New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-02-21
TIE CINCINNATI SLAVE CASE.
SPEECH OF Mr.. JOLLrPFE.

of tho alleged fugitive slaves recently examined he
fore MIR. Unicd state Comm ,soner Pcndcry 4. Cir
ciurati:
On tie ope,Jrs Of the Count wednesday morning.
| Mr.. Jo-fc oonT1e 'ccd DE argument. IL said |
lavc reason % r7jo.ce today Ia behalf OF M tents
and Of the country, that this ca-e il 70 &c tined before
gentleman WHO a. riei similar eases, and decided
ia favor 81 Tie caiuart. because if your decision shall
now lc - favor al viii know that has boon p.o-
drcod ~ cotscicItou. change u opinion. viii Inst
notice tto arguments Of my courteous opponent, Mr.
Ennll lie fad hc'tuCky and Virginia were not r.
s1oLsble FOX Slavery. hut the Yankees who sold them
the 2, s.ocs. othtrs have charged that England
forced Savoy upon rs. But when lis ance- tons and
nine went down 10 Norfolk 10 buy slaves, were they
not TO be tlamCd The merchants and traders
sold thu :or goit-for gold thy would have
who tempted tie merchants 70 bring them slaves.
equally guilty with those who brought them
He said also, that it was toe Aholtionsts WHO were
creating all this agitation, aud he denounced then as
"pot.house politicians Now, who are the Abolition
is.s i know these in Ohio perhaps well as that
gentleman, but ] do not know among them single
ran to whom the phrase pot-house politician" could
be sprhed. The g,ntlC man was iL-sdvised in his
attack He was firing his grape and canister into the
ranks OF bis allies, and at every charge they fell The
UnOn.Savers-they the pot-hOuse politicians-men
who love everything but God and the poOr-for the
Ineancr and more degraded white man ia, the more
he hates a negro. lie further charges us with being
urTateiul 10 Kentucky, who assisted Us 10 light our
bottles in the North-West When kontroky renders
euy service 20 the Union, she, n STATE. claims credit
for Il; but when sacrifices are expected from Ohio,
arc to make them entirely for the sake Of the Union.
But we do return the Kindness. When a poor aud
friendless kcntuckian comes bere naked we clothe
him; hungry, We feed him; oppressed. We relieve him
bound on Journey, put him on a certain railroad
ard have hin through in lightning speed. If Ken
lucky feels aggievod let her ladies reta.IGte. 1t
them set up sewing societies for the poor Ohioans and
as bospitate Kentucky better than picayune Ohio,
let them send ten for Of poor people to Texas,
Kansas or any such place they desire To emgrate
Applause and cIios Of "0rderl. Poor Kentuckians,
even the most destitute, find friends and counsel here
for all these people on both sides of this case
Kentuckians. The only difference between them is
that while they looking toward the slaves are hero
ically struggling for Freedom, that man looking at
Mr.. Marshall comes into Count, his hands oil dripping
with blood, and asks to take the father Of that
murdered infant back into interminable Slavery, and
the grandfather back into everlasting bondage APP
pausc, and cries of "Order''l. But the gentleman
says the Constitution of the United States gives him
right 10 thesc fugitivcs.
on, star-eJed Science, hast thou wandered there
10 bring rs back the u, ssage Of despair
That STRAIGHT line is the shortest distance between
two points, IL an axiom The proposition on which |
shall base my argument il no lees plain. It'll: That
every earth has the right to do ything that
God has made il his duty to do. Or, "a am not here
az theolosiar to discuss difficult points but only a.
a civilian asserting rights, and as some duties aie
more clearly stated in the Bible than others, VIII
vary tie form, aud say: Tbat every man on earth
has tie night to do everything that God, IN the Bible,
has clearly made il his duty to do. God made it the
duty OF Daniel to pray though the Persian Empire
forbade it, Of tie three holy chdrea to refuse 20 bow
down before an idol; of the Apostles to preach the
doctrine of the resurrection; OF Cranmer and Ridley
to refuse to bow down to the sacrifice Of the Mass;
and in doing they all asserted their right Right ana
duty oonelatiyc terms, "a lnseparaby nm
gled as the light aud heat OF the sun. Sf,
10 The COmmiss ioner,l IT Il yOur right, SIT
ting there us Commissioner Of the United
States, to love God with all your heart, aud your
negLbor as yourself. 1t is Your right TO keep CON
science void of offcnse Tbs Is right for which the
martyrs suffered and for which our fathers poured out
their blood ike water-thc right of every American
citizen To take The Bible the man of his council.
