Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-09-03
DENNIsoN ON THE STUMP.

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The Republican candidate for Governor is now
on the Stump. and the party papers have reported
Seyeral of his speeches, which do not materially
differ from each other. lie has considerable to
say about State affairs and State policy and some
thing about slavery and Republican;sm. We have
before us copies Of his speeches at Lebanon and
Wilmington. and in order to give our readers on
idea Of his position in relation to slavery, we
quote q few passages.
THE WHITE MANS PARTY.
"The Republican party is the ,ohite mans party,
Snd /. labors for the prosperity and liberty Of the
white man.
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"He would ask the poor white mon Of The North
II they ore willing that the Territories of the Unit
ed States shall be slave or free ; whether they in
tend that their children shall 90 into the Terrific
ries and enjoy all those political blessings and ga
cred privileges which We enjoy, or whether they
shall yield to the arrogant demands of slavery and
forego them all. lie would not discuss the moral
aspects of slavery ; the North cannot agree with
The Democratic party of the South that it is a bles-
sing, but with Washington, Jefferson and the rev.
pulmonary fathers, We regard il as a great social,
moral and political evil. He would treat it as a
question of paramount magnitude the prominent
issue before tho people, destined sooner or later to
a8ec. directly the interests Of the Tree States. me
question: UNtCU pICoCHtctb o uNV t'Ne " fNNN' "
:giren to The slaUe party TO strike DOM tie interests
of freedom in the Territories, IL wW soon strike
dozen the poor ,ohie man in the States.
Tbs, does not SAVIOR much Of interest in the slaves
welfare, or in the welfare of the free colored peo-
pie of the land. 1t is oil on the principle of the
old mans prayer
"Bless me and my wife,
Ny son John and his wife,
We four, and no more"
Perhaps some of our sensitive Republican
friends would find fault with us should We deny
that Mr.. Dennison is an abclitionist, 80 we let
him speak for himself, and affirm that he is
NO ABoLITloNIsr.
"Mr. Dennison saiG he ,oas no AbolaioniSt. He
did not believe there was any body OF men In the
North, of a respectable size, tcho rished TO disturb
fhe relation of master and sldrs, tchere IL erists un-
der the sanction and protection Of State LdU. But
as our fathers had decreed that slavery was a
creature of local and municipal law, we would
protect the people in the enjoyment of freedom in
the Territories. Ten years ago. the Democratic
party in this State, did not call in question this
principle of the Republican party, that it is the
duty of Congress to prohibit slavery in the Terri
tories"
Mr. D. it appears is now up to where shat anti
slavery party--the Democratic-stood some ten
years since. Great progress, truly. And we are
assured there is no body of men of respectable
size who wish to disturb the relation of master
and slave as it exists in half the States of this
Union If there is not, there ought to be, Mr..
Dcnnison, and no man can be o genuine Democrat,
still less a true Christian, who does not mish to
disturb, and seek 10 disturb that sinful relation.
HeIe is what Mr.. Deunison says of
,Fg.-I 'as THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW.
Mr.. Dennison said that he had forgotten to re-
mark that when the fugitive slave law was before
Congress. the Democratic press of the State almost
universally condemned it. They pronounced it
then, as he himself had In his letter to the Cleve-
land Convention, ''insulting to the people of Ohio"
The people Of Ohio were, as a body, willing to
carry out all the compromises OF the Constitution,
the fugitive slave clause included, but they did obs
ieGt to having 1t enforced in such q way as to in
suit the people of the State. A jury of twelve
Ohio men we're fully as competent to try the ques-
tion Of property in an alleged fugitive from Ken
lucky, as a jury of Kentuckians were to try the
question of property in q hlrse said to be stolen
from Ohio"
What q blessing it would lie to the slave to be
semanded to his prison house by ajury of twelve
Ohio men, instead Of one U. S. Commissioner.
With Mr.. Dennison, it is not so much the sending
back, as the ,oay in which it is done while with
the slave the objection is the sending back, and
not the manner of doing it and on this question,
we suspect the slave is nearest right.
Listen now to what the man who heads the Re.
publican State ticket of Ohio says--so fur as slavery
is concerned-of
TIE CREED OF THE PARTY.
9Th Republicans came forward, with no new
doctrine on the slavery question. They ask, what
she Fathers had decreed, that slavery should not
20 into free Territories, but should be circum-
scribed in the States BY municipal law. Than
this they demanded nothing more-they would
accept nothing less"
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"The whole of the Republican creed was that
indipidual Republicans nigh: demand more, oil
that the party, as such, demanded was this. But
if there was any meaning in that word eradicate,
abe Democratic party of the State, in lS4S, were
ready to abolish slavery where it then existed in
the States"
Mr. Dennison breaches good Republican doc
srine we are not finding fault with him because
of that, but our brief criticisms are bestowed up
on him, as we would bestow them upon a Dem
ocrat, or upon any other one who disclaims being
an abolitionist. Those who sustain him as an OPP
rponent of slavery, and urge his claims as such up
on community, seem to US to be guilty of an alb
%,surdity, which has scarcely the shadow of an ex-
cuse.