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Cassius M. Clay

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Parent Issue
Day
8
Month
July
Year
1844
Copyright
Public Domain
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We recenily inemioned the allegation againsi this gentleman ihat he liad oUtained the ereait ol i emancipating bis slaves, wliile none of tfcém had [been riiariümitied. The following explanation is from a letter of Mr. Clay ta a friend in Ne Bed ford: 'Of so much vaUie is a good name. as tobege confidencc mong distant strangers. But 1 de not expect lo escape Imder. They are at las ; lesoriing to that here now. when all things eist fuil to desiroy my influence. But 'iruih and justice are mighty. and must prevail!' The man who said I did not emancípate ariy slaves, likd. I never emancipated any of my mother's slaves, -that was also falset h is true I never cmancipaied but mmk slaves, but they werc all I owned. and 1 have neurrcd as much responaibility here by emancipatiug at all. as f 1 bad set Iree a thousand, J have abowt twenty-five more slaves, which are entailed on my childrerr by my lctc ather, in which I have a life estáte only, and this s the cause vy my emancipation has been niagnificd. I propose making the condition of tiróse as good as tliat of úw freed onee- xnv J hope general cmancipation. ia the State will bring lihrtj to alL'

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Signal of Liberty
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