Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1838-07-16

the South, for TIE beHet1 Of MT. calhoun, VINO, WINE
he declares that he does not desire Office" and az
fects, with tn. oftest scorn to uample the highest
honors OF the Republic under his feet, in reality
continually inaamed by the fires Of disappointed but
yet not hopeless ambition-a who, his - original
brightness not yet wholly obscured. presents signal
monument of the fatal effects Of too eager ankle
~ for office, oulstrIppng the public appreciation Of
his merits
Among the evidences, however, relied upon TO
sustain the charge Of Abotonism, against Mr..
Clay, these LIST, that he was in Kentucky, ma
ny years ago. an advocate for gradual emancipation;
and 2dly, that he is President of the African
Colonization Society. As to the first position, it
is only necessary TO say that Abolllionsrn at the
South and at the North, very different things
Certainly the Cahouni,es do intend to class Mr.
Jefferson, Mr.. Madison, Mr.. Monroe, Judge Mar
shall. Vim. G.. Riyes, Tho. J. Randolph, Tho. Rt-
chic, J. II. Peasants, &c. &c. who, at yarious
periods have advocated the adoption Of some safe
and effective scheme of gradual emancipation, with
the Tappans, the Garrison, the Bemans and the
Yields of the North. Mr. Clay is no more
guilty than thousands of Vmginlans now are,
if mere doubt of the utility and propriety of sla-
very, in tho abstract, be all that is necessary to
const TUE an ADOIUlOnlst. are nun
d,eds of thousands of such Abotionists in the
South; but these very men will 60 far
he who goes farhes in rcpelling foreign intcricr-
ence with our chartered rights. and in resentng any
attempt, "rom Without TO touch, either us friends
or foes, our domestic relations. And for one in
such conflicts, should desire no better leader than
Henry Clay There be some who nigh, talk more
loudly OF their devo'ion, Southern rights and inter
ests-but il was "A maxim Of John Randolph than
whom there few acuter observers, that i" bark
ing dogs don't bite" Ii is not upon the clustering bull.
ly that men wont TO rely in the hour Of peril but
upon him whose courage and fidelity are not the less
unqucstionable and unqucsiioncd, because he does
not tear a passion TO tatters,' but is cool and
collected in the midst of angry exctemens-,he
more calm the pillows become more agi,ated by
the storm. These are the pilots upon whose skill
and lntrepdity the ships crew rely amidst the dan
gers of the tempest, and not upon his, who,
confident ia his own sagacity whilst sailing
smooth and under sereEe sky, becomes
fused and he pess when the heavens darkened by
angry clouds, and the storm-spirit walks upon the
face OF the deep.
With regard to the Colonization Society, it is
ly necessary to say that Soutron need apprehend
has any OF
unavowed vicws,-whioh owes its origin, to some
extent, to the suggestion of Thomas Jefferson and
that Mr.. Clay can hardly deserve anathemas be-
cause he fills IA chair, as President of that So
ciety, which was successfully occupied by Car
! roll, a Marshall and Madison, of the last of
whom he is the immediate successor. Even John
Randolph, in his better days, with all his pre-
JUDGES against such institutions, amongst
the most active and munifcent supporters of the
Colonization Society which, primarily looking only
to the removal ofthe free blacks from amongst u.s. for
the benefit Of all parties, nereres not in the remoes
degree, with the relation of master and slave, except
by the voluntary concurrence Of both. Such So
cietv tlis-nsti,uted, governed and patronized
by the brightest names which adorn the annals of
our country, both in the North and in the South-can
safely bid defiance to the assaults OF PIo-Slavery as
well as Anti Slavery fanatics, TO both Of whom II is
alike object of bitter hatred and vindctive attack.
No letter evidence be furnished Of its freedom
from all assimilation to the Abolition doctrines Of the
North than the unmeasured invecyes of which it is
the subject, by the Abolition writers and orators
invectiyes more violent than those which greet
it from its Southern enemies. We world respect
fully suggest, indeed. that Mr.. Calhouns organs
overshoot the mark when they attack this institution
and Mr.. Clay because lac has been called to preside
over tit has too many friends in the South to
render connection with it odious, unpopular
and few be made to believe that a scheme sus
tanned by leading Southern men, aud so long in OPP
eration without producing the slightest preudicia
results, deserve the censures, VIII ch, for political
effect alone, the disciples of the seftortured South
Carolina asprant heap upon it.
CONGRESS.-This body adjourned on Mon
Jay last after "A of abo ut seven dur,