Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1844-08-30
Wing Candidate for President,
HENRY CLAY.

81 know there is Customary dogma which holds that
negro slaves cannot be the subjects Of property shall
not dwell long upon this speculative abstraction. That
is property uchich the la,O declares to be property
Two hundred years of legislation have sanctioned and
sanctfed negro slaves as property"
"IfI had been citizen of Pennsylvania when Frank
lin plan (ofgradua emancpation) was adopted should
have voted fer it, because, by possibility could the
black gain the ascendancy in that State But
if had then, citizen of any Of the
planting Staes-he southern southwestern States
IshouM haze opposed, and would continue to oppose
any scheme ,Uh0teuer of emancipation, gradual i'm
mediate.'
cit is NOT TRUE, and REJOICE that it is not true,
that of the great parties in this country has
any DESIGN or AIM at ABOLITION Ishould DEEPLY
LAMENT iii were true. "-[Clays Speech in the Sen
ate, Feb. 7, 1889.
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 manner give
counenance to the remark to W'se Al.
Discussion implies deliberaton; deiberation is preim-
mary to action, The people of the North have right
upon the subject of Southern slavery, and therefore
they have no right to deRberate-No RIGHT TO Dis
cuss!-Clay's Speech. 1887.
1t was in this very chamber, Senator Holmes, of Maine,
presiding in a committee of the Senate, and in commit
lee of "a ofthe House of Representatives. on Sabbath
day that the terms were by which the Missouri
compromise effected!-CIay's Tariff Speech, Feb.
! rs, 1888. fH
The most convenient route from Washington City to
the slave regions bordering the Ohio and upper Msss-
spp rivers is through Washington, Pennsylvania. II
Pennsylvan the pretext 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
poran to the saveholdng ates and to the Union ITSELF
that Congress should have the power provide that slaves
may be held and pass IN trGnSitu through Pennsylvania,
in spite of any local regulation against it, Such power
in Congress is essential to the welfare Of the Northern
sIaveholding States.
Surely the power of the general government over the
slave trade within the limits have stated, [between the
States and the coasting trade complete, and unver-
SALLY conceded, and THIS GOVERNMENT Is BOUND TO
PROTECT IT! And no doubt the time will come when
every savehodng State will wish and invoke the author
y 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 Of
the ogitators! [abotoniss. ]-Clays Speech before
abe Sup. Court l841 and endorsed in the u s. Senate.
He urged the Importance of keeping the abotonists
separate and distinct from all other CLASSES, unmixed with
the of community, without the general sympathy, and
exposed the overwhelming power of the united opinion
of all who desire the peace, harmony and union, of Ou
conlederacy- Cly's Speech on CalhOunS Resolutions