The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1853-06-01
DEBATE IN THE U. S. SENATE,
9th
Public Printing--OhiO PolitIcS--The
Old Line and independent Dena0c-
F;lcy.
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! The Senator from California tells US that the
party represented by the National Era is the
Abolition party, and that this party is vainly
endeavoring to appropriate the name Of Democracy.
Why, Mr. President. it is the party which WAS
organ zed at Buff.lo in ls49. The President has
| appointed a number Of gentlemen who were of this
party IN 1949, to high stations, and the Senate
has IN lnfested its accustomed liberaii;y and good
sense by co ,frnIiug these nominations. 1 do not
know tl,atthese gentlemen have reeantsd anything
they said in s48. 1t is true that the gentleman
thus Nominated and thus indoIsed resumed their
positions last year within party lines. and have
voted f,r the nominees of the Baltimore Conven-
ton. But repeat they have not recanted their
opinions Of l848. Now, the party which was or
gauized in thRt year, has since been known rs
the Free Democracy the Independent Dem
c.use it expresses best my idea of the organiza-
| tion. but | care little which is used. Certain it
is that by one or the other the party has always
been distinguished in the resolves IF its public
meetings and the proceedings Of its conventions =
| The gIelt body of voters who composed this or
ganz ition, and whose numbers increase from day
/ to day, claim to be Democrats, because they hold
in good faith all the rdinal maxms of the DEM
ocfatic ianh and insist their impartial applica-
ton to all questions, They call themselves In
dependent Democrats because they reject the
dictation of the slave power Courtesy aud fair
ness, one would think, require that they be called
BY the name under " ch they choose to be known.
| Ii Senators. however, think proper to persist in
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Mere names of little Consequences. Gentle
men may call me an Abolitionist if they choose,
and will romse not 10 be Mt all angry. The
name would SIMPLY identify me in sentim- mt and
opinion with some Of the greatest and best men
who ever lived, both f our own and other lands.
1t need not at all surprise gentlemen if that very
name which they apply brand of repoach
should become, at no distant day, crown oil
honor PREFER however, TO designate the pol
itical organization of the opponents of slavery
extension and nationazed slavery by the name
which they assume for themselves. They viii
not find it difficult to establish their title to the
name of Democrats, by any test which does re-
solve Democra into blind and serve adherence
TO organization without regard@t principles
Here sit around me gentlemen who call them
selves Democrats and representatives of the
Democratic party of the country. l do not chal
lenge their title to the name character. fine
myself generally voting with majority of them
but how very wide their dyerstes of opin
ion! There s hardly ques ION upon which they
do not differ. There is perhaps question up
on whIch 1 do with the majority of then
as often as any one of themse Even upor
that question which seems to rise up everywhere
with sort of omnpresence. challenging nvestiga
ton and solution how little agreement is there!-
Sir, there is no question of principle. there is nj
) measure of policy upon which the Senators wht
compose the Democratic majorityin this Chamber
, are unanimous. They agree absolutely in nothr,
except in supporting the same candidates for Pre-
/ sident and VIce Presidens, in other words. III,
same dispensers of the vast patroange of The CIV
ernment. Aud has it come to this. thst in tn
nineteenth century, and past ifs that part
organization is maintained upon the sole groun
D OF organization and the support of conventi4
nominations, and not by IFS recognition of any grea
universal principles applicable to the solution of
questions, and boldly applied in the solution of all
Sir, you may depend upon it that if this be SO, III
dead level of political stagnation has been reached
and that great Democratic party which was organ
lied under Jackson, is hastening to its decay an
: dissolution. The very moment the people be
come convinced that great, permanent, compre
hers sive principle does not lie at the base of YOU
action, animatng, controlling, and directing it al
you will lose the confidence of the people; an
" when the confidence of the people is gone, til
date OF dissolution will not be distant.
Mr.. WELLER. The Senator lom Ohio is yer
= much mistaken in supposing that cherish any ur
kind feelings towards his constituents. because
my having been defeated candidate for Governc
in le48. The history of that campaign is we
!, known TO The country. 1t was the only occasiu
;, in that State when the Abolition party did u,
=. unite upon candidate of their own. l was
:. odious TO them and their principles. that the
united upon my opponent, and with the union
;s the A'ofonists and the Whig party they be-
me some three hundred votes out OF popular vo
If three hundred thousand. If had remained
- home and concealed my views upon the '.Wmo
i, proviso' from the public eye, l should have su
ceeded beyond all donbf. This / knew at Il
time, but | traversed the whole State and pr
"A claimed my opinions fully aud freely everywher
preferring defeat to dishonorabIe victory.
in would to hold any office by concealing II
principles from The people.
te But the Senator says That the election which 7
us suited in my defeat. placed him in the Senate.
know exactly how he was elected, and shot
Iy have supposed he would scarcely boast of such
victory. understand the history Of that lectir
The Senator had some three or four Aboliti
ia friends in the Legislature who held the balance
power between the Wing and Democratic parii
they had the power to control the action of I
Legislature they exercised it, They required
Ike agreement to the officers to be selected hef,
an election for Senator could be had. They
:, CURED them TO enter into bargain; and if he Y
allow me TO say-and say it with all proper
: srect-a dishnnorabe bargain for it is dishen
able bargain whena party gets down upon its kn
rit' to some tacion and agrees to parcel out the
ist ces 1t was ntAed hmm Hating IN sep n uro,t n