The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-08-18

To Henry Clay Of Kentueky-No 4.
SHIT is fortunate for mankind that Provi-
dence has provided the means 10 detect and OK
7 pose the arts by which the impostor seeks to
infict injury upon society. The brutal passions
which live in the breast Of the robber and
pirate, stamp their Impress upon his face, and
the acts Of the corrupt functionary afford sure
index to his motives and designs. Your con
spiraces have been so much out of the ordinary
course Of human conduct, that the sagacty OF
the blood hound is not required to trace the
footsteps OF your extraordinary career. !
charged in proceeding letter, that you are the
propaganda of both British and America policy
for the abolition OF slavery and that you have
received the price of your country's betrayal
recur to this part of our history again.
The abolition policy in America had its origin
in the British cabinet of George Ill. Soon
after the surrender of CORVALLIS at Yorktown,
in 1881 the king called council of his ministers,
to deliberate upon American affairs. 1t was
resolved to abandon the prosecution of the war
against America; to make peace with the United
States, acknowledge their independence, and to
resort to the policy of creating intestine diy-
sions among them, by arraying the North in the
attitude of hostility to the South, by nfusng
| into the minds of the Northern people an alb
florence of African slavery. 1t was declared
proper direction to the Northern mind in Amer
lea, all the slaves OF the Northern States would
be s)ld to the Southern people, where their
labor would be in greater demand, and that in
the end, and by the use of proper means,
sympathy for the slave, and an adherence of
their masters would be created in the North
| causing irreconcilable antipathies between the
two sections of the confederacy. A dignitary
of the chuch at the same time read an account
drawn from secret archiues Of the Vatican, of
the secret policy aolich gaze birta to the crusaes,
the mode of infatuating the leading men, and
also the multitude" 1t was resolved that the
theme should be, liberty and Slavery in the ab-
stract" Emissares were sent forthwith to
America TO operate on the minds of eminent
men, and to influence them to enter upon the
public stage as high minded phianthropists,
and at the same time to cloak their real designs,
| by assuming to be the peculiar friends and de-
tenders of republican liberty in the United
States.
| In this way, it was commended, the leading
men of the North, and some OF those in the
South, whom the events Of the revolution had
made enthusiasts in the cause of liberty, would
be brought to coincide with the abolition dog
mas, and who, by their influence and example,
would ditfuse the abolition spirit through the
multitude of ordinary minds. Societies were
formed to train and qualify leaders for the aboli
ton crusade in America, with the view to final
dissolution of the Union. From the hour of
the meeting of that memorable cabinet council
to this, abolition has been in steady and sure
progress in America The ordinance of 1887,
drawn up by Mr.. Jefferson, before he started on
his mission to France, was passed by the Con-
gress of the confederation, and which received
the vote Of every Southern man, except Mr.
Madison, who, from some unknown cause, was
not in his seat when the vote was taken. The
Northern States commenced forthwith upon the
passage of that ordinance, to sell their slaves to
the South, with the view to the possession and
occupancy of the vast Northwest domain, which
had been authoritatively set apart for The nsio
form Of civilization, to which they were invited
They sold to the South that part of their slaves
whose services were valuable, and emancipated
the DID, decripid and inhrm The spirit of the
crusades was revived Reason, truth and JUS
tice, lost their control over the mind Religion
was enlisted in the pious effort to regenerate
mankind, by the establishment of a reformed
civilization, and by the extirpation Of an magi-
nary evil. The superstition and tanaiicism of
the middle ages, arose from the dust and ruins of
the Vatican, and maddening the minds of men
with one destructive idea, laid the foundations
| of revolution, moral, social, religious and po-
litical, which is now gathering into a tempest,
and rushing on in wild fury to its fearful accom-
plishment Many eminent men of the South,
with Washington at their head, emancipated
their slaves Section is now arrayed against
section, brother against brother the Christian
church distracted by the introduction into its
sanctuary of widespread nfdelity TO the sacred
truths of the Bible, is rent in twain; the hearts
of the people are at war and strive with each
other and peace and union exist only in name.
The part you have played, sir, in this great
drama, leave no room TO doubt, that these
things, which, like the angel which ST. John
saw in his vision, are designed to take peace
from the earth, haze not been kept from yoltr
kno,oledge--tbat you have acted by authority,
and played the part assigned you by the mana
ger behind tie scenes.
The colonization society of America, of which
you have so long been president, and before
which you have so often Illuminated your aboli-
ton sentimentalty, is but part of the London
programme, and the school which was estab-
lished to train and qualify abolition missionaries,
10 propagate the Jesuiiism Of the abolition
faith, and to scatter incendiary tracts broadcast
over the land. Similar societies were organized
in nearly every country of Europe, TO Undue the
minds of emgrants TO America with abolition
sentiments, and for these pupils of the parent
club III houuOi, you nave, IN the character OF
philanthropic statesman and advocate of uni
versal freedom, and In violation Of the trust re-
posed in you as a senator, acted only as the hired
agent, in seeking by Legislative enactments, to
make these emigrants, upon their arrival, dona-
tons of land. Ii you were put upon your Uoir
dare, and the question propounded to you, how
much of the hundred thousand pounds sterling
of secret money voted annually by England for
many years, for abolition purposes, you have re-
ceived, what would be your answer! Every
barrier against the prostitution of your duties
and obligations ms senator have long since
been broken down. You received as the at
torney of the United States Bank, and as
a bonus for abandoning the republican faith and
adopting that Of the Federasts and Wings,
$4,000; as the attorney of the manufacturers,
and for the prosecution of your American sys.
tenn, as a senator and statesman, fee of 800.
600. Your Northern allies paid a debt which
you owed to the Northern Bank of Kentucky
and cancelled mortgage which the bank held
upon Ashland of G16 000 mora aud n foo IF a