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

49,. Losoocb ,bem not 10 throw their votes and
their influence in such way as to defeat the ehoft
N extend to the Blacks of New York the right OF
Suffrage The two great parties were taxing 'Ier
ground on this question, tile one IN favor the otner
sgainst this measure of Justice let the Liberty
men not sacrifice this object by too rlgld adher-
onco IN abstract theories lie had told them be-
Soreband what would be the effect Of the election oil
polk mon the annexation of Texas, but they we're
skeptical and disregarded his admonitions' lhey
had seen all his predictions that subject verIned
and he would now warn them not TO sacrlhce IN
the same manner this great question OF suffrage.
Mr. Clay concluded his speech as follows
As for myself though the cause has apparently
gone against me- and the Liberty OF Speech ana oil
the Press. and the Right of Habeas Corpus have
been struck down in my person, AN RESOLVED
NOT TO GIVE uP may indeed be an enthusiast.
Webster. Clay, Calhoun, may better comprehend
the destiny Of this Republic than but cannot
but give utterance to the conceptions oil my own
mind
When look upon the special Developments OF
European Cyilization-wheu | contemplate the
growing freedom Of the Cities and the Middle
Glass. which had sprung up between the pretenders
TO Divine rule, on Que hand, and the abect serl, on
the other-when consider the Reformation and
the Invention of the Press-and then see on the
Southern shore of the continent, an humble lndl-
vidual amidst untold difficulties and repeated de-
feats pursuing the mysterious suggestions which
the mighty deep poured increasingly upon his
troubled spirit Ill, at last with great and irrepressI-
bic energy Of soul, he discovered that there lay in
the far Western Ocean Continent open for the
infusion Of those elementary principles Of liberty
which were dwaried in European soil, have con-
ceiyed that the land OF Destiny was there
When | saw the immigration Of the Pilgrims
from the chalky shores of Engand-in the night
fleeing from their native home-so dramatically
and ably pictured by Mr. Webster in his celebrated
oraton-when father, mother, BROTHER wife. sister,
lover, were all lost, by those melancholy wanderers,
"sllhing,p in the language Of one who is immortal
in the conception, 'the mighty hunger OF the
heart and landing amidst cold and poverty and
death, upon the rude Rock Of Plymouth have
yentured 10 think that the will Of Deity there
When | remembered the Revolution Of '76-the
seven years war-three millions Of men standing
in arms against the most powerful nation Of hsto-
~ and indicating their Independence have
thought that their sufferings and death we're not in
vain When have gone and seen the forsaken
hearlh-sione looked in upon the battlefield, upon
the dying aud the dead-heard the agonizing cry
"W aier. for the sake Of God water" the
dissolution Of this being-pale lips pressing in
death the yet loved images OF wife, sister, lover
will not deem all these in vain cannot regard
this great Continent. reaching from the Atlantic TO
the far Pacific, and from the ST Johns TO the Rio
del Norie, Slave Empire, Barbarian people Of
third-rate civilization
Like the Roman who looked back upon the glo-
~ Of his ancestors in great wo, exclaming
Great sepio's ghos, complains that slow.
And Pompey's shade walks unayenged among Us"
the great dead hover around me--LAwRENcE,
Don't give up the ship'-IiENRY, "Giye me liber-
ty or give me dealt" ADAMS, Survive or perish,
am for the Declaration" "ln the name
Of the Living God come |"
Come, then, thou Eternal who dwellest not in
temples made with hands, but who, in the city s
crowd by the far forest stream, reveaes myself
the earnest seeker after the True and the Right
inspire our hearts-giye us undylng courage TO
pursue the promptings of our spirit; and whether
we shall be called in the shade of life TO look upon
sweet, and kind and lovely faces as now-or, shut
in by sorrow and night horrid yissges shall gloom
upon US in our dying hour-OH MY COUNTRY
MAYrsT THOU YET DE FREE