The Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1852-1853, 1853-04-20
Thomas Corwin and the Adolf,
tionisfa-
CIScSkArI. Ohio. April 9. IS5a.

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In The Enquirer Of this date you have the
foheglng extract from the Southern Patri-
OF, ofthe "piquant savings Of the inimitable
TGm@ rHe said they were a whining,
eanting. praying set OF fellows, who kent
wgular books OF debit and c;edit with the
Almighty They would lie and cheat all
the week, and pray oftbtir sins on Sunday.
If they steal a negro, That made a very large
entry to their credit, would cover a multitude
Of p~ecsAdil!oes AID frauds. This kind Of
entry they were always glad to make, be-
cause 1t cQst them nothing. When they
could nos steal a negro they gave something
in chaC,Ey for tire extension of the gospel,
and then commenced q system OF fraud and
cheating, till they thought they had balanc-
ed accounts with their God" And you
add: ale has, as is understood, purchased
property in Kentucky rs a residence.
Whether TbGs, Corwin includes me, who
have eontrnded, in my own Stale, for eman-
cipation on the soil among the Aboliionists,
| know not. 1t is the policy of the slave
party aud their reaegddes to render odious
The most ultra of the opponents of slavery,
and tl.ea use Il 8 odium for the overthrow
of all the friends Of justice aud liberty. For
my part, am willing to com under his
category; for inasmuch as ] would use all
the opponents of slavery ill the world for
its overthrow. so | must not avoid the con-
sequences Of my associations. At one time
the Abolitionists are held up as invidious
knayes, at another as one-idead fanatics,
who are void of moral ~responsib iitiv, and
unfit to administer any Government! They
cannot be both! They are neither one or
other. But do not propose 10 defend them
history will do that-but to repel the
calumny of the cx-S~ecretary. If the Abo-
~llionists were as base as Cor sin represents
them, it is right they should be exposed
Although a war of personalities is always
repugnant 20 a gentleman, yet, ifhe think,
they are, (even though they are not, as he
says, | have no objections to the utterance
But when Thos. Corwip tells not only
what is untrue, hut what know he believes
to be untrue, not only self-defrnse, but tn,
Instincts of a generous Indignation at un.
provoked and u~ngrateful wrong compel
me to hold him up to public reprobation.
When Mr.. Clay was the candidate fo
the Presidency, in 1914, Thomas Corwil
and | spoke daily for a long time through
Ohio in company. That battle was Tough
in tie North at least upon aptislavery-
"aboliion"- II principles, the friends of sla
very perpeLuation being ayowedIy in favo
of the annexation Of Texas, with a view G
keeping up a balance o fpower in the Sen
ate, by the acquisition of more slave States
and the friends of Jefferson republicanism
holding that slavery was an evil-toiey0ted-
but to be ~exiinguished in due time-Nort
" S~outh--standing for IL. Clay, and agains
Texas annexation. | came from a slav
! State, embittered in my feeling against tn
slavc-party by recent personal and politics
contests, yet in the speeches made by Thorn
as Corwin, the shareholders were so heartl
ly denounced that my sensihilities as
southern man were continually susceptible
[ am an habitual reader of VIM. L. Gar
~rison's Lberotor, and Garrison never SUI
passed him in heartfelt hatred of SLAYER
and shareholders. His now slave-holdin;
friends will gather some idea of his abate,
he when they review his celebrated speed
in the Senate, where he awarded me an,
other volunteers in Mexico his aspiration
of "bloody hands and hospitable graves!'
But what struck me as most remarkable
in the "inimigable Tom was his indulgence
in "whinlng, cantius and praying in hi
speeches! have been in the Juror Of re
vivaIs, and the wild enthusiasm OF the bi
vopackcd camp-meeting. and never di
u%nctious Methodist parson move me TO tear
like the .inimitablc Tom And to sue
extreme did Tom" carry his scripture
quotations hat he got to be a decided bare
and | severely criticised his want of taste
and what was, to me, irreyerent as the slave
christians would have me-almost blaspht
my! He then defended himself upon tn
Ground that no people were SO conscientlor
and dcvoul as these same Abolitionlst
whom he low d~enQunceS as consummai
knavcs?
Ifthe Abolitionists 'cheat" and '!steal
the ~reproach comes with Il bad grace fro
the chief beneficiary of the Gardiner swipdl
And however gui ty VIC may be, it ado
but little to our peni;ence TO be lectured by
man who now has, dishonesty, om MON
E ia lis pocket
The truth is, Thomas Corwin is nothir
else but a mercenary renegade. vi humb
origin and a plo,essed Wing, there has bee
no time in the last twenty years that
could have been elected to office without IL
votes OF the AholitiQnists and laborers
Ohio. With considerable Alppancy
+ speech, ~caricature, minicry and pantomlm
added TO his soubriguct of the "wagon-boyt
and his professed Abolitionism, he ascend'
much higher in the political scale than
talents or true merits deserved. lie d
PRED to lead the liberal party i'll the
States by steady efforts which eliminated
his notorious Mexican war ~speech-whlt
sealed his career in that direction; for
outraged his oponents and disguised Il
: true fri, uds of freedom in these States
proved him a mere partikan and political
and not a statesman of enlarged and pra
tical views who only can embody into acti'
the aspirations and dicta of the deyotees
liberty--who, by their fanaticism and ma
tyrdom, break down old forms and barrie
to progress! Like all secondary men
I mental and moral development, he ga'
/ way when the pcliings of the storm whiC
, he had raised came on, lie determined
} once 10 desert to the enemy. During Il
/ long tine that the friends of freedom, und
, the lead of General Taylor, fought for Il
! jefferson idea and against the platforms
Tom, who was never fit for any thing b
, speech, spoke notl His treachery was al
! ticipated and developed in his reward