The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1859-12-17
Politics in Kentucky.
EXTRACTS FROM C. NJ. CLAWS SPEECH At GOV.
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TWENTY TO ONE.

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TWENTY TO ONE.
According to the last census, there are
| in Kentucky about twenty men to one slave
holder. There is but one STAKEHOLDER, and
twenty men, women. and children that own
no slaves. That is big difference but
| look at your census, and you will see what
it says. Yet Cass. Clay is seditious man;
Cass Clay is an ambitious man Cass. Clay
is a bloody man-don't listen TO him
Whose interest am advocating Men. if
l were advocating the interests of one man
to the twenty, he would stand by me
would he not? I should be good fellow,
at least in his eye, whatever might be in
the eyes of others. Would he not be my
friend, whatever else might denounce me :?
Well, if / don't advocate that interest,
whose interest do I advocate whose inter
ests do I defend in whose interest do
jeopardize, again and again, my good name
and character, and, might almost say, my
| life itself? OF course, as am not in favor
with the one, it must be the other twenty.
Under which king? I must be one or the
other. I am, therefore, for the great peo-
| pie of Kentucky-the twenty to one for
the eight hundred as against the forty three
thousand.
THE FOOLISH FOOLS.
In the first place, let us look to the slave
holders themselves. They are not all fools
| though some of them are the biggest fools
I ever saw, because they belong to the class
of ''foolish FOOLS" and, as the old man said,
''the id foolish fools' he could not stand,
and being asked what they were, he said
they were the fools who did not know it, or
who boasted of it. Gentlemen, the whole
cotton crop, that is said to be king, that is
said to do the commercial exchanges at home
and abroad, without which the world
would come to an end, is nothing. The
census shows that cotton cuts but small
| figure as production of the United States,
it being but one thirteenth of the whole
| Why, the insignificant thing of hay, that
Gen. Shelby said he would not raise-a lit
| lie dry grass, as he called it's produced
in larger quantities. If any man tells me
| cotton is king, l tell him it is no such thing
Hay is king. Well, the cotton crop Is
about eighty millions of value. Well, gen
| temen, the Government expended eighty
millions during the last year, and We all
thought that was large (: even the Demo-
cratic party thought that was too large a
sum. Well, now suppose you dissolve the
Union-suppose you have succeeded, as
Gen. Wise proposes, in taking Harper's
Ferry (by the way, Brown has Harper's
Ferry, and you take Washington and the
archives how are you to maintain it p
Does any man say that the Southern Con-
federacy. will not have to have larger in
ternal police, larger marine, and larger
navy, when they have not only to stand
against the powers of France and Great
Britain. but the whole Of the Free North :?
There is no man of common sense but will
admit that the expenses of such a Govern
ment will have to be larger than they are.
Foot it up. When you have paid the ex-
penses of your internal police, of your
your home army, of course ii will make
more than eighty millions. That is to say,
when your whole crop has been sold, pro-
viding always that you sell it successfully,
you have spent every dollar of the income
single dollar with which to buy pork and
beans, and your niggers and jeans.
AS Republicans, we do not come to you
as to battle. We say that the National
Government is supreme in its sphere, and
we are States Rights men, law abiding men,
as we have said in our resolutions this day.
It may be that you will see those resolu-
tons. for it may be that some of our Dem
ocratic friends will have the magnaDimity to
publish them, if they have Democratic
paper near here, but such things are very
scarce in Democratic communities.
We say that the National Government
has no right to say to South Carolina or
Kentucky, You shall have slaves, or you
shall be free; but we say to them. if you
love liberty, the freedom of the press and
of speech, the development of the resources
of your country if you desire to see man
ufactures built up, and love to see the pros
perity of the white race, instead of build
ing up degeneraled mulatto race, as is 60
ing on in the Slave States, do so but we
do say, that under the Constitution of the
United States, established by our fathers
for the promotion of the happiness of them
selves and their posterity, we will maintain
the Territory of this Union, now acquired
and forever hereafter to be acquired, free
from this weak institution that has brought
Maryland and Virginia to shame and to the
blush before the world !; that We will not
allow any Territory, where we have the
power. to possess Slavery, IS is our sworn
duty. If you chooss to call that nigger-s
ism. am for niggerism.