The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1856-09-17
False Representation.

EaArC AsCBACoCnlAaN
We hear from all parts Of the country thai
the Fremont speakers and electioneereFs tel
the people that The Democracy are in favor o
extending slavery over free territory and that
they are laboring to make Kansas a slave State
Now every weIl-informed man must know that
this is untrue The Democracy are no more in
favor of slavery than their opponents and that
Democratic policy is better calculated to advance
the interests Of freedom than that Of the Black
Republicans. What we desire to do is to leave
the people ofthe Territories themselves to settle
this matter; and it is well known the friends
Of free State Constitution win be most numer-
Gus. Hence the Territories will become free
States by choice and not by compulsion. Pop
ular sovereignty, and not slavery extension, is
what the Democracy favor. Under its work.
ings all the new Territories, including Kansas
will certainly come in free, and doubtless new
free States will be formed out Of northern Tex
as.
They also assert we are told, thatf Buchan-
an is elected, Kansas and all other new Terrific
ries will be slave States; which thoy well know
he does not favor, and which he and all the South
with ali the aid Congress could give, could moi
effect. They even have the hardihood to tell
voters-intelligent men--that in the event oi
Fremonts defeat Ohio may become slave
State.
Another instance Of their low appreciation o.
the intelligence Of the masses is their persist
ent attempts to induce them to believe the South
has an undue representation in Congress-that
the throe-ffth rule of the Constitution gives a
Shareholder three votes for every five slaves
We find the following on this subject in late
number of the Statesman which completely
shows up this humbug:
"Mr. Dennison, in his speech in Perry stated
that the slave-holde had three votes for every
five slaves he holds.
"Now what can intelligent men think of a
party who are so driven as to make statements
which the simple reading of the Constitution
can refutc. If Mr.. Dennison thinks to impose
on the ignorance of his own friends in Perry
he can go ahead; but the Democrats understood
this better The truth is this:
"The South looses by the three-ffths repre-
sentation twelve Congressman: because in ma
king up tho inhabitants Of the South for repre-
sentation, o-fifths Of the slaves are thrown
out 1t takes 93,713 inhabitants, North ant
South, to make Congressman. In the Nortt
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are persons are counted In the South all arr
counted, except two-fiths of the slaves Thu!
two fifthS are dead loss to the South in thcil
count.
| Suppose slave holder has 100 slaves; Doe!
he cast 61 votes? One for himself and 60 fo
his 100 slaves? Manifestly, No. He gives bu
one vote. But in making up the basis of Con
gressional representation-his 100 slaves coun
sixty persons Thus the South looses By thil
clause of the Constitution. The truth is thu
Black Republicans make war on this clause be
cause they war on the Constitution. 1t is no
sacred in their eyes. But should they not a
least state its effect truthfully, when they dc
seek to strike it down?
A man in the South may own one hundred o.
one thousand slaves-hc goes to the polls ant
| gives his one vote on one side; another, as pool
as 'Job's turkey" if you please, differing from
him in political sentiment, votes on the Other
side, and kills the first vote as efectually as hc
does it in any of the northern States ANY
man who asserts that this is not so, asserts thai
whichis not true, and only shows the weak
ness of his cause by resorting to downright
lying. If our Fremonters find themselves in ;
bad fix and with bad cause on hand, they hat
better stick to the truth and save their veracit,
for a future occasion, if they thereby lose thu
election.
We cannot account for the frequent changin,
OF party names of pur opponents upon any 9th
or ground than that of escaping very bad char
acter, which they acquire by their false system
of clectioneering, by habit acquired of not tel
ling the truth. Mend your ways, gentlemen
and deserve if possible, that character you pre-
tend to hold in the community. Your errors o
Judgment may be forgiven on the principle o
''to err is human to forgive divine" but if yo'
persevere in this practice of false statement
on the supposition that your hearers are as ig
norant as you arc unjust, the divinity Of for
glveness will not save you any longer
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