New Hampshire Statesman And State Journal

WHIG MEETING.

The Whigs of this vicinity had a grand meeting yesterday afternoon, at Mechanic Hall. The meeting was appointed to take place at 3 o'clock, and, punctually to the hour, Cassius M. Clay, Esq. entered the hall. He was received with enthusiastic cheers, and being introduced by Hon. S. C. Phillips, commenced his address to the audience, who listened with the deepest interest to his manly and eloquent exposition of true American principles. For nearly two hours he held the immense assemblage in breathless silence, while he spoke of the great struggle between slavery and freedom, and exposed to infamy the plot of Texas Annexation, which he clearly showed to rest upon the sole ground of the extension and perpetuity of slavery. He showed it to be a scheme concocted for the purpose of strengthening the already tottering dynasty of the slave power, and that as far as it was a war of interest, it was a contest between a few thousands of slave breeders on the one side, and the whole people of the Union on the other. He appealed to all parties to look at the subject in this light, and meet the issue on the broad ground of the Constitution. His testimony to the private virtues of Henry Clay, from fireside and homebred knowledge, was given and received with equal enthusiasm.

We have rarely heard a more effective address. It was brought to a close about a quarter before 5 o'clock, amidst a tempest of cheers. Mr. Clay was to speak again, last evening, at Lynn.—Salem Gaz.