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C. M. Clay's Tour

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Day
30
Month
September
Year
1844
Copyright
Public Domain
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- the discussion at Detroit, Mr. CJa y embarked for Erie, and spoke to the great Convention assembled there on the lOth. He arrived at Buffaloon the 12th. Welenrn from the Boston Chronicle, that hcre he hnd a comparatively small audience. The whigs gave him the cold - tliey had become suspicious that bis labors would work them no good. He gave an excellent antislavery discourse - delineated the Slave Power witheffect, and then recommen.ded the election of HenryClay as the best remedy! - The Abolitionists agreed with his prem sea, but denied his conclusions; and th Whigs had tho mortification of admittin anti-slavery principies without bein cheered by any converts to their party i return. They were so disappointed tha when Mr. Clay departed for theFalls, no a VVhig turned out to do him honor. Many of the Abolitionists attended th meeting at the Falls, having been invitec to do so in the Whig handbills. The) inquired if they could have the privilege of replying, if they should wish. Cas sius answered that he had no objectionsbut the Wiiig managers were unwillihg Mr. Clayspoke under much depression o spirits. (Hcniy Clay's repudiating letter had just arrived.) In his remarks, he stated that Henry Clay opposed slavery in the beginning of his career; and he defied any one to show that, at anytime since, he had said or done any thing inconsistent whh his first act in relation toslavery!. E. J. Chase, of Lockport, answered the challenge, and cited numerous instances in which Mr. Clay had departed from his original position. Mr. C. M. Clay defended his relative in all his recent proslavery dogmas, and especially took exceptions to the position that "man cannot hold property in man." He contended with Henry, that athat is property which the law declares to be property."When Mr. Clay had ciosed, three cheers were given Cor Henry Clay, and ,G. W. Holley proposed "Ihrcc groans for the Aholitionisls," for which he set the example. Mr. Clay was rather niortified at his VVhig friends, but he staid to the last, listened and replied to another abolition speech, and parted with the Liberty men on the most friendly terms. Mr. Clay subsequently spoke in Boston on the I9th. He is to speak in Utica, Oct. 2, and after that he says he is des'rous ofspendinga fortnightin the State, and will meet and debate with Abolitionists upon any and all matters upon which they disagree.

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