The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1844-09-18

~ saSh policy il contemplated, Shareholders
either Fidicule, OF become :ncensed ct, the bare
mention Of libersting their slases, and turning
them loose upon our country. Bet LET them
speak for themselves The distinguished citizen
| of Kentucky, Hon. Henry Clay, who says be is
the owner of 6fty slaves, may be presumed TO en-
terrain the same views held by the great mass Of
his brother Shareholders; and hear what he says:
HENRY CLAY'S OPINION UPON THE SUB
JECT OF ABOLISHING SLAVERY.
In his celebrated address to Mr. Mendenhall,
after referring 10 some of the effects of abolish
ing slavery, Mr.. Clay goes on TO remark: [See
Greely's Life and Speeches Of Clay, vol. 2, p.
5O5.l
"a contest would inevitably ensue between
the two races; civil war; carnage, pillage, confl-
grafton, devastation, and the ultimate extermina-
ton or expulsion of the blacks Nothing is more
certain. And are not these evils far greater Than
the mild and continually improving state of sla-
very, which exists in this country? say con-
linually improving; for if this gratifying progress
in the ameloraton of the condition Of the slaves
has been checked in some of the States, the res
:, possibility must attach to the unfortunate agita.
ton of the subject of abolition"
And again, Mr.. Clay says in his speech on alb.
clifton petitions, delivered in the Senate, Feb,
rudry Z, 1889, (and which may be found in the
work just quoted, vol 2, p. 1922 that
''If had been acitizcn of Pennsylvania, when
Franklin's plan (foT gradual emancipation) was
adopted, should have voted for it, because by
no possibility could the black race ever acquire
1.-THE ascendency in that State. But if had been
then, or were now, citizen of any Of the plan
Itng States-the Southern or southwestern
States-I should haze opposed, and rould con.
tinue to oppose, any scheme phateUer of emGnci
patton, gradual, or immediate, because of the
danger Of an ultimate ascendency of the black
race, or of civil contest which might terminate
in the extinction of one race or the other"
Here we have the evidence Of the Hon. Hen.
ry Clay, showing that he regards the abolition Of
slavery, either gradual or immediate, and throw.
ling the slaves upon our own country, as the grea
test curse that could befall our land.
In Texas, the slave will occupy country ad.
Ioning one in which no distinction is made in
respect to color. In Mexico all shades of com
pexion are on an equality the black, the mula
to, the quartroon and the white all enjoy the same
privileges. Ir that government, there are five
colored to one white man. 1t is curious fact
that OH Galveston Island, in 1887, among some
five hundred Mexican prisoners, taken at the bat
tie of San Jacnto, not one white man was 10 be
found.
> Mexico being possessed of such population
and institutions, is it not natural 10 suppose tina
the negroes of Texas would seek an asylum il
that country, if permitted by their masters? Ant
the all-powerful objection TO manumission which
prevails in the United States, not existing i'll Tex
as, is it not to be presumed that hundreds of phi
lanthropic owners would liberae their blacks ant
/, send them across the border2 We daily hear o
= persons willing TO manumit, provided their ser
f wants are sent out of the country. The coloreC
{ man is unwilling to go 10 the home Of his fore
; fathers; and if he was, means are deficient Il
send him to Africa. But when once in Texas
this difficulty no longer exists. There, the slave
may receive his freedom one week, and in the
next, occupy a land where the laws, and (what i
more po!enO pchlic opinion place him on leye
with the white. The cost powerful objection
to the extugushment of slavery IN the UnItet
States would lose It's potency in Texas; and II Il
by no means visionary to imagine that annexation
may at some future day prove the means Of abol
shing slavery throughout North America. Ii
the boundless territory of Mexico and Centra
America is to be found the only secure retleat
for the posterity of the African. But exclude
Texas from the Union, and you forever bar the
door to their passage into Mexico
Many Northernors are jealous of the politica
power of the South. That portion of our con
tederacy possess nothing like the weight of the
North. The territories of Iowa and Wisconsin
are about being admitted into the Union, which
will add still farther TO our preponderance. Be
sides, the stupendous territory ofOregon is ours
J and the day is not very remote when her sol
Z will add several new States TO our glorious con
selaton, and all of them will be free. This will
! bear down the balance immensely OH The side o
the North. But upon the authority of Henry
Clay, and agreeabIy to the provisions of Senate,
Benton's bill, the annexation of Texas will no
add to the relative political power of the South
Ito be Concluded in our nert,)
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