Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1855-08-17

| the hcpuDllCdn Cdnuludl6 LOI OOV-
ernor of Ohio, with being a disuni-
onist. The charge was a most
base and false one, directly in oppo-
sition to the facts. At "a large and
enthusiastic republican mass meet
ing, held at Circleville, on the 4th
inst, Mr.. CHASE made a speech,
from which we take following ex-
tracts. We ask for it a careful pc
rusal by the voters of Sandusky
County:
Mr.. CHASE after happy AlIusion to the
kind manner in which his appearance was
welcomed, said that be stood there that
day precisely Were Jefferson and Madison
and Washington stood in the days that tried
mems souls, and before it had become re.
proach in America to be lover of Freedom.
In regard to the Consultation Of the Uni
ted States, in no respect, either by word or
act or deed, would be trench upon any ol
its provisions.
In regard TO this great Union Of which
Ohio was so distinguished a member, he had
always felt If there was any one thing great
and magnificent above others, and winch
promised glorious results. it Was the con-
linuance OF that Union. He felt as he had
said in the Senate, that We were in the
habit Of looking at it uS at the blue arch Of
the Heavens-as something that never
could decay or fall. He believed no para
cldal hand would ever be found in Ohio,
raised for its destruction. He desired that
it should contiue forever the guardian Of
our domestic repose, and that it should with
the powers delegated by the Constitution,
remain TO accomplish the great purposes
for which il was frameG-sheuld endure
for the perpetuity and advancement Of hu-
man liberty.
These were his general principles, but
they desired at this time something more
particular, and be would give it.
The convention by which be was nomi-
mated bad declared its opposition 10 the e1-
tenpion 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 pres
enl slave States was all be proposed 10 in
terfsre with.
Within State limits every State has tie
ordering of its domestic institutions as it
might see 6t- We bad no control over the
people Of Kentucky in this respect II
they chose to have slavery and We thought
il wrong, We had right TO think SO ard to
say so, but no more right to interfere with
! il than with their laws for the establish
ment Of State banks or any other state laws
The platform on which he stood was this,
'that slavery vas local ia its character and
dependent on the municipal law Of the
country where il was established" This
was the language of Judge Mclean, He
was no sdmirer of The institutiUn-Le had
never known but few who were. He held
that outside the State limits thDte was ne
power to establish slavery. That its estab-
lshmsnt there was wrong, especially in
territory, free by our laws and By :he laws
of the country from Which-h was obtained.
He thea read from a book printed in
1893, extracts from the speeches of Mr..
PinckDey-tbc lawyer, orator, senator and
ambassador of his day-delivered in the
Legislature Of Maryland. One Of these ex-
tracts enumeratiEg the evils Of slavery and
the inconsistency Of retaining it in Mary
land, closes with the sentence; an the
name of God should we not attempt 10 wipe
away this sligma?" He 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.
Another Of these extracts was: Wherefore
Sh, uld we con6ne censure TO our ancestors
they scattered the seed Of slavery-we
promote its growIh-we enlarge, invigorste
and confirm it," Jefferson had said there
was nothing so "dear to his heart as uni
yersal emancipation" These were the SEN
timeuts of the people at that time-the fill
ing period. Now see the fruit that has
been brought forth.
He then alluded to Mr.. Jefferson's plan
for excluding slavery from all the terrific
ries. Mr.. Jefferson had been thought to be
man of some sense, although on this great
subject. the democracy of our day differed
with him; yet he believed it possible, that
posterity might after all, pronounce Mr.. JEFF
fsrson as great man as Franklin Pierce,
or Stephen A. Douglas.
This plan of Mr.. Jefferson had a major
ity of two to one, of the States represented,
and three TO one of the delegates present,
but failed because it could not comply With
the constitutional provision, which required
all the States TO be represented. If an alb
sent member from New Jersey had been
present on that day the question of slavery
would have been settled forever.
Three years after, when a convention
met to frame a Constitution, the slave
States demanded some security that the
question of slavery within their own limits
should be left to themselves. They de-
manded this guarantee because they felt
that without it, Congress would pass gen.
eEsl act for the abolition Of slavery, and that
Virginia might not be ready for emancipa-
ton as soon as Maryland, and South Caro-
lima not as soon as Virginia, therefore it
was left for each State TO provide for eman-
cipation, when the ct period might come,
and under this arrangement the slave prop
erty Of the south became entitled to twen-
tv-one Representatives in CoDpress--Dre-