Lewisburg Chronicle

Equally Astonished.
In his New Haven reply, Pres. Buchanan thus expressed himself:
"Slavery existed at that period, and still exists, in Kansas, under the Constitution of the United States. This point has been at last settled by the highest tribunal known to our laws. How it could ever have been seriously doubted, is a mystery."

Henry Clay, who in his day was thought to have some political knowledge and mental acumen, thus expressed an astonishment which he felt on the 22d of July, 1850:
"I am aware that there are gentlemen who maintain that, in virtue of the Constitution, the right to carry slaves south of that line (36°30') already exists, and that, of course, those who maintain that opinion want no other security for the transportation of their slaves south of that line than the Constitution. If I had not heard that opinion avowed, I should have regarded it as one of the most extraordinary assumptions, and the most indefensible position that was ever taken by man."

So it will be seen that these two eminent statesmen encountered each a great mystery in the examination of the same subject. Mr. Buchanan thought it a mystery how any one could have doubted that the Constitution carries slavery with it. Mr. Clay, on the other hand, regarded that doctrine as the most extraordinary assumption he had ever heard, and the most indefensible position ever taken by man.