Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1861-02-06
WASHINGTON CoRRE poNDENcE
WAsnixorox, ian. %. 1851

WASHINGTON, Jan. %, 1851.
Ansas. EmroRs:-Disunion, Coercion suo
Compromise are still the subject matter of dis
srsEios in the House. Nj. Nelson of Tenpeser
and Mr. Gilmsr Of North Carolina, ma de *
seiieHt Union speeches. There is a strong Tn
ION feeling in those States. although the Un,ur
men are in Some danger of being submerged b,
the mad-caPp d waves Of disunion fanatism nov
sweeping over the cotton States. G n. CLAY
addressed the Republican association of Wash
Ihgt0n on Saturday evening. at Odd Fellow,
hail. Soiding about 700 people, and it V as pack.
ed fHli' perhaps as large an audience, in doors
o. ever listened to an anti slavery spe,cb il
washington. Mr.. Clay spoke about an hour
and a half in ono of bic characteristic speeches,
Cut IN q new role The speech was thoroughly
Anu-slaVe-y in tone, but admitted a. q matt,
OF policy the adoption by Congress Of the meas.
urea reported by the Commits, Of 80. HI.
idea 10 that these measures will nut at rest In,
Question Of accession in Kentucky. Mary LAM,
horth Carolina and Tennessee, and perhaps il.
Virginia, and stop the revolution BOW in pro
Rrets' without the sacrifice Of any principle O
Eepublicanism. De argues that by the Com
promise of 1850 New Mexico was to come in
slave or free State. as her people might deter.
mine, IN framing her Constitution; that if her
people should adopt q slave Constitution. which
he doubts then, the stipulation of the nets Of
le59orsAnising q Territorial Government. which
all parties at that time aequiesced in, will have
been complied with. and the Republicans will
not he responsible for 1t. But said he, if al.
should adopt a free State Constitution, let God,
will be done" he argued that in the presen
crisis, the Republicans should do all the,
eoald without a surrender Of principle, to saw,
TOE border States, and then they would bav.
better ground to stand upon. in case Of a COLI
0on with the Cotton States, which he though.
vas inevitable. He said when Senator Wad
made bis speech in the Senate, taking IN.
ground that nothing was to be done, he eulirel,
approved of it. but subsequent DEVELOPMENT.
had changed his mind, and now he though
that as much should be done as recommended
BY the Committee Of SO. l have given the sub
stance of his argument not my own. Ofcourse
the suggestion Of such a man as Mr.. Clay, from.
bis staad point, and from his long services in
the cauFe, and of his acknowledged courng.
and boidncss, are entitled to respectful consider
ton. / send you the speech entire as reporte,
IN the National Republican, I presume you.
readers would like to peruse it.
Roger 4. Prior. who by reason Of his Pot,e,
nUtoriety last winter. was thrown into q post,
rio:r position, has the floor for to day.
Here il q word of comfort to the Conrromiso,
from The Baltimore Sun of to-day, a ramnani
disuniOn paper.
Our readers in Washington, as elsewbere
Know how faithfully We have advocated fror |
ue nrst practical disuniou movement. that Nj
bey which IN our opinion alone could have IRE.
served the Union, and which We assert at This
;sy. s that which can alone restore it II is
the Union Of the fouthern States. A comDlete
entity of the South when the cotton States frsi |
deermlned upon disunion as the alternative O;
tHonisslon TO an intolerant fanatieism. vouId
have thrcszn upon the North the issue of unior
rF dissolution and the reaction already an. aren; |
IN the POPULAR sentiment of the North IS more |
than proof that the people of the North would |
have surrendered their foolish prriudiees to the
ughtful demands Of the South. Their present
representatives never will, bee use is il political
aesa 70 them, and c doom inscribed by their
own hands. To abandon their fanatieism a.
an showed cause of dissolution of the Union
could be to record political damnaicn against
themselves.