Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1860-02-09

."'"'o Pu'ouIlsi W 'he Guy OF Lexington,
J saw huge pile Of massive stone raised to
the emory Of Henry Clay. Gentlemen,
are yon gong to re enact the folly and mad.
ness that the Savior denounced in the ,n.
cient Jews! Are you going to ornament
and whitewash the outward sepulchre, while
inwardly there is nothing but corrup,ionl
Do you intend to build leternsl monuments
OF brass to the memory OF Henry Clay,
while you trumple dnder foot the men who
bave the courage to stand up and defend bis
principles' Will you garnish the tomb,
while the immortal spirit shall be ignored
In his representatives! II you intend to
deny these principles, go end level that
manument TO the ground, return that marble
to the quarry, and then rush upon US and
hide them in our b'ood, but not ill then.---
He is the author of that compromise, and
what is it! That North of 36 deg. 80 min,
African slavery shall never extend. leaving
IL entirely as matter Of inference whether
South Of that line or no it shall extend -
That is the Missouri Compromise. Nov,
while admit that there is no power in Con-
gress to make strictly what may be called a
compromise, because it has an unlimited
and sovereign power bounded only by the
Constitution itself, SO that no one Congress
shall say what succeeding Congress shall
or shall not do, yet the language has been
used; it was compact, and it was elevated
end placed alongside the Constitution itself.
An honest registrar of the event states that
after it passed, so great wss the sanctity
that measure that it became as a pare of the
Constitution itself, the palladium of our
liberty, and he was afraid If ever it should
90 down, the Constitution would go down
with it. 1t existed TO the year 1854.
ALLEGATIONS AHswRRKp.
Gentlemen, utterly deny the allegations
that hear made in this Hall of Represen.
tatives, that the compromise of 1850 was
repealed or intended to be repealed by the
compromise Of 1850. and upon this point
appeal to the county No wonder tina, it is
dark to-night-no wonder that they have
put out the lights. Read the speeches Of
that day. Why Mr.. Clay was alive in 1850.
Mr.. Clay was in the Congress of the United
Sta,es--he took part in the debates of 1850
q
ment was made. In 1854 was the very first
time we were told that il was at all claimed
that there was an intention immediate or
remote, direct or reflective, to affect that
compromise of 1920 by that of 1920. How
will prove that! prove it TO you by the
admissio Of Stephen A. Douglas himself.
Yes, sirs, tha. man whs is held up here in
Kentucky, that by Certain Kind OF hocus
pocus is to be fOis,ed upon you and the
Charleston Convention, tells us in his first
Senate report before the Kansas Nebraska
Bill was offered, that no ruthless hand shall
dare to rise against that compromise. Go
to the Congressional Globe. | know it is
now on record. ] defy the Democratic par.
ty or anybody to deny that when they re.
ferred to the compromise. of 1890, that j,
was to be preserved for years after. Ii il
said it WAS to be repealed. Are you no,
ashamed of yourselves! Ii you are not you
should be now, to venture such an assertion
as that.
JOHN BROWN AND HIS RAID.
Then sprung up this John Brown. Isay
| he is the legitimate son Of the acts anC
avowals of the Democratic party that they
intended to take possession of Kansas by
force of arms 'peaceably il they could bul
forceably if they must" and it was only
when these descendants oi revolutionary
fathers took up arms in their own defence
and thank God there were Kentuckians a:
well as Yankees fighting there in that battle
for freedom, and they drove back the in
vaders. and now great and overwhelming
majority of the people of Kansas say tina,
it shall be free, Notwithstanding James
Buchanan lifts up his impious hands, ant
perhaps praying that it may be so, says thai
"Kansas is as much slave territory al
South Carolina" Is that democracy! Ia
the name of that God to whom he SO impi
ously appeals, is it ss'-is i slave State
No, at all. History tells us that just there
began John Brown. How it is will state
as it comes 10 me authenticated. To the
best of my knowledge and belief, before he
shed the blood Of single man, one of hi'
sons was chopped to pieces in cold blood
and another son was dragged In ehains by I
vehicle, until from the heat, the exposure
the ignOniiuy, uHp wv to'tNio VI AuS ''o'''t
chains, his brain was crazed, and he wen
mad; and his sister, looking upon all thest
sad cslamiles and scenes of horror, wal
also crszed. Then this man took up th'
knife, aud made war Of determination upoI
the slaveholIers and the invaders of the soil
There is the secret of the whole matter. 81
belp me God, as | believe am Cassius Clay
as stand here tonight. say tho beginning
Of this raid on Virginia. John Brown fell
that there was no protection for him in thu
| Democratic party, tha, The laws of miisour
and Kansas gave no protection 20 him. AM
that he had once more to appeal to the Coo
, of Hosts for defense, and he carried ihs
war on in Kansas, and in Missouri, and Vir
ginia. The whole story is told; it was no
thing but the raid of.a man injured BY. ag
gressions made upon him, and these Prove'
to have been began and completed by tn
Democratic party Themselves. Therefore
|, hurl back the imputation, and history Wi
stand by the record, and will record the un
welcome truth, That is all Of 1t. II VA
no servile insurreciion at all. ! see bsfor,
me this night man who committed Johl
Brown in Virginia, and hear from .o,he