Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-07-30

and friends will remember his former pc
%siiions /; 10 them we will say, that Judge
Day is no longer a freeman /; The iron
rule of party is thrust deep into his po-
litical being /; party is his master, and he
its slave /; he supports the party at all
hazards, and will not abandon it, what
ever it may henceforth resolve TO do
The slave power presents its programme
with all its enormiiies and consequences,
and he accepts and adopts it as his polil-
ical creed, and endeavors with all his
powers Of logic TO prove that 1t is right
and proper ; il is astonishing that he did
not before discover the correctness Of
such a platform: ; he must be slow at
makingpolticaldiscov eries; nevertheless,
he seems TO be as Jealous for the posi-
tion, once discovered, as the most de-
tcrmined slaveocrat he ought certainly
now TO apologize toDouglas & Pierce for
the hard feelings he has entertained
against them; he and Judge Ranney
ought now to do justice 10 these pioneers
and inventors Of the present political
chart of the "Great National Democra-
cy," and make 10 them most humble ac-
acknowledgements.
Judge Day argued substantially, after
the following manner-he contended that
we are indebted TO the Union, now per-
lied by northern agitators, for all our
prosperity and political blessings, as the
greatest, happies: nation that ever exist
ed /; again. that the des;inies of this ma
ton have been controlled and managed
by the Democratic party" and we are
indebted TO that party for all the good,
the glory and prosperity we enjoy /; he
said, however, that we we're in troublous
times, without crediiing either the Union
or the Democracy with these troubles /;
denied that any Of us were responsible
for slavery, nay, not even u fathers 4;
he put the blame upon Great Britain,
and said the mother government forced
it upon us still, again, he said that the
Almighty Father made the Africans in
ferior, and the Caucassians and Anglo
saxons superior, the one TO rule and the
other to be ruled ; why they were made
inferior, he could not say, but 50 it was,
and he seemed thence to argue that
slavery was the necessary condition Of
the African, and God was responsible for
ii, in his inscrutable providence. Then
he claimed that our fathers in The forma-
ton of our glorious and beneicent Un-
ion, made a comp omiSe in the Constitu-
ton with slave holders or with slave
states, for the benefit of slavery insiitu-
tons ; that such slavery compromise was
a part Of the settled policy of the Union
and Constitution, to be continued he
quoted congressional Legislation, respect
ing the Tennessee and Alabama Terri
tories, 10 prove the extension Of that
policy, and he also quoted the Missouri
Compromise. as evidence in the same
direction /; he denied that il was the
policy of our fathers to limit and conGne
slavery and not extend it but insisted
hat slavery and freedom were by that
compromise to be equally fostered so
that the slave states should be on equal
ity with the free states compromise, as
a policy, WAS established by the Consti-
tuition, and was designed to be continued
as a means of keeping the Union firm,
and without such policy commenced and
continued, the Union could not be main
tanned ; such seemed to be his line of
argument. He said that when the Mis-
souri, line was sought to be extended to
the Pacific, we refused it, and thereby
violated that compromise and destroyed
the line, and then the slave holders had
a right, as equals, in their popular SOW
ereignty to go where they pleased, in
the Territories, with their slaves nc DO
not claim 10 use his language, but merely
to give the substance of his positions.
The democratic party" in one breath,
and the glorious Union in another, were
to be credited for the great blessings pro-
yided in this land for the Anglo-Saxons;
but Great Britain in one breath, and the
Benevolent Father in the last breath, was
made by Judge Day responsible for the
condition Of the poor Africans and the
mastery of the whites over them ; in
other words, The Union and the Dem0c-
racy, each for itself, were entitled 10
praise for all The good /; but, Great Brit
ain and the Almighty, each separately,
chargeable for slavery and ali the bad.
Judge Day therefore insisted, that in
these trcubious times, the only safety
consisted in maintainingand perpetuating
this compromise with slavery and stick
ing 10 the "great National Democratic
Judge Days silence in regard to many
was as significant as his positive
arguments in favor of the platform and
the slavery compromising policy. He had
no words of encouragement TO the friends
of Free-Labor, Free Territory and Free
dom fol all. He did not quote the Dec
l~araiion of Independence, and comment
upon its glorious principles /; he did not
dcnounce The policy of extending the po-
lilical power of the slave holders, nor Of
extending slavery ; he did moi insist that
the slave holders were demanding more
than their eoual share of Territory he