The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1849-06-08
gave way. introducing Mr.. Norris to :he


promise given Messrs. Smith and Evans
that he would attend the meeting. He
came as volunteer, and did not c0nsd.
er himself responsible to The people of
Brown county for any of his acts in the
last Legislature. But he would rather
sink with his cO-actOrs, Messrs. Smith and
Evans, than to abandon them. He
might have done so by shaking them off,
but he would not do so. He had heard
of much dissatisfaction here. What did
thepeople wantl He said in reference
to Chase, that he was as radical Dem.
ocrata as any man in Brown county--that
he (Chase,) did not differ in any single
item fIom the Democratic party Of Ohio
That he (Mr. Norris. was a strong Allen
man, first, second, aud all the time.--He
thought him the man for the time and the
place, yet; said N. II did not vote for him
on the first ballot for fear he would be G.
lested." He feared treachery in bis own
ranks. He did not know, as did his friend
Smith, that Allen could not be elected.
The Black Laws. he contended, were
opposed to all principles of right and JUS
lice, and said that while he was speaking
in favor of those laws upon the stump last
fall. that declaration of independence
which declaIe ed "all men free and equal"
always confounded and overthrow him!
He was in favsr of abolishing slavery in
the District of Columbia; legislating it
out of the territories, and voting against
it whenever and wherever opportunity
might Offer He said that the Wilmot
Proviso was constitutional an1 right, and
ought to be sustained by the Democracy.
He differed with Gen. Cass, and pro-
nounced the doctrines of the Nicholson
letter Ahunabug. He acknowledged the
bargain as made between Townshend
and Morse of the one part, and the Dem.
ocratic member of the last Legislature oI
The other part, and claimed great credit
for his honesty in making the confession!
He urgently appealed to his hearers mol
to disannul the articles of "union," OF
drive from their cooperation the Free
Soilers, under penalty of total deslruc-
ton aud eternal minority"
Thus (says the Standard ended one
! of the most RIDICULOUS affairs it has ever
been our misfortune to attend. But for
the few Wings and Democrats attending
from mere curiosity, the meeting would
have been perfect fzzle," The Stand.
ard proceeds:
1--WE expected and believed that they
would trump up seme excuse in palla-
ton oftheir unparalleled conduct, but in
this we were disappointed. They boldly
asserted that they had doue right, and
no regrets for whatthey had done! They
talked of bargains and corruption, and vi.
olence and bloodshed, with as much calm
ness as though they were matters of the
most ordinary occurrence! If the peo
pie did not like them and their acts i
mattered little or nothing with them
Every one, save the abolition brethren
was utterly disgusted with their bare
faced and shameful exposures, and W,
think they are Row, or should be, pret,,
well convinced that Brown county Dem
ocrats have too much honesty to endorse
such cut-throat policy!
The speakers neither invited ques
tions nor discussions, but seemed anxious
enough to get out OF the dirty scrape OF
any terms. Judge Evans was not pre-
sent, and it speaks much for his goo,
sense and sound judgment He is oil,
enough and wise enough to know that tn
people are not 20 be tampered with whe
their principles are violated. their right
outraged and their liberties endangered
1t would be well for the new hedgling
if they would heed his advice and follow
his counsel.
No resolutions were passed at this "a
nous gathering of the Liberty party, no
even a request that we should publsI
their proceedings. But as our reader
were not there to see and hear the ricl
treat, We have endeavored to give them
faithful history of that memorable day
proceedings. 1t was day of politica
death to some, and we regrett to say tha
the victims did not die game! After tn,
grand array ofrevolvers and bowie. knive
which were paraded before their eye
last winter, we had expected to see NOR
pluck on their part, but either the resul
of their former frights, or the pacif
course of pciicy pursued by the "Dsun
ion and Civil War" party, to which the
have lately attached themselves, cause,
them to struggle and die calmly. a
though life was altogether hopeless. A
their funeral has now taken place, w
know not that we shall soon disturb thei
ashes. unless the foaming and boiling o
the froth and scum of the political Gle
ments shall again resuscitate aud Iesur
rect them"