The southern press., 1851-08-05
Fross sAe LsAsvsmsuiis Is, CO. Herald.
To Henry clay of kentucky y--Nes q.

prove to betrayed people, the perfdy of your
conduct as q statesman. shall take care that
the credibility Of the evidence l adduce shall
not be impeachod, even by yourself Your re-
corded acts and declarations will save me the
trouble, sir, of putting you on your poir dire. by
calling upon you to purge your conscience OF the
l"pyramid of political transgressions," which you
have erected over the tomb Of that heavenly
monitor. Had you hearkened in time to that
still small voice, you might have saved your
country yet little while from the illiad Of woes,
which now so fearfuly threaten its repose and
safety. 1t is now too late for repentance. The
evils you have wrought have penetrated the
public heart, and the germs of violence and
revolution which you have planted, warmed into
life by your fostering care, are spreading the
plague spots of pestilence through the land.
Fruitful in resource, prolific in the panaceas of
compromise as you are you have no power over
the past and in your dying hour you will call
upon Nemesis in vain for the boon OF forgetful-
ness. You may compromise revolt, but not a
revolution And if all your sensbties be not
extinct, when your fates gather around your
dying couch the poena forte et dura Of barbaric
punishment could add nothing to the tortures
which you must endure, and If your conscience
shall survive, when the pentup fires which you
have kindled upon the accursed aItars of your
abolition idol, shall fash their lurid glare upon
your fading vision, at the moment when the
bloody tragedy Of your country's immolation
shall begn and the praises of your name shall
be chauDted by the ministering choir, the
great high priest of the sacrifice. Or, will you,
sir, still faithful to the precepts Of the higher
law, and its adjunct, rule or ruin" like Hermes
Of the burning belt, at the sepulchral of Pompei,
still, amid the smoke and flame of your expiring
country, seek to grasp the coveted object Of
your unhallowed ambition, for which this ruin
is wrought? Nero revelled in drunken de-
bauchery while lgsle was burning Napoleon,
intent on universal empire, looked down upon
Moscow, an "ocean of flame" Butchers of the
human race! their thrones floated upon a sea of
blood, wrung from the hearts of their victims,
| and the united voice of mankind awards to each
an Immortality of infamy. If not too late, it
would be well for you to profit by their exam
pile, least you should, upon different stage and
under circumstances which admit of far less ex-
tenuation, win celebrity allied to Meris, and
adorn your brow with Il chaplet from the same
laurels, and earn for yourself similar immor.
tality.
Your accredited biographer has recorded the
fact, that you hare nerer permitted your respect
for the Constitution 10 obliterate your feelings as
a man What does he intend by this but to dis
close to your abolition allies that like them, your
oath to support the Constitution is superseded
by the paramount obligations of a" higher
law" and as you entered upon the abolition arena
of the authorship and paternity of the higher
law code! And have you not acted up to the
Infamous precepts of that law from that hour to
this! When, during your whole public life,
have you hestated to pierce the Constitution
with your dagger, when its limitations opposed
barrier to your progress? When the light Of
truth shall have penetrated the veil with which
you have covered the monstrous deformities Of
your political principles and conduct, the judg-
ment of coming age will award to you the
honor of being the Original or and founder Of the
higher law school, You are indeed the Moses
of the African Exodus; and Seward, your &C.
credited high priest, clothed with the mngian
robes Of Office with which you have adorned
him, is but your disciple and humble follower
and far your inferior in his devotion to the infer
nal deity of the higher law canon; and the tin.
sci of his mystic regalia pales before the regal
splendor of your own.
You made your debut, as an Abolitionist in
Kentucky in 1898, by writing and publishing in
the Kentucky Gazette, series of incendiary ar
ticles, over the signature of "Sc@vola." Soon
after, throwing off your incog, you headed party
Of Abolitionists during the agitation in Kentucky,
of remodelng the constitution, and in the Ian
guage of your biogrnpher "made bold push
for the abolition of slavery, leaving lasting i'm
preston upon the public mind" In 1929, in a
speech you made}at Frankfort, KY, you used the
following language: "More than thirty wears
ago, an attempt was made in this commonwealth
to adopt system of gradual emancipation. We
were overpowered by numbers. | have, never.
theless never ceased, and never shall cease, to
regret decision, the effects of which has been
to place us in The rear of our neigh5ors pho are
erempt from slavery. Is there no ren,edy7 They
(the negroes) knoU ,oeH The wrongs ,ohich M ir
ancestors suffered, although they may be unable
10 arenge them" In your place in the Senate in
1882, you used the following language: "No
man, presume, can fail to cherish the hope, that
at some day or other, The country ,oH be rid Of
sapery-ihs darkest spa on her mantle"
Here, sir, we have model specimen of the
cant of your abolition associates of the North
at the present day, who in their abolition conven-
tices, but reproduce your language in their in
cendiary fumnations "You have never ceased
and never will cease TO regret dicision which
has placed us in the rear Of our neighbors who
are exempt from slavery" Your preference for
Northern institutions is here boldly avowed, and
your regrets are unceasing, that you cannot abol
ish the social institutions Of the South, and
adopt those of the North; and in your pious
agony, like the prophet weeping over the ruin of
his people, exclaimed with bitterness of spirit
"is there no remedy for the sins of my people
They (the negroes) know well the wrongs which
their ancestors suffered, though they may be un-
able to avenge them" Is not language like this
calculated to incite the slaves of the South to in
surrection-to rebel against their masters, and
to wash out in the blood of women and children
the wrongs you tell them they endured DO you
not in terms tell them that the people Of the
South are the hereditary oppressors Of their
rnce, and to them a debt Of vengeance is due,
and an attempt to wreak it, by resort to the
torch and knife, would be justifable, the ability
Of successful repoh being the only impeachment
suggested' How much palmer than this have
the disciples of Garrison and Fred. Douglass
or the insane fanatics of the Boston mob spoken
Could not Nat Turner, the savage monster who
headed the Southampton insurrection, have ap
pealed to you as authority by implication while
under the gallows, in justification of the inhu-
man hutchpriao ha cnp,n;ffad uo,n aloantnO