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though peaesable farmer had on the adjoin-
ing farm bad neigbborhOod. with whom be
'hould finally seek peace by sunendeiiug fair
stnP Of bis land long coveted by The other, on
condition that The new division fence, enelos.
ing the conceded remnant. should forever be
respected. At midnight the evil neighbor des.
iroys the partition fence, lets his hogs into al
the fields. and when the outraged farmer re.
rnOnsIraIes. tells him that be was strong e.
nough to have kept them OUT I applause. I
The Kanzas Nebraska act was a fraud. the
fruits Of which we're secured by violenee-it
was violence seeking its purposes through
fraud.
All the violence and fraud and infamous
prOPagandism Of Slavery by the National arm,
has been countenaneed and authorized by
the present Administration, long before An
drew Reeder was removed from the Governor
ship Of Kauzas Jefferson Davis told the slave.
holders Of Mississippi to be patient for Pierce
would soon remove bim.' Pierce hesitates
and is afraid. Mississippi is impatient. JEFF
Davis says remove Reeder Or Pierce
cries out Twill remove him. daughter. J
You all know that Reeder had no Free Soil
Lendencies-he supported the Ksnzas -Nebras.
ia act, but was not inflated into and not pre-.
pared for the programme of the Missouri in.
vasion, Wilson Shannon, man discarded
BY the people Of Ohio, has been rewarded by
the GOvemOrsbip Of Kanzas. You can antici.
pate his administration.
In further support of the charge that the
Kanzas outrages are counteuaueed aud author
lied by Pierce, may call your attention " the
fact that the 'Squatter Sovereign violent
Pro-slavery newspaper, which his inc;ted and
supported the violation of the right Of suffrage
in the people of Kanzas, publishes the u. s.
Laws as well as the acts Of the Kanzas Legis-
latule, by authority
Is there not fellow citizens, more reason for
the Republican amy Of Ohio to be united this
October than the last? The Convention Of the
18Th Of July united in declaring that slavery
was sectional, and that it should be de nation
allied. There stand. and standing fear moth.
ing in the shape of argument or calumny.
What do our opponents say? In this and
other Northern States they receive the Kanzas
Nebraska bill with growl Of dissent-lke an
old uncle of mine, who. when boy. being ask.
ed why he did not fight big rufFian that had
robbed him Of pet dog, answered that he got
into fence corner and made ugly faces at him
Laughter. But the growl of the Pierce men
in the North subsided into a snarl, soon
changed to a whine, and then--silence, The
Democratic leaders held on to the Treasury
teats, and only stopped drawing long enough
to whip in the rank and file with Stick to the |
party--I want to suck!' Cheers.
l may remark here--and ii will encourage
yOu--that the republicans fthe North are not
alone in their abhorrence Of the violation of
the Compromises. There are friends of the o.
Dion in the South, who deprecated, and do now
deprecate, all that has been done to cuusign
those new States 10 slavery. A distinguished
Southern man personally assured me of this
fact, but remarked forcibly enough, what can
we in the South do, when the Anti-Nebraska
men ofthe North are not supported-you offer |
to the friends of freedom only a martyrs
crown.
There are other principles involved in this
though the paramount issue is the one
l have briefly discussed. will only allude to
them now. A retrenchment in National and
State expenditures. an economical admins ira
ton of both, single election districts, and just
basis of taxation. Retrenchment and puri6ca /
ton in Hamilton county, whose Courts have !
so Justly rebuke the scandalous administration |
Of the ruling party. We want what General
Jackson pronounced for, redress for the past /
and indemnity for the future
Of the SIC. 100000 annually collected for
National Expenses, Ohio pays about one,tenth.
Out of this unnecessarily burthensome taxation,
the Messilla Valley is bought to-further he in
terests OF Southern road to the Paci6c--the
navigation Of Cape Fear aud OF Savannah river
are improved, but not your Ohio and your
not Erie, st. Clair and Michigan
Northern and free interests predominate there
and their encouragement and protection is un-
in the eyes of this Kanzas Neb-
raska administration.
The tax laws of this State demand prompt
revision. As it is, people are now taxed on
what they have-not, [applausel instead of
upon what they have.
The different interests in this populous coun'
ty Of Hamilton, have right to representation.
and to that end, there should be single Dis
tricts created, not by an act of the Legislature.
but by an easily effected amendment to the