Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-08-25
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The Cincinnati Gasette, coming to- hands;
terday, contains special report 5o of the speech
OF Hon Tom Corwin, at Ironton, Ohio. on the
National and Stateissues which are now being
canyassed in the present campaign over Ohie'..
y = IS nne effort. such lone as Corwin never
'aliS tnaklns but such one as can never con-
vey to any one an idea of the matchless. power Of
the man as the greatest stump speak this
generation.
We pass over what more properly concerns
the people to whom it was addressed than uss
and pick out from the report his remarks on the
Fugitive Slave Law:
The Constitution of the United States, nv
brethren, recognizes Slavery. Mr.. Calhoun md
Mr. Douglas disposed OF that 1t provides lust
what had been theshabit Of the colonies before
they made the Constitution. Men are mighty
apt to adopt any of'the old rules that have been
of use under the former government. In lG4s
inc tour New England colonies met together by
their delegates. There were among them i
Egreat.na slaves and apprenticed Servants in
the New England Colonies. The people of Eng.
land would send the poor people to the Colonies
and bind them to the Colonists and they nrovi
otherwise owing service, escaped from one
Colony into another, the authorities Of that
Colony should offer no obstruction to his mas
ter coming after him aud taking him home
That applied to slaves or servants The Colo.
nlsts had done that always, and I have seen,
myself, a letter from Governor Bcrkley ofVir-
glnia, to Governor Winthrop of Massachusetts
| upon this subject Governor Berkley writes to
Governor Winthrop: "Some Of the people OF
my Colony have lost slaves, and we learn that
| they have escaped into Massachusetts BAY Col
ony. trust, as we have always offered YOU
every facility in recovering your servants that
escaped into Virginia, you will offer every con.
lycnicnce to those who follow their slaves into
your Colony" These very same men, when
they came to make the Constitution. had provi.
ded that some OF the States should become free
but'What would they naturally do? The same
| thing as they had been in the habit OF doing as
La matter oEcomitY and good will toward each
lother. They ordained, therefore, in that Con-
| stltutlon, that whenever any man owing labor
or service should escape into a State where the
IlnstItuu0n was not recognized, he might be
tpnrSued and reclaimed, not by the Constitution.
but by the law of any State Treating it as n
matter oflOcal law entirely, that is all the re-
cognition OF Slavery that there is in the Consti.
tuