Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-11-04

Tom Corwiu In New York
The Republicans OF the city Of New York
were, gratiied vhh a cbaractcristio speech
tom Tom, Corwin, at Lamariino Hall, Tweo-
tiCth ward, on Monday nipht1ast The sPeeeh
was received by tremendous cheering, aud no
doubt had marked effect on the audience -
Il being spicy, bs well as truthful, we lay it
before our readcrs:
Mr. Corwin said they certainly would not
*, ect an address, especially frotn man who
~ not cen addressed for SO hours. I Laugh
'er But he confessed TO a feeling Of gratif
oet,un at meeting his f,llow-cltizens here to.
night He fel, As IL he w,re a stranger, and
something like the man who had slipped into
a wedding party when he had not been Invited.
Laughter Iwo OF thr,e times he lad thus
1 truded HIMSELF and he always observed that
the party were unusually attentive in their
efloIts, and show cd a mv st amaDlo disposition
Laughter As a citizen Ol the u nited States
ne was just as much al home here as he was
on Turtle Greek, Warren county, Ohio, whore
ho had resided for the past sixty years, Il
had been unfortunately true that men had
begun 10 talk OF citizens of the Moth, of
the South, and Of tho East, and of tho West,
as If in the political geography Of this Re-
HuniAI buNlU Nnulu ut any NuiAut uAll 2Uulhy
East or West Cheers ] lie did not yet un-
derstand the question OF the wrongs of the
North and the wrongs of tho South. Ii he did
he saould begin at home, and should speak OF
the peocadi.los OF the North TO use as mild a
name as possible) [laughtsr,l and Of the almost
unfOrgiyable sins OF the South Llaughterl l-eom-
mtted, however, all the time through the joint
agency of united South and fragmentary
portion of the North He ought to say that he
had some right TO discuss this question, for be
had been discussing it by night and by day,
every day for the last two months--in fact, hc
had heard aud dreamed Of nothing else. Laugh
teri INDEED it seemed 10 him At last that the
chief end Of man was to discuss the difference
between white man and niger. Laughter ]
Just now, class of men, the Democratic party
who had always been characterized by such
tender condolences, delicate sensibiltics, aud
great regard for the happiness Of mankind,
[laughter,1 were mourning that an insuuection
had been attempted by II white men, all OF
whom, if they were in the county o Warren,
in the State of Ohio, and on Turtle Greek,
[laughter,l he could convict them every one OF
insanity [iaughter,l and send them to the Lu.
natic Asylum at Columbus, Yet these IL white
men and Eve negroes had thrown two powerful
States Of this Reuubic into a state of cOnster-
nation, which could not have been greater had
400 600 men of the armies Of Italy landed at
Norfolk. H1tit t|e aI4IIA ~.
/ Aud now they were attempting 10 make out
poor Brown the scape goat Of the Republican
party of the North; and they tried to make it
cut tbat some man Of that party had made a
declaration that had SO seized upon the imagi-
nation Of Old Brown that he could not shake
it of-that there was au iTrepretsble CT Dnot
between white and negro labor. Laughter !
h,,yf,
public records in this country had it not teen
that few men in Washington, in 1854, re-
pealed the Missouri COMPROMISE Law, which
produced civil war lie did not know how it
would fare with US 10 have sons dying, With
clanking chains about their limbs, or to have
our daughters 10 become maniacs because of
suffering, bat those things had produced insan-
ity in Old Brown. This was one of the fruits
OF Popular Sovereignty. Applause Kun
sas-the boy kInsas-was left to do as il
pleased; to take its own way. Hence il was
not put to school, and being without the pale
of parental control, he cut up capers-
Laughter.l For amusement, he took to cut
tmg lhroats, and for three years the military
power of those United States either would
not or could not suppress the insurrection in
that Territory Utah, too. was instanced by
the speaker ss an instance of beauties of Pop
ular Sovereignty. lie reviewed tue doctrine
of Mr. Douglas Going back TO the formation
of the Constitution, no such idea was either
expressed or implied, and until 1854, success
We Congresses had acted upon the idea of
the power Of the Federal Government to con-
troll the territories. 1t was reserved for lntle
gentleman Al to 81 feet high to find out, eighty
| years aiterward, what the trainers OF the Con-
stitution meant. They should be grateful TO
| Divine Providence Laughterl Yet there
was something melancholy in the thought tnat
thirty millions of human beings should be
subjecled 10 such empihcsmi in politics. But
| Popular Sovereignty gave birth TO Old Brown;
J and though he did not see it, yet had Ms at
tempt succeeded in arming the slaves, it would
it would have been followed by the butchery
of the whites for while, but finally when re-
action came by the determination OF the hlucks.
| But Old Brown and his fellows will die from
the gallows, gloryng in their martyrdom 1t
would be so with the men whobelieved in pop
ular sovereignty would die clinging to
their faith Laughter Mr.. Corwin then
called the attention Of the meeting TO the i'm
portance of the issues now pending, and the
necessity that existed for earnest work in be-
half Of principle They had heard tue voice OF
Pennsylvania, [cheers.l Ohio, [cheers, ] Illinois,
[cheers Iowa, [loud cheers and Minnesota,
loud cheers Would it not be a burning
shame for the Stat' Of New York not to Join in
the chorus and hallelujahl Loud checrsl."