Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1860-03-03
your OUeulellt SeTNutilS,
Henry G., SPAIpING & Co.
Cassius NJ. Clay.

A paragraph has lately been published,
setting forth that the Republican leaders
design to drop Mr.. Seward and support
Mr.. Bates. As some aluSion was made to
the National Republican Committee, Mr.
Clay, as a member of the Committee from
Kentucky addresses a letter to the Nation
at Era.
An outspoken man is c. NJ. CLAY. A
native and life long resident Of IA SLAVE
state, his bold utterance may well be con-
trastcd with that of many tongue tied men
here at the North. lie says
$50 far as William Ii. Seward is con-
cerned, never have been his dpartizan ;
but | know nothing in his personal or po-
litical life which would not as much entitle
him to "Old-Line Wing" support as Mr.
BvteS, unless it be his Republicaaism-
And if that disqualities him for their sup
port, then | hope that neither he nor auy
other Republican will ever get it. l trust
the Republicans will never commit the
gross folly, the crime, and what an eminent
statesman thought wOrse-the "6lunder"-
of allowing our enemies to choose either
our platform or our leaders.
/ have witnessed with the deepest indig-
nation the attempt of Southern bullies OF
the Slave Democracy to degrade the dis.
tinguished Senator of New York by SLAM
der and denunciation, and to frighten, by
threats of treason, weak and timid men
from his support
1t is natural that tyrantS should fear and
hate their most potent foe. But am not
yet ready to believe that he will lose the
confidence and manly support of single
Republican on that account. SO far as
the "irrepressible conaicp between Free
and Slave Labor or between Freedom aud
Slavery, is concerned, it it so plainly true
that had not supposed that all the habit
ual impudence and hypocrisy of the Slave
propaganda would venture TO deny or con
ceal it All care to say on that head is
that so far as any man Of our party is con
cerned if he is fool enough not to see it, ol
coward enough not to avow it, be can never
have my support for any Office. Our faith
ers, in forming a mixed Government, were
not so silly as 10 suppose that self-govern
ment and the despoic principle Of Slavery
could forever coexist-they therefore look
ed and prepared for the extinction Of Slave
ry, by their aspirations, their laws, anC
their Constitution. 1t is not the fault o
the Republicans if the old barbar raian reli,
of the dark ages, Slavery, should refus,
to die a a quiet death, and be buried de
Gently, but venture upon an "rrepressblC
conflict" wheret will be kicked out o
the presence Of the nations, and rot upol
the dunghill So far as all those boyisl
threats of dissolution are concerned, upoI
the contin6 ency of the election of a Re
publican President, they will perhaps fright
en- those who only see the lions skin bu
to us, behind the scenes, the ass is too plail
for proper stage effect | know not wha
others may intend, but for myself if Mr.
Wise, or Mr. JEFF Davis, or any other man
aspires to play the general" in such a cause
as some of their friends intimate, anC
which am unwilling to believe, they viii
turn ont abler strategists, than they have
proven themselves statesmen, if they man
age to keep thir necks out of halter |