The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1844-03-14

large merchants spend MILLIONS in electing Mr.
Clay. Well may they get up FREE DINNERS and
attempt to gull the working people by LIVE cooNs and
DRUNKEN soNGsl 1t now turns out that they look upon
the laboring white man as white slave five cannot
have ''black slaves we shall white ones" They, the
dear cologne dandies cannot "cu their own fIewocde-
they cannot black their own shoes- they cannot work
in the kitchen" These are the imposlers that promise
"two dollars day and roast beef" and never perform
their promises Read and reflect: .'i-a .lp.i
| From the Emancipator.
Mr.. Clay's Sympathy with Labor.
Much is made by the whig sycophants, Of Mr. Clays
connection with, and supposed sympathy for labor
THE Milbuy Of the Slashes, Is pictured on many
banner and pacard Mr. Clay was born, April 70,
l777 in part Virginia called the "Slashes of Han
over and his father died in 1884, andh lived it is said
in poverty until the age 6t 16, when he was employed
as clerk in the Chahcery office at Richmond In the
Life of Henry Clay just published by Oliver Odsehoo
after dwelling on his public stations and achievements
it is said it.3 ttaC 5rY.p s,O7- r,
"Yet do we love more to dwell upon the orphan boy,
following the plough inhe Slashes of Hanover and oc.
casionaly rudging his way, with gristof corn, to
distant MILL to provide bread for widowed mother and
younger brother and sisters" ar.
Now must be confessed that it is very unphiloso-
phcal to argue that man is to be relied on as having
sympathies with the people, just because he poor in
his youth. Who does not know that the two Scotts
Lord Eldon, and Lord Stowel were poor boys and yet
in manhood became the main pillars of arstocracy in
England and distinguished for their hard hearedness in
regard to the rights Improvement of the mass Of the
people. The old proverb about setting a beggar on
horseback expresses the judgment passed by the COM
mon sense ofinankind on this point -.....,.s IS .sg
But in the same work, a further appeal is made to
the sympahies ofthe laborer, on the ground that Mr.
Clay is man 'who delights till the SOIL and whose
character has been subject to the purifying influence
there is 'in the cultivation ofthe soil" which "as seldom
fails to reach the heart does oinvgorate the frame
Of man." And is said of him that che delights in ag-
riculture and one ofthe most PRACTICAL industrious
mehodcal and successful farmers IN the whole Wes-
tern country" Now, what impression does this carry
to our Nothern farmers, but that Mr.. Clay is plain
working man, like one of our farmers in Pennsylvania
or Vermont9 He is called THE FARMER OF ASHLAND
to make it appear that he sympathizes with labor9 Is
it so2
There are two points on which you can easily test
the real extent of mans sympathies with abor-his
sense ofjustce with regard to the intrinsic dignity ofla
Dor ITSELF Mr. Clays ofjustice in regard to the
wages Of labor is SO utterly hollow that he Goes not
think himsefrequed topay his laborers any wages at
ALL Men have toiled on his fields from youth to old
age whom he has never paid the first red cent of wa
ges. He thinks the poor are bound to labor for the itch
for nothing, and when Mr.. Mendenhall demonstrated
with him, he told him to 60 home and mind his busi
ness "My slaves are fat and sleek" Milton Clark,
who was his neighbor in Kentucky, afirms that Mr..
Clay has never even paid his washer-woman the moth
er Of his favore black Charley. Think Of man al
most seventy years age who has never yet paid for
| washing his shirts and collars!
Mr. Cays real sentiments with regard to the inherent
dignity of labor ITSELF are not to be learned from few
cant phrases about the Miboy Of the Slashes' There
was time when he spoke out, under the impulse OF
strong excitement and gave utterance tohe whole feel
ings Of bis SOUL twas in the first debate on the Mis-
sotiri Bill, Feb 15 1919, in committee Of the whole;
/ where he used these words: Aiaa'a slu '9 ~
"If gentlemen will not allow us to have black slaves,
they must let us have a1he ones; for We CANNOT CUT
i OUR FIREwooD, AND BLACK OUR SHOES, AND HAVE
| OUR WIVES AND DAUGHTERS WORK in
/ THE KITCHEN" ".'- T'' - 'fs
have not been ablG 10 find any report efthis speech,
but in regard to the debate, find commenced on Sat
urday, Feb. I3 The National Intelligencer Of Mon
day l5 is torn out of the files in the library Congress-
The Intelligencer Of Tuesday 10th, gives Mondays
proceedings 1t was on motion by Mr. Tallmadge,
Of N Y, 10 amend the bill authorizing the people OF
Missouri to form Constitution. Mr. i. moved pro
viso 'hat the further introduction of slavery or inTol
untary servtude be prohibited except for the punishment
ofcrimes whereofhe parties shall have been fully con-
victed" Carried; 70 o67 The Inteligencer says,
the result of the motion appears to have been wholly
unexpected" The advocates Of restriction were Taylor,
Mills, Livermore and Fuller the opponents Barbour,
Pindel Clay and Holmes. In The House. Feb. l6, the
restriction passed, 81 7tO76.
Extract from the speech Of Mr. Taylor, ofNew York,
Feb is, 1873, on the Missouri Bill National Inelli-
gencer March 20th, 1919;
"You cannot degrade it [laborl more eaectualythan
by establishing system whereby shall be performed
principally by slaves The business in which they are
generad engaged be II what it may, soon becomes de-
based in public smatfoh II is Considered low andun-
fit for freemen lcannot better lustrate this truth than
by referring to remark OF the honorable gentleman from
| Kentucky, (Mr Clay) have onen' admiredthe ber-
ay of his sentiments. He is governed by no vulgar
preiudces yetwh alat abhorsaee did he Ssae OF the
performance 5yey pive and dGggAers, OF those do
mestic Offices which he was pleased tocau spte! What
comparison did he make between the "back slaves OF
Kentucky and the whte slapes Of the North and how
instantly did s strike the balancein favorof the toner
il such opionons and expressions, even inthe ardur ot
debate can fall from Aat honorable gentleman, whal