Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1856-10-02
Freedom of Speech Nowhere in
the SOuth.-EveryWhere in the
North.

North.
One of the peculiarities of this cam
paign is, that Southern orators are invited
to visit the Free States and advocate the
claims of slavery as loud and as long as
they please. They are heard respectfully
and treated like gentlenen. On the other
hand no man who favors the election of
Fremont and is opposed TO the extention
of Slavery into the Free Territories of
Kansas and Nebraska can make speech
In slave State. Our cause is excluded
from debate, the tongue is gagged and the
press is silent. Slavery holds watch and
ward over both, and the cause of Liberty
languishes in silence and finds no advocate.
In proof of what we here assert we have
few facts to relate. Mr.. Underwood,
from the Western part of Virginia, gem
tleman of character and large property
holder, was delegate to the Philadelphia
Convention. He was chosen one of the
Vice Presidents. He voted for the Plat
form, and ratified the nomination of Ere
mont For these his sins the slave power
declared he should never return to his
home and family in Virginia. He was
forced to send friend to his place of
abode, remove his family and sell his pro-
perty.
A like attempt was made 10 force an
other of the Virginia delegates to leave the
State. A meeting was called at the Shan
andoah Court House, and resolutions were
passed giving the delegate, Mr.. Rye, ten
days to rid himself of the State. He
however took no notice of it, and the ques-
lion is vet to be decided whether he also
must become an exile from Virginia be-
cause he attended Republican Conven-
ton. On Friday last the Fremont Club,
which has recently been formed in Wheel
ing, Va, met according to notice, in that
Cily. The meeting was large and respect
able, but the Slave power had decided it
should not exist on the soil of that State,
and accordingly ruffianism was let loose
upon it. The Daily Times, Fillmore
paper, says that as the speaking proceeded,
the demonstrations of the 'eutsiders be-
came emphatic and turbulent" and ''there
were frequent cheers for Fillmore and
Donaldson, for Buchanan, DC, mingled
with hisses and groans for niggers and
nigger-acorshippers." Then commenced
violent demonstrations, until finally the
members of the Club were driven from the
Hall, some escaping the back way. Says
the Tines of Monday:
"One of the Speakers, a DR.. G.. Price
Smith, was pursued by the crowd with
hootings and limitations of 'duckinG,' and
tar and feathers and riding on rail-
When the crowd reached the corner of
Market and Quincy streets several alterca-
tions occurred, and one person of the oppo-
sition received severe stab in the side,
from knife, it is not denied, We believe,
in the hands of DIR. Smith. Ayoung man,
also of the opposition, had several of his
fingers severely cut. The Dr.'s friends f.
nally got him to place of concealment,
from whence he was quietly taken to Jail
on charge of stabbing, as well as for his
own safety from the mob. Yesterday he
before Alderman Dulty, and was
admitted to bail for his appearace at an ex-
animation before the County Court"
Thus is freedom of speech and of thought
crushed in Virginia. The above facts are
simply infamous and beyond endurance
and yet Southern friends and advocates of
Buchanan and slavery, Fillmore and Don
elson, can go to any part of the Free
States, and without the least disturbance
can speak their views. AT the Buchanan
Convention in this city, on Wednesday,
one of the speakers, Col Harris, was from
Kentucky, another, Judge Walker, from
New Orleans, and no two men more gross
ly abused Col. Fremont, or more villain
ously misrepresenting the principles of the
party, and more unjustly as
sailed the public men of our State. Col
Harris, by name, accused Mr.. Giddings of
of all the crimes in the decalogue-a man
whom the people of his district have cho-
sen to represent them in Congress for
twenty-four years, and have again nomina-
ted him by acclamation for reelection
This venerable statesman, Governor Chase,
and Hon. B. F. Wade, were denounced by
these Southern spouters as disunionists
and traitors, and yet they were heard
without interruption. They had great
deal to say about their institutions and the
glories of freedom, but it would not be in
their power to protect Republican speak
er upon the soil of Kentucky, who would
undertake to refute the ISLANDERS which |
these chivalrous gentlemen uttered against
the cause and the candidates of Freedom
here in the heart and citadel of Ohio
No, the Republicans would be mobbed,
hooted at, tarred and feathered. If this
is denied, we point to the case of Under
wood and Rye of Virginia: To the out
rage just committed in Wheeling: To the
murder of Mr.. Blakey by Linn Boyd, in
one of the border counties in Tennessee
DR.. Blakey was, like Underwood and Rye,
a delegate to the Philadelphia Convention.
for which crime he was shot down by Linn
Boyd, late Speaker of the United States
House of Representatives. We could
point to the outrages committed in Con-
gress upon Free State Senators and Rep
We could point to the laws
md cruelties of Kansas, in evidence that
freedom of speech and of the press, exist
nowhere in the Southern States. They
IRE indeed incompatible with Slavery. The
two things cannot exist together. They
ire plants which the same fields do not
produce. These Southern gentlemen ac-
used the Republicans of being SECTIONAL
This, however, is no more than their allies,
he doughfaces here, gabble about; but
We will inform these Southern orators if
hey will open their States to Free discus