Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1844-10-18

March, 1886, recorded in Gales and Seaton,s
Register Of Debates, vol /, page 1856, Mr. Clay
said - He commended, that, as neither Virgin
ia nor Maryland, nor both combined, could a.
bolish slavery in the District of Columbia, the
power, ,cithout limitation or restriction, exist
ed only in Congress- And in the debate in
the Senate, January II, 1898, 'Mr Clay tho't
the Senator irom South Carolina would not de-
clare that II would be Unconstitutional for Con-
gress to abolish slavery in the District or the
Territories But The Senator from South Car
olina did not deny the power, as does Mr. Polk
and every Southern Senator. II is said, how
ever, Mr. Clay deems il inexpedient TO exercise
the power; but, as he opposes the exercise Of
the veto power on questions Of expediency,
what safeguard would the South have in his
views on this subject, when he distinctly in
forms the Abolitonists that Congress does pos
sess the constitutional power to abolish slavery
in the District of Columbia and in the Terri
tories Of the United Stotesl
On the 9th March, 1886, Mr. Clay voted in
the Senate of the United States in favor of the
reception of Abolition petitions Senate Jour-
nal page 90. On the Cd of June, 1885, he
voted against the engrossment of the bill pre-
venting the transmission of incendiary Adolf
ton documents through the MALL and on the
9th Of June, 1886, he voted against the pass
age Of that bill, so important to the safety of
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PIP. 400 and 4l6. In his speech at Lexington,
KY, in September, 1886, printed under his
own eye, in one Of his friendly presses, the Lex
ington lntelgencer, and also printed in Niles
Register Of the 18th September, 1886, MIR
Clay says:-'I consider slavery as q Cursed
curse TO the master; wrongs grevious wrong
10 the slave. In the abstract il is all wrong,
and no possible contingency can make il right
Here Mr. Clay deliberately denounces slavery
Il t. a..
the slGue;' and, to cap the climax, he adds mo
possible contingency can make il right What
stronger encouragement can Abolilionists ask
than thisf Men Of the South, do you consid-
er that you, as charged by Mr. Clay, are offer
ing "a grevious wrong to the slave!' If so,
write the rrevocable sentence of your own ac-
knowledged guilt and selEdegradation, by cleo
ting 10 the highest Office in your gift the very
man who has thus condemned, rebuked and de-
nounced you. And when you have done the
deed and the rejoicing shouts Of Vermont and
Massachusetts, and the other Wing States oil
the North, triumphant, by your aid, over your
friends, the PROSTATE Democracy of the North,
shall proclaim 10 you, in the language of your
President, ABOLISH SLAVERY, which yourselves
will thus have declared a GREvIoUs WRONG
TO THE SLAVE SAND NO POSSIBLE coNTIN-
GENcY CAN MAKE 1T RIGHT what will be
your answer, and how will you escape the SEN
tence oil your own seli-condemnation! Reflect
then. Wings Of the South, our brethren and
fellow-citizens, pause and consider well all the
dreadful consequences, before you sink all
together into one common abyss Of ruin and
degradation.
JAMES TOWLES, Chairman.
c. P. SENGsrAcK, Secretary.
WAsHINeToN CRY, Sept rs, 1914.
Such, Fellow-C Citizens, is the character Of
the Document which Locofocoism sends broad
cast through the Slave States, to rally that sec
ton Of the Union in favor of candidate nom
mated expressly to strengthen, extend and per.
petuate the DOMINION OF SLAVERY.
What, then, is the duty Of the Noith!--
What course shall we take' How should
Freemen vote! We leave intelligent, patriot.
ic, liberty-loving Electors TO answer the ques-
tions at the BaIot-box.-Jour.