Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-11-21
OssAwATOMIE pROWN.

"
| Well now, come 10 the answering of this
"Ossawatomie Brown" affair. am going to
speak plainly and above board, aud without
reserve. In my humble judgment, it has no
connection whatever, with party associations
in these United States, as such. / say it here
now, as will say it on I'LL occasions, that it is
nothing else but sequence, and fruit foreseen
by all sensible men, of that invasion of Kansas
| by the Southern pro-savery party, united to
their Northern allies. If you don't like that
you must come home to your bosoms and ask
there, whether it be tue; it is a realization Of
scripture truth, that they who "sOw the wind
shall reap the whirlwind" 4" 1t is that, and it
is nothing else. Our fathers knew and felt all
the exciting accompan ments that have follow
ed in the wake OF this institution of Slavery -
They foresaw that it would depopulate Ken
lucky, and the great States Of the West aud
Southwest, as it has depopulated Virginia,
and as it has partly, ,depopulated Kentucky, and
they reserved 10 the far West, in the then unin-
ha5ited territory, an home for the free white
laborer and his children, as they supposed, for
ever, against the strong competition, of unpaid
labor; where, under their own vine and fig
tree, they may sit, and none may make them
afraid, and they passed, as told you on n for
mer occasion, this Missouri Compromise, that
north of that line of 5000. including the ter.
rtory of Kansas, the scene of the ieud, the
scene of all our woes should be cOnsecrated to
freemen and that no slave foot should pass that
line. Who violated that cOntractl | care not
whether it was got up north or south, but it
was really got up south. 1t was consummated
by the north and south; it was consummated by
the almost unanimous spirit and conscience of
all the Democratic people of the northern and
southern States. Who violated itl Who
opened up again this source of strife, to leave
4 I. Al.
rifle, the sword and bloodshedl The Democratic
party did it They are the men who did it.
stephen A. Douglas is the author of that bill,
leading Democrat, so claimed, north and south.
| Did not tell you | went through here be-
fore, there was "hOney- -fugling" going on as
| to whether it should he Douglas or Buchan3nl
Don't you see the leading papers coming out
AMI taking one side or the other some for
Douglas, aud some for Buchanan. Douglas
was the man that did it. lie is a strong can
didato for the Charleston nomination, The
Democracy then are responsible, not We
They are the agitators, and not we If blood
shed was the fruit in Kansas of the attempt
of the Democratic Administration, contrary
to their pledges in the Cincinnati Platform,
that they would allow the people of the terri.
tories to determine upon their own institutions
| for themselves; l say if the Democratic party
| did, by a Democratic President, violate their
pledges, and the people were denied the prvi.
ege Of free speech and free access to the ballot,
driving old Brown from his settlement, taking
possession of his plantation, numbering his sons,
aud making his daughter mad, who is to blame
for the institution of the late steps of bloodshed
and violence 1t is right you should hear a lit,
tie wholesome truth in Kentucky you are not
in the habit of hearing it. say it is nothing
but personal feud-a guerilla warfare, COM
menced in Kansas by the Democratic party, and
CARED on by Brown, upon the principle that
wherever he found a stakeholder he should
make war upon him. All this assailing of lead
ing men in the country in this connection--ali
this-I had almost said infamous attempt to
connect leading men with it, is too base even
for all the baseness of the Democratic party
SO far as l am concerned In any way, in being
connected with him, say to you, my friends,
that IspuIn the charge-I won't deignt to reply
to it,