phen A.
Douglass_, to the Presidency, we are indebted for all the scenes of
bloodshed in Kansas, to the angry slavery discussions in Congress, and
the disgraceful scenes of riot being almost daily enacted there!

Several copies of the following Declaration were circulated in Congress,
and obtained a number of signatures in both halls; but no other list was
ever published, that we know of, besides this, which, it will be seen,
was headed by the illustrious HENRY CLAY:

"The undersigned, members of the thirty-first Congress of the
United States, believing that a renewal of sectional
controversy upon the subject of slavery would be both dangerous
to the Union and destructive of its objects; and seeing no mode
by which such controversy can be avoided, except by a strict
adherence to the settlement thereof effected by the Compromise
Acts passed at the last session of Congress, do hereby declare
their intention to maintain the said settlement inviolate, and
to resist all attempts to repeal or alter the acts aforesaid,
unless by the general consent of the friends of the measure,
and to remedy such evils, if any, as time and experience may
develop. And, for the purpose of making this resolution
effective, they further declare that they will not support for
the office of President, Vice-President, Senator, or
Representative in Congress, or as a member of a State
Legislature, any man, of whatever party, who is not known to be
opposed to the disturbance of the settlement aforesaid, and to
the renewal, in any form, of agitation upon the subject of
slavery.

"Henry Clay,
C. S. Morehead,
Robt. L. Rose,
W. C. Dawson,
Thos. J. Rusk,
Jere. Clemens,
James Cooper,
Thos. C. Pratt,
Wm. M. Gwin,
Samuel A. Elliot,
David Outlaw,
O. H. Williams,
J. Philips Phoenix,
A. M. Schemerhorn,
Jno. R. Thurman,
D. A. Bokee,
Geo. R. Andrews,
W. P. Mangum,
Jeremiah Morton,
R. I. Bowie,
E. C. Cabell,
Alex. Evans,
Howell Cobb,
H. S. Foote,
Wm. Duer,
Jas. Brooks,
A. H. Stephens,
R. Toombs,
M. P. Gentry,
H. W. Hilliard,
F. E. McLean,
A. G. Watkins,
H. A. Bullard,
T. S. Haywood,
A. H. Shephard,
Daniel Breck,
Jas. L. Johnson,
J. B. Thompson,
J. M.