When the great preacher of the “Kangaroo district,”2 commenced speaking, he had no apology to offer; no reason to give, why he had gotten into the shoes of the whig candidate of this pistrict, nothing to say of his hurried march from head quarters, or of the directions of the junto at Springfield;3 but without giving a single word to satisfy the public anxiety and curiosity on this point, went on to answer in a regular and systematic manner the speech of Mr. Ficklin. It was a little amusing to see how cautiously, this deputy and “spokesman” of the whig candidate in this district, came into the doctrine of the assumption of the State debts;4 endeavoring first to show that all the whigs were not for it; that it was not a question at issue; that he never had heard a speech on it before? and finally, that it was not a bad thing at any rate, and the people had better go for it. It is impossible to follow through his answer—but all were amused at the speech. The whigs, because it afforded them some good anecdotes to laugh at, some pester for their opponents, and a kind of relief from the exposition of the wrongs of their party, which Mr. Ficklin had just given; and the democrats were amused at the low intriguing manner in which the imported and transported deputy of the honorable Judge H. was brought here; and at the idea that the whigs were becoming so weak and feeble here, as to require a foreign emissary to revive the animation in their Clay tenements. And in the conclusion, it was still more amusing to see the boldness with which the foreign minister asserted that the bill holders of the late United States Bank of Pennsylvania, never lost any thing on the bills of that bank, and how he had to recede from that assertion afterwards; and also the bold and untrue assertion that Mr. Clay voted for Mr. Benton’s resolution against the assumption of the State debts in the Congress of 1839 and 1840.5