The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1859-10-13

A spirited meeting of the Republicans OF
Wayne county, Ind, was held at Richmond I
last week. The speakers of the occasion
were the Hons. Thomas Corwin, Robert e.
Schenck and Henry S. Lane.
Messrs. Corwin and Schenck delivered
able discourses, expressing the views which,
in the hearing of the people of Ohio, they /
have uttered during the present campaign
There was freshness of language about the
speeches, however, that relieved them from
the imputation as being the same hereto
fore delivered.
Mr.. Lane closed the proceedings by the |
delivery of remarks Of which we present a
complete report excepting only where at the
close, the speaker referred to the local poll |
tics Of bis hearers.
Henry S. Lane being introduced, was re-
ceived with gratifying applause. He said:
Fellow Citizens: Through the kindness and
partiality Of portion of my friends in Wayne
county am permitted the privilege Of ad
| dressing you upon those grand principles and
momentous issues which underlie the very
foundation of Republican organization.
! am not here in the vain hope of adding inter-
| est to the meeting after the two speeches to
which you have listened with such patience;
but am here simply for the purpose of stir
ring up your pure minds by way of remem-
! brance.
! For the first time l am permitted to look
the people Of Wayne County in the face. eye
to eye, and l doubt not we shall find each
other mutually good looking and mutually
amiable. Laughter.)
The great and overwhelming question of
Slavery has been debated deliberately, ably,
and eloquently already. and doubtless even
those Of the sterner sex" are somewhat
| fatigued with the long discussion, to say moth
Of .ha1 Il h. how on
this occasion = those who have struggled
"from somewhere out Of the world Of bliss to
make a paradise of this | may. however,
with confidence, trust. make my appeal in
defence of the dignity of human labor and free
institutions, with the hope of success before
such an audiense as l this day address.
THE SUBJECT OF SLAVERY.
shall allude but briefly to the historical
connection Of the two great parties IN this
country with the exciting subject of Slavery;
for, gentlemen, disguise the tact as we may.
this is the overshadowing question now agi
tating the public mind. But few years ago.
it was but as the cloud seen in the prophets
| vision, mo larger than mans hand" but
it has doomed up until now it has darkened
the whole political heavens excluding almost
every star of hope.
What, then is the present position of the
Republican party upon this subject? The
much abus I'd Philadelphia platform; what
was it? Did that platform Introduce strange
| gods or build new affairs? No, sir. The
grand principle Of the Philadelphia platform
comes to us in the unclounded light of the
revelation of Heaven. and 1edoent with the
Declaration of Independence. That plat
form, as modified land necessarily modified
by the changing policy OF the country for the
last four years is yet the platform on which
the country must stand. Even radical de.
mocracy shall be brought to look to it to
! "the hills hence salvation cometh."
! What then is our position with reference
to the Slavery question? Historically now
but for few moments. You have heard
what was the policy of the fathers; how
they excluded Slavery in 1897; how that act
of exclusion had common and kindred or
igin Of the Declaration Of Independence, and
was idea first preached in the Continental
Congress by Thomas Jefferson himself. That
Ordinance was devoted TO freedom IN this
vast empire northwest of the Ohio river,
producing here States the progress OF which
you see in these beautiful homesteads. in Your
ever smiling villages, these tlourshing towns
and cities. They under kind Providence
are the result of this Ordinance of 1897 which
fsrtilized and fattened the soil on which we
stand by the sweat drawn from the brows of
ireemen. where every man was interested in
the result Of his own labor.
CHANGE IN POLICY.
No change was made in that policy until
! 182O,when a temporary arrangement-as the
South say-a permanent arrangement as our
! fathers then believed, as we now belevewas
made the Missouri Compromise. There was
| he first departure from the pinciple of the
/ exclusion of Slavery from the Territories So
/ For the purposes of peace our fathers yielded
| some what upon this occasion, but excluded
/ forever slavery north of a certain line - SO
| deg. and 80 min north latitude - of which
! you all doubtless have heard North of that
/ line, Slavery or involuntary servitude was to
/ be forever excluded. South Of that line it
might or might not exist as the peo-
/ pie should will. The Douglas Popular Sow
| eighty doctrine was to be adopted south Of the
| line So 80.
The compromise brought peace to the coun-
try, harmony to our distracted institutions,
aud dssipated the clouds of disunion which
had been lowering over our nation. Under
the patriotic counsels of Clay, Crawford. and
Lowndes. and other distinguished men OF that
day. that compromise in good faith was en-
tered into.
1t wore for thirty years. The people
Of the South received all that they were en-
tited-the admission of Missouri and Arkan-
sas-and when Territory was to be organ
lied north Of that line - where we claimed
the first heritage tina, should fall to freedom,
that measure was repealed. The reason Civ
er was that it conhicted with the Compromise
measures of 1880. Ny friend Mr.. Scheuck
| commenced on that subject and had not time
to close. Let US look to it for a moment
/ Gentlemen now tell Us it was necessary to
repeal that compromise in 1874. because of
| conflict. Sir. so far from conflict, let me show
| you that the compromise of 1850 expressly
recognized the compromise OF 1890, and re-
affirmed its vitality. You have been told
! properly that the bill to fix the boundaries of
Texas was one of the compromise measure
You recollect that bill BY which We tor
] the sake Of peace, millions Of dol