Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1850-07-25

Justice. He was deputed 10 folio,
them with a requisition IRON tn
Governor Of Chic on the Governo
OF Kentucky, TO deliver them up
This task he undertook, not becaus
he had more legal ability than Others
but because Others who had mon
to say on these subjects at home, iel
a reluctance to go into Kentucky
on such an errand. The alleged fu
gitives were arrested and carried in
10 the Circuit Court Of Kentucky,
where, to the best Of his poor abili'
ties, he argued all these questions.--
The argument was then printed
and is open for the inspection of ev-
cry body. II is a legal argument,
bu, perhaps sufficiently popalar in
its style to BE- readable He SAID il
contained his honest convictions oI
what the law was, and he had not
changed his views since. He could
say no less at the capital Of a slave
State, surrounded by shareholders in
the South. He could say no more
in the hot-beds Of abolitionism in
the North.
Mr. JOHNSTON said he never had
been an sbolilionist. Had never felt il
his duty TO violate the great federal
compact. He could wish that GER
tain clauses OF il were otherwise; but
had always in all his official rela-
tons sworn to support the constitu-
tion without mental reservation.
He believed as a liberty man, or
free soiler, he was as orthodox as
any man. But he could moi use the
can't Of the boys, and say. that she
was not anything else" There
were thousands of other objects
which deserved our care. God
made the human mind broad enough
10 contemplate the glory OF the Heav-
ans and the resources of the earth;
made the human heart large enough |
% sympathise in the sufferings and /
'ejoice in The prosperity Of the whole |
human family, black and white.-
lie deeply deprecated the thought
# looking at this mighty scene
through tube so narrow as to shut
ut every object of thought, and ev-
ry object of sympathy but one.-
from one-idea-ism, there is a pro-
livity TO insanity. The mind tied
own to one idea, like an eagle i'm a
age, beats of her plumage and can
10 longer soar. The heart pent up
a one idea, turns TO sonrneSs, jea-
busy and discomfort. Old, tried, and
lst friends are regarded as enemies. Il
he dreadful monomania begins to :
now itself in the bitterest hostility ,
, ones best friends. The house of ,
and happiness becomes
place Of snarling crossness, and GEN.
'rious fault. finding. {
He said he had known one dear ,
lend, smitten by the melancholy OF {
,onomania, 10 commit suicide. An {
iher 10 go 10 the Lunatic Asylum s
another to turn his back upon the J
hurch in which he was Graded, un- 1
.r the belief that all his brethren r
lted him--another TO adiure his o
lille and his religion and go over il
hopeless skeplicism. n
Mr.. Johnston said he loved chari- il
every where and under all benef- II
mt forms. The broad and expan- S,
We charity which sends the mission
v and the schooImasier into the
,uih Sea iSlands--"the charity that g
eketh rot its own," but seeks TO 7
claim the wandering BeIouin- !;
he charity that hopeIh all things" u
ID, reaching beyond the Cape Of u
bod Hope, hopes to convert the n
charity that believ- q
b all things, even the emancipation K
d elevation OF the enslaved Afri- u
n. But above all, and beyond all, n
loved that sVeet-souled charity N
iich begins at home; which first P'
lancipates the slaves OF our own lr
usehold, and converts the domes- CT
heather, and then widens into 10
, circle OF our neighbors, and then Sh
pands into the horizon Of man. CO
Having finished his remarks on al
,se questions, Mr.. Johnston asked NJ.
here was any one present who W
! fault to find, or a question to IN
!, and desired them TO speak now Iol
hereafter hold their peace. Here W.
sat down to wait for reply. Al ou
a few moments, no one appear W.
TO object or ask a question, he lul
'ceeded for an hour and a half lai
discuss the domestic policy OF our
n State-to point out the course
policy pursued by the respective to''
ties, when they had a working Su
iority in both branches Of the Uni
yislature; showing that in the pro- thl
lion of liberty--of popular edu- pu
on-of equalizing the public bur- iht
ns--of preserving the credit Of the
State-of promoting the national pa
he defined IN he the Tor