Worcester daily spy., 1858-08-12

Hon. THOMAS CoRwIN.-This statesman ad
dressed political gathering at Morrow, Warren
county, Ohio, on Friday afternoon last, in a
speech two hours and half long, which is pub.
lshed in the Cincinnati Gazette of Saturday. 1t
is marked by the same characteristics which made
"Tom Corwin" such popular and effective stump
speaker years ago. There are many extracts we
should like to make, did our space permit The
wit, humor, satire, and logic, with which it
abouuds, are truly original, and worthy of his
high reputation. He defined his own position as
follows;
He revered, himself, the principles of old Har-
~ Clay--if not the very best man, at least the
very best statesman since the revolution. In
those old whg principles prominent one
opposition to the extension Of slavery. That one
principle was the platform of the republican par
tY, and so far as believing in that was being
publican, he republican. There were many
men in the republican party, with whom in many
matters he differed, but in opposing the extension
of slavery he agreed with them all. II there was
any plank in the republican platform which was
not in the old whg party, then he was no repub
lican. He loved the principles of the old whg
party-but God help him-there was no commuu-
ion table for him, and he meant therefore to go
with the republicans, because they were right on
the anti-slavery question"
Mr.. Corwin has received the republican nomi.
nation for Congress, in his district (now repre-
sented by Hon. Aaron Harlan,) and there can be
no question of his election.
Speaking in defence of the Wilmot provso,
which he sustained amid such obloquy, ten years
ago, in the Senate, and in reputation of the new
tangled "squatter sovereignty" doctrine, Mr.. Cor
win said that had the proviso been made con
a
co. it would have never been acquired. He was
not afraid, he said, to declare his opinions:
HE had held them ten years ago, and spoken
them as freely then as now. Yet he had seen it
stated that he was afraid to declare himself re-
publican. Gentlemen, said he, i was not afraid
ten years ago to stand alone in the Senate-for
only one Senator voted with me-and declare
sentiments which caused me to be burnt in effigy
in every town from the Atlantic to the Misss-
sippi, from which a soldier had gone TO Mexico.
wasn't afraid then, aud I'd advise these little
gentlemen Cooking at the Teporters) who have
types to print things, to find out what kind of
man man is, before they say he is afraid
He was opposed to the acquisition Of Cuba:
ibid we really want territory? We had by the
last census twenty three millions of people out
of the one thousand millions on the entire globe
and for these twenty three millions we had one
tenth Of the globe-as much land as England
France, Austria, and Prussia. Nebuchadnezzar
wanted more territory than he had. So, he went
to war with the PhGnicans. and drove them from
the main land to the islands. To follow them
thither he had fleets, and they took all their
treasure there, and Nebuchaduezzar came back
with plenty Of territory, but no booty. Then he
went down into Egypt, and took one of the
Pharoahs by the throat, and shook him till he
got the booty from him. Now Nebuchadnezzar
was tolerably smart man; as smart any in
the democratic or republican parties, he thought.
(Lsughter) And what was the next we heard
Of this smart Nebuchsdnezzar, who grasped at SO
much teIritoryi Why, he was in the field, ma
MAC, among the cattle, eating grass"