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Mr. Clay's Speech

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Parent Issue
Day
18
Month
December
Year
1847
Copyright
Public Domain
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"lie who readsthe speech rStffltiterr in understanding the reñí poíftion oí' ;!; great American slatómnn. W'e lime not room for cSmtni'.;; i' d.iy. U'ecainot, however, withhold the reiferetiofi of oiiT grettficatiori tliat a statéfeftwn sfmich commnndino; ïnflupncn and from a slnve State, has raken df-cidcd grouml agninst the acquisitinn of more slave tfrrilory. Ofihis, more hereañer." - Detroit AdKc.rí'iser. Wiíl the Advertiscr be pliased id íeíl us precisnly in what art of ihis speech Mr. Clay "has laken dècided ground agáinst the arquisüion nf 'more slave terntoryV We have read it {hrotrfb with some attention. and ive cannot even gues from his language, if territory shuuld be acquired, whether Mr. Clay would be for making it free or Stave terrilorv. I'erhaps we have not tead carefully ennugh ; but we will tliank tlie Atlvertiser to enliguen us.

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Subjects
Signal of Liberty
Old News