Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-09-17

In the haste Of writing out Thursday night
the monographs report Of the speech Of Mr..
DENMsoN for the press, unfortunately that
portion on the Fugitive Act was SO mauod and
changed by verbal and compositOrial errors.
that we insert a revision. Mr.. DENNisoN said
The gentleman wants TO know whether am
in favor of sustaining the Fugitive Slave Act.
| have repeatedly said, and still say, that
while | regard Il as an odous and unjust law
while denounced It in the Senate from my
seat az Senator of Oho-while then be-
lieved and still believe that it was conceived
by Mason of Virginia, as an insult to tine Free
States of the Union; still, if shall be clothed
with the executiv, power Of this State, | shall
consider it my duty 10 accept the act as con-
sttutonal while it remains uDrepealcd by
Congress- and not declared unconstitutional by
the proper judiciary. | am happy in being
able thus to repeat here, on the Western Re
serve, precisely what | said in the extreme
Southern portion OF the State. Aud shall be
equally happy to have any gentleman interrO-
gate me in regard to any position which may
have taken in the course Of my remarks in that
section, and promise him as frank and une.
quivocal an answer to any such question, as it
IN my powOr to give.
The gentleman says | want the trial by jury.
As by tho repeal OF the Act of 1850 the Act Of
1913 will be revived, l insist it shall be so
amended as to secure the alleged fugitive the
trial by Jury in the State where he may be
seized; for | say il cannot recover an escap-
ing horse of mine in Kentucky without proving
my right of property by trial by jury, less
certainty should not be required from the claim
ing master Of a fugitive to prove in the State
where he may arrest his alleged slave insist
that the right ofireedom is certainly as valuable
as the right Of property in a horse, aud if a
Kentucky jury could decide impartiallv, and
according to the evidence l as certainly believe
they could, question of the ownership of a
horse, believe that the people OF Ohio could
dec de as impartially in accordance with the evi-
dence the question of a mans title to his free
dom.
say therefore, that when the gentleman
says to me that the people Of Ohio are not 10y
al to the Constitution and the laws, say that
he bellies the people of Ohio. | say that he
ISLANDERS the people of Ohio l say that the
people of Ohio have ever been loyal to the Con-
siitution and the laws, and they intend to be
So; but they intend to insist upon their rights,
their full rights under the Constitution of the U
ted States. If the Congress, if the general
Government, feels it to be its duty to protect
slavery in Virginia, we demand that that Gov
ernment shall protect freedom in Ohio. If il
be right, if it be just that the relation Of mas.
ter and slave shall be guarded in a slave State,
then | say the relation to freedom which every
man sustains in this State should be sustained
and vindicated to the fullest extent under 1he
Constitution. The Governor elect Of Virginia
says he will defend the rights of Virginia.
say, elect me Governor of Ohio, and | will de
fend the rights of Ohio.