Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-08-11
SPEECH or MR.. A

Gazette. The Editor oil ,hat psper Is deVSuVeu
with what he considers its moderate and rather
conservative character as distinctive from the
rabid abolitionisis; aud he assures his readers that
gentlemen who have heretofore opposed bis NOM
nation and election regard it with satisfaction
and and favor" Below will be found the impor-
tant portion of the speech as reported in the
Gazette:
Mr.. Chase after a happy allusion to tue kind
manner in which his appearance was welcomed,
said that in the South, where there were wonderful
Developments of nature and freaks, sometimes DO
sides natural ones there was once u negro baby
born with strange bumps on its head, and with
cloven feet and other monstrosities; Sc, perhaps,
they had expected to see some such wonder to-day
for he had been called a woolly head an abolition
list and everything that was INDUSTRIOUS and repnl-
sive. They could now look at him and see if his
personal appearance gave any countenance to any
Of these ISLANDERS.
lie stood before them the representative Of a
platform of principles formed by n Convention as
fair, as honest, as open and candid as any that ever
assembled in Ohio, and that Convention had full
opportunity to know mis- history and his principles.
But these were not SANDERS against him so much
as again their cause. lie stood there that day
precisely where Jefferson and Madison and W aoh-
ing on stood in the days that tried mems s%ouls,Gnd
before it had become u reproach in America to be
u lover Of freedom.
In regard to the Constitution Of the United States
in no respect, either by word or act, would he
trench upon any of its provisions.
In regard to this great Union, Of which Ohio
was so distinguished a member, he had always felt
that If there was any one thing great and mag
niicent above others, and which promised glorious
results it was the continuance Of that Union. lie
felt as he had said in the Senate, that we were in
the habit of looking at it as the blue ,arch Of the
Heavens-as something that never could decay or
fall. He believed no parricidal hand would ever
be found in Ohio, raised for its destruction. He
desired that it should continue forever the guardi.
an Of our domestic repose, anu that it should, with
the powers delegated by the Constitution, remain
/ to accomplish the great purposes for which it was
t formed-should endure for the perpetuity and ad-
vancement Of human liberty.
These were his general principles, but they de-;
sired at this time something more particular. lo
would give it.
The Convention by which he was nominated
had declared its opposition to the extension of
slavery. 1t desired to prevent 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. inter
fere 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
respect. If they chose to have slavery and we
thought it wrong, We chad q right 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, chat
slavery was local in its character and dependent
t en- the municipal law of the country where it was
: established" This was the language of Judge
Mclean. lie was no admirer of the institution
he had never known but few who were. He held
that outside the State limits there was no power to
establish slavery. That its establishment there,
was a wrong, especially in territory, free by our
. In ws and Inv the laws of the country from which il
was obtained.
He then read from q book printed in 1898, OK
tracts from the speeches of Mr.. Pinckney-the law
e yer, orator, senator and ambassador Of his day
e delivered in the Legislature of Maryland. One of
a these extracts enumerating the evils of slavery
and the inconsistency Of retaining it in Maryland,
closes with the sentance "In the name of God,
should we not attempt to wipe away this stigma ?"
lie read from Mr.. Pinckney's speeches, because he
gave voice to the sentiments of the great men of his
time. of Henry, of Jefferson, of Washington. An
other of these extracts was: Wherefore should we
/ confne censure to our ancestors-they scattered
the seed Of slGvery--we promote its growth-we
I enlarge, in,igorate and confirm it." Jefferson had
. said there was nothing so dear to his heart as
universal emancipation" These were the senti-
ments Of the people at that time-the filing peri
l.. cd. Now see the fruit that has been brought forth.
lie then alluded to Mr.. Jeferson's plan for ex.
Guiding slavery from all the territories. Mr.. JEFF
terson had teen thought to be a man of some sense
aithouGh on thiS sroat subject tne democracy OF
our uay alheteo WIN nm yet ne 9eheveu IL posi-
be, that posterlty might after al pronounce Mt
f emerson as grent d man. US fr"iiAIih e"'ee OF
stephen a. douglass.
This plan of Mr.. jefferson, had a majority Of
two to one, OF the states represented, and three to
one Oh 5he delegates present, ont laiie9 because
u couia h?V comply witn the cShs.tatIl"l pro
VISION "nrcn requlreu VI tne states 10 Do repre-
!; bnd hoon ,nresont on thot dav tho suLioct ~
T.. DIarorv Wv ,ronId bnre bnen settlod foroyer '''''> "
f Tta.o Uaa, "nonrhan oanron.ion uo. -
i lhree years after When a convention met 10
t frame a constitution tne olave o'ales dehahueu
some security, Una 'he quesuon OF slavery WIN
. IN tEeir own limits shoula DC ieit 10 themselves
Glhey demanded dhls guarantee because lhey
leit that Witnou! II, Congress Wouiu pass d General
. act tor the aooiiuoh OF slavery, ana that virginia
81 might not he ready Tor emalclpatlOn, as soon as