New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-01-22
FACTS FOR CONGRESSMAN AND THEIR CON
SrITTENTS

To he ESitor Of The " Tribune
SIR: If Mr.. Banks il to be sacrifced-and that too
ON the demand of the Saveholdersfor the heresy of
"entertaining the physiological opinion that the
"stroDcer race viii absorb the weaker, il may be
well for the public to be reminded upon what author
ity Northern citizens have been led TO imbbe that
theory.
The late HENRY CLAY, in his celebrated speech IN
the Senate Of the United States, Petitions for the
Abolition Of Slavery" Feb. = 1890, says
Although in particular districts the black popula'
ton gaining upon the white II only constitutes one
fifth OF the whole population of the United states.
And taking the aggregate OF the two races the Euro
pean il constantly though slowly gaining on the Al
rcan potion. This fact is demonstrated by the perl
Odcal returns Of our population Let u cease, theh'
10 indulge in gloomy fOrebOdiugs about the mpenetra-
bic future. But if we may attempt to t the veil aud
contemplate what hes beyond it, T. too have ventured
upon speculative theory with which l will not now
trouble YOU but which has been published TO the
world According 10 that in the process OF trne some
one hundred and fifty two hundred year, hence, but
Iew ycstces OF the black Will remain among cur
Yoeteity"-Iife aud Speeches of Henry Clay, vol H.
PIP. 1923.
FREQUENT mention in advertisements aud otherwise Of
white slaves can be at any loss for the facts that I'M
dcrlie this speculative theory 1t has long since
passed into proverb and on high Virginia authority
blood Of Virginia runs in the veins of slaves" A
sister Of the late James Madison remarked to the late
Rev. George Bourne, (who published the statement
long sipce,) eve Southern ladies diSni6ed with
the title of wives; only mstresscs Of serag
{" los" One reputed daughter of Thomas jefferson
war sold at auction in New Orleans for 81 000 another
of them was found among the em grants to Liberia
We NoIthelners get sight of white fugitives often
enough to understand whence physiological opin-
ions" have their data The cry Of amalgamaton'
was potent % years ago. The people understand it
now. They remember Vice-President of the United
States-the boast of the exclusive Demecracy-who
was distinguished, not for having mulatto daughfHr'
(which was no distinction but for treating them and
their mother az statesmen in civilized States wont
to treat their daughters and daughers mothers, in
stead Of selling them TO the sou-traders. What if
Mr. Banks had adveutur63 SO far as to have COM
merded the example of that Vice President in the
comparison with that OF som other patrarcha states
men But enough of this.
On one other topic allow me word or two. 1t is
denied onthe floor of Congress it, that HENRY CLAY
was in favor of the Missouri Compromise
As well might il be denied that Henry Clay was
advocate of Protective Tariff, that he advocated
the Compromise Measures of 1850 in fact that there
ever was such a man in Congress as Henry Clay
In the work before alluded to, the biographer of
Henry Clay through several pages exhibits him as
the great purifcatOr through whose influence the Mis-
sour Compromise adopted and the Union pre-
served A private interview between him and John
Randolph is described, VOL page 1907 in which it
is said, "Mr Clay maintained with all his fine colo
"quial powers The plan Of compromise as the wisest
and best he could suggest"
SO late as 1880 when his Omnibus" Compromise
Measures" were pending, DIR. Clay claimed the hr-
sour Compromise his measure, reminded Senators
Of its success and assured them that his second csm-
promise would be equally efisacious in allaying the
popular ftiment and restoring peace. W. g.