Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-09-17
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MONDAY MORNING. :. .sEPTRi II, 1855.

repeat it. sir never can and never will aud
no earthly power will make me vote directly or
indirectly 10 spread slavery over any territory
where il does not exist Never whlie reason mas
a seat in nv brain-nertr while my heart SENDS
the vital fluid through my brain-nfrer.
This passage. the Louisville journal says
has been given by all the Freesoi papers as
quotation from speech of alr. Clay. 1t has
been used by them as conveying the idea that Mr.
CLAY meant TO declare that he would never give a
vote directly OF indirectly to allow slavery to
spread over any territory where it did not already
exist. 1t has been used as implying that Mr..
Clay would never, il in Congress, vote to permit
the people q any State or Territory TO establish
slavery among themselves. and, that he would
never vote for the admission OF another slave
State into the Union.
Without closely serutiniging the language oil
the pretended quotation. we considered II a.
bearing the construction given Ia II by the Free
soil editors The language was not used by Mr.
CLAY, bal, even il it were genuine, It would not
be susceptible Of the construction given tn It,
Bot we will give The language which Mr.. Clay nc
finally uttered In speech IN the l. ). Senate On
the 29th Of January 1850, Mr.. C., in reply to Mr..
Jefferson Davis, said
/ am extremely sorry To hear the gentleman
from Mississippi say tina, he requires, first, the
extension of the Missouri Compromise line 70 The
Pacific and ais that he is not satisfied with that,
but requires. If ! understood him correctly
nositiye provision for the admission 81 slavery
south of that line. And now, sir, coming. from a
slave State. rs DO. owe il TO myself owe IL
10 truth owe il to the subject, 10 say, that no
earthly power could induce mo TO vote for a spe.
10. ,,,sr. al
where i'll had not before existed. either south or
north nf that line. Coming. rs do, from "a
slave State. il il nv solemn. deliberate we'll |
matured deter mnaton that no power no earthiy |
mower, shall compel me Ia vote for tho positive
Introduction of slavery either south or north al |
,L,, limo IL the citizens OF |
The territories of California and New Mexico |
choose to establish slavery and It they come here
with constitutions establishing slavery, am tor
admitting Them with such provisions in their con
stiiutions, bot then il win be their own work
and not ours, DC.
This is tie true position. The Southern eX-
tremists in the great controversy of 40 aid 80
surrendered the argument against the Wilmot
Provisohy claiming that slavery should be esiao'
Kshed within given boundaries by Federal legis
lation. In their ultra aud nn wise zeal they Tor
got or disreeardod the fact that the power to Is.
tahii,h slavery by Congressional enactment I'M
plies also the power 20 inhibit aud abolish 1t
The only enable and true ground Tor the South
is that of non nteryention-a denial OF all or amy
authority or right in Congress TO l'gisaie either
for or against 10 establish or exclude the insll-
tuition and il was with this understanding OF the
subject, doubtless, that Mr. Clay made the en-
phalic declarations in The speech from which the
Louisville Journal quotes,