Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-06-25
The Morning is Breaking.

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valuable accessions are made to the Re-
publican ranks, and our hearts are made
glad by open avowal of candid, thinking
men who have hitherto acted with the
Democratic party, that they can no
longer uphold its utter subserviency to
slavery: that they cannot, and will not
defend, or longer be responsible for the
outrageous acts of the present admins
t~ration, or support any man who stands
upon such a platform as that framed by
the Cincinnati Convention.
Below is some of the proof of the po-
litical revolution.
HANNIBAL HAMLIN, Senator in Con-
gress from Maine, has for quite a num-
Der of years been one of the ablest and
most distinguished of the Democratic
politicians of New England. Last
Thursday, Mr.. Hamlin arose in his place
in the Senate, and made the following
Speech. which we earnestly commend to
the serious consideration Of every honest
Democrat in the land:
Mr.. Hamlin rose and asked 10 be e
cused from serving as Chairman of the
Committee on Commerce. He said for
nine years he had held a seat in the Sen
ate, he had almost been a silent mem
Der. Upon the subject that had so much
agitated the country, he had rarely ut
tered a word.
He loved his country more than he
did any party-more than anything that
could agitate and disturb its harmony.
Although he believed the repeal of the
Missouri Compromise was a great moral
and political wrong, unequaled in the
annals of the Legislation of the country,
and unequaled in the history of almost
any country-still with a desire to pro-
mote harmony, concord, and brotherly
feeling, he sat quietly anil all the ex-
citing debate which led to that fatal re-
suit, ard opposed it not by his voice,
but by a consistent, steady and uniform
vote--not only in accordance with his
own convictions, but in accordance with
the instructions of his Legislature. passed
by almost a unanimous vote !; but the
thing was done in violation of the prin-
ciples of that party with whom he had
always acted, and in violation of the SOL
emn pledges of the President of the Uni
ted States in his inaugural address.
Since, however that wrong had been
Endorsed by the Cincinnati Convention
in lis consumation and lis results, he felt
it his duty to declare that he could no
longer maintain party associations with
any party that insisted upon such doc
%trines, and could support no man for
President who avowed and recognized
these doctrines, and whatever power God
had endowed him with, it should be used
in the coming contest in opposition tc
that party.
AND ANoTHER.-Hon. LorM MORRILL,
of Augusta, Maine, Chairman of Demo.
cratic State Committee of the State, and
at present President OF their Senate
man of high social standing, and whose
political position for the last half dozer
years, has been at the very head of the
party in the State, he-in this crisi.
shows himself a MAN, by ratifying hi.
collea 1ues upon the State Committee tina
he cannot go either Buchanan, or tn,
platform on which he stands. All honor
to such independent and true Demo
Gratis !
DEMOCRATIC PAPERS REPUDIArINt
HIM.-The Lancaster pa Express,
Democratic paper, and formerly a firm
supporter of Mr.. Buchanan, has draw
itself entirely out of the Cincinnati har
ness. and is now free for any candidat,
the Philadelphia Convention may nOmi
nate.
The Independent Democrat of Wauke
gan, Lake county. Illinois, has hoisteC
the Bissell and Hoffman banner, anC
goes for freedom. Before the nomina
tons at Cincinnati, the Democrat haC
placed the name Buchanan at the hea(
of its columns as its first choice for thu
Presidency, but the platform of the Slav,
Democracy upon which Buchanan i
placed, and he has so emphaticalIy en-
dorsed. vas too much for the Democrat
and that paper now refuses to supper
him.
The Amboy Times. published at Am
boy, Lee county, Illinois, and Heretofore
neutral, run up the flag of Bissell ant
Hoffman, the Republican nominees.
The La Sale. Illinois, Journal
heretofore neutral. has changed hands
and will run up the free flag.
Gustavus Kerner who was the Demo
cratic Lieutenant Governor of Illinois, il
the year 1853, has come out strongl,
against the extension of slavery, and thu
Democratic party as being in its favor
Long John Wentworth, editor Of tn,
Chicago Democrat, in his paper of Apr
8, said:
The proprietor of this paper (JohI
Wentworth for the last twenty years ha
supported the regular nominations of til,
democratic party, and all his sympathie
now are with the principles of that party
as illustrated by the administrators o
Jefferson, Jackson, and Van Buren,
These principles now, which he deem
primary, seem to have become secondar.
to the schemes of aspiring demagogues
who are continually disturbingour SLAYER.
compromises, and e~ndeavoring to profit
by the i'll feeling which they themselve
provoke between the North and tn
South.
1t would take the democratic party no
fifteen minutes to settle the whule SLAYER,
difficulty, anil restore the party to it
original harmony. Kansas applies 70
admission, with her constitution, in &C
5 cordance with the United States consti
= tuition. She has elected her two sena
tors and a representative, who are read.
TO take their seats and to act with th
! democratic party the moment they ar