Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1844-10-04
Wing Candidate for President,
HENRY CLAY.

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 (Which the IaD declares to be property
Two hundred years of legislation have sanctioned and
sanctfed negro slaves as property
If had been citizen Of Pennsy vania when Frank
Inns plan (ofgradua emancpaton) was adopted, should
have voted fer it; because by possibility could the
black gain the ascendancy in that State But
if had been then, citizen of any of the
planting States-he southern south-w estern States
should haze opposed, and 1Uoud continue to oppose
any scheme 'Uhateuer Of emancipation, gradual i'm
medidte.'
" 1t is NOT True, and REJOICE that it is not true,
that EITHER of the two great parties in this country has
any DESIGN or AIM at ABOLITION. should DEEPLY
LAMENT if it were true. '-[Clays Speech in the Sen
ate, Feb. 7, 1889.
would suffer the tortures of the inqusition before
would sign bill having for its object the abolition of sla
very in the District of Columbia in any manner give
countenance to the Proect-Clay to Wise, Al.
Discussion implies deliberations deberation is prem-
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 deiberate-No RIGHT TO Dis
cUss!-Cldy's Speech, 1887.
1t in this very chamber, Senator Holmes, of Mane
presiding in committee of the Senate and in commit
tee OF "A OF the House OF Representatives, on SG661b
day. that the terms adjusted by which the Missouri
compromise eflected-CIays Tariff Speech, Feb
25, 1888.
The most convenient route from Washington City to-
the slave regions bordering the Ohio and upper Mssis
sippi rivers is through Washington, Pennsylvania. If
Pennsylvania the pretext that she 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
portan to the savehodng States, and to the Union ITSELF
that Congress should have the power provide that slaves
may be held and pass anstu through Pennsy lvania
in spite of any local regulation against it? Such power
in Congress is essential the welfare of the Northern
slaveholding States
Surely the power of the general government the
slave trade within the limits have stated between the
States, and the coastng trade complete, and unver
sally conceded, and THIS GOVERNMENT is BOUND TO-
PROTECT IT! And no doubt the time will come when
every sIavehodng State will wish and invoke the author
ity and power of the General Government for this pur
pose. And he who would limit the power beyond this,
himself doing what he subserve the purposes OF
the ogiEatorS abolltionsts. ]-ClGys Speech before
lhe Sup Court, l84l and endorsed in the u S. Senate
He urged the importance of keeping the abolonists
separate and distinct from all other CLASSES, unmixed with
the rest of community, without the general sympathy and
exposed to the overwhelming power of the united opinion
of all who desire the peace harmony, and union OF our
confederacy- Clays Speech on CaAhOunS Re'oftt'ona