FEB. 7.
Yesterday, Mr. Clay
concluded his speech upon his Compromise resolutions. Its close was pathetic.
There is hardly another slaveholder in all the South who would have perilled
his popularity to such an extent. It will be defeated: but, if we from the
North are still, it will be defeated by Southern votes and declamation; and it is
better for the cause that they should defeat it than that we should.
You were right in
saying that I would not have asked Mr. Winthrop about putting me on a
committee; for I would not have answered such a question, had I been in his
place, and had it been asked me.
Still, I think I
should have held an important place on an antislavery committee; and, what is
more, should have had a majority of colleagues who would act with me. Now every
thing is in jeopardy.
I never said whom I
would vote for, nor whom I would not. It would have been a bitter pill to be
obliged to choose between the three candidates; but, if I had been so obliged,
I should have voted for the least evil.
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