Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1855-08-08

tucky and tennessee, YOU, who ar rca
dy 10 resist 1T home the anaiiciSm of
slavery, to stand upon real national
platform. to demand your own rights
and to 30 justice to US tell you, that
these men of New York these men,
who beTay us and deceive YOU who
are false to the Noith and not true to the
South, are your enemies They put
clubs into the hands CT the slavery Ia
natics OF the extreme South to smitc you
down. Our mission is to hunt down
this race of politicians l tell you, men
of the South, that we mean to hunt down
to exterminate this breed of Dough
faces-those fawning, creeping, cringing
creatures. that merciful Providence in
his infinite mercy permits to crawl round
among menl For the past fifteen months
the people of the North have been cha.
sing down this race Of politicians. You
will see that this race is growing small
by degrees and beautifully less" When
we have bounded down this breed, rep
resented here to-day by the member
from New York, { Mr.. Squires) then you
of the South, and we of the North may
NEE. in National Convention, each of us
ready to demand our own rights, and
willing to rOncede the rights of the 9TH
er. But that time is not yet. l hope,
however, that We shall soon stand by
the political grave of the last of the
Doughfaces ! l hope TO have the pleas.
ure; and Sir, it will be pleasure, to
walk among and 10 gaze down into the
political graves of these apostate polili-
clans, who have betrayed the people of
the State of New York.
Sir, the members from New York now
before me Messrs Barker and Squires)
have blurted into the unwilling ear OF
the Convention their love for the Union;
they have boasted of the enlarged views
and comprehensive policy of themselves
and their followers. They have osten-
tatiously paladed their virtues before us,
in contrast to the views of the delegates
from Massachusetts,, and their friends at
home. apprehend, sir, that these del
egateS have about as correct views of
the sentiments and actions of the people
of Massachusetts as they seem to have
of the sentiments and opinions of the
people they misrepresent. When Mass
achusettS pleads to any arraignment be-
fore the nation, she will demand that
her aecusers are competent to draw the
bill. Sne has no answer to make to her
New York accuSels but the answer of
silent contempt.
Gentlemen of talents and of character,
have undertaken here to arraign MaSSa-
chusetts. 70 those gentlemen | have to
say, that Massachusetts, means 10 90 to
the very verge ofherconstilutionalrights,
for the security of the liberties of her
people, against what she deems to be
unconstitutional, inhuman and unchris-
tan legislation and l tell you frankly,
if any constitutional powers are in doubt,
she will construe them in favor of Gber-
ty; not in favor of slavery. In the fu
ture, ii she errs at all, in the interpreta.
ton of her reserved rights, as a sover-
eign State, l trust she will go little be-
yond the limits of State sovereignty,
rather than fall short of marching up
to those limits. The personal liberties
OF her people demand that she should
do so.
Massachusetts, has the right, if she
chooses, to remove from her Judicial
Bench, any officers, who shall consent
to perform the duties imposed upon Uni.
tee States Commissioners. She denies
your right, gentlemen, to arraign her
here or elsewhere fol the exercise of her
own cor stitutional powers. By the de-
cision of the Supreme Court of the Uni
ted States, Massachusetts, has right to
forbid the use of her prisOns-sh. has
right to forbid her officers from enga'
ging in the extadition of fugitives from
labor. She believes that every human
being within her limits. has right to
the benefits of the writ of HaJeaS Corpus,
and jury hial. She proposes to test the
question by the judicial authorities. Her
"offence hath that extent-no more. -
Massachusetts, stands upon the State
Rights doctrine of Virginia and Ken
tucky, of 1895 and 1893. She raises no
standard of Nulliication or Rebellion
she will submit to the decisions of those
tribunals authorized to expound the ju-
dicial powers of the Government.
The gentleman from Alabama, Judge
Hopkins, has limited to us that the
Southern States may find it necessary to
protect themselves against this action of
Massachusetts, by legislation that shall
touch her material interests. Threats of
that kind sir, have no terrors for MaSSa-
chusetts. Her people will laugh to
scorn all such idle threats, by whomso-
ever made. Massachusetts,, with one
million of intelligent people, with free
schools, free churches, free labor, is
competent to take care Of her material
interests. "Her goods are for sale.
not her principles If any gentlemen
from the South expect to intimidate Mas
sachusetts by such threats, L tell them
here and now, that we scorn, spurn and
defy your threats.
The gentleman from Kentucky told
us yesteld day that he 4" was here to save
the Union ~ ''Save the Union - am
not here ''lo save the Union - Does
Kentucky intend to go out of the Union?
Massachusetts does not. She does not
raise the question of the safety OF the
Union. She means to remain in the
Union, and if any State raises the ban
ner Of Disunion, she will su.tain the
Federal Government now, as she did in
the days OF Andrew jackson. under the
lead of Daniel Webster-with her treas
ure and blood, in defending, the integ
rity OF the Union. AMI the indivisibility
of the republic. Massachusetts believes
the Union to be sac. Sle believes
Liberty to be in danger. She is for
" Liberty ami Union. now ana forever.
one aud inseparabe.' The appeals Of
the distinguished gentleman now in ny
eye Mr. RIyner) will meet resPon
as hearty in Massachusetts rs they viii
meet in his owh native Carolina. an