From The EmancipdiQr.

THE HON. HENRY CLAY.
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AS one Of the great orators and statesmen
Of the nation, we duly honor Mr. Clay. But
when bis friends bring him Forward as can
Iidate Tor the Office of President of the Uni
ted States, II Is our duty as citizens, and es-
pecially as abolitionists, to examine his rela
lion to the GREATQUESTION, whose i'm
portance now overshadows all others. We
are seeking, and confidently expect TO wit
ness, the voluntary andentire abandonment
of slavery throughout this beloved republic.
In this view, il does not become US TO over
look the following FACTS respecting Mr..
Clay:


|. He is a Shareholder, and has never g.
mancipated any Of his slaves, or intimated
any intention Of doing so.


2. He is one Of the founders, and the ac-
tual President ofthe American Colonization
Society-which was formed and has ever
been controlled, by shareholders, avowedly
for the benefit of slavery, by the removal Of
the free negroes, although its managers have
allowed, and. do still allow, it to be pushed
into favor at the North as means of exter-
minating slavery.


8. He is the reputed and acknowledged
author Of the @Missouri Compromise" in
1890, by which the spirit Of liberty was
broken down, and the nation beguiled into
complete subserviency to slavery.


4. He is the author Of the project for the
acquisition of Texas, having made the first
motion OH the subject in the House of Rep
resentatives, on the 3d Of Aprtl, 1920. And
there is no reason to suppose he has ever
abandoned the project. Thczeal ofthe south
ern papers in bis interest forbidsn doubtOn
The subject