Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-01-30

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whole cause into disrepute. applause y
here was, then, an agreement that Slavery
should exist in The Southern States. And
there was a farther agreement (more's the
PITY that If a slave escaped to a free State.
the latter should return him into Slavery
And also that none should be introduced
from Africa. (Applause.) SO, therefore,
the north joined hands with the South in
this matter, and departed from the great prin-
ciple for which they had fought the bloody
battles of the Revolution. (Applause.) So
therefore, if Slavery still exist in the South,
you of the North are equally guilty of its
existence. But if there be an extension of
Slavery over other Territory Of the Union,
you, men Of the North, are far more guilty
than others, because you did crii, wiM far
less temPta'ion' Much applause.)
So far as the Constitutions question is
concerned, C. VI. Clay is far in advance of
Liberty party; for he frankly admits that the
Constitution is pro-slavery, and administers
just rebuke to that party for its course in re-
lation to the matter.
Why the leading principle for which
our fathers fought was no taxation with
out rePresentation--(Loud and continued
cheering.) That they should 90 together.
(Choers.) And yet here comes up a man
from Texas owning 100 slaves; he takes his
seat in the House Of Representatives, and
thus has as much power as he who repre-
sents 81 of the best freemen of New York,
John Jacob Astor, or any one else, included.
Is that equal representation
A VoIcE.-Yes. (Laughter.)
ASorHER.-No. ~(Laughter.)
Mr.. CLAY.-Gou send your members to
Washingtou-l0,00 900 voters (about) to one
Representative; and a man comes from Tex
as who has only 1880 voters; for there's on
ly about 1900 there in all. (Laughter.)
And yet you call it equal representation.
(App'ause.) Suppose a stranger was to come
among you; he'd say it was a queer state of
things. Your 10000, 600 of Northern Free
men allow 5,0O0,000 Of Slaveh olders 10 get
the upper hand of you. And by whose mo-
ney and by whose blood was the country
sustained By that of Northern men; and
there would have been no money if North
ern men did not furnish it. (Hisses.) The
money to buy Louisians Jahno from Northern
men; and in Florida the blood of Northern
men was shed in order that Northern
men might make themselves and their chill
dren slaves. (ApplauSe aud hisses.)
Mr.. CLAY.-Iou hiss again! Is it not
true! If we desire to differ from former Re
publics, and regret that they lived so short n
time, let US ask, why was it that their life,
so glorious and so brilliant, was so shortl
Because they had not Il Constitution for
which they had any reverence. They had
the same despOtism that we suffer under to-
night-the despotism of numbers. And if
| had a choice to night, so help me God, I'd
rather live under the despotism of the En-
peror of Russia, or the Sultan of Turkey
than under the despotism of numbers For
there, if you keep yourself humble and in
significant, you may stink away into peace
full obscurity; but here no matter how hum
BILE yourself or dwelling-on the loneliest
creek or bayou, the taX-gatherer is sure to
find you out; for, as they say, there are two
things from which no man can escape
Death and the taX-gatherer. daughter and
applause.) The man who basely submits to
one tyrant, will submit to all, and is a slave.
Bear that in mind, you who fancy that we
have a republican form of government, who
are pleasing yourselves with the idea that
this is a Democracy ,at least so far as the white
understand how eggesiously you have been
dupcd.
There was another point of still greater
d~elicacy as pertaining to the peculiar duties
of the North. He alluded to the restriction
which the Free States might put upon the
Right of Suffrage. On this subject he called up
on the audience g. the reporters for the press to
mark his language when he said that on no
subject was the South more sensitive than
upon this. If the North would reach Slavery
efrectually, let her be just to her own free
black population by giving them their politi-
cal rights. If she would aid in freeing the
South, she must herself be free from all faint
of oppression. He would not enter upon the
question of the Natural Equality of the Black
with the White race. When he considered
the progress which the latter had made from
a state of rude barbarism to their present
comparatively high intellectual condition;
when he considered what England was in
the time of Elizabeth and what she is now,
he would not undertake TO say what might
not vet be done to elevate the Blacks. 1t
had been affirmed by those wiser in such
matters than himself that the Arts and Sci
enccs were received by the Romans from an
cient Egyptians, who were negroes: and he
could not tell whether in the progress of e.
vents the Blacks may not c elevated to the
highest point of civilization and refinement.
On that point he would neither affirm nor de-
ny any thing, but leave it TO be settled by
the Developments OF time and the action of
Divine Providence. Thatthe Blacks in their
present condition were vastly behind the
Whites he admitted, and he did not stand
there to plead for amalgamation or for entire
social equality. Here was an important dis
~tinction which he begged his audience to note