The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1851-07-17
wednesday Evening ,July Ie, 1854

THs FRer DsmocnAOH.-We find in
the Ravrnna Whig, an account Of a Free
Soii meeting held 10 that place a few
weeks since. There were present sew
eral of the prominent men of the Free
Soil party. together with Chase, SpaulJ.
ing aud Morse. who aie claimed. we be-
lieye. by the Democracy. We copy a
report of Mr.. Spauldips's speech from
the Wh,g and commend it to the consid,,
Grafton Of our Democracy
Next came the resolutions, which
were read land we think draf!ed) by his
Honor. the Supreme Judge. RrPus P.
SPAuLDING. This through. the Judge
was called on for a speech. which he re.
.4ponded to. Aud such q speech from a
Democrat was certainly an anomaly, and
must have sounded strangely ia the ears
of the real sim0n pure Democracy pres
ent. We wish every Democrat in the
Stale could have heard it. He of course
denounced the Wings without stint; and
this, as might be expected. was s~stisfac
tory to his political friends. who would no
doubt have been pleased had he stopped
here. This lie did not do, but went m
10 give bis own party some pretty hard
tbrusts. He reiterated and re- affirmed
his recent speechrs at Toledo aud Cleve.
land in full. aud said that he would stand
by them, sink or swim. Tie saidhe regard.
ed that measure in the Compromise which
proposed to rob New M~ex,eoufa vast do.
main for the benefit "f slaveholdipg Tex
as. aud To give the latter ten millions oI
d"Ilars for the re linquishmento Of a fraud
ulent claim to another large slice Of New
Mexican territory. asa gross fraud upon
the Whole people Of thu United States
aud Of no bipding effect.
IN speaking Of the Fugitive Law he
said: IAN | TO take the decision OF MrL.
LARD FnLMnRE, ar DANIEL WEBSTER, ~
any other man, orsset of men. in refer,
ence to The cuuslitutionality Of this law
mo, not by a jug full. | am my own
Judge in this case. | am To take the
Constitution as l Understand ii, without
reference tothe opinious Of others. 1
believe the fugitive law unconstitutional
and therefore Void aud shall so treat il ;
Nor was this all. Nh, SPAU,.DING said
that while in Columbus in 1913. at the
time of CAss' nomination. the "NIcHnL
SON Letter" came upon him like a wei
blanket. Previous tn that he had believ'
ed CAss sound on the question of free.
dom. He said: "Immediately after the
appearance Of that letter. | wrote to Gen
'ICAss. aud demonstrated against the sen
~timeuls there put forth-told him that i
was. doubtful whether he could nov car
Try Ohio, Afterwards. however, ] con
cluded 10 support CAss, and iufnrmee
him. that notwithstanding the letter Il
NlcnoLsoN. | hoped he would, if elect
ed. prove right on the slavery question
" But | rejoice now that CAs'
was defeated. | believe his election
would have resulted in evil TO himself, II
the Democratic patty andto the country
10 this connection. the Judge also re
marked: IT would much rather vote for
an ultra stakeholder, known as such, thai
for a %seryile doughface who would pa,
the shareholders a premium for e%lec,inI
him To tho Presidency"
The Judge further sud that he "woul,
not thank any bunker party in the Stal'
fnr elecling him to any office" w
think wo have not misrepresented ih'
Judge in any parlicu|ar-if so. We wi!
gladly make the correction
From this last declaration. it is eviden
that one Of TWO things is correcl-eilhe
SpAULDING does not want a nomination
by the Democracy for the Supreme Judg
ship. or else he expects to ren0vate tina
party from Hunkerism. ,,a
S~PAULDiNG's movements here, and hi
figuring with CHASE for some time past
plainly show that there is a game on fno
To unite the Democracy aud Free Soiler
of this State on a common platform. an,
this is to be cnnsummated by reconcilin,
Democracy with Fres Soilism and not III,
latter with the former. 1t remains To b,
seen how far this movement will be- sue
~cessiul whether the MEDARYs. the Ms
ILLS, the WHITMANs. the SAwyERs. &c.
will submit tn be thus made ooerto CHASE
SPApLDiNG & CO." .-..
CoUNTERFEITING. ny WHoLEsALE.-l
very important arrest was made, in Balti