Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-03-31
From the Pittsburgh Journal and vi-tcr.
DESPOTISM OF SLAVERY.
LECTURE by cAss1rs NJ. CLAY.

LECTURE BY cAsslrs NJ. CLAY.
The largest audience OF the season assembled
on Thursday evening to listen to the lecture b,
Cassius NJ Clay, announced. +. ii. Irish
Esq, one of the committee, introduced Mr. Cla,
to the audience the lecturer for the evening,
| the subject, "DespOtism of Slavery"
Mr. Clay, after some preliminary observations
proceeded to say tnat whatever the issues between
the relations Of master and slave were, they were nC
longer confined to. themselves but extend through
the thirty-unc Sovereign States. In the South
there were three millions and n half of slaves OF
all colors, from the black of the tropics, to the
| light complexion and blue eyes of the blonde
There were also four or five millions of nonslave.
holders in the South--a class distinctly and
strongly marked. Then there were fourteen mil
lions or fifteen millions of northern freemen, re-
siding in the SO called free states; and lastly
there were three hundred and fifty thousand slave
holders who controlled the destnies of all the
| others.
The people of the northern states who were
fortunate enough to inherit land of freedom, oob
on the subject of slavery ms far off question, not
concerning, affecting or formidable to themselves
The speaker referred to the time when slavery ex
listed North, and said the antecedens of the North
Il they being the descendants of Luther, Mather
Penn and that class of men, who already acknowl
edged the equality and brotherhood of man il
their institutions were favorable to its abolishmen
The great masses Of the people had no sympathy
with it; but if the question had been left to the
Shareholders themselves, it would have existed tt
the present day.
In the South, the antcccdents were different
They were the descendants of Walter Raleigh anc
of the arstocracy of England, who never enter
tained the idea of equality and mans brotherhood
The trainers of the Constitution desired universa
freedom, but they fur in advance Of the cOun
try, as is always the case in politics and science
They did not dare to make open and declared wal
with the institution of the slave states The,
covered any allnson to that question in obscure
correspondence with friends. But Pickney, Rut
ledge and others OF the South repudaed the idea
OF our fathers, and said that nicn were never gov
erned but by the principles OF material interests
It was these men who forced the slave upon th
South and upon our fathers 1t was prophet
remark e OF oenerson as TO TINS question: that the
oI ~ ulscharSeu lhelr Guty IN thelr uay-havlhi
; carried on a seven years waf-and they leit t.
younger men 'hg m maj trump OIL that reVoiutioi
Scaun III nv lheSe were the sentiments oi
'oTtnell' man -,
me sl'eaksr hna heard IRON sources worthy @
Ions'tcLu'!oi'' tiIs uicta-th't conventions h"u
1een' netu III ,iie oo"'i' "t "hicn piIis h"u p'e'
urlwh up anu oliGT measures taNeh 10 oVorthroV
Wis instiiu'ion W io tlile.SGu PROOF Vi ehc Us
se' "on nc 'eniou uISeily' ~ w, ny any iouiIu"
tlTH on iucI AS 10 NirHlhia anu hch'ucHy' mrs
WlaI nau peeh G9he Nc'hinG 10 warrant suci
'il!t, II. h?o-' Ieso!uV?n wa
..uo li tio lomo nouee c''iitlS tne "''c"Icn .
e.io ooEio ~ tlr % llnuelce Vi tn.S III
shn I i,ft ho"oro. "ssulle'
Nv SUPP, "uU iei' no 'es'so on tne CONSTRUCTOR
'''t' H.''0'
In Kentucky, lI9S, Clay with all his eloquonc
Gouid not prevent the defeat ot the liberal slco
Dr. hlce maze Efforts III opposition to the IN
stitutlon, but they were regarded rather as al
emanatlon OF reilglous faith than determine
ton TO ehect IT'S overthrow and the constitution
was formed without yesuge OF tins AbcIa
lSDflt.
Despotism was everywhere the same; it ntye
f does anything for its own eXtinguishment. |
= would be as reasonable to expect to prevail on tn
, stakeholder to abandon the despotism of slavery
to prevail upon the forty or fifty crowned head
: of Europe to assemble in convention and Law dowI
4 theirs, voluntarily. The speaker gave short Ie
view of the various aristocracies, showing by the
excusiveness and intermarryng they had re
: duced themselves nearly to physical and menta
! mbecity. The British ogarcby, however disre
: gardng the national laws refreshed its arstocrac,
by anal gamating all, who with energy and deter
mination had worked their way up to dstin
guished positiOn-as in the case of Elgin, Broug
+ ham, Scott and others: and SO with the aristocra
f cy of the South Whenever persons in lowe
rank OF life aspire to q higher destiny, acquir
p-oper,, they are taken into the aristocracy, forth
with purchase slave and reject the masses iron
n whom they sprung. In the North there is no com
t parative difference between a lawyer and shoe
a maker, philosophieally speaking; both are OIL
equality, and contributing to the general welfare
but in the South it is quite the This feel
ing results in the selfcxile of all who will not Owl
slaves, and are in consequence outlawed in s,
cial Standing Here in the North are railroads
] canals, telegraphs, turnpikes; its citizens tax
possession Of not man but the great principles o
mankind, and ensave them and apply them t
+ their own use. In the South the slave value i
two thousand millions and for their protection tn