Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-09-17
GOV. CoRwINs' IRoNToN SPEECH.

GOV. CoRwINs' IR0NToN SPEECH.
This speech of which a fulls report has been
made and published in full is one Of the most un-
fortunate acts Of the season, for which the Repu5-
licans as a party are in any degree responsible !;
and nothing but the indifference that so common
ly prevails over the country, and the careless
ness with which far too many regard such things,
can save US from the most disastrous consequences
to our ticket. Its eject upon the general cause Of
RepuSlicanism Is already felt, beyond our own
State and men who can see outside the narrow
rim of a State election, are awakened to dangers
that it is time for us to consider. We copy the fol-
lowing from the N. Y. Independent, as in point.
"But the politics Of the State Of Ohio have OF
late produced ONE very strange monstrosities.
Some men there seem in great haste not only to
deny all right TO eddie with any sin protected
by the Constitution, but even to renounce and dis
avow their own birthright of freedom. Mr.. Cor
win makes a political speech, and declares, 81
have no more to do with slavery than l have to do
with the Juggernaut in the East Indian colonies
of Great Britain. So the Constitution says"
'This is q false witness. Let Mr.. Corwin pro-
duce any passage or article in the Constitution
that says any such thing. There Is no such dec
~laratio.n But almost in the very next breath.
Mr.. Corwin AYERS that he has, by the very require
ment Of the Constitution, everything to do with
slavery, being bound to support it in the most in
famous way, bound to obey tbs Fugitive Slave
Bill. Yet by the Constitution he has nothing to
do with slavery |?
"But Mr.. Corwin goes further still. He is ready
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10 this speech. as reported, strips himself and his
fellow citizens, white as well as black, Of all the
attributes of freedom. oil the rights of freemen,
and says that they do not belong to us, but are
merely conferred as a boon by the Constitution
1--WE have no inherent rights" exclaims be.
Some people on my side of the river say that no
man shall take a fugitive slave back from here, be-
cause he has an inherent right to freedom. There
is, l tel! you. no such thing as an inherent right.
all our rights are given us by the compact of the
Constitution"
REALLY. in some respects, this is the deepest
plummet Of degradation d>wn which we have ever
seen any man plunge in support of the claims Of
slavery. TO think that a man can, for the sake
of denying ANY inherent right to freedom in the
slave, be willing to deny thathe himself has any
right to freedom, be willing 30 deny the very being
of inherent rights We do not wonder, il this il
the fashion of republican freedom in Ohio, thai
men Of a much higher stamp deny also that they
have any right to interfere with any wrong which
the Constitution is interpreted as giving the peo'
pie the right to practice. Truly, if Christian mer
do not rouse up. and strike for THE RIGHT in pol
itics, if they do not assert and maintain, with the
$500 -:-;I.uoo ,nJ holJnoso tba ON olosp,s
of conscience and the Word of God, our politica
leaders will put out our eyes, and having previous
ly blinded themselves also, then the blind leading
the blind, both will fall into the ditch.
With Ohio Republicans 1t becomes a duty o
the first importance to r%epudiate and reject tn,
abominable doctrines, truly quoted in this extrac
from the Observation-Disclosures which set at de
6ance all sense of right and wrong. and put tn
keeping Of our Religion and Politics., OUT soul
and bodies at the mercy of q conventional govern
T Matchmaking slaves alike of all races and al
minds-and to protest against the use of the Re
publican party as authority Of their utterance.
The story in old times was-that a clown, wi
seemed to have nowhere to 60 or nothing to dc
sauntered into the forest, and was looking about
when some of the trees enquired what he wanted
ONLY a handle for my axe, said he. He was 500
told if that was all, he should be accommodate
with a tough piece of ash Of his own choosing
Tho handle was fitted to the axe and the mex
hour he was busy telling the old oaks, that ha
, de6ed a thousand storms before, by the mean
they had put into his hands. The grand old fol
est sank before his ungrateful use Of their genel
q osity and the winds swept away their drie
: branches. A little over a year ago, Mr.. Corwi
came into the Republican camp. and asked tn
small favor Of a nomination for office ; and the.
: good easy souls, took it from one who had fougf
their battles. whom they knew to be true, an
I gave it to him. A few months after, he heads
Q party at our State Convention, to force us into q
I. endorsement of the Fugitive Act. and plies hi
, newly mounted axe mos. lustly upon the very pi
lars Of our party and under the over-courteou
patronage of our State Committee he is cuttin
away, right and left, every living principle
Republicanism 10 Ohio. Tae desolation that mari
his work is terrible to contemplate, but no lei
certainly present. 1t lie this destruction that "
would stay, and we demand that il be arrested.
, The world will hold the Republican party re
/, ponsible for those doctrines; because Mr..
speaks under authority of the State Central Cor
mittee. His arrogant nonsense about being Il
father of the Republican party, and thence kno,
ing what it's doctrines are, is unworthy of motto
and will attach DO responsibility any where. b
y it is the right Of the party, and the duty Of Il
f Central Committee to vindicate US from the imp
!, ta,ion of holding that man has no inherent or ma
9 ural rights, Mr.. Corwin could not in more explic
. terms have denied the Declaration of ~Indepen'
= ence, the National Bill Of rights, the Constitution
the Republican platform, or any known docume'
8 to which the party may refer for its authority
Q After all the labor we have devoted to the adval
t cement of the principle, that all men are equal an
!, have iualieusbls rights. are We to have q political
8 who has outlivsd his day, prostitutsd and squal
4 dersd his talents, now return, with nothing but b
Q buaoousry hanging about him. to tell US that
made the Republican party. and must be the o.