Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1844-10-11
TIE SOUTH IN DANGER.
READ BEFORE YOU VOTE.


address Of The Democratic dissertation Of Udstinc.
ton, u. c.
There never was period when the South was in
40 much danger rs AT this moment. To procure the
Abolition vote for Henry Clay, we will show that the
Wing party of the North their leading presses egs-
lave bodies, and statesmen, have denounced the
South they have held up slavery as a crime, they
have promised n speedy UNION 10 effect its overthrow
with the Aboh'ionlsts. and have joined with them in
holding W the South 10 obloGuy aud reproach The
means used by this coalition to represent the
people of the South 10 their sister Staies and the
world as dsgraced and degraded by the institution of
| slavery and as unworthy Of Christian communion
aud social intercourse Already this denoninc feel.
| inc has dissolved the Methodist Church, and other
| American Churches are threatened with similar
| fate The object is to taboo The South, TO render
Infamous, put the mark of Cain upon our forehead
and to deprive us Of character first, the means of
despolng MS of our property afterwards. Men Of the
South the effort is to disgrace and degrade you and
your children forever. That such party exists in
the North is conceded. They denounce you in their
presses PETITIONS and speeches, man-stealers,
robbers. flesh-io bers, slave breeders as con-
Wet criminals, as vile and IN famous, as unworthy Of
Christian, social communion, and. finally, rs ex-
isriug only by sufirrnncc n part of the Union.-
| Now if, shall demonstrate, the party which
| thus denounces the South is couried by the Wing
party of the North, ii they are assured, as we shall
show, by the Wings Of the North hat their views
identical with hose of the Abolltionsis tina, they
arc only using different means to accomplish the
same object, and that the abolition of slavery will he
more certainty elected by Inc election oi Clay Than
that of Blrney surely You cannot continue united as
! n party with the Wings of the North, who thus Join
with your enemiss 10 disgrace mi desra you.
They then proceed to show that John
Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, William
II. Seward, William Slade, George N.
Briggs, Truman Smith, c christopher Morgan.
John Mattocks, John Reed and other dis
tinguished Wings who supper, IlENRv CLAY,
oppose the Annexation of Texas to the IN
ion, upon the ground that the extension and
perpetuily Of Slavery is sough, to be thus ac-
compIIshed. They refer, also, to the fact
that the Wing Legislatures of Massachu-
sets ard Vermont "adopted Resolutions
against the Annexation upon the very strong
est Abolition and An,i-Savery grounds. -
They then say:-
"The doctrine of the Wing Legislatures of the
North is that slavery is crime and disgrace, and
that the slaseholdng States are not fit associates
for the free States of the North and Mr. Clay
adopts unequvocally these resolutions, by giving
them an insuperable objection TO the annexation.
| And now how stands the case! BY the last census,
the North has 135 Representatives in Congress and
the South but SO, being majority of AZ in favor of
the North, which is still increasing at every census.
The Senate is still equally divided but Wisconsin, and
Iowa are both TO be admitted as free States and if
| Florida were admitted at the same time, would
make majority against us in the Senate The only
hope of the South. them is the annexation OF Texas,
which would give the South a majority in the SEN
ate, whilst the North maintained It's prepOnderance
in the House. and thus give electual security 10 the
South, and greatly tend 10 preserve and perpetuaie
the Union, which, with the growing spirit of aholl-
| ton in The North, would be greatly endangered by
giving to the North the unresraned majority in both
Houses Of Congress. Even If Mr.. Clay were not OPP
posed to annexation, the whole Wing party of the
North are, and their success would be the defeat of
annexation whatever the views Of Mr.. Clay night
be-"
Here is an open, distinct avowal that the
Annexation of Texas is demanded for the
purpose of securing a Slave ascendancy in
the Senate of the United States. Mr.. Van
Buren, was discarded as a candidate for Pres
ident, and Mr.. Polk nominated, to effect this
object. And now the Slavehoding States
are called upon to consummate the scheme.
Will the People of the Free States assist in
eec,ing President thus thrust upon them
The Washington Association then proceed
to show that Mr.. CLAY, like Patrick Henry,
Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison, re-.
CARDS Slavery as National evil, aud looks
forward, as those illuslrous Statesmen and
Philan,hropists did, to its ultimate Abolition.
Upon this point they say
In the life of Mr.. Clay, by his confidential friend
and chosen biographer, Mr.. Prentice, of Louisville
he says =" He CMr. Clay has been the slaves
friend through life In all stations has he pleaded
the cause of African freedom, without fear from high
or low. To him, more than To any other individual
is owing that great revolution which has taken place
on this subec-a revolution whose wheels mus
continue TO move onward until they reach the goa
of universal freedom" He also endeavored To dis
sever KENTUCKY from the South, by proposing to in
selt in heI Constitution clause for the prosPcciNC