Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-03-21


with "bsrgsin and corruption"-whoh hav
pursued him with the pertinscity of bloc
hounds. until his great heart, filled wit
indiguRnt fire, ceased 20 beat, and b
sleeps in the qniet grave. These disun
ION, pro-slayeFy, traitorous Democrats, nov
that the lion sleeps. are brayiug hosauns
over his tomb These life lime villifer
of Henry Clay. now 10 their mean and IN
manly .ycopbancy and hypocritical cant
ing, pass a resolution in one of their Con
yentions that thy "honor and revere thu
Constitution of The United States "a oul
gatksrs made a, and as it has been expoun
aed and maiEisined By Washington anC
Jefferson, by Jackson and CLAY"
"Wo unto ye hyppcrils! for Sc are lik'
INTO whited sepulchre>. which inderc
appear beautiful outward, but are within
"lull Of dead mems bones, and all unclean
"ness- Even ye endeavor to aPPesr
righteous unto men, but within ys ar
~ full of hypocrisy snd iniquiry-
!" hypserites. because ye now worship a
- the tomb of the grrat prophet. and gar
4" nish bis sepulchre Sith uDrighteou>Dess
And say IL We had been in the days o.
- our Gathers We would not have been par
"tskcrs with them in The blood OF bin -
= WLrreGaEe. ye be witness unto yourselves
"thst " are the children Of them which
partook of hi, bleod.
Fill ye up the usasure Of your fathers
Ys serpents. ye generations of yipers
- how eau ye escape the condemnation Of
all honest men ("
How can tbeyf Echo answers how. and
the campaign Of 1850 will tell how.
For the purpose of showing tk'se pro
found admirers of Mr Clay. how that
great man exPounded the Constitution
upon the living issues of the present time,
=e give below some of his opinions. and
We hope these dIsuHion Democratic ad-
nirers will love him all the better for
them.
With the emancipation OF slavery in
kentucky as his theme, Mr. Clay entered
the theatre Of public life, about the year
1893, and headed party having for their
object the amendment of the State Consti
s,ution in such a way as to gradually rid
themselves Of the curse Of slavery. al
hough he failed IN the objeci, he was,
nevertheless, jealous in the cause, and for
more than fifty years We find him advoca
ting the same principle, and proclaiming il
through the halls Of Congress. and in pub
lie speeches to the nation and TO the world
In speech delivered before the American
Colonization Society at Washington in
Jan. 1897. after giving bis mode for eradi.
eating the evil be gses on to say
''If conId be instrumental in eradiea
ting this deepest stain slavery IRON the
character Of our couhtry. and removing all
cause Of rsproaeh on account of It. by for
eign nations If could only he insirumen
tai in Kidding Of this foul blot that revered
State that gave me bir:h, or that not less
beloved StIle Vhich kindly adopted me as
her son l would not exchange the proud
satisfaction which | should enjoy, for the
honor of all the lriumphs ever decreed 10
the most successful conqueror.
I'VE are reprosched With doing mischief
BY the sgitstiDg Of this question slavery
Coils,ersl consequences We are 3Ot respon-
sitle Tor. IL il not this society, which hs.
produced the great moral revolution, which
The age exhibits. What would they, who
thus reproach US, have donFI II they
would repress all tendencies toward lIber
~, aud ultimate emancipation, they must
do more than put down the benev, lent Of
forts Of this society. They must 20 tack
70 tie era of our liberty and independence.
and muzzle the cannon, which thunders
its annual joyous return. They must revive
I.he slave o. adr, with all its train Of atrocI-
ties. The must blow out the moral lights
around u, and exIingIish that greatest
torch (ConstituIionl OF AL. which America
presents 10 a bsBIghted world. pointing
the way 10 their rights, their liberties, aud
their happiness. And whrn they have a
ehievrd all these purposes, their work viii
Yet De incomplete They must penetrate
the hnman soul, and erzdicate the light at
reason, and the love Of liberty. Then, aud
not till then, " hen universal darknss, anu
d -spstr prryail. can you perprtusle SLAYER,
aud repress ali sympatbIe-, aud all human
and benevolent rffsns among freemrn. ia
behalf of the unhappy portion Of our race
doomed 70 bondage"
In another sperch delivered at Frankfort
KY. in Dee. 1929. Lefore the Kentucky
Cslouiz ,tion Society Of which Mr.. Cla'
sss a member he expressed the following
senfirnent with rrgsrd to the failure of an
act for the emancipation Of slavery in thai
Stat:
II have, nevertheless, never ceased. and
never shall craze 10 regret decision, the 1.
feetr of which have been TO place u IN The
rear % ,ur nriglbors, W no are xesBpt from
slavery, in The state Of sYrIculiure, the
progress Of manufactures, the advance oI
improvements. and the general property
Of society"
In the 'sme speech. speaking Of the por
s.ntous aspects of slavery in the United
States, Re asks:
sis there na rsmedyl Must We eudnr,
pes,,rt.-Iiy ali The undoubted mi-chief- %
n STATE of slavery, as IL affects both ih'
free and bond portions Of these States J.
What mind il sufficiently extensive IN "
reach. whst nerves safficiently strong q
contemplate thi. vast aud progressiye aug
u-ntstion 4 the slave population with
cut an swfal forsboding Of the tremendous
consequences 7" r-oI
"wbo. if this promiscuous rssidence o
whites and blacks. Of ffesmen and slaves
IL forever TO continue, can imagine the ser
vile wars, the carnage and the crimes
which will be It's probable con-equences
xahnut shuddering with borrsrf"
10 presenting a memorial Of the sam
Society 10 the Senate Of The U 8. in March
1882. among other things. Mr. Clay said:
aEo nan. he presumed. could fail 4
cherish the hope. that. a, some day or 9th
sr, hovever dirtsnt. and in some mode. tn
country would be rid Of this [slsvery tn
dsfk~st spot on It's mantle. "H'
sincerely entertained the hope. that th
day was not far distant shen, fotgst.iug al
that nov tended ss distract aud excite %