Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1844-09-06
Wing Candidate for President,
HENRY CLAY.

{" know there is visionary dogma which holds that
negro slaves cannot be the subjects of property. shall
not dwell long upon this speculative abstraction. That
is property ,ohch the IaD declares to be property
Two hundred years of legislation have sanctioned and
sanctifed negro slaves as property"
If had been citizen of Pennsylvania when Frank
Inns plan (ofgradua emancpaton adopted, should
have voted fer it; because, by possibility could the
black gain the ascendancy in that State But
if had been then, were citizen Of any of the
planting Statesthe southern souh-w estern States
IShOuM haze opposed, and w0ud continue to oppose,
any scheme Uhateusr Of emancipation, gradual i'm
nlediate.' ~
"It is NOT TRUE, and REJOICE that it is not true,
that EITHER of the two great parties in this country has
any DESIGN or AIM at ABOLITION lshould DEEPLY
LAMENT iii were true."-[Clays Speech in the Sen
ate Feb. T. 1889.
1 would suffer the tortures of the nquiston before
would sign bill having for its object the abolition of sla
very in the District of Columbia in any give
countenance to the proect-Clay to Wise, Al.
Discussion implies deliberations deliberaion is prcim-
mary to action. The people of the North have no right
to act upon the of Southern slavery and therefore
they have no right to dehberGte-No RIGHT TO DIS
cUss!-Cldy's Speech, 1887.
1t in this very chamber Senator Holiness of Maine,
presiding in committee of the Senate, and in commit
tee of "a ofthe House of Representatives, on Sabbath
dag, that the terms adjusted by which the Missouri
compromise Effected Iay'S Tariff Speech, Feb.
rs, 1888
The most convenient route from Washington City to
the slave regions bordering the Ohio and upper Msss-
sipp rivers is through Washington, Pennsylvania II
Pennsylvania, the pretext that she is free Sate and
cannot tolerate slavery her SOIL should obstruct the
free transit Of slaves the national road and undertake
TO set them all free their ourney-is it not most i'm
poant to the saveholdng States, and to the Union itself
that Congress should have the power provide that slaves
may be held and pass IN tranSitu through Pennsylvania
in spite of any local regulation against it? Such power
in Congress is essential to the welfare of the Northern
savehoding States.
Surely the power of the general government the
slave trade within the limits have stated Tbetween the
States and the coastng trade complete, and unver-
sally conceded, and THIS GOVERNMENT rs BOUND TO
PROTECT 1T! And doubt the time will come when
every savehoding State will wish and invoke the author
ty and power of the General Government for this pur
pose And he who would limit the power beyond this
is himself doing what he subserve the purposes
the GgitaOrS! [abolitioniss. ]-ClayS Speech before
abe Sup. Court l84l and endorsed in the u S. Senate
He urged the importance of keeping the abolitionis'
separate and distinct from all other cassss unmixed will
the rest of community, without the general sympathy,
exposed to the overwhelming power of the united opinion
of all who desire the peace, harmony, and union. of
confederacy- Clays Speech on Calhouns Resolutions