The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1857-09-10

zette We copy it below and com
mend it to the attention Of Democrats
throughout the State.
JUDGE R. B. wARDEN's SPEECH
Judge Warden was warmly greeted.
| He said he had not come there for the
purpose Of vindicating his personal con
sistency; that was a matter of small
moment lie had but followed what
he believed to be his duty, and duty
with him outweigbed all political CON
siderations At the expense Of villif-
cation he was clinging to principle, and
determined to cling to that, come what
might
The speaker said hehad at least come TO
feel his trust i'm the Democratic party
too great, and he severed with pain
his connection with his old associates.
He believed the object of the true
Democratic party was TO extend the area
Of freedom, not slavery, and the time
was, and not remote, when it's leaders
would have blushed to acknowledge I'm
secret, what to day they openly advoca-
ted. They would have said when they
first heard of the Free State men of
Kansas making a struggle for liberty.
'smudl Tie ground e your own, my braves.
Will you give il up TO slaves1"
The speaker was aware he had made
unjust charges against the Republican
party, because under the impression
that the great portion of the South was
loyal to the Union, he believed that that
party was needlessly agitating the Slave
.ry question:
He had discovered his error since; he
had found that the South was devoted to
Slavery and Slavery alone He did not
then think thatany Court could render
such a mockcry Of a decision. as por-
ton Of the Supreme Court had rendered
in defiance of Justice, human rights.
and the cause Of Liberty. He was will
ing to admit his errors-there was but
one thing worse than falling into error.
and that was to remain i'm error. af-
ter having discovered it to be such.
He had as late as the Convention that
nominated the Democratic President
believed there were good things in the
party and one he thought to be James
Buchanan. But he had been most
egregiously deceived. Buchanan was
nothing but politician-as a man, as
statesman he was worthless.
The speaker declared himself true
Democrat Democrat of the Jefferson
school. In the time of that great
man there was no difference between
the North and South. as was shown bv
l..E l..
English emancipatiouist Both sections
Of the country then regarded slavery
alike, and it was cotton, not conscience,
which had made the present alarming
difference between those sections.
Calhoun had manufactured the doc
trine which was now held by the Demo
cratic party; although when he first
presented it he stood alone, not a voice.
even in the South, Joining with his.
The Wilmot Proviso was indorsed bv
the Democracy, and Gen. Cass had been
the first to advocate what has since been
known as "Suuatter SOVEREIGNTY. -
The political documents, the presses. and
the printed speeches of the party in
184S proved it almost opposite to what
it is in 1857.
Our representative in Congress. David
Y. Disney, had voted for the Wilmot
Proviso, because it was Democratic
measure; because his constituents had
expected he would do so. although, as
an individual. he was opposed to it. be-
lieving it unconstitutional.
Formerly the North had no fear of the
South, nor the South of the North;
they respected each other. and their at
tachmcnt was founded on that respect.
But when tbcv looked with spsnicion
on each other. when one had wronged
the other. and had reason to dread more
and greater wrongs; then there was fear
for continuation of thoir harmonious
relations.
When that decision of the Supreme
Court was announced. whv aid not the
bells toll out for wounded Hbertv2 wbv
didnot the peopIe of the Free States act
as their forefatiers did. and resolve TO
oppose, by their own example, so un-
righteous a verdict?
The freemen of Obio yvoro onnoscd /.
to the decision-he saw it in their swell |
ing ranks, in their increased determine
ton, and their enthusiasm in the good |
cause; and he was proud to enroll him
self among them, because thew were
battling for something more than place
and poyyor co.. rr;,,,irlo and Iiberty /