The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1858-11-03
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IUgf Wa0t5 SCnllNrl'
The "HInrmOniOus EamiIy---Gid.
dfMgs and COTVyin at u Ogg crIlend d.
"a want OF principle among all
the FactIOMS---TFying TO make
appearances for the sake of thG
SpOiIs---What is actually MeanI
by the expression that all nca
are created free and equal.
As party of the history of the times il
which we live, we give below, in full, the lettel
of Joshua r. Giddings to Hon. Thomas Cor
win. Gov. Corwin in one of his speeches dur
ing the campaign had said that he would vote
for the admission of Cuba with her slaves, un
derAcertain circumstances. This doctrine Gid
dings wishes to make appear, is heresy; but he
takes good care not to let this heresy be known
until after the election, as will be seen by look
ing at the date of his letter. Why GiddingS
should "take on" 50 about Corwin making such
declaration, after he himself had voted for the
conditional admission of Kansas as a Slave
State, may seem curious to those who do moi
understand the trickey movements OF the i'm
mortal Joshua; but to those who understand
Joshua in all Of his bearings, it is perfectly
plain. Joshua is candidate for Governor ot
Ohio at the next election, and to please the ul-
tras or rugged issue" mon on the Reserve, i
was necessary that he should pretend to be OPP
posed TO Gov. Corwin's doctrine. And when
he gets the nomination for Governor next year,
Of which we have no doubt, he an1 his friends
will tell the people in Southern Ohio thlt h,
Uoshua) is not as much of an abolitionist as he
has been represented; an for proof Of their dec
la:aton, they will cite with great eclat to his
vote on the Crittenlen Montgomery bill, where
this same Joshua II. Gillings voted for the
as a S!p0e State. But great is Joshul bat great.
er still is his hypo,rcy; but the greatest trouble
with the old fellow is the idea that he will here
after be kept out Of Congress, where he ha:
been disgrace to the nation for the last twenty
years.
But read this hypocritical letter Of Joshuas
and you will find in it all of the abolition bal
derdash that this old sinner and all the young
Giddingses (such as Dingham) have been using
ever since abolitionism was first started in this
country in 1886 by George Thompson, mem
Der Of the British Parliament, and re-cchoed by
every demagouge who thought that he could gel
an Office by squealing for liberty, or something
that he thought would sound like that kind o
an article:
From the Oo Stae Journal
JEFFERSON, Oct. IL. 1858.
N0a IAGmo8 Corwin:
DEAR SIR:-Ihe election Of yesterday con
stitutes you a member Of the Thirty Sixth
Congress, and restores me to the privilege OF a
private citizen. Among those privileges none is
more important than that Of respectfully and
frankly addressing our public servants on mat
ters perta ming to our political interest.
In a recent speech, at Zena, you are report
ed as saying, "that if we bought slave terri
tory-say Cuba under such treaty as that by
which we obtained Louisiana, we were bound
20 respect their tights ofpropcrty and admit the
territory as a slave State if it wished 10 come in
as such.''
can give to this declaration no other con
struction than an assurance that if the Execu
tive shall negotiate treaty for the purchase o
Cuba and obtain its ratification by the Senate,
you will feel bound to respect the right ofpynp-
ety wich the Span ab masters holt in their s2aues;
and on account ofsuch right you will vote for
the admission Of Cuba as 81 I've State if her
people ask it.
Coming from one to whom the question will
probably lie submitted this declaration is GER
tanly important. The admission Of Cuba as a
Slave State must greatly aiIcctth interests,
the rights, and the honor Of our people. You
will permit me to suggest that this doctrine oI
''prope'ty IN human flesh" has ever been repu-
dated b. the people of Ohio even while we
were Territory. In both our first and pres
cnt Constitutions it is most uncquivocally re-
jected. In all our legislation, by the decision o
all our Courts, it has with perfect unanmity
bee discarded. When it was first presented to
the Supreme Court ofthe United States for de-
cisIon, an eminent Jurist Of Ohio (Judge Nc
Lean) boldly denied its existence under the
Federal Constitution; and exposed its absurdity
with such powers OF logic of eloquence that nj
slaveholding judge was then willing to meet ol
deny his doctrine
When in 1855 it was presented to the House 0
Representatives in Congress and referred to thu
Oli lCCcSSOT IlCiis II
Whittlesey, another son of Ohio, met it ably
and in a report rejecting honor upon himsel
and the State which he represented, showed
from official records that the doctrine which vol
assert had up to that time ever been repudiated
by Congress. In accordance with these pre-
cedents have, during my service in that bod,
opposed it as often as presented for considera
ton; and 10 this day, as often as it has been aci
f0te{ an Iono5,oee ~ Loo Los, s,oiocfoJ
At the formation of our Federal Constitution
Mr.. Madison declared it would be wrong tt
admit in that instrument that "apan can hol
property IN naan,"-to which every member o
the convention yielded tacit admission. Blu
the people were not satisfied with silent ne
cation of such doctrine, and two years after
wards Congress proposed to amend the Consti
tuition by declaring. "That no person shall b
deprived Of life, liberty or g1opeYty aoitho,A du
process Of 2aao;" that is without trial and con
viction before some tribunal having iurisdistiol
of the offense; and this proposition was adop
ted by the States and now forms part of th
Constitution. need not say that the Repub
licans OF lI76 and those of1856 declared it t
be "self f-eDident truth that all men (includin
slaves as well as their mastery are endowed b,
their Creator with the inaienable right to lib
erty, and that our Federal Government wa
founded for the express purpose of securing t
every human being within its exclusive jurs
diction the enjoyment ofthis right. And shoul,
Cuba be annexed to the United States, ant
thereby brought under our jurisdiction, the Re
publicans will be bound to respect the right @
every indioidual to enjoy his liberty under tie lar
l9Me United States, while they viii be equall
bound to reject any claims property whicl
Cubans may set up to the souls and bodies 0
each other
TO these doctrines Of our Republican fathers
of the statesman and jurists Of Ohio, to the let
ter and spirit Of our State and Federal Consti