The New York herald., 1845-08-27
The Abolition Excitement In Kentucky-
The Anti.Slavery Movement.

We have received the official account of the late
proceedings in Lexington, which terminated in the
expulsion of Cassius NJ Clay's abolition establish
ment from that place. The address, resolutions,
and so on are marked by great degree of ability
and temperance. We will publish them in the
course of day or two Indeed. the wehle affair
has passed off with degree Of forbearance and
quiet which is gratifying in the extreme
The difficulty into which the people Of Lexington
have recently got before the world, may be traced 10
the deception which politicians practise upon
themselves, and attempt to practise on the
pblic. Here is Cassius M Clay, violent, political
partizan, without any sense or moderation, starting
out from Kentucky, during the Presidential cleo
ton, coming to the North, and fancying that, by a
ridiculous movement in favor of the abolition of
slavery he could procure the votes OF the abolition
lists Of the North in favor of Henry Clay and thus
make him President of the United States This
was the great.error committed by Cassius M Clay.
winked at by the friends of Henry Clay in Ken
lucky, by those very men who have been foremost
in routing him out of Lexington II was the covert
support-the tacit encouragement of these yery
men that induced Cassius to start his paper, the
columns of which teemed with incendiary appeals
and the most dsgraceful attacks upon the planters
of that State, and the social institutions Of the
South in general. The catastrophe, which has at
last taken place in the expulsion above, and beyond
the law, of Mr. Clay, is only part of
the consequences of that great game of
iolly hypocrisy and humbug, which many of
those men now SO eagerly engaged in denounclng
Mr. Clay, encouraged under the mistaken view
Of aiding the election of Henry Clay t. the Pres-
dency. This II is that men deceive themselves. and
by their hypocrtcal and scheming policy only, de-
ieat their own purposes, and bring themselves into
adlsgraceful and unfortunate position before the
world.
The great question Of the present condition of tie
black races, those Of African descent in the
southern States of this Union seems 10 be- entirely
misunderstood by the present age We believe IN
the ultimate emancipation Of the African races bu,
altogether different form and shape TO tha, which
is contemplated by the fanatics Of the day We be.
eve that the present condition OF the African races
in the southern States is much more natural-mucl
more agreeable TO the dictates OF nature-and Ger
tainly much more comfortable, so far as the race
are themselves concerned, than that of the law in
dolent, wretched, precarious, and equivocal position
Of the same races in the free States. The reverle
In which the fanatics indulge to the effect that
the blacks are human beings they entitled to tn
same privlleges-the same rights, both civil and po
lincal, and otherwise, which the white races claim
are founded on an abstraction growing out of tn,
systems OF philosophy and morals which ore
vailed IN past ages, and which never can he
realized in the practice Of these enlightened times
In fact, this abstraction has been Justly condemned
as practical untruth, receiving that condemnation
much from those who affect to believe il. a. from
those that entertain the opposite opinion Il can
only be by destruction of all the genius, arts an,
civilization, which distinguish the Ango-Saxon race
that a state of society could ever be produced, il
which the black man can be raised to the same So
cial equality with the highly refined white woman
or the black woman placed in the same elevation
with the white man in social position The ide
OF equality pervading these distinct races-an eoua