Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-09-17

70 tho rsepl. d sas ssA oossrs..iss.l Dl.-

dtpDafo su&Stsaou nif1 So f
ised history for a week or 50, and coahne
myselfto a reply 10 his Arguments and IN
,erugaiories-
ttIsL, late for Mr. Hubbard to consisa
Hammond and ms comPeers to the catege-
ry Of Fanaiics to which be assigns Giddings
und Chase. Ia the Ga.ettc OF The 81 vi
April last, he says of Mr.. Hauuacnd's
speech that ]; was zone Of The most aols
aud statesnlan-lkc speeches ever delivered
in the Senate. b Dir. Hubbard's own
confession, therefore, Mr.. Hammond Is one
Of the leaders VI his party.
vii! accept Dir. Hu154rd's a~neudineni
OF the terms 10 whicil his position shali be
defined, only that he shall not ssai! hf'nseli
of his having s.spoken his disseas," As he
is rather q recent convert TO modern Delnoe-
Jacy he wenid not have " 60 very tar back
into his Giles, TO find his spoken disseat'
sruin every principle oi the narly he Raw
represents. ! therefore have q rigllt To
hold him 10 The doctrines al the party 40
s.tl,ey nave been ex?s,aaaed by is property
constituted au llorities.; aii,.out euaiids a.
tim or liuiIatlota- Aad sby the property
c. Instituted aus 1fisies Of the pa- va I nj san
its Nnionsi aud AID State cuuyeEslniss; its
prerlJeHas, GAbfaets aad Csugses4es. Id
moi hofi him responsible Tor exseptianai
cases, or individual memners Oh Congress-,
but Tor the iaen w!ro con.dol AMI lead stiId
eaape the pr;aciplos and policy Of he party :
AR tl.s acts Of C,nassss wh IN the party Is
in the IA 5riiy ana for the woes % isthe body
~ot Tie are "a Jer in e .sher IL use sshcn Isl The
anii,oriiy.
Fac insiaua,ion that. 5ecauss ! do not
labor I can haze NJ sympathy with laborers,
and that because Mr.. Hubbard deee lab.'r,
sherefore he eau syn5pathize with them,
shall not 81 ufrebHked. | have never he
fore, in all IN political controversies, fo0Hd
it necessary 10 refer to MY own personal
history. This iHspniation warrants me in
doing so. ii there is any oiaIt living wn"
mas u right TO stand uP as the advocate of
9hetoiling miliions. | am tliqt ,ban. lii4ve
drained the bitter cup Of orphanage and pow
erty to the dregs, ard know from TX berienee
the perils aud Irivations that are in stare for
those who occupy such q pesi'i IN. W,ren
or where, enthusiastically or pcItfcaily. have
/ failed to yindicate the poor rnan'srigitts OF
10 ayenze mis- wrongs TO the utmost of my
power! Shaiiit be Ssutned because In the
AFTERNOON OF a fife not idly spent, { may
have been successs ui in aceumulating enough
oil this worlds goods to save me from be-
coming an object Of charity; that, therefore
/ am to be sneered at as an afistocrat that
can b i've NJ sympathy witt, the toiiing mas :
ses Of the peoples + utterly repwiiate all
such appeals as utterly unworthy OF a place
in such . discussion as ahis.
am asked what is meant by The n HiristI
about the ..equatiry q. The races. } have to
say in reply til Il | said not one word about
-~.races.'' on iher ~e4aais or insqualiry.-
Bat when the Declaration 81 Independents
says, that "sneH are created eqaal,' thai il
Insans that all men have equal rights, and
that amongst these j. .life. liberty apl par
suit of happIlcss.ss lsths deai-d: So,
then Whist does it mean. Tae RI it Of suf-
frsse is not natural, but q constitutional
right, Therefofe-as a member of the Ouio
Constitutional Convention Ivoted ag inst
giving negroes the right of suffrage. Bat
Mr. Hubbard assumes that il we will not buy
AMI sell negroes, we must, therefore marry
them. Fur myself and for Repusiicat,i ot
the 9Th Congressional District, ] beg leave
respectfully to decline to do either.
References is nude to my vote for what
was known as Dtnn.'s bill in The last Com
g:3s. will in cha i,y to Dir Hubbard, pre-
sumo that he has never read. or carefully ex-
auiinsd THAT BILL. Ii could believe he had
it would give me a worse opinion of him
than ! desire to entertain Of any man occu-
pying his positien.s That bill simply prori-
drd. That ii at the time Of its passage any
slaves were legally held in Kansas that they
and their increase, should be removed from
the Territory on. or 5cfsre the first of Ianu-
a-x, IL "a ar fkov Sia4sli ha rhS.tuIllV free
Ii no slaves were leg lily held there, there
was nothing for it 10 operate upon, and it
would be useless and harmless. If slaves
were legally held there, they would of course
continue to be held rs slaves until they were
emancipated by act Of Congress or the Ter
ritoriul Legislature e
The bill failed. The Supreme Court has
since decided that slaves may be legally
held in Kansas. In jlnutry 1858, VI. Ru-
chanan announced to Congress in his KIN
sas Message. that slavery was just US firmly
established in Kansas at the date Of the Mes
sage. Now, who Is chargeabfe with the
existence Of slavery. in Klnsas, the r .pu5-
licans who voted for tht bill, or the D.mo-
Gratis Who voted against II and defeated it!
Ii the Republicans had rated agains, Dunn'a
bill aud defeated it, it would have fnrnished
nished some plausible pretext for doubling
the siceriry OF their 0pposiiioR to slavery
But then vote in fnx0r OF it is the most con-
elusive essdeace OF their sincerity.
aha asked whut I propose To do with the
slaves whea they ARE emancipatcd. The
Republican party was not organized fer the
purpose OF abolishing slavery where il law
July existed under the cons.itnlion and
laws of any State. II claims no power to
10 any such thing. II Is to prevent lis prop
ag1tion into States and Territories where it
does not exist. according to any fair, honest
and Legitimate construction os the Constitu.
ton, that the Republican party was organ
lied, and il must be perpeiudted until the eff
fort to propagate il is abandoned. Tue best
way to prevent free white l1b3r from being
degraded by contact and . snp%etilion with
negroes. il to exclude slavery from tn,
Territories. and M great Influx Of tree ne
groes need be a~pprehended.
But Dir. Hubbard holds that by authority
of the bred Scott decision slavery is natiuD-
alizeds and exists in all the Territories oil,c
United States by force of the Cousti ,uti.. u +;
that neither Congress Hor The people oil the
Territory have any pswer 10 prohibit VI
abolish it-thai men, women anf clildten
are the legitlin tie s~uajects 81 traiic, whrr-
eycrt is ut EXPIRE ssly prohibited ny s 40
institutions AMI s ,te laNs. II other
words he b lids tn ii slavery is national, aud
that personal liberty is local and srcti ,naI.
Hence, the Democratic party l. n All nal
because it for slavery aud slavery extern.
sion.