The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-12-28

sfxth Ants-slavery Lecture.
CAHuus NJ CLAW, Of Kentucky, delivered the sixth
lecture Of the before the New York Anti Slavery
Society At the TAberpaee Tuesday evening Mr. Clay
drew the largest house Of the He BY
drawing picture Of the condition Of Tie negro popu
ton In this country and passed from that point to say
that the question vas not now to the suferngs Of
the Africans, but the matter had taken wider and
deeper course. II Was now to be seen whether the
whites to be slaves freemen. He would prove
that the slave power exercised political despotism over
the country There was no intention, he said, on the
part Of the South give up the power which the hold
ing OF slaves gives them. The settlers Of the colo
MES divided two first in the North
headed by the Puritan leaders, and the second in the
South led by such men Lord Baltimore and Sir Wal
ter Raleigh These two classes sprung from different
England and the at the South set
up and have since maintained, the same distinc-
ton Of caste which exists abroad In South Carolina
man cannot sit in the Legislature unless he slaves
or their equivalent in land and in most of the Southern
States property qualification Is necessary for the
else OF the right suffrage. The shareholders are thus
enabled to keep up political dig archy and have thus
far succeeded ia turning the democratic party
in sustaining them To that nslaveholers
no share in the government Of the States Mr. Clay cited
the case Of the Kentucky Convention, when not
one non slaveholdiDg delegate returned. In
front rank and bors the S SaSs s. ~ IN .ne
tie, but not commission of honor profit
was issued to any member OF il in the State Of Kentucky
might be changed from rita to ballot that they
might not be overawea by the wealthy Shareholders It
with The influence Of the landlord over Inc tenant No
They might for who they pleased but they voted
for any Of the sgisaiors they must pun up their stakes
And this is the sort Of prescription that has driven
than million Of the oest men of kentucky % seek
refuge in free States The is also under the con-
roi OF the Shareholders. II it has occasionally
little spark Of spirit II is at crushed out for the
press depends upon the wealth Of the country for its
support The pulpit is equally in the dark aud the
preachers they pray at all on the subject must pray
hat the cheips shall grow stronger upon the limbs Of
he suffering millions. The lecturer could not sum
GENTLY admire those clergymen who true to the
eause OF freedom and he could sympathize with those
who knew the right and had not courage do it, hut
he had no word OF condemnation for those priests who
assisted in the unhoy work CT assisting in the enslayny
Of both black and white men. (Appausc.) For in.
,taDce, that priest in South Carolina who woad ra Their
lose his soul in hell than touch the subject Of slavery
II ever soul deserved to be lost in bell IL HIS
(Applause.) One Of these clergymen (Rev Nehemiah
Adams) says that bills 10 abolish slavery in
Southern agiiators This is not true, and the
lecturer would challenge the reverend gentleman to
prove it. He believed that there better feeling at
the South on the subject OF slavery and in passing
through the great cotton growing States you will
that the owners consult the comfort Of their slaves
more than ever they did before To be sure the out
side iessure has caused the slave holders to make
restrictive laws but they have been executed and
the condition OF the slave is improving every day and
al this is in consequence Of the agitation which has
been Kept up at the South. Mr. Clay went on to say
that the savehoIding population of the South had
RevOlu-
ton Where is the right OF liberty of speech in the
Slave states? Gone Where the liberty Of the pressg
Gonel Where the right to be sacred in your person
against searchess Gone Where the trial by jury 2
Gore, or very much restricted Where the right OF
equal Representations Gone Equality Of right before
the law gone and equality Of privilege to hold Office is
gone and the despotism Of the slave power il ninely
worse than that Of Louis Napoleon Victoria and the
speaker as far as the sentiment goes would prefer
ocratic, republican. (APplaase.) And have you, the
citizens OF New York any more freedom at the South
than weY Not whit And even in the halls Of Con-
gress Southern bowie knives and pistols reign supreme
They preach - you obedience to the constitutions but
when it nterferes with their intercstand what oil
garch ever considered any interest but its ownsthey
tranple it under foot. How is it with your
foreign policy In Pensacola they violated treaty Of
peace with SPAIN and Mexico they made without
even the sembance of declaration Had they any
gard for the constitution And now, said the speaker
shalt speak Of that infamous Fugitive Slave law Gap
plause.) law which have denounced In sixty-fve
counties in Kentucky He would not he said argue as
to its consutonay, but Daniel Webster had declare
that il was unconsiitutional-that it matter
which belonged to the States (Applause) In the
ter Of compromises he said he would compromise any.
thing but great principle (Applause) Wen, in the
old compromises the South got the lions share; and
when they found that there might be spot where
dom could breathe they rampled the constitution and
the compromises under foot and they in armed
potstseion They have humbugged you for years with
their IDEA OF popular sovs regn.y and they have
overridden them all They have gone over from Mis-
souri, bowie knife in hand and planted tlavery in terri
tories which you had been should be always
Free And this oigsrchy has always been governe By
msn oil foreign birth and when toe South American
pubic asked us 10 join alliance order preserve
repubicanism this continent European Intrigue
THE United States refused because the distinction
color was ignored. And when spain threatening
them refused 20 allow them raise the
Of revolution in Cnba because it might prejudice the
slaveowner scutb And again. III. oirarcy Of tho
South refused to allow to acknowledge the French
public because its constitution gave freedom TO aft men,
black anc white. The republic IL Liberia not recog-
nized for like reason And this ogarchy ready
slave white to. well as black men today
When Texas was made independent the United States
free republic Southern border might endangcr
the slave power And in the Of Hungary she was
consigned TO death because America would not say
word IN her favor. You were silent; the slave power
required it, and you acquiescel. And in the pre-
sent struggle Of civilization against barbarism the SYM
pathy OF the ogar ny o the South Is with Russia be-
cause they say that those who sympahize with white
freedom will turn their attention black And
the speaker called all republican Irishmen Germans
posed TO freedom The shareholders haye declared that
they viii always hold power the free States. And
though your Douglaes and other Northern services may
talk 10 you about squater sovereignty, yet they have
resolved that wherever the United states flag goes
there slavery shall go; and Senator Toombs has
declared that they win yet call the roll of their
slaves at the base of Bunker Hi. What viii you
DOR The Garrisonian party say dissolve the Union
party has vne thing to oGer and another vet
another project But still the South goes on-un-
checked and unrebuked You have to say by your
own acts, whether you viii be slaves freemen. You
may that there but four hundred thousand men,
and eighteen millions but the Gar Of Russia
but one man, and eighty millions bow before him You
must take firm stand on the constitution IL Is; you
must say to the South, viii not interfere with the
internal regulations OF any Statef you love slavery,
have ii but our constitution is liberal instrument,
and wherever our territory is extended there liberty
must be extended (appause IL you love the the Ur on
and are afraid OF dssolvng it, remember that the best
way TO 1t is to stand irmly for the consti
tuition as is and far the eternal principles OF liberty
In which this republic is founded The speaker did not
hate slavery 30 much for the injury il had caused him.
or for the harm it had done to its victims for the
agency had had in preventing the United States from
progressing towards the destiny marked out for it, of
making the whole world free and independent He
closed by recommending srmness and decision to the
Of the North and urging them u go into battle
with the good old device May God defend the right"
inscribed on their shields
Breaking OF tho Ice Bridge Mt Albany.
PLRILOUs SITUATION AID NARROW ESCAPE.