The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1859-10-05
Tom COrwin ON Black RepU1bII-
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TOM COEWLu Ou ntstCA AcpNAOtT
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Upon the Reserve the Chase and Giddings .
stripe give what they call high moral tore
to the party creed and the party aim. 1t
constantly INDUCES in most violent anathe-
mas upon slavery in the abstract and in the
concrete. It would nulify the Constitution
and trample in the dust the Supreme Court
Of the United Suites rather than born slave,
a colored gemRen, a runaway "nigger," (to
use Senator Wade's classcism,) or fugitive
from service in the South, should not have
free course to Canada to be there gloriied.
But down on the River Ohio, and among
the Southern tier of counties in this State,
Corwin an d SChenck commentate quite diff.
ferently. They know too or say they do,
Just as we'll as Gov. Chase or Father Gid |
dings, what the party creed is, and what its
aim should be. From these lower Ohio
Conservatives, the old Liberty guard, as Gid
dings calls it, aud which is the back bone of
| Western Reserve epublicanism, gets only
kicks, cuffs, and sneers. AS somple, we
will entertain our readers with few extracts
from late speech of Tom Corwin down in
Lawrence Co. The speech was reported
tor the Cincinnati Gasette, and by the by,
Dennison made the first speech on the occu.
sion, and was followed by Corwin.
We quote:
WHAT HE SAID TO DENEIsoN-THE FUGITIVE
SLAVE LAw-wHo LIES Adult THE PARTY.
| wish to proclaim here, and wish to do
it by authority, that is, as the father Of the
Republican party, (turning to Mr.. Dennison)
/ have nothing to say against you, sir, but you
are young gentleman, and you should allow
US old gentlemen some Liberties. have no
more 10 do with slavery than have to do
with the Juggernaut in the East Indian colo
nes Of Great Britain. So the Constitution
: soys.
But the Constitution says a little more
than that, and that is subject upon which
the Republican party is totally misunderstood
und misrepresented, and hopelessly lied adOut,
believe, with view TO destroy her proper
consequence and character as party.
- The Constitution Of The United States, my
brethren, recognises slauery. Mr.. Calhoun
and MIR. Douglas disposed of that. 1t pro-
vides lust what had been the habit Of the
- colonies before they made the Constitution
Men are mighty apt to adopt any of the old
~ rules that have been Of use under the former
- Government. In l74S the four New Eng
- land Colonies met together by their dele
- gates. There were among them grea
~ many slaves and apprenticed servants, in tn
6, New England Colonies. The people
- England would send the poor people to th'
NJ Colonies, and bind them to the Colonists
r, and they provided that whenever servan
- thus indentured, or otherwise owing service
'' escaped from one colony into another, tn
- authorities of that Colony should offer no ob
49, struc,ion to his masters coming for him an
~ taking him home. That applied to slaves o
~ servants. The colonsts had done that al
WAYS, and have seen myself letter fror
Governor BerkIey, Of Virginia, to Governo
~ :, Winthrop of Massachusetts, upon this sui
- iect. Gov. Berkley writes to Gov. VIII
throp: "Some of the people Of my Colon
30 have lost slaves, and we learn that they hav
~, escaped into Massachusetts Bay Colony.
'e trust we have always offered you every #
ciIity in recovering yo,sr servants that escal
. ed into Virginia, you will offer every col
~ venience to those who follow their slaves il
:, to YOUR Colony" These very same me-
~ when they came TO make the Constltutio
~ what would they naturally do The san
,r ~ thing as they had been in the habit Of dolr
-. as matter of comfy and good will iowa
~ each other. They ordained, therefore,
me oa'n o''o' -, -
49,, that Constitution, that whenever any mi
owing labor or service should escape into
State where the institution was not reco
n;zed, he might be pursued and rectalme
Treatnq il as q matter of local law entlreI
'o' that is all the recognition of slavery tn
oou there is in the Constitution /; and Mr.. Ma
~ son, when that clause was about to De lnse
~ ed, begged tina, they would not use the VIC
-, y" slave, and they substituted this phraseolog
"ot sowing labor" not by the Constitution
neS the United States, but in the express Ia
"e puaee of the Constitution by the law OF
81, "a" State, recognizing it as local Institute
tFNH' They recognize it so far that IL sAG@
'uO' M cease TO be property by running away,
'"e State where slaves are not recognized
49, properly. aa ans. .-' 7.-"
H." Ho" NE s1Af' onASA ,o..1-- RI.
j.. u9 au AND THE wHIGs IN 1874.
ath 20 Some of our people of The Republican pa
ems desnv that constitutional right. Gentlem
o OF ladies, men, women, everything and eV'
the body that has ears and that can hear m !
yne tell YOU that Is not the doctrine OF the
eed- publican party. either in ohio' New 70 .
,int, or or in any other State or Territory OF
mid. Confederacy. The doctrine ofthe Repul
was can party is identical NTH The Wing dcctr' doc
in Of iS44, as promulgated in every State OF
the Union Dbere Mr.. Clay was run and VIII
cred his election was ADVOCATED. / know I
' bis were his own convictions, which be had
r.. through calumny and fair fame, thro
storm and sunshine. He believed That
lera' article that authorized the master Of 81
One, t5yya - aoc,a 20 Ohio IN take his