The Liberator

Cassius M. Clay, the Editor of the 'True American,' has volunteered in the war against Mexico. He has left behind him a letter to his readers, in which he denounces the war as flagitious and unjust; and throughout his editorial career, he has charged that the whole scheme, commencing with the plot for the annexation of Texas, and including the war with Mexico, was instigated by the powers of slavery for the benefit of slavery. His object, as declared in his paper, and by means of which he obtained a vast number of Northern subscribers, was opposition to slavery, and war upon every attempt that should be made to increase its strength, or spread its flaming and withering curses.

He has now volunteered to fight on its side, in an unholy and damnable war, designed and carried on at the expense of the free States for its especial benefit. He has thereby forfeited all claims to the respect or regard of his northern supporters, and stands self-condemned and despised before the world—a single monument of the fact, that southern slave honor and chivalry have no foundation in principle, and are worthy only of the contempt of northern freemen. His jargon about 'the country' is the most silly and absurd of all the nonsense we ever heard put forth for the defence of untenable ground. Every one except the idiot Locofoco, knows, and every one except the cowardly slave Jack, confesses, that our country is in no further danger than she is in the wrong, and that the necessities talked about are not the necessities of the country, but of the God-abandoned scoundrels at the head of the government.—Dedham American.