Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1855-10-04

sue, overlooking all BARRIERS reckless
and regardless Of all consequences,
With fhis class.the imnediafs abolition
Eof slavery IN the Distinct Of ColuInbis
and in the Territory Of Florida, fhe
prohibition Of the removal Of slsges
from State to State, and the refusal 10
lsdmit any new State comprising wiskir
its limits the Institution of domestic
slavery, are but so many means con-
tdscting TO the accomplishment of the
ultimate but perilous and at which they
avowedly and boldly aim-are but SC
many short stages in the long and
bloody road to the distant goal at which
they would finally arrive.
IL is because these ultra Abolitionists
have ceased to employ the instruments
of reason and persuasion. have made
their cause political, and have appealed
TO the ballot-box that l am induced
upon this occasion to address you"
Gag depounees CAass az an Abolitionist,
In speech in the United StaIes
Senate, in 1851, Mr.. Clay denounced
Chase as an Abolitionist. He said:
"Upon my word, if the Senator Mr..
Chase does not know what Abolition
ist means, when he has practiced the
doctrine for so many years, / am sure 1
am unable to instruct or inform him.
Chase in favor of State Nullifeation Of
Fugitive Stare Lar.
On the 92d of August, 1851, in a
speech in the United States Senate, as
reported in the Congressional Globe,
Chase said:
81 agree with the honorable Senator
then, to this extent: that the fugitive
clause Of the Constitution constitutes an
article of compact between the States
and, think, this proposition once be-
ing established it will be extremely diff
ficult for any legal mind, by any train
Of legal reasoning, to derive from that
compact between States power of leg
islation to the Federal government. l
repeat that, in my judgment each State
must Judge for itself as to the character
of the compact, and the extent of the
obligations created by it."
Chase adheres 10 these old opinions.
In his speech accepting the nomina-
ton for Governor, at the 18th Of July
Convention, Chase said:
"On nmany public questions not now di-
reetly in issue l have had occasion
heretofore to express my opinions in va
rious forms. Those opinions remain on
record and unchanged" E
His opposition to Henry Gay.
In Cincinnati, before the Anti-slavery
Convention, he offered to sustain the
affirmative of the following resolutions:
"The Union must destroy slavery,
or slavery viii destroy the Union
The ninth resolution speaks of the
bloody and unconstitutional act of 1898,
relating to fugitives from justice.
Eleventh resolution: "That Whigism,
allying itself with slavery at the South
and wooing abolitionism at the North
represented by the STAKEHOLDER ef Ash
land, the author of the Missouri Com
promise, the opponent of emancipation
in Kentucky, and the aVowed advocate
of perpetual American slavery on the
floor of the United States Senate, as IT'S
incarnation and embodiment-is un-
worthy of the support of honest men
and sincere patriots"
We give the above without comment
1t is so plain that those who run may
read. 1t fully exposes the duplicity,
the instability or the demagogueism Of
the man Chase. Read and ponder.
RFEp TT PFEOPE THE pEODIF