Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1844-08-09
Wing Candidate for President,
HENRY CLAY.

"Iknow there is uisispary dogma which holds that
negro slaves cannot be tNSsubjects of property shall
not dwell long upon this speculative abstraction. That
is property aOhch the law declares to be property
Two hundred years of legislation have sanctioned and
sanctifed negro slaves as property"
"IfI had been citizen of Pennsylvania when Frank
Inns plan o gradual emancipation) adopted should
have voted fer it, because, by possibility could Inc
black race ever lin the ascendancy in that State but
if had been then, now citizen OF any OF me
planting Sates-the southern or southwestern States
IShouM haze opposed, and comM continue to oppose
any scheme rohaeuer Of emancipation gradual or M
medi0te,'
"It is NOT TRUE, and REJOICE that it is not true,
that EITHER Of the great parties in this country has
anv DESIGN or AIM at ABOLITION. should DEEPLY
LAMENT if it were true. "-[Clay Speech in the Sem
ate Feb I, 1882
| would suffer the tortures Of the inqusiton before
would sign bill having for its object the abolition OF sIa-
very in the District of Columbia, in any manner give
countenance to the proect-CIay Sremark to W'se' Al
Discussion implies deliberaon; debeation is prelim
mary to action The people Of the North have no right
to act upon the subject of Southern slavery and therefore
they have no right to deliberateNo RIGHT TO DIS
cUss!-CIay's Speech, 1887,
1t was in this very chamber Senator Holiness of Maine,
presiding in a committee of the Senate and in commit
Tee of "a the House of Representatives, on Sabbath
dav that the terms were adjusted by which the Missouri
compromise was cffected!-Clay's Tariff Speech, Feb
IS, 1888.
The most convenient route from Washington City to
the slave regions bordering the Ohio and upper Mssis-
sippi rivers is through Washington, Pennsylvania II
Pennsylvania on the preox that she is free State, and
cannot tolerate slavery her SOIL should obstruct the
free transit Of slaves the national road and undertake
to set them all free their Journeys it not most i'm
porant to the saveholdng 9taes and to the Union ITSELF
that Congress should have the power provide that slaves
NAV be held and pass IN anSitu through Pennsylvania,
in spite Of any local regulation against III Such power
in Congress is essential the welfare of the Northern
sayeholding States.
Surely the power of the general government over the
slave trade within the limits have stated, between the
States and the coastng rade] is complete and unver-
" saIlv conceded. and THIS GOVERNMENT IS BOUND TO
PROTECT IT! And no doubt the time will come when
every sayehodng 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 to subserve the purposes OF
the agitators! Taboiltionists -ClGyS Speech before
3he Sup Court, l84l and endorsed in the u D. senate
He urged the importance of keeping the aboliionlsts
r separate and distinct from all other CLASSES, unmAed win
the rest of community, without the general sympahy ana
exposed the overwhelming power OF the united opinion
of all who desire the peace, harmony, and unon' OF our
confederacy- Clay's Speech CalhounS RESOLUTIONS