The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-09-02
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Mr.. CLAY's OPPOSITION TO THE MISSOURI COM
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PROMISE.
On former occasion we intrnated that Mr. Clay was
during the pending of the Missouri Compromise in Com
gress opposed thai measure and in support Of po
ston quoted portion of his speech on the compro-
mise measures In the United States Senate Feb G, 1850
having other posiirs proof then at hand. Since
that time We have been favored by antiquarian
friend, at Washington city, with the following ex
tract from the National Inegencer Of Feb 9th, 1890
to wit
missouri nnI4-The House then went into Committee
Of the Whole mr. Baldwin in the Chair) this bill
The restrictive amendment prohibiting slavery north Of
30 deg 80 min. being under consideration Mr.. Speaker
Clay and addressed the committee near four hours
AGAINST RIGHT AND AGAINST THE ExrEDiEScy Of
PROPOSED AMtsbaENr.P
This, think fully establishes the fact that Mr..
Clay, the great mbodiment," OPPOSED to the Mis-
souri, Compromise that uookyheaded neighbors
on Main street will not dare to dispute III but, lest
other sapteai demagogues may doubt, we give be-
low extract from paper published in 81 Louis at that
time by Mr.. Charles, and which paper has since been
merged into the Missouri Republican In that paper of
March j, 1890 find the following editorial notice OF
the speech above mentioned by the Intelligencer
Mr. Clay, in bis very able speech Of the 9th Of last
month, took the ground that, under the constitution of
the United States, RESTRICTION CosGRsss
PLACED REw STATE ASKING ADMISSION
THE Usios THAT WAS THE OLD rIiRTEgN
STATES He contended that State admitted into the
Union must stand in all things, upon equality nth The
old States and that Congress could not place upon any
State upon any Territory that might hereafter APP
PLY for admission State RESTRICTION
STATE, or HER PEOPLE, AFTER IT ADJ
MTTED UNION for, when admitted, each State
and her people must have all the rights Of the pre-exsng
States as ta.
I" He conended that each State and the people thereof
HAD THE RIGHT TO DETERMINE roR rhEMsELyEs WHETHER
SLAVERY SHOULD SHOULD soT EXIST WITHIN HER BoR-
SGch restriction this an act OF gross njns-
ee to the people who, in after years. may nbabit the
territory north of the proper line act usaaorized
By the constitution Of The Uaned States"
Mr. Charles the e editor of the Missouri Republican
proceeds edtorially TO say:
Ths speech Of power and clear unanswer-
able reasoning upon the power of Congress over the Terri
tories and the right Of the general government TO inter
ere with the question Of slavery.
We ourselves said he opposed to the principle
of slavery and viii do what to have clause in or
constitution fixing limit TO the existence of the nsttu-
ton in Missouri om IN our esn,a'Ioa mr. Clay aras right
that ii is question to be decided by us, Of
Missouri and CONGRESS HAS NO POWER OR CONTROL OVER
IT'n as8 n
Here have direct admission from OF Mr. Clay's
personal and political friends, in 1920, that he not only
did make the speech mentioned By me iateihgcnce but an
open avowal from Of his warm personal and political
friends (who was himself opposed to slavery that the
Sage of Ashland was right in the views which he ex-
pressed Yea We have more! We have full and fair
exempfca,ion of the important fact that the usrious
Clay and his friends a. that day
PRECISELY OPINIONS AND SENTIMENTS UPON THE
QUESTION OF SLAVERY THE STATES AND TERRiromxs
THAT ADVOCATE NOW, and which the Paragraph and
other little abolition sheets condemnto wit that Under
the constitution of the United States restriction by
Congress be placed upon State asking for admis
sion into the Union which not upon the old thirteen
States that every State admitted into the Union must
stand in all things upon equality with the old States
and that Congress cannot place upon any new State nor
upon any Territory that may hereafter apply for admission
as State any restriction which shall attack to the STATE
or her people, after shall be admitted into the Union that
each State and the people thereof have the right TO de-
termne for themselves whether slavery shall or shall not
exist within her borders, &c.
This the doctrine of the true democratic party not
the doctrine of Mr. Clay and his friends in 1926 and
we defy all the abolition papers in the universe 10 show
to the contrary
Still, Notwithstanding we occupy precisely the same
ground in relation to this question that Mr. Clay and his
friends did thrtyfve years ago. hear doughaced pol
cans protesting TO be Clay wings denouncing us and
the doctrine, with the true principles Of repnb
can liberty. Such men have right to the
of Clay wings than tho devil has to the appcaton ola
Christian; and the time will come when mankind will
have little confidence in such eroGrs they have in
Satan himself
the CatsvIIc Standard.