Piney Woods planter. (Liberty, Mi. [i.e. Miss.]) 1838-1840, 1839-10-05

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: to the British the free navigation O
MississipPiG position occupied b,
Mr.. Clay up to the very day on whicl
by his vote and influence Mr.. Adam
became President of the United State
and Mr.. Clay his Secretary. An,
how is it on the abolition question =
f who, If his professions be now sincere
: has changed so much as Mr.. CLAW
/. Without recurring 70 the history Of hi
: whole life, or any disputed assertion
!, | will refer to an undisputcd and unde
: niablc fact, his speech before the colo
; hization society at Lexington, Ken
lucky, in September, 1886, printe,
under his own eye, in his own organ a
| that city, the Lexington lnteIligencer
and transferred for record to Niles
Register Of the 18th September, 1886
from which ] quote Mr.. Clay's owl
cmphatical language on the subject, a.
follows: ~ consider sldUeryas curse
a ours; to the master. a wrong, n gric,
vous wrong 10 the slave. In the NIB.
stlact it is all wrong, and no possible
contingency can make it right Such
were Clays views on this subject, OPEN
" avowcd in 1886, and such solemn.
y believe them still to be. Mr.. Prem
tiss would, however, presume, con-
tend that Mr.. Clay had changed these
opinions, though the settled convic-
tons ola life ofsixty years. Changed
or not, no man can ever receive my
vote for the presidency. who has dc
nounced me and my constituents ms
chargeablc with "a ''gfietons wrong"
upon the slave, and as guilty of that
which ''no possible contingency can make
right. And do not all who support
Mr.. Clay, with such "a curse' de-
nounccd by him against us, pronounce
forever our own sentence of selEcon-
demnation; and might not every abo-
liIionist then truly declare, thags these
arguments and opinions Of Mr.. Clay,
which are the same precisely now ur-
ged against us by these inccndiaries,
arc all conceded BY US to be true, by
our votes to reward the author of these
sentiments with the Chief Magistracy
of the Union? In this same speech.
Mr.. Clay boldly advocates the appli-
cation OF the surplus revenue" of the
general government, "to transport NOT
only the free, but The Slaves, should the
states consent to their removal in
other words that our consent to aboi-
ton is to be purchased, by our own
money, by the surplus extorted from
the South by the Tariff. On one sub
ject, Mr.. Clay admits, and MIR. Prem
ticc will concede, that Mr.. Clay has
changed his opinions-I mean this We
ry question Of a bank of the United
States. In his speech against the re-
charter ofthc United States bank in
the Senate in 1911, Mfr. Clay denies
the power of Congress to incorporate anyl
Bank, and he denounces the attempted
exercise ofany such power, as gross
and clear violation of the constitution,
and as utterly destructive of the liber-
ties of the people. What arc his opin-
ions now on this subject! Changed,
radically and totally; and the oppo- {
nent once Of ten millions United S
States Bank, in 1911, he now advo- I
Gates one with capital Of fifty mil ]
ions. And upon this question ofchan- il
yes, how is it with Mr.. Webster, whom t
Mr. Prentiss culogised in his dinner S
pecch last year at Fcnuel Hall, more S
warmly even than he has ever been to b
ny knowledge, in the strongest ultra s.
ederal prints of Boston or Hartford Il
Why Mr.. Webster has changed radi- II
ally on the Bank question, opposing Il
he charter ola bank in 1916, and in f
is speech at that time. declaring gold
nd silver the only proper currency, and n
ow advocating directly the reverse in
{ all this. As to the protective Tar CT
J, Mr. Webster disputed its constitu- vi
ltionality at Boston in 1920, opposed u:
as inexpedient in 1924, and in 1928 a
nd ever since has been it's warm sup 81
orter, both as necessary and conSti- st
ltional, and now declares that if the d.
to the manufacturer is not DE-
Efficient under the compromise tariff, b.
.e duties must be augmented. And how 60
it as to the war? Does Mr.. Web &C
er still regard the last war as unhOL is
nd unjust? Does he now approve of FIR
le resolution Of Massachusetts decla- tit
ng il "unbecoming moral and reh- M
ous people to rejoice at victories pr
yer our enemles" II
Having given my views as to the iii
Ianking system Of this state, lei US 20