Your obedient servants

MR.. CLAY's ANSWER.
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PHILADELPHIA Jan. Is, leio.
GESrLEMEN-I have received since my arrival here
your highly Aattering letter. inviting me TO address you
aud other distinguished Americans in Albany


The purpose had in view on leaving home has been
accomplished and many reasons OF private nature urge
my return Kentucky where hope also to be best able
to perform those duties which every citizen owes his
own State first and the General Government next.
have before me now, in addition TO your invitation
requests from many of the moat distinguished men o
Boston, of Brooklyn of NewHaven and other places in
the Free States and from Wilmington and Baltimore in
the Slave States for address them also so that %
there seems to be no limit to these aerug evidences OF
public confidence and sympathy, must break away at
once


This request the part Of sxy-two American citizens
so distinguished encourages me 10 hope that the true
issue between Liberty and Slavery is beginning TO be
understood and felt-,hat Slavery is indeed an nsu
ton affecting deeply for veal or for woe all portions OF
our common country"


IfLabor be the basis Of the rights Of property Slavery
violated that law.


If Justice and Virtue, and Intelligence are the lounda
tons of permanent Liberty, Slavery saps them


If Constitutional Rcpubcanism be the only guaranty
of National Freedom Slavery has utterly rsmped
der foot



of one right then or. the American people Slaves
This is the doctrine Of '76 and the law of common
sense.


When Northern citizens are imprisoned and hdbeGs
corpus denied and Northern ambassadors ANONYMOUSLY
driven away from seeking redress under the National
judcaturc


When Northern citizens torn from their own once
free soil and hurried by force into Southern dungeons
When Northern citizens hung in the South with
out trial by Jury their peers, and without having
violated any law, for the freedom ofspeech;


When Northern blood and Northern treasure are ex-
pended for the acquisition of Slave territory destined TO
Increase the capabilities of oppression;


When Slave TcXes has about four representatives to
one among the Frcethus uampling under foot the
lutionary doctrine that taxation and representation should
be coordinate


Who shall be so base 10 ask any more in servie
tones. What has the North 10 do with Slavery Z"
The Liberty Of the Press in the South is gone today
VIII it live in the North tomorrow


By Heavens this is longer question abou, Afri.
caus-whe,her they be beasts or "a debate about
maudin philanthropy but phe;her he eighteen NIL
lions Of ohite men Of these States, shall be Freeaea or
SiGUes


Know Americans tha, the sword and the chain enter
not the flesh till the spirit-ny, the spirit-of pespe
is dead


Heaven help us to feel to sec TO dsre-now-,o day
Awake. arise, or be- forever fallen !"


Pardon the warmth OF my language. for and mine are
in chains, and silence is crime My constitutional
rights borne down by violence and perverted judi
cal decision. and remembering that Tree,
we vndicate them, or die


have the honor 10 be,


Your obedient servant C. NJ. CLAY.
To Messrs I'm. c. Bloss z. ". Chester J. miller, &c.