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law and business, slaves have been con- sid
cred as property, aud this is the fact which |
the law recognizes.
II those Aboli,ionists are sincere, they
should at once raise the twelve hundred mil.
lions. Ii should he raised too among them>
selves, or in the free States, for il would he
an outrage OF all equity and justice to make |
US pay for our own property.
But I'll invoke the Abolitionisis, il they
have no regard for themselves, at least to
have some regard for the Slaves. They are
making their condition worse instead Ut bet
ter. It'll had been in Pennsylvania in 1850
l would have voted Tor abolition. II was
IN any Southern State should oppose all e.
Emancipation, gradual or immediate In
kentucky, recently, upon call for con
vention to consider this subject, three fcur,ihs
OF the State opposed il. was among the
number OF these opponents and we felt call.
ed upon 10 make this opposition. | hold
this example up TO The aholiionists AID as.
sure the ultra ahollionists that they have
been the means OF tais-ior kentucky, but
for them, would have perhaps, ere this
listened 10 emancipation.
They have increased the rigors of legisla-
tlon-they have added To their burdens-lhey
have increased their bonds, and done the
slaves great wrong.
The effect OF immediate emancipation, nj r
Clay said, would be the sul,jugation OF one
or the other class. The effect Of emancipa.
lion would be 10 diminish the wages for Ia.
Dor of the white Iaborer, and TO increase his
hurdships. The emancipaled slaves would
80 TO the free States and secure al any price,
living necessary for their subsistence MIR
Clay then examined the Colonization aues-
ton, and commended that the Abolitionists
were in favor Of amalgamation. They op-
posed Colon iZation in all FORMS
The question is often put, said Mr.. Clay,
y what IS 10 become of the slaves on our COM
tinent. The question was ask ed fifty years
e.%o. II will be asked fifty and hundred
cars hence-and the answer is that the
same Prov idenCe that governed our ances-
tors viii! govern od- pos,eriiy-"s l1icent
unto the day is the evil thereof" Let US
cease these forebodings about the impene ira
bic future. The blacks in proportion are
but rs one to five. Although in certain To-
calities the blacks predominant, still in the
mass, altogether few in numbers and " eak
in intellect. Two hundred years hence
scarcely yestige Of the blacks will be found
on The Continent.
There we copy from the full report Of Mr.
Clay's Speech furnished by the National In
,elligencer.]
MIR. President, al tho period of the forma,
ton oil our Constitution, and afterwards, our
patriotic ancestors apprehended danger Ia
The Union from two causes. One was, The
Allegheny Mountains, div iding The waters
which flow into the Atlantic Ocean from
those which found their outlet in The Gulfo
Mexico. They seemed 10 present natural
separation. That danger has vanished be-
lore the noble achievements of the spirit of
internal improvement, and the immortal ge.
MUS OF Fulton. And now, now here is found
more loyal attachment 10 the Union than
among those very Western people, who, il
was unprecedented, would be the first 10 burst
its ties.
The other cause, domestic slavery, hap.
pity the sole remaining cause which is like
~ TO disturb our harmony continues to- ex-
ISL IL was this which created the greatest
obstacle and the most anxious soiicitude in
the deliberations of the Convention tina, a.
dopted the general Constitution AnG il is
this subJectthat has ever been regarded with
the deepest anxiety by all who are sincerely
ueSirous of the permanency OF our Union
The Father of his Country, in his affecting
and solemn appeal TO his fellow citizens, de.
precated, as most calamItous event, The ge-
ograPhical divisions hich il might produce.
The Convention wisely left TO .be several
States the power over the institution of slaves
ny, as power not necessary 10 The y.lan of
union which il devise and as one with which
The General Government could no, be in
Jes,ruci WITHOUT d planting the seeds Of certain
~ t 'o". N--re let IL remain undisturb-
ed by any unhallowed ha,.d.
SIR, am not in the habit of suen,;
i'ghtiy OF the possibility Of ,iissoIyinp this
happy Union. The Senate knows Thai !
nave deprecated illusions, OH ordinary occa.
sions, 10 provoke that direiul event The
country will testify that, if :here je anv
'hing 10 The history OF my public career
worthy OF recollection, i, is he trntb acd
mcerity of my a;dent devotion. 10 lie Issllasr
l'TesefvaioH. Bot ive should be t-Io
81 iesisnce 10 u, q we did ~, .,iscr;m;oa,s
- !, .ne 'Hna mar and real dangers bv
ie.. . piay De asSs5ded Abolition should
az, o1 'e,sa5ssSs3 rs an imaginary dan.
-, :; - oISys5ssfiIonists. let me suppose, sue.
hi, ..:.ssss!r presen, aim o. nniiing The To-
ssss8sis oi tile free States as one man, a.
sSnst the inhabitants Of the slave States
'nion on ;he one side will begei union on
pig other And this process OF reciprocal
consolidation " i'll be attended with all the
ioient preJudices, embiitered passions, and
mPlaca0le animnsIiies which ever degraded
Cr deformed human nature. "A virtual dis.
oluiion OF the Union will have taken place
whilst the forms of its existence remain
he most valuable element Of union. mutus
81 Kindness, tho feelings of sympathy. The
iraternal bonds, which now happily unite US
VIII have been exiinguisbed forever One
section VIII Stand in menacipg and hostile
array against The other. The collision OF q
pinion will be quickly followed by The clasls,l
G!aTn's viii not attempt o describe scenes
which nov happily lie concealed from our
view. AboiiliOBists themselye s would shrink
back IN dlsmay and horror az The contemul,