The gazette and Democrat. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1860, 1860-09-27
Henry Clay aud Daniel Webster on the
Extension of gIavsrv

To show that the position now occu-
pied by the Republican party is the same
as that Of those renowned Wing leaders
Webster and Clay, we su'join the opin-
ions Of both, at different periods of their
liv's, in regard to the extension Of Sla-
very. The following is an extract from
speech made by Henry Clay ia 1887:
We are reproachsd with doing mischief
by the agitation Of thisquesIion slavery. I
Collateral consequ enceS We arc not re-
sponsib!e for. II is not this society Co.
lonization which has produced the great
moral revolution which the aga EXHIBITS.
What would they, who thus reproach US,
have done? If they would repress all
tendencies toward liberty and ultimate
emancipation, they must do more than
put down the benevolent efforts Of this
society. They must go back TO the era
OF our liberty and independence, and muz.
zle the cannon which thunders its annual
joyous return. They must. revive the
Slave trade. with all its train Of atrocities
They must blow ont the moral lights a.
round US. and extinguished the greatest
torch of all. which America presents to d
beDighted world pointing the way to their
rights, their liberties and their happiness.
And when they have achieved all u ese
purposes, their work will yet be incom-
plete. They must penetrate the human
soul, and eradicate The light of reason and
the love of liberty. Then; and hot till
then when universal darkness and des-
pair prevail. can you perpetuste Slavery
and repress al. sympathies, and all bu-
name and benevolent efforts among free
men, III behalf of the unhappy portion of
our racs doomed to bondage. Cotton s
life, vol, ], page 1870.
In 1898, in similar speech, Henry
Clay asked:
1s there no remedy! Must we endure
perpetually all the uudouted, mischiefs OIL
a state OF slavery, as it effects both the
free and the bond portions Of these Sratesi
His latter utteIances were in the samt
direction. He appealed to Kentucky /,
insert in its new Constitution clause lo
the gradual extinction of Slavery in tia
State. And 10 the heat of the Compro.
mise debates oi 1850, when ia his intense
anxiety for peace, he went as far as bi;
conscience would permit in concession to
Slavery, he declared again and again ,ha at
be would never vote to extend it over ter.
ri.ory now free. He said:
As long as God allows the vital current
to flow through my veins, l will never
never. never, by word or thought, BY
mind or will, aid in admitting TO one rooc
Of Free territory. the Everlasting Ours,
of Human Bondage.
Daniel Webster, in his famous speech
Of the 7th of March, 1850, when he was
charged with having reteded from hi
former positions on this ques, said:
Sir, wherever there is particular gooC
to be done. tchsreuer there is a foot Of Ian,
20 be stayed from Jeconaing Slave Territory
am ready 10 assert tie principle Of the &c
clusion Of Slavery. am pledged to i
again and again: and l will perform lhos,
pledges.
In his Marshfeld speech in 1s48, Mr.
Webster said:
If. my friends, the terms Freesci party
or Freesoil man, is meant TO designate on,
who has been fixed, unallerabe--to.d day
yesterday, and for some days past-ir
opposition to Slavery extension, then
may claim to be, and may hold myself a
good Freesoil man as any member Buff
alo Convention.
In speech in the United States, senat
the same year, he had occasion to discus
this same question of property of slaves
in its application to the Territories:
The real meaning, then, OF Southern
gentlemen, in making this complaint, i
that they cannot go into the Territories o
the United States earring with them thei
own peculiar local law, law which crra
tes property in persons. x Il
will not be contended that this sort o
personal slavery exists by general law
u EXISTS only By local tdtO.
And wherever that local law does no
, , extend, property in persons does not exis
Well, sir, what is now the demand on tn
part Of our Southern friendsP They say
! 1--WE will carry our local laws with n
, wherever we 60. We insist that Con
gress does us injustice unless testablish
! es it in the Territories in which Wa wis
to go, our own local law" THIS deman
: l for one resist. and shall resist
The Hon. D. S. Dickinson made speec
10 Breckinridge meeting at Binghamto
on Saturday last. A correspondent send
US The following passage, as it fell fror
} the lips Of the venerable and distinguish
ed orator.
:, DourlaS and HINTS Homnpenhou