Plymouth advertiser. [volume] (Plymouth, Ohio) 1853-1988, 1855-06-23

open confession was good Tor the soul;
: and he hoped the gentlemen would lean
!. another truism: That the only way TO ge
D rid Of guilt was to repent and sin no more.
r Ill we ask Of you, gentlemen, is do right
e remembering that thcFe aree,ernal and un
changeabls principles Of right, which nC
T circumstances can vary, and which Cos
, himself may not disturb.
BY your confession this day. coupled
, with your action. you place yourself in tbs
eouditiOn ,f thief who. having broken
into your house and got possession OF your
money. you detect and arrest. You say to
him, 'luu villain what are you doing;
thus invading my most sacrei rights p
The thief comes upto the confession, as our
brethren have this day, saying, Il know !
have invaded ' our most sa,r,d rights j
confess have committed an outrage and
inflicted great injury upon you. l have
broken into your house and stolen your
money. have done this mean thing. !
regret, deplore it; Jat, indsmuch, .not'rih-
stan ling, ReveahelcsS, as Ihdre got IN R0w,
let there be no disturbance between Inc and
thee. / both fear and dislike agitation.
Let us Just settle this difficulty. Iou just
step out and let me keep your house and
money too 7 Loud cheering.
This is the ridiculous light in which we
view you Southern gentlemen, ont in Ohio
{ Here MissiSsippian interrupts by saying,
This line was worth nothing, Of no value
to any person.') Ford proceeded by. say
ing: That il beautiful you will steal
our property and for excuse say "tis val
ulesd.' Return the stolen goods, and let
the owner fix the value. llit was but an
old jack knife, It's not yours. Come up
like men, and do this great thing. Con-
fcss your wrong and do the right,-always
remembering that todo the right and avoid
the wrong is the great end of onr being.
Don you, gent tlemen Of the South, shrink
away from this contact with truth, don't
you, | entreat you, through falsehood or
hypocrisy, mcanness or fraud, attempt to
hide yourselves from the open eye Of lofty
Honor. (Long continued applause. J.
You Southern gentlemen have said many
pretty things about the Union. We, too,
are devoted to this Unior; first, last, and
all the time and we do not make slavery
a condition precedent to our attachment to
this Union, either. Can you sayas much?
Thank God! we of the West have higher
holier, and more patriotic motives. We
are devoted to this Union, because ere
long, by its porpetuiy and advancement
we expect to become an empire OF Free
men, and because our Union is the hope Of
struggling FREEDOM everywhere! (Cheers
long and loud.) Every public demon
stration | have attended here patriotic gem
lemen have attempted to turn into a Union
saving machine-until am sick ofthe end
less prating about the nion,-bcing fully
satisfied thatithey say Union once and mean
Negro three tines, Laughter.
This Union,, rest assured, is in no danger.
We Of Ohio do not intend to go out OF the
Union, or let any body else do SO. loud
cheering.) And you fllibustering South
Carolina gnetlcmen think of going out Of
the Union, please take retrospective view
of your past lives and you will find this is
not the irsi time YOU have tried to kick out
of the traces. And ifyou make the trial, it
will not be the first time you are kicked
back Remember Old by the Eternal
brought you up standing, once, and we of
the Central Northern States and Western
States, have determined to do SO whenever
necessary. Applause.)
Tho frnr Iirn;pio she &c yvn ca
so devoted to the Union at the North, how it
comes to pass tina; we return such men as Hale
Wilson and Chase to the Senate? will an
swer him fully and fairly. 1t is the South that
brought such men into notice, politically. At
tie North, the continual agitation of the peace
ofthe Union for the purpose ofextending Slave
ry brings into notice the men at the North of
giant intellect, and moral force. Does he un-
der5tand? mote, like the gentleman or my
SELF floats very comfortably in still and qui-
ct atmosphere; but it takes the wild coronado to
move the imbcdded rock That political tor
nado has been raised by yoursevs: by your de-
termination to extend, by fraudulent and un
constitutional means, the area of human chat
tcldom. Doyon understand me, sir? Yes: we
| thank God we here Ssch men as a Wilson, n
| Seward Sum ,er and Chase: men who know
I ing the right. have the nerve to contend for it;
men OF undoubted integrity and ability, whose
patent of nobility comes from heaven. And,
mark ye, gentlemen of the ,Sonth; the days Of
tunkeyism at the North are numbered. The
Northern flunkeys are all dead and damned
and if ever another ono appears to your vision,
rest well assured he is illegitmate. We have
elected twenty-one Representatives from Ohio;
all pledged for the repeal of this Nebraska in
iquity and you will find, when they arrive there
you will have accession Of just twenty -one
IIales and Wilson's on that questions, uih not a
turnkey among them. Vein Ohio do not threat 4
them with political death only; but have resolv-
ed that if they do not stand up for the right, in
opposition to the encroachments of the Slave
propagandists, We will hang them high as Ha-
man! (Long continued applause.)
l 4 gentleman from Alabama cries out, stDou-
glass was from the North.' Ford replied: Sc
was Benedict Arnold! The British took the
traitor and we retained the territory
i Our Southern brethren have taken the territory
and LEFT us the trsi'or. They ought to protect
if they do despise him! (Applause and laugh
ter
Now, Mr.. President, We of Ohio protes
, against this plank in your platform rs unjus
and unrighteous. The majority of our delega
ton are from Virginia, the sons of her soil; an,
Virginis, in the purer days tf her common
wealth, taught us the lessons of liberty Yo
will remember by the cessions your State mad
to the General Govt. of the vast North ter
ritory, you Virginians expressly stipulated tina
+ neither Slavery nor Involuntary servitud
:, should ever exist therein except for the punisl
ment of crime. We, then, under the ordinanc
: Of 81 are the first born in the cause cf freedom
: and in Ohio, your children have resolved to cal
n ry out your viii! by seeing to it that SLAYER