word, but no petitions, no interrogatories, no pressure from without, and no patriotic impulses from within, move him to utter that word. Let the responsibility of keeping a nation in agony for months and years rest where it belongs-on the shoulders of Henry Clay."

A word from Mr. Clay would render annexation impossible until after the 4th of March next. And his friends, who are so certain of his election to the Presidency, must admit with equal certainty, that a word from him now would ward off the calamity at least until after the 4th of March. EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND FORTY NINE! And yet, though so much opposed to annexation, and in such an agony of apprehension about it, they do not press him to answer the numerous interrogatories that have been in his hands for three or four months unnoticed!"

Well, the long agony-the nation's agony!-is over. Mr. Clay has spoken that one word. He had spoken it when Mr. Leavitt wrote. He has settled the question of annexation, but will Mr. Leavitt thank him for it. Will he cease his vituperation? Will he acknowledge Mr. Clay has used his mighty influence on the side of freedom, and rolled back the swelling tide of slaveholding influence? No! Nothing of the kind. Mr. Clay will still be opposed, abused and traduced, because he does not belong to Mr. Leavitt's party. The 'agony' of the nation, according to Mr. Leavitt, is now over; but if we mistake not, this letter will throw him and some of his coadjutors into a worse 'agony,' when they find that the man they delight in traducing has taken a ground on the side of liberty and the country which even they dare not gainsay. - Pitts. Gaz.