Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1858-09-21
ADVERTISEMENT.
TO TIE INDEPENDENT VOTERS
or THz
18th Congressional District of Ohio.

would be a standing candidate against him
This having been the case for several week
past, and having tried in vain to induce 9th
er competent men to run Independently,
now mOdestly present myself as a candidat,
in fulflment of that promise.
Ihave always opposed caucus nominations
as dangerous to liberty. Caucuses cOmmen
eed four years after j. Q. Adams was mad,
President by the House of Representatives
| Experience, | think, has demonstrated thai
worse men than before. have been thu.
/ forced into offices which they we're unfit Il
| fill 1t will be recollected that | attended
| the great Buffalo L. S Free Soil Mass Con
ventiOn, of Aug. Is, 1S4S for the purpose o
endeavoring TO place in the Presidential
/ Chair, an honest and capable man, judge
McLane. But the convention was used M
by the BarEbuners; Van was the man, who
used up the convention and soon was a used
up man, and CaSs, his opponent. also.
voted for Zack, we put him in-he fought
for Us, we fought for HIM This was my
| first attempt to break down caucus nomina
tiOns. In the spring Of 1856, for the first
time came out as an Independent candidate
as delegate to the Constitutional Conven,
ton of Ohio. After showing my colOrs,
gave publicity to the following sentiments:
| am opposed to caucus nOminations-for
the reason that they strike at the root of Re
/ publican Democratic Libery. 4 few busy
/ politicians, and not unfrequently a small
/ Court House Clique, manufacture public
sentiment which is artfully disseminated
through the townships; then these caucus
delegates assemble at said Court House, rat
/ flying the first manufacture. Now clear the
track for the young deputies: stand away
/ you old inhabitants, you who dug out the
stumps when the roots were yet green, to
make the county roads, and streets Of our
cities-you are unpopular.
Now comes the tug Of war. Township
after township, in quick succession are call
/ ed, and equally quick deposit the before
mentioned sentiment. The die IS cast BY
unanimous consent, motion Is made and car
ried-public sentiment now disperses.
The battle is over. The killed and woun-
! ded pioneers of the forest strew the ground,
and are trampled under foot, never to rise
until the last trump shall sound. King
| Caucus reigns supreme and woe to the man
who dares dispute his reign.
The tragedy being over, the humbug farce
/ of the Elective Franchise, as formerly done
up in Cuyahoga county, Of re-ratifying this
MANUFACTURED public sentiment comes of,
and the people exult in their boasted liberty,
and cry great is Diana Of the EphesianS.
But / trust there are many, who
dare to "d0 rigLt, and Iet consequence,
take care Of Hemselrss:' many, | trust, who
dare throw of the shackles of party, and
the terror Of its King who has so long held
dominion over them, and beard the Lion in
| his den. in this important hour. Many are
| there who dare to say 10 party strife, 'be
/ huShed. and hither shall thy proud waves
/ be staid;" who dare to come ont for hsi7
country Heir iCl0le country, and nothing J,H
/ their country
propose that law be passed making al
| Caucus Nominees ineligible.
have quoted this TO show that it IS nc
new thing, that | appear before you as an
| Independent candidate, and shall never ap.
pear otherwise. | cannot consistently. 1,
/ It not far more honorable, than secretly tC
pull the political wires and thus manufacture
| public sentiment for selfish purposes? You
will recOllect | came out in 1850 against
Joshua, at the eleventh hour, and where my
name was printed on the tickets, | beat him
in several townships in Geauga county, and
in the third Ward in Cleveland, where had
no tickets, had more than two to his one
by pencil. In 81 was a candidate against
Mr.. E. Wade, but declined few days before
election: the Democrats having placed Mr..
/ Wilder on the track, allowed me to excuse
myself which shall not do again, because
it would favor caucus nominations, which ]
am determined TO oppose till death.
! I make no preteusions Ike those Of brother
| Wade that 1t will be extremely hazardous
to fill this responsible station with any Other
than himself, (see his letter.. But as he has
neglected to tell Us the reasons. allow me to
enquire what they are.
Is 1t because he Is a lawyer, and perhaps
believes that none but lawyers have any
business to be in congress ? Is it because he
run against Joshua in 1874 as the Abolition
candidate ? Is it because he supported Bir-
nev in 1889, and defeated Henry Clay2 L
It because he crowded the Humanityites into
corrupt politicians in '39g Is 1t because he
follows in the footsteps Of his illustnous pre-
decessor? Is it for making war with the
South, and thereby losing River, Harbor and
Railroad appropriations Is 1t for sympa
thising with those who hung and burned II
efigv some who voted for the Missouri com
promise. when first made, and then hung
and burned Douglas and Company for re
pealing it, as they ignorantly supposed, II
! 1854? For it was fully destroyed by Henry
Claws bill, in 1851, which provided that tn,
people should determine al domestic mat
ters without regard to the old line, or any
other. The people in California soon afte
made It free to Its extreme southern boun
darv, 800 miles S. of $500
Is It because he has never told his cOnsu
tueuts whether he desires the COmprOmis'
restored. and dare not? Is 1t because he wa
high-priest in the corrupt balance Of powe
bargains which made two I. 5. senators 70
Ohio! Is it because he recommended Il
public meetings that the Fugitive law be re
sisted to blood: Is it because he ha
taken his solemn oath IN Congress 10 sup
port these very laws which he has haran
gued his constituents TO violate: Is it be
cause he justified the murder of L. 5. Marsha
Bachelor, in Boston, whilst obeying the law
of his country. which he also was sworn L
support? Was It for justifying other lik'
murders by those unholy fanatics in Phila
delphia, Syracuse and Chicago: Is 1t 70
refusing TO vote for the army bill, that cIvi
war might the better rage in Kansas, anC
spread throughout the union, until disuniol
and division should become inevitable: LIE
US examine this matter and the testimony.
when the torch Of The inosaaiary shall
EigIt nd the tolUns of the South and blot ou
the last vestage Of slavery, shall hail it a
the dawn Of a political millennium R
Giddings. "You may soon bring parties O
the country into an effective and asgreSsiv
war upon slavery. II. Seward. lie
the union slide"-N. P. Banks, Speaker q
D the House. In the alternative Of the con
tinuance Of slavery or dissolution of th
Union, / am for dissolution, I care not h9i
quick It ooules"-R. P. Spalding. IF tn
Republicans fall at the ballot box, we will b
forced to drive back the slave race with fir