The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1858-10-02
Henry Clay and The AooIi;Ionists,

Mr.. Lincoln has repeatedly asserted that
Henry Clay was his beau ideal ola man
That he Ninc0ln) was following in the foot
steps Of his illustrious predecessor. Mr..
Lincoln's doctrine so exyounded by him
self in June last, and which won for him
the nomination Of L. ST senator contains
the following, which is the embodiment Of
all his speeches. " This goreramest e1nnot
cxist ha!f Stare and hair free" Now read
Mr.. Clay's doctrine and see how it taleys
with this.
" With this class the immediate obolition
efslavery ths District Of Columbia, and in
the territory of Florida, the prohibition OF
the renewal Of slaves from state to state,
and the refusal to admit any new state, oom-
prising within its limits the institution of
domestic slavery, are but so many means
conducting to the accomplishment of the ul-
innate but perilous end at which they avov-
eddy and boldly aim; are but 50 many short
stages on the long and bloody road to the
distant goal at which they would finally ar
rive. Their purpose is abolition, universal
abolition, peacsably if it can, fore bly, if it
must. Their object is no longer cocsaled
by the thinnist veil; it is avowed and pro-
claimed. Utterly destitute Of constitutional
or other rightfui power, living in totally
distlct communities, as alien to the COM
mun;ties in which the subject on which they
would operate resides, so far as concerns
political power over that subject, as if they
lived in Africa or Asia. they nevertheless
promulg gate to the world their purpose to
be to manumit forthwith, and without COM
pensaton, and without moral preparation,
three millions Of negro slaves, uuder juris-
dictions altogether separated from those I'M
der which they live.
have said that immediate abolition of
slavery in the District of Columbia and in
tho territory Of Florida, and the exclusion of
new states, were only means towards the
attainment Of 4 much more important end
Unfortunately they are not the only means
Another, and much more lamentable one is
that which this class is endeavoring to en-
ploy, Of arraying one portion against anoth-
er portion Of the Union. With that view,
in all their leading prints and publications,
the alleged horrors Of slavery are depicted
| in the most glowing and exaggerated colors,
to excite the imaginations and stimulate
the rage Of the people in the free states,
against the people in the slave states. The
STAKEHOLDER is held up and represented as
the most astrocious Of human beings"
In speaking Of the different periods Of
slavery agitation, Henry Clay said:
"Ths third is that in which we now find
ourselves, and to which various causes have
contributed. The principal one, perhaps,
! is British emancipation in the islands ada
cent to our continent. Confounding the TO-
tally different cases of tn. powers of the
British Parliament and those of our cong.
ress, and the totally different conditions of
the slaves in the British West India Islands
and the slaves in the sovereign and indie
pendent states Of this confederacy, superb
cial men have inferred from the undecided
British experiment the practicsbility Of the
abolition Of slavery in these states. All
these arc different. The powers Of the
British Parliament are Unlimited, and often
described a. omnipotent. The powers Of
the American congress on the contrary,
are few, cautiously limited, scrnpulously ex-
c,ading all that are not granted, and above
az. carefully and absolutely excluding all
neve, over the every the existence or con.
tinuence Of ,,,avery Is the several states
The slaves to. upon which British legislation
operated, were not in re bosom of the
kingdom, but in remote and fseo,e colecies,
having no voice in Parliament. The West
India STAKEHOLDER was neither representative
| or represented in that Parliament. And
while most fervsntly wish complete sue
cess to the British experiment of the West
India emancipation, confess that l have
fearful forsbodiugs Of . disastrous termina.
ton. Whatever it may be think it must
be admitted that, If the British Parliament
treated the w est India slaves as fresmsn,
it .lss treated the West India fresmen a.
slaves. II instssd Of these slaves being sep.