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cued myself by holding on to the railing. Cries of "Kill him, the damned white man — smash his head — knock him down," accompanied by acts of violence, followed me into the street. The policemen seemed too excited or unable wholly to protect me from this most respectable committee, who say that free speech is the chief plank of the free soil platform. Speech of Cassius M. Clay on the proclamation. In New York, Tuesday night, at the Academy of Music, after a red-hot speech from Gen. Duryea, Major General Cassius M. Clay, of the U. S. Army, addressed the meeting. We make a few extracts from his speech, as reported: He confessed that, as a military measure, he had never placed much importance on a decree of emancipation; but this he did know, that the rebels and their sympathizers did. Look at the curses, the impotent rage manifested at the South, and then say whether they consider it a brutum fulmen, a useless thing or no. These men who would have the Union as it was