The Democratic Whig

Mr. CLAY.

At a Public Meeting held in the City of Charleston, one day last week, a committee of twenty-six of the most respectable gentlemen of that place was appointed to tender an invitation to Mr. Clay to visit that city on his way from New Orleans. The Southern Patriot, a journal not particularly friendly to that gentleman, thus notices this hospitable movement:—Nat. Intel.

"The Hon. Henry Middleton, a citizen who it is almost needless to say has usefully served his country in various public capacities, officiated as Chairman, and S. A. Hurlbut and Henry C. King, Esqs. acted as Secretaries. The meeting was addressed by J. L. Petigru, George S. Bryan and Richard Yeadon, Esqs and Mr. E. A. Cohen. Resolutions were passed with great unanimity in furtherance of the objects of the meeting.

"We are happy to state that it was a meeting without distinction of party. This is as it should be. Let the acerbities of political warfare be banished on such occasions to the hustings, and not mingle with the hospitalities and courtesies which belong to a liberal intercourse. Mr. Clay's public services, Diplomatic and Congressional, have passed into our national history, making a part of its most important annals, whilst his genius and eloquence constitute an imperishable portion of the intellectual property of the Union."