Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1846-01-22

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any one else included. Is that equal representa-
ton
I! A yoice-Yes (Laughter.)
Another.--(Laugh
} Mr. Clayton send your members to Washing
tonic, 900 voters (abouD to one Representative
and man comes from Texas, who has only ,25O
yoers for there's only about 4, 500 there in ALL
Laughter) And yet you call it equal representa-
ton (Applause,) Suppose stranger was to
come among you he'd say it queer state o.
things. Your 10, 900 900 Of Northern Freemen al
low 900 900 of Shareholders to get the upper hand
of YOU And by whose money, and by whose blood,
was the country sustained BY that Of Northern
f men; and there would have been no money, Il
Northern men did not furnish it. (Iilsses) The
, money to buy Louisiana came from Northern men
and in Florida the blood Of Northern men was
shed, in order that Northern men might make
themselves, and their children, Slaves. applause
and hisses)
4 Mr. Clay.-You hiss again Is it not truel
we desire TO differ from former republics, and re
pret that they lived short time, let US ask, why
was it that their life, glorious and 50 brilliant,
was so short Because they had not Constltn
ton for which they had any reyerance. They had
the same despotsm that we suffer under tonight
the despotism Of numbers And If had a choice
tonight so help me God I'd rather live under the
despotism Of the Emperor Of Russia, or the Sultan
| of Turkey, than under the desposm of numbers.
For there, if you keep yourself humble and insig-
nfcant, you may stink away into peaceful obscure
ty but here no matter how humble yourself, or
/ dwenr-on the loneliest creek or bayou, the tax
eaiherer is sure to find you out for as they say,
there are two things from which no man can es-
cape-Death and the tax-gatherer daughter and
applause.) The man who basely submits TO one
yrani, will submit to all, and is slave. And, i'll
know any thing Of Slavery, it is miserable depen
dence on the will of another Orr fathers framed
the Constitution, that it should not be subjected to
despotism Of numbers particularly as agans, the &C.
| QUESTION of numbers (Applause) And yet, what
have we lately scent
| Mr. CLAY then compared the conduc, OF the South
on the Texas question, with that on the Oregon ai-
/ fair. He said that Oregon was ours by discovery
exploration, and beneficial and successful occupan-
cy lie deprecated the last resort-the Ultima ratio
regum. But If it was necessary to take Slave State
By force, he would take this free State by force,
and leave it to sensible men on whom the guilt Of
the blood split should rest. Our title is perfect
England dare not, and cannot go to for it and
if hot-headed men on both sides would keep still,
we shall have Oregon without a
Mr. Clay loosely proposed TO buy out England's
partial right to Oregon with Texas and South Car
olina money, since the North was liberal to
buy Florida and Louisiana for the Shareholder.
He contended that, all history proved that we
must all either be slaves, or freemen, what would
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this to be accomplished! BY standing only on the
Constitution and Laws Give the South the pound
OF flesh but no blood. II they violate single right
OF the free they violate the entire franchise Of the
North and the peril Of the strife be on their head
The course he desired was not TO vary the ninth
part of hair from the Constitution If you wish
to be generous be so if you wish to be concilia-
ting be so but stand close up TO the Constitution
Whenever Slavery can be cOnstitutionally reached
there reach it, (applause) and with the extension of
Territory extend only freedom. (Much appause.)
Mr. Clay then went on to speak of Slavery in the
District OF Columbia; and TO show that 10 DOC, 900
OF free Northern men have something TO do with
Slavery there seeing that the National Government
has entire jurisdiction over the 10 miles square, and
that these 100000 constitute a majority Of
the constituents OF the Government. Applause
There was another way in which Slavery could
be Constiiuiionally reached 1t could be banshed
from the seas, far as they were under the utis-
dlctlon of the United States Government. The
domestic traffic in Slaves, now carried on between
the States, could be driven from the ocean under
the clause OF the Constitution which empowers
Congress to regulate Commerce.
If the question were again asked what had the
North to do with Slavery, he would answer that
they could destroy the monopoly of office and pat.
ronage so long enjoyed by the Slave Power, and
place the administration of the Government in the
hands Of those who would WELD il in conformity TO
the great principles Of Liberty. On this point he
spoke with much emphasis, but we cannot follow
him further.
There another point of still greater delicacy
as pertaining TO the peculiar duties of the NORTH
He alluded to the restriction which the Free States
mghtput upon the right of Suffrage On this sub
ject he called upon the audience and the reporters
for the press to mark his language, when he said on
no subject was the South more sensitive than up-
on this. If the North would reach Slavery effectu-
ally, let her be Just to her own free black popula-
ton, by giving them their political rights He would
not enter upon the question of the Natural Equality
OF the Black with the White race When he con-
sidered the progress which the latter had made
from state Of rude barbarsm to their present
comparatively high intellectual condition when he
considered what England was in the time of Eliza
oeth and what she is now, he would not undertake
70 say what might not yet be done to elevate the
Blacks. 1t had been affirmed by those wiser in such
matters than himself, that the Arts and Sciences
were received by the Romans from the ancient
Egyptians, who were negroes and he could not
Tell whether in the progress Of events the Blacks
might not be elevated to the highest point of civili-
%atlon and refinement. On that point he would
hether Affirm or deny any thing but leave il to be
Se',led by the Developments Of time and the action
OF Divine Providence That the Blacks in their
present condition were vastly behind the Whites he
admitted, and he did not stand there 10 plead for
inauguration or for entire social equality. Here
was an important distinction which he begged his
audience to note-that between equality Of social
condition, and equality political rights Suppose
ne were TO meet in the street live Yankee
sucker from Indiana, a Corn.Cracker from Ken
'ncky or even a poor drunken vagabond He
might not prefer such men for associates, but would
ne therefore knock them down and rob theml