Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1860-09-13
Henry Clay and Daniel Web.
ster- ON the Extension Of slavery.

Henry Clay and Daniel Web.
ster ON the Extension of slavery.
To show that the position now oc-
cupied by the Republican party is the
same as that of those renowned Wing
leaders, Webster and CLAY, we sub
Join the opinions of both, at different
periods oi their lives, in regard to the
extension of Slavery. The following
is an extract from speech made by
Henry Clay in 1927;
We are reproached with doing mis-
chief by the agitation of this question
[Slavery.] Collateral consequences we
we are not responsible for. 1t is not
this society Colonization which has
produced the great moral revolution
which the age exhibits. What would
they, who thus reproach us, have done
Ii they would repress all tendencies
toward liberty. and ultimate emanci-
patton, they must do more than put
down the benevolent efforts of this So
ciety. They must 60 back to the era
of our liberty and independence, and
muzzle the cannon which thunders its
annual joyous return. They must re-
vive the Slave Trade with all its train
of atrocities. They must blow cut
the moral lights around us, and ex-
tinguish the greatest torch of all.
which America presents to a benight-
ed world. pointing the way to their
rights, their liberties and their happi
ness. And when they have achieved
all these purposes. their work will vet
be incomplete. They must penetrate
the human soul. and eradicate the
light Of reason and the love of liberty
Then. and not till then, when univer'
sal darkness and despair prevail. can
you perpetuate Slavery, and repress
all sympathies, and all humane and
benevolent efforts among freemen, IL
behalf Of the unhappy portion of oul
race doomed to bondage, (Colton's
Life. vol l. page 1S9.)
In 1890. in similar speech, Hen
ry Clay asked:
Is there no remedy? Must we eR
dure perpetually all the undoubted mi'
chiefs of a state of Slavery, as it at
fects both the free and the bond por
tions of these States?
His later utterances were in the same
direction. He appealed to Kentucky
to insert in its new Constitution 1
clause for the gradual extinction o
Slavery in that State. And in tn,
heat of the Compromise debates o
| 1850. when in his intense anxiety foi
peace he went as far as his conscienct
would permit in concession to Slavery
ne declared again and again that h,
would never vote to extend it over tn,
territories now free. lie said;
AS long as God allows the vita
current to flow through my veins,
will never. never. never. by word o'
thought, by mind or will. aid in al
mitting to one rood Of Free Territory
the Everlasting Curse Of Human Bon
lage.
Daniel Webster. in his famous
speech Of the eth OF March. 1850
when Inc was charged with having re
ceded from his former positions OF
this question. said:
Sir, wherever there is n particulai
good to be done. wherever there is 1
foot OF land to be stayed from becom
ing Slave Territory. | am ready I,
assert the principle Of the exclusion
Of Slavery. am pledged to it from
the year 1887; have been pledged t.
!, again and again; and will perform
those pledges.
In his Marshfeld speech. in lS4S
Mr.. Webster said:
II. my friends. the term "Frccsoil'
party. or Free oil man." is meant t.
designate one who has been fixed. un
altcrnhle--to-day. yesterday and fol
some days past--in opposition To Sla
very extension. then may claim I,
be. and may hold myself as good .
"Freesoil'' man rs any member %
that Buffalo Convention.
In speech in the United States
Senate. the same year, lac had occa
sion to discuss this same question o
property" in slaves. in its applica
ton to the Territories:
The real meaning. then. of Southern
gentlemen in making this complaint i,
that they can not go into the Terrific
ries of,he United States. carrying with
them their own peculiar local law. q
law which creates property in persons
~~~ Ii will not be coutende,
that this sort OF personal slavery ex,
lists by general law. 1t exists only by
local law. And wherever
that local law does not extend. prop
erty in persons does not exist. Well
sir. what is now the demand on th,
part Of our Southern friends They
say. 1--WE will carry our local laws
with us wherever we 60. We insist
that Congress does MS injustice unless
il establishes in tho Territories il
which we wish to go. onr own To-
cal law" This demand. | for one
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