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Mr. Clay And The Abolitionists

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Day
25
Month
September
Year
1843
Copyright
Public Domain
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-Thetional Anti-SIavery Standard and Pnilnnthro- pist liave published an adverlisement, hearing date 1383, ofFering a rewnrd for a run-away slave, wliich issigncd by Henry Clay, Senior. Fron the nötoriety which this adveitisement has obtained during the last f'our years, it is hardiy presumable that the above namcd prints were ignorant of the fact that the man wh o signs himself ' 'Henry Claj, Senior.'1 is a different person and resides in a different crjtrrrty - as tlie advertisement shows - from Jir. Clay, of Ashland. These aboHtion journnls it seems, have yet to learn, that falseJiood is not the best support for any cause, and that the concentration of uil their enmity and vitiu peration upon the devoted head of one slave hokler out of the ten thotrsad there are in every slave State in the Union, show most clearly that their object is not the emnncipa.tion of slaves, but to destroy, politically, an eminent public man - lo break the great Whig party and to derive sorne sinisler personal udvantnge in an anticipated nevv organization of parties. But, gentlemen, in all tliis you greatly overshot the mark, and will fail as you ought to fail. You are under a high moral obligntion to deal jistly hy all men, nor is the distinguished Statesman and pbilanthrópist of Ashlalid, an exception. Aboiu the time the advertisement was written by nnother Mr. Cby the farmer of Ashknd viïitcd Ihis city, the' Fulis, aud spent somedays in Canada, having of course his servtmts with liim, who were slavc?. Whilc in her Moj estys dominions, some bcncvolent persons took the painsto teil Mr. City's serveals that lioy couldleave hitn witli impunity ifthey saw ÍU to do so. Tliey replied that thei'r master was hcir best friend, and so good to ihem that ïoth Cañadas had nnt weaith enough to Jiire hem to Jeavo bim. Thus it appear's, that sq ar Trom having occasion to advertise run iway slaves, Mr. C'ö will folow him with Ieasure from the equator to the poles, nnd any vhcre Jay down their lives for hls. Ql'nll the slave holders in all the slave Stntes, vhy should Mr. Calhoun, Tylcr, and every ulier public man, receive 7iot a word of aho'.üion -.ciisuTc, wl)ile no fylshooil is too ontragcous nut 0 he eigerly publislied ai,';iinst the Whig Caniidatef'or tho Prcsidency? The rabid and tincrnpulous Iocofoco papers of the Union have 1 liighor regard (brtruth &■ decency, than is man fested by politic.xl Aboütionists. The Wliig jrdss generaily has Ireated the insidious and open lostility of thess opponents with forbearance un;il It has censed to be n virtne. h is the niisrortune of the great body of abolitionists.for vvhom ive entertain all due respect, to have fallen into tho lianas oí the most corrupt leaders .hat ever ruined ïnd disgraced any cause - Bu ff ala Ct.m. Adccr'Js:r. CU5 We venture to eay that every "corrupt" aboütion leader who hng published what purports to be Mr. Clay's advertisement firmly believes that the said advertisement was pnt out by Mr. Clay, the Whig leader. The fact that the slave purports to have escapee! from anothor county, is easily accounted for by the circumstanco ofhis Iaboring for a man in that counly.

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