Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1856-10-24
THE WARNING VOICE OF HENRY
CLAY.


prophetic warning voice of HENRY CLAY,
in the last speech he ever uttered in his
beloved Kentucky, in 1S49, He fore
saw the very evils which are now upon
us, and advised the course which patri-
otism enjoined when the apprehended
contingency should arise, He advised
the union of all patriots, Wings and
Democrats, in resisting the sectional
party which he then feared would spring
up, and which has sprung up under the
lead of Fremont, aided by whole hosts
of Northern Know-nothings. He ad-
vised this union of wings and democrats
against sectionalism, when the last sands
of his hour-glass were running out
when he neither wanted Office nor place,
except a warm place in the hearts of his
countrymep. Hear him:
If the agitation in regard to the
fugitive slave law should continue, and
increase, and become alarming, it will
lead to the formation of two new parties,
one for the Union and the other against
the Union. Present parties have been
created by division of opinion, as to sys-
tens of national policy; as to finance,
free trade or protection, the improve
mont of rivers and harbors, the distri-
button of the proceeds of the public
lands, &c. But these syste ms of policy,
springing out of the administration of the
government of the Union, lose all their
interest and importance, if that Union
be dissolved They sink into utter insig-
nifcance before the all important perva-
sive, and paramount interest of the Union
itself. And the platform of that Union
party will be, the Union, the Constitu-
ton, and the enforcement of its laws
And if it should be necessary to form
such party, and it should be according
ly formed, [ announce myself, in this
place, a member of the Union party,
whatever may be its component elements.
Sir, l go farther; l have had great hopes
and confidence in the principles of the
Wing party, as being most likely to con-
duce to the honor, the prosperity, and
glory of my country. But if it should
be merged into contemplate abolition
party, AMI if abolitionism is to be en-
grated on the Wing creed, from that
moment renounce the party and cease
to be Wing. l 90 yet step further
and if l am alive. l will give my hum
Bile support for the Presidency, to that
man, to whatever party he may belong,
who is uncontaminated by fanaticism,
rather than one who, crying out all che
time and aloud that he is Wing, main
tains doctrines utterly subversivc to the
Constitution and the Union"
When the Know-nothings and Black
Republicans conspire together in the
North for sectional objects, the inevita-
BILE tendency of which is adverse to the
peace and perpetuity of the Union, the
very state of the case which Mr.. CLAY
feared, and warned us to unite in resist
ing, presents itself
Let every true Wing heed his warn
ing voice. Let them not be deferred by
the insidious appeals to the rancor o.
party spirit, from cooperating with the
Democrats in frustrating the conspiracy
of allied Black Republicanism and Know
nothingism in the North. That such ;
conspiracy exists, and is making fearful
Roadway in the North, is beyond question
RE- Since the late elections severa
meetings previously advertised by the
Know-nothings of this county have come
off, and they have all proved miserable
failures as to numbers and enthusiasm
They have expressed more emphatically
than words could do, the utter hopeless.
| ness of that oolitical marty in the mend