Piney Woods planter and Amite union literary reflector. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1838-1838, 1838-11-03

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lnancisaslot ofopr slaves in the same way
! thatsit is now applied in removing the In
!, Idinns.''i Mr.. Weems says that Mr.. Clay
ayowed himself an aholitionist before the
American Tract Society, as far back as
1927. Here are three witnesses all CIV
: inc testimony 10 the fact that Mr.. Clay u
J nm abolitionist, all wings at that, which IS
sufficient to establish the fact in any court
/, of our country
The proof that the wings brought Tor
f ward to convict Mr.. Van Buren, OF beng
!. an abolitionis, is, that while member Of
the New York Senate, he voted for in
strucsions to Rufus King, Senator In
Congress, to vote against the admission o.
Missouri into the Union, as Slaveholdlng
State. His friends say, that knowing as
he did, great majority ofhls constituents
TO be in favor of that measure, he was
bound, as a Republican, to vote their VIII
or resign. And that that does not amt to an
abolitionist admitting that he was iEtavor OF
it. II only proves him to be opposed to its
extension. as was Mr.. Jefferson, when he
pennel the articles ofcession between the
generA government and the State of Vir-
cinia. when the latter coded the territory
which now comprises the states of Ohio,
Indiana, &c, with the proylso that they
should not be admitted as slayeholding
states, and was sanctioned by the slave
holding Legislature of that Father Of States,
Wa.) Likewise they asserted, that while
a member Of the New York Convention,
he voted to allow free negroes to Vote
But they did not tell the circumstances
that caused him to support proposition
to allow all to vote who held free hold
worth $3.50. Before the adoption of the
present constitution Of New York, free
negroes and white men were equally en-
titled to vote, who had attained to the pro-
per age. In the convention there were
three parties, one for allowing them to
vote as they always had done, another for
excluding them entirely, and the party to
which Mr.. Van Buren, belonged, who were
in favor Of those who held the above stated
property qualification, being allowed a
vote as an inducement to them to be in
dustrious. The iIlustrious Macon, of n
Carolina, asserted in the last Convention
of thatstate, "that it was right in free
state that free negroes should be allowed
to vote, but that it would answer q bal
purpose in a slaTeholdng state, as it might
cause discomfort among the slaves" If
these wbg editors had told their readers
at the same time, that the slave states Of
Tennessee and Narth Carolina, up to a We
ry recent period had allowed free negroes
to vote without property Qualification
this vote Of Mr.. Van Buren's would nc
have appeared in so bad color as they
would have it. have attempted fairly t
state the grounds for the charge of aboli
tionism on the parts Of Mr.. Clay and Mr.
Van Buren,; and hope that my political ha
tired for the former, and love :or the lat
ter, have not influenced me to put dow
aught in malice for the one or IN extenu1
ton for the other. To sum up the result
it amounts to this, the enemies of Mr.. Va
Buren, accuse him Of being an abolitionis
which all his friends deny, and defy il
proof. And they have the assurance j
his inaugural, "that if Congress pass la,
on tie subject, he will veto it." On tn
, side of Mr.. Clay, three of his friends bea
f testimony to the fact. Penplo of Miss
5 sippi choose We between them.
: DION CATO.