The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-10-13
General 1pteiiigeqce.
Position of Hon. 8. P. Chase

FCSIuCu OF k1Ou. -. r. C0dSo
Perhaps the best exponent of the prin-
Fiples of the Republican party of the
Sshole country, is Hon. Salmon p. Chase
sf Ohio. We copy the following speech
shich he recently made at Circleville,
rom the Cincinnati Gazette, and We
SIX ii there is any thing in it which
Northern men cannot or ought not to
lsSent TO -
"Mr. Chase, after happy allusion to
The kind manner in which he was well
nmed, said he stood there that day pre-
ssely where Jefferson, Madison and
Washington stood in the days that tried
mems souls, and before it had become a
5rproach in America to be a lover of
Freedom.
In regard to the Constitution of the
United States in no respect, either by
Eord or act or deed, would he trench
upOn any of its provisions.
In regard to this great Union, of
which Ohio is SO distinguished member,
he had always felt that if there was any
enc thing great and magnificent above
others. and which promises glorious re-
suits, it was the continuance of that
Union. He felt as he had said in the
Senate, that we were in the habit OF
boxing at it as at the blue arch of the
Heavens-as something that could never
decay or fall. He believed no parricidal
hand would ever be found in Ohio, raised
br its destruction. He desired that it
should continue forever the guardian of
cur domestic repose. and that it should,
With the powers delegated by the Con-
'titution, remain to accomplish the great
purposes for which it was formed
should endure for the perpetuity and ad-
rancement Of human liberty.
These were his principles, but they
desired at the same time something more
particular. He would give it.
The convention by which he was nomi-
mated had declared its opposition to the
extension of slavery. Il desired to pre-
vent the admission of more slave States,
and thus arrest the increase of the slave
power. On this question this was all he
had to ask. The Territory outside the
limits of the present slave States was all
he proposed to interfere with.
Within State limits every State has
the ordering of its domestic institutions
as it might see fit. We had no control
over the people of Kentucky in this re-
spect. If they chose to have slavery
and they thought it wrong. we had a
night to think SO and to say so, but no
more right to interfere with it than with
their laws for the establishment of State
Banks or any other State laws.
The platform on which he stood was
this, that slavery was local in its eharac
ter, and dependent on the municipal law
of the country where it was established"
This was the language.of Judge Mclean.
lie was no admirer of that Institution
ne had never known but few who were.
lie held that outside the State limits
there was no power TO establish slavery
That its establishment there was wrong,
especially in Territory. free by our laws
and by the laws of the country from
which it was obtained.
He then read from book printed in
1898, extracts from the speeches of Mr..
Pickney-the iaw-sbiding Senator and
ambassador of his day-deliyered in the
Legislature of Maryland. One of these
extracts enumerating the evils of slave
~ and the inconsistency of retaining it
In Maryland, closes with The sentence
In the name of God, should We not at
tempt TO wipe away this stigma?' He
Rad from Mr.. Pinckney's speech, be-
Cause he gave voice TO the sentiments of
the great men of his time. of Henry, of
Jefferson, of Washington. Another of
these extracts was: Wherefore should
we eonine ceasure TO our ancestors
they scattered the seeds of slavery-we
promote its growth we enlarge. invig-
ora:e. confirm it. jefferson bad said
there was nothing so dear to his heart
As universal emancipation These were
the sentiments Of the people at that time