You have right to love that old man quitting his hand
on the head of old Simon "a You love yourself and to
DO to him as YOU would have him do to yOu and it is
YOUR duty, sitting here in the temple of Justice, TO
extrcisc that right. Your oath to support the Cous
tuition imposes obligation to support 1t all not only
the Il d article Of the fourth section. but the whole
ConstiiutOn The Constitution says first amendment
Congress shall make no law respecting an establish
"ment OF religion or prohibiting the free exercise
thereof" This may embrace the religion OF CHINA
and Of the IDdOOs but il certainly does embrace the
Christian religion. What then il the Christian re-
eion Its vital principle is to Glove God with ell
"your heart and your ncighbor as yourself" and
every law that iDteIferes with THIS las do the acts
Of 1893 and $500 picIces the very vilals of the
Christian religion, as the spear OF the Roman
soldier pierced the heart Of Christ on the cross.
Should Congress pass law iorbIddlng you TO
read the Bible, does any doubt that 1t would
frbidding YOU to obey the Bible, il not that uncOn-
.tiutonal What binding force would law have
declaring that there l. no God How much better u
an act which says There Is God, but YOU shau not
obey him The Bible commands to feed the hungry
cothe the nakea-shelter the Outcast-to break every
yoke and let the oppressed go free. The AboItlonss
the hated, the despised-have tor the last - years
been asserting these rights, uncOnsclOusly bearing
upon their shoulders the rights Of the whole
American people. few years ago al. Christie ndom
wee indignant because the Madiai family were i'm
przor cd for dug the Bible. But what difference Is
there between impsoning man for reading the Bi6e
in Italy and for Obeying It in the United States All
men have religion, no matter whether members OF
churches not; deep down in the heart OF every
man is a Of responsibility to his Maker. III may
not show itself TIL called To do some gigantic wrong;
but then it rises Up to restrain bis hand When called
upon TO decide upon question Ike TINS - y0nr uuty
TO listen to its voice. That man putting his hand on
young Simon Is here prisoner gullty oil no crme nus
wife in jail in delicate situation, needing her husbands
aid, ard Mr. Marshall asks you to tear hn rom ms
wife's aims. His three Children one an infant a. the
breast, demand bis care aud you are asked TO tear
LIm from both wife and children that this man may
take him into Kentucky to sell his sh, blood aud
bones, ard soul, the aucon-bock. DO your duties
US Christian interfere with that Can you don ana
keep your coiseence void Of Ofiensc Can you do 1t
and maintain for the people of the United states the
night Of religious freedom When we cOnslder the
great question Of religious freedom involved m ~ the
rights Of these people become insignificant IL Is your
right aid mine. Never in the history OF Jurlspruoence
Las a que.tion Of such Importance been submitted to
the decision of a single man. Ii you sustain these
rights you sustain religious freedom for Us all if3ot,
you betTay humanity. II Congress cannot pass law
compelling you to wOrhip God, can that body pa-s
law compelling YOU to sin against God The trouble
is ths: The Congress OF the United states
have endeayored to pass low declaring that
wrong wss night. There is danger in thus
sring rights for every law that supports slavery
strikes down some right of the slavehoder. The prn
cipe that gives YOU a right to your slave, may take
away your night to your land. "In the image OF God
CT, si.d lie him, TO have dominion over every ivlng
Ting that moyetb mon the earth" Can man. the
l. 81 - nrnatinn l. riinde rrnnertr1 Wherever man