Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1844-08-23
Wing Candidate for President,
HENRY CLAY.

" know there is visionary dogma which holds that
negro slaves cannot be the subjects of property shall
not dwell long upon this speculative abstraction. That
is property ohich the ldW declares to be property
Two hundred years of legislation have sanctioned and
sanctifed negro slaves property"
"IfI had been actzeu of Pennsylvania when Frank
Inns plan ogradual emancipaton) 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 Sates-the southern southwestern States
IshouM have opposed, and 1couH continue to oppose
any scheme WhaeUer Of emancipation, gradual or I'M
mediate.'
"It 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 lift were true" -[Clay Speech in the Sem
ate, Feb. 7, 1885, ....
would suffer the tortures of the nquiston before
would sign bill having for its obec the abolition of sla
very in the District of Columbia, in any manner give
cOuntenance to the project. to Wise, al.
Discussion implies deliberation; deberation is prem-
mary to action The people of the North have right
act upon the of Southern slavery, and therefore
they have no right to deHberGte-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
tee of "a ofthe House of Representatives. Sabbath
day, that the terms adjusted by which the Missouri
compromise efiected-CIay's Tariff Speech, Feb.
IS, 1888.
The most convenient route from Washington City TO
the slave regions bordering the Ohio and upper Misss
sippi rivers is through Washington, Pennsylvania If
Pennsylvania the pretext that she is free Sate 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
portant to the savehodng States, and to the Unio1 itself
that Congress should have the power provide that slaves
may be held and pass IN transitw through Pennsylvan,
in spite of any local regulation against it, Such power
in Congress is essential to the welfare of the Northern
slaveholding States. -
Surely the power of the general government over thu
slave trade within the limits have stated, between the
States, and the coasting ade is complete and univer-
sally conceded, and THIS GOVERNMENT Is BOUND TO
PROTECT IT! And no doubt the time will come when
every slavehodng State will wish and invoke the author
ity and power of the General Government for this puE-
pose. And he who would limit the power beyond this,
is himself doing what he subserve the purposes Of
the dgiratOrs! [abolltionsts. CIGys Speech before
1he Sup Court, l84 and endorsed in the u s. Senate
He urged the importance of keeping the abolionss
separate and distinct from all other CLASSES, unmxed 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,
confederacy- CIayS Speech on CalhoGns Resolutions