Clay, Slavery, And Annexation!
ftà BAVK, HOWEVKR. KO HES1TAT1O.V IN SATINO THAT, ÃAR FROM BAVlNff ANY ÃERSONALOEJRCTIOM TO THK An.NKXATION OF TKXAS, i S HOU LD HE GLAD TO SE E IT, WITHOUT DtSHO.NOIl, WJTHOUT WAR, WITII TliK CÃMMON CONSENT OF THE ÃNIOIÃ, APÃD OPOJà JUST AND FAà TKRMS. Æ-(? JYO T TfJlJYK THAT THE SUBJECT OF SLJVERY OUGHT TO AFtfECT THE QUESTÃVJY O.VE WAY ÃR THE OTtÃER. WHETHKR TEXAS BB INDEPENDENT OR INCORPORATED IN THE UNITED STATES, I DO NOT BELlkVE IT WILL PROLONG OR SUORTEà THW DÃRATJuN OV THAt fÃSTI TUTION. It s de jned to becume exrinct, at 6ome distant da y, n my opinión, by the opoporatjoià of thr ineVrinblp lawe of populatÃon. IT VVOUIJ) BE ÃJYWtSE TO REFÃSE A PERMANENT ACQUISITION whicli, wlll exist as lonsj as the globe remains, ON ACCOUNT OF A ÃEA1PORARY JNSTITUTÃOT?.- tÃ. Clay's Leiier, july 27. wNow, preat as I acknowledire, in my opin ion, tliff evtfg of slfjvérv are, titky ark nothing, ABSOLÃTKLY "NÃÃTHING, i con drisvn with the FXR GREATER EVÃLSWrfrCH WOÃtD'lNKVlTABLY ÃLOW FKOM A SÃ&BE!, GENERAL, AND INDISCRIMÃNATK EMAKCfik'ATibN."- Mr. Clay to Mr. Menden hall, Qct. J 6, 1 Ã42 .
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