Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1847-12-03

HE 1bISE- ObSFhf EN- AM A'AAN'
CLAY's 7TH REsoLUT1oN.-The Observer OF
Tuesday last, did not reach our office until
within a few hours of our usual time OF
going to press; therefore our notice OF It this
week must, from necessity, be brief.
The Observer entirely approves OF MI
CIay's no-slayery resolution Well 'hiS IL
clinging little closer to the idol than we
could possibly have anticipated IN southern
paper. If the Observer means, ItHeTdHy' tha'
we ought not to go to war for the purpose
erpressly, of acquiring territory, with the view
olo,e of propagating slavery, we hold the
same doctrine. We 90 farther: we are op-
posed to any war on the part OF the United
States, commenced and waged for the sole pur-
pose of acquiring territory for any purpose.
the meaning of Mr.. Clays resolution? He
cannot and so far from the speech helping
the matter, we venture 10 assert that it has
strengthened the conclusion, that Mr.. Clay in
tended to convey the impression in that reso-
luton 10 the people of the North, that he was
opposed TO the introduction of slavery into a.
ny territory which might hereafter be acquir-
ed We care not what mental reservations
Mr.. Clay made, we declare it as our conviction
that he framed the terms of that resolution,
and placed it amongst his series, with view
OF propitiating the anti-slavery people of the
North and East Why, at this peculiar juno
ture, did Mr.. Clay introduce that resolution
If he is opposed to the acquisition of any ter
rltory al all, it was easy to say so in so many
words. But no ; Mr.. Clay was DESTROYS OF
securing the support of the non-slaveholding
States. The result has proven that the people
OF that region Of country put this construction
upon the resolution. The Eastern anti-slave.
ry papers are very much pleased with the
bold stand which Mr., Clay, slave holder
himself, in a slave holding State, and in ar
audience of slave holders, has taken upon this
very delicate question. But the Observe
thinks we ought to blush when making sucE
an insinuation against Mr.. Clay. He, says thu
Observer, is the author of the Missouri Com
promise. All, indeed and suppose he is'
would not be the first time that Mr. Clay, ii
the course of his long and tortuous career, ha
, turned his backupon the principles which h
himself has laid down The Observer ma,
remember that Mr.. Clay has the credit of be
ing the father of another compromise whicl
saved the Union, so his friends will tell you
about the year 1892; and the Observer ma
also recollect that the same Mr.. Clay was on
of the very first men in the Union in 1912, t
act"
+ We have read Mr.. Clay's speech carefully
S and we, for one, think that instead of the con
< mentary mendng the text, so far as the Sout
is concerned, it makes it worse But, say
: the Observer:
+ &c Let the Journal read in this very speech tn
e following severe and Just rebuke of the Abe
n litionsts, and then blush at its insinuation:
a Whether they 1.-THE abolitionists] intende
t it or not, (says Mr.. Clay,) it is my calm an
h deliberate belief that they have done incalcr
o liable mischief even to the very cause whic
|, they have espoused, 20 say nothing of the dis
:, cord which has been produced between diffe
- ent parts of the Union.'''
It Why, this is what David Wimot himsel
:. and hundreds of other Northern politician
Il who go for the Wilmot Proriso, would sa
} about the mere Abolitionists. One thing W
/ ask our readers to remember; the Fayettevil
: Observer, undoubtedly the leading Federal p;
n per of North Carolina, ''entirely approves OF
u Nj. Claws nti-slaYerY- territory resolution.