Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1861-02-07
Political Utterances from the Spirit Land
Henry clay'r Ex-Mundsne View OF the Pre-
sent Crisia. .ase.s ~ Z.

| A pamphlet has recently been published in
New York, giving lecture on the present
| crisis by Henry Clay, through the well known
medium, Cora l.. Hatch, from which IL appears
that the great statesman alluded to the argu.
ment that slavery is moral evil, and should
therefore be abolished, saying:
We might, with the same degree of propri-
ETY., say.that no slavery should ever have exist.
ed in the world, that no nation should ever
have been superior to any other nation; that
there should never have been any struggles for
supremacy; that no norevolution should ever have
been fought; that conquering nations should
never have claimed their superiority. We
might, with the same degree of argument, say,
should one supreme ruler of nation have af.
firmed his power over his subjects.
We might, with the same degree of proprie.
ty, say, that no legal administration, no execu-
tion of governmental laws, should be carried
into effect, that have tendency In any degree
to iDjure the rights and privileges Of any hu
man being. We may say this, but of what
avail is it7 The past Ia filed with the written
and unwritten history of oppression and bloUd-
shed! I'll
Mr.. Spirit Clay maintains that we in the
North have no right to find fault with South
ern lave, and draws the following rather weak
| illustration;
NEW YORK AND cHARLEeToN.
In New York City, the great metropolis of
this Western Continent there are laws, we will
suppose, heinous to human morality, laws
which pervert the highest and holiest sensibili-
ties Of government, laws which ar o at variance
with the Constitution, laws which positively and
| entirely overthrow the very principles upon
which your Constitution and country is pre-
dictated. ...-.. ..' ...
There are laws upholding and legalzing pros
titution, laws that uphold and legalizs gambling,
laws that uphold end legslize robbery. What
would the municipal government and authori
tiee OF New York say, we're the citigens of
Charleston, of South Car olina, to come forward
and say, "This is unchristian; this is morally
wrong; therefore will we teach the citizens Of
New Xork, the ignorant portion of your soci-
ETY., those who are subservient to State authori
ty, those who hold places under your Govern
ment, to come out against 1t. We will raise an
insuTection Of your State power and State au-
thorities, ,.and you shali not have this continued
any longer, because II is morally wrong, be-
cause it Is not, in the eye Of heaven, right"
| Would not you, would not your State authori-
ties, would not every other man, in your nation
or In your State, say that it was none Of your
businessl MostIassuredly. I'D
HENRY CLAY IN FAVOR OF COMPROMISE.
Spirit Clay then advances some Of the old
pro-slayery areumepts. and brinrs torward his
Gid panaces and uees i'comnro6isee- comn,os
mise. % -r 80 - r'''.
| For be Il remembered that Il ia not a nuest;on
now of simple right or wrong that IL IL
moi a moral Question in which vour nation
| is engaged, that morality and relivion are
exclusive reseryations by your Daslnration
of Ipdependence: that each and avery indiyid- :
ual NAV retain his own forms Of religion. bis
own conceptions of morality-proyided that mo.
ralitv or that rel;o;on does MT ;nterfere With