Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1844-10-18

course, for the whole Of this Tract, but will
give such extracts from il as will enable the
public to understand its character and objects.
1t commences thus:
THE SOUTH IN DANGER.
READ BEFORE you VOTE
address Of the Democratic association Of
Washington, d. C.
There never was a period when the South
wasin so much danger as at this moment. To
procure the Abolition vote for Henry Clay, we
willshow that the Wing party of the North,
their leading presses, legislative bodies, and
statesmen, have denounced the South, they
have held up slavery as crime, they have
promised speedy union TO effect its overthrow
with the Abo,ionists, and have joined with
them in holding up the South TO obloquy and
reproach. The means used by this new coali-
ton are to represent the people Of the South
10 their sister States and 10 the world as dis
graced and degraded by the institution of sla-
very and as unworthy Of Christian communion
and social intercourse. Already this demonac
feeling has dissolved the Methodist Church,
and other American Churches are threatened
with similar fate. The object is TO taboo The
South, to render US infrn ,us, to put the mark
df Cain upon our forehead, and TO deprive us
Of our character first, as the means OF despoil-
ing us Of our property afterwards Men OF
the South, the effort is to disgrace and degrade
YOU and your children forever. That such a
marty exists in the North is conceded. They
denounce you in their presses, petitions and
speeches, as man-stealers, as robbers, as flesh
iobbers, rs save-breeders, as convict criminals,
as vile and Infamous, as unworthy OF Christian
or social communion, and, finally, as existing
only by sufferance as a part Of the Union
Now If, as we shall demonstrate, the. party
which thus denounces the South is courted by
the Wing party Of the North, if they are as
spred, as we shall show, by the Wings OF the
North, that their views are identical with those
Of the Abotionists, that they are only using
different means to accomplish the same object,
and that the abolition of slavery will be more
certainly effected by the election of Clay than
that of Brney, surely you cannot continue u
Rited as party with the Wings of the North,
who thus Join with your enemies TO disgrace
and degrade you.
They then proceed to show that John Quin-
cy Adams, Daniel Webster, William II. Sew
ard, William Slade, George N. Briggs, Tru-
man Smith, Christopher Morgan, John Mat
tocks, John Reed and other distinguished wings
who support Henry Clay, oppose the Annexa-
ton of Texas 10 the Union, upon the ground
that the extension and perpetuity Of Slavery IS
sought to be thus accomplished. They refer,
also, to the fact that the Wing Legislature Of
Massachusetts, and Vermont adopted Resolu-
buttons against the Annexation upon the very
strongest Abolition and Anti-Slavery grounds
They then say:-
tThe doctrine of the Wing Legislatures Of
{ the North is, that slavery is crime and dis
grace, and that the slaveholding States are not
IL associates for the free States Of the North;
rand Mr. Clay adopts unequivocally these reso-
buttons, by giving them as an nsuperable obIec-
' ton to the Annexation. And now how stands
the case? BY the last census, the North has
1856 REPRESENTATIVES in Congress, and the South
hut 80, being majority of Al in favor OF the
North, which is still increasing at every CEN
aus. 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, it would make majority against
us in the Senate. The only hope OF the South,
then, is the annexation Of Texas, which would
give the South majority in the Senate, whilst
the North maintained its preponderance in the
House, and thus give effectual security To the
South, and greatly tend to perpetuate the I'm
ion, which, with the growing spirit oil aboll-
ton in the North, would be greatly endanger-
ed BY giving to the North the unrestrained ma
Jority in both Houses of Congress. Even il
Mr. Clay were not opposed to the annexation,
the whole Wing party Of the North are, and
their success would be the defeat of annexa-
ton, whatever the views of Mr. Clay might be-
Here is an open, distinct avowal that the An
nexation OF Texas is demanded for the pur-
pose OF securing Slave asceDdancy in the Sem
ate of the United States. Mr. Van Buren, was
discarded as a candidate for President, and M
Polk nominated, to effect this object. AND
now the Slavehoiding States are called upon tc
cdhsummate the scheme. Will the people o
the Free States assist in electing 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 a National evil, and looks for
ward, as those illustrious Statesmen and Phi
ianthropists did, TO its ultimate Abolition. Up
on this point they say:-
sIn the life of Henry Clay, by his con6den
tial friend and chosen biographer, Mr. Prentic
Of Louisville, he says:-'He, (Mr Clay,) ha
heen the slaves friend ihrough life. In allsta
tons has he pleaded The cause OF African Tree
dom, without fear from high or low. To him
more than to any other individual, is owinl
that great revolution which has taken place Of
this subject--a revolution whose wheels mus
continue to move onward until they reach tn
goal Of universal freedom He also endeavor
ed 10 dissevef Kentucky from the South, b
proposing to insert in her Constitution claus
for the prospective eradication Of slavery from
the State, by means Of gradual emancipation
Of those held in bondage. See his life by hi
friend Epes Sargent, PIP. 5, 49, Where tn
South would have been with Kentucky agains
them on the question Of abolition, let the pres
u Al. 10 Of lns