Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-03-13
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From the Colored American.
ylENItY CLAY,S SPEECHs

euiusuue Nalura ct animi et c0fpoiIs - IS
a,oue eliam ex educatione, ct for'us'is'- ii
Plurimum valent ad po!iuendam b
intellectum, ne SIT purus' = WV s""' u
lib. prim Sect I'm.
ris alicujus. quae res varia est; sed III
mine naiurae ct experientiae, qnod etern' t
am est. petenda est.'-Ib. Sect. lvi.
" The prejnd;ces of the den spring from
the peculiar disposition (ofbody and mind)
Of each person, and also from education,
intercourse. and the circumstances In
which one may be placed. They
0he preiudices Of the deny are most efti-
cient in polluting the mind, so that it can
not be clean.
Truth, however, is to be sought. not
from the chancings Of any particular Time
but from the light Of nature and OF expe-
rience, which is eternal. LORD BA-
CON.
Henry Clay was born, brought up, ed
ucated. and continues 10 dwell in thu DEN
of slavery. So that, however great his
mind NAV originally have been, or still
NAV be in regard to other questions, there
can be no doubt that in regard TO the lber-
ties of his kind, his intellect is besotted
with the "prejudices Of the den." On
the notification question, the great pacifl-
Gator may have saved the Union by a
compromise, but of the great question OF
human rights, he can exert no such me-
diatorial influence, because his mind be-
ing prciudiced, cannot take comprehen-
sive grasp of the subject. He may give
special pleading, or, as in the present
speech, offer an eloquent embodiment of
the preiudices and the fears Of the slave
holder, but he cannot compromise with
the North, nor stay the torren. of public
opinion which is resistlessly gathering for
the bursting of southern chains, because
he cannot enter into the feelings Of a
northern man, nor consider human rights
in their universal relation to humanity.
Hence in the speech before US, which is
intended as pacifier, we find no general
reasoning from universally acknowledged
principles, on the contrary, series OIL
special pleadings from unwarranted as
sumptions. Occasionally, indeed, he
seems 10 catch glimpse of truth, but in
stantlv like the torment of Tantalus, it i:
snatched from his bleared vision.
He commences his speech by offering
an unti-abolilion memorial from sundry in
habitants ofthe District Of Columbia. HI
then informs the Senate that he is about tc
saw something, which, if said some time
ago, would have put stop to abolition
movements. He classes abolitionists int
lst. AboIi,ionists in the abstract, Consist
ing chiefly oil the Society Of Friends);-
0na, AboItionists led by the nose. or thos
who have been persuaded that the RICH
of petition has been violated BY Congress
ard. the real Simon pure, red hot ultr
abolitionis,s. Mr.. Clay then takes up i
order the question Of abolition in the Dis
trict of Columbia, the admission of slav
states into the Union, andthe internal slav
trade: and shows-tO has 0ion SGtistat
tion-that Congress has nothing to d
with either of these subjects. He turtle
states that these are but minor Steps use
bv the aboltionists for the attainment {
their great object, the emancipation {
the three millions, held in slavery by tn
South.
Against such an occurrence he think
there are several obstacles. LIST. Th;
Congress has no power to liberate thes
slaves. ID. The northern States have r
more right to interfere in this domestic il
sitution Of the South, than they have wit
the institutions of Asia or Africa. 3D.
The admixture of the races. 4th. TT
ascendency in some States of the blac
population. 5th. The competition of tn
southern freedmen with northern laborer
driving the latter out of employment :
9th. Disunion. He concludes with
peroration of eloquent nonsense, in whie
he compares human beings with woo
and oakum, and imagines chimaeras di
as the result of fair ladies signing abo
lion petitions.
five may hazard an opinion, the gre
characteristics of this speech are igno
ance and assumption. 1t is well know
to those conversant with the diseases
the mind, that mad men often reason We
acutely and conclusively from false PREF
ises. So it is, in this instance, with n
Clay.
Isl. AS 10 ignorance. He says ,
purpose OF abolilionists, is, univer;
abolition, "peaceably if it can, forcibIy
il must"
In another place Mr.. Clay says in
gard 10 the British act for West In
emancipation, that 'the West India sla
holder was neither represented nor rep
sentative in that Parliament" This is
untruth. For during the debate on t
subject, and even now. West India sla
holders do sit in both houses of the B
ish Parliament Many might be nam
but il is sufficient to say that the Duk,
Richmond and Marquis of Chandos in
Lords, and Sir Bethel Coddrin g:on,