The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1859-10-05

"Hon. WILLIAM DENNIS0N and Hon. j
r. GIDDIEGS will address the people ofLake,
Geauga and Ashtabula Counties at Madison, on
Monday, September 26, 1859"
Mr.. Giddings has defined his position on the
Fugitive Slave Law, in letter to Mr.. Plumb
then confined in the Jail Of this county, for for
chilly resisting its execution, in words so strong
that he who runs may read. We reproduce a
portion of that letter. where, in speaking Of the
law breakers, then about To be tried, Mr.. Gid.
dings says:
I'm dirsgarding this Law the Prisoners did
Right. THEIR ERROR CONSISTED IN
SPARING THE LIVES OF THE SLAVE
CATCHERS. THOSE PIRATES SHOULD
HAVE BEEN DELIVERED OVER TO THE
C0L0RED MEN AND CONSIGNED TO
THE DOOM OF PIRATES WHICH SHOULD
HAVE BEEN SPEEDILY EXECUTED
You are aware that this is the doctrine which
proclaimed in Congress. adhere to it. HAD
THE PRISONERS EXECUTED the SLAVE
CATCHERS PROMPTLY, 1T WOULD HAVE
TAUGHT THE ADMINISTRATION A
LESSON NOT SOON TO BE FORGOTTEN.
| WI should have been no more troubled i0ih that
clrss of nsisreants They aCOuh have knoaon Bet
ter than to haze shoUn Themselves among an intel
kgent people sVho knoU their rights and dare main
tain them. But in rescuing their ellow-man
| from the fangs of these blood hounds, the pris-
oners did right. Present and coming genera
tiohs will bless them for it. 1t was high NOR
al duty, the exercise of virtue which sheds a
halo of glory around the memory of our repub-
lican fathers. When arrested for such an act
they did well in refusing to give bail. When
brought into Court they did right in refusing to
to give bail; and in my opinion they cannot
now recede from the manly position which they
have assumed. By these noble acts they have
inscribed their names upon most important
page of our history. They no longer act for
themselves in this business, but for Justice, for
liberty, for the cause of freedom. The eyes of
the nation are upon them. They should bear
in mind the character Of the people in this por-
ton of our gallant State. They should remem-
Der the pilgrim fathers from whom they have
descended. Cleveland is now the Boston of
l775 and trust her sons will meet the rsspon.
sibilities thrown upon them with becoming firm
ness"
In stumping with Giddings in Northern Ohio
in asking him to accompany h i'm on his Nor.
thern tour, Mr.. Dennison endorses HE princi-
Piles, so far as the Reserve is concerned.
in stumping with Corwin in Southern Ohio,
and neither by act, word or deed dissenting
from single sentence Of Corwin's declarations,
Mr.. Dennison so far as Southern Ohio is con-
cerned, IS taken as endorsing them.
Mr., Dennison then, in Southern Ohio, held
with Gov. Corwin, that all who oppose the Fu-
gitive Slave Law are TRAITORS" and "sho'd
BE ELEVATED TO A PURER ATMOS-
PHERE-SU USPENDED-HUNG UP"
In Northern Ohio, he adopts the Giddings
creed, that all who attempt to catch slave,
under the law, should be treated as Pirates,
and be "deliesred over to bhe COLORED MEN
and consigned to the DOOM OF PIRATES,
which should haze been speedily executed"
Thus does Mr. Dennison seek the votes OF
the conservative and law abiding portion of his
party in Southern Ohio, by appearing to go
with Corwin and treating all law -defying Fa-
natics with rope and a gallows, as traitors
should, while in Northern Ohio, where fanati-
cism has its strongest hold he seeks the votes
of the law-defyers by stumplng side by side
with Giddings, who hold that all who attempt
to execute the law should be treated as Pirates
and be delivered over to the negroes to be by
them speedily executed Dem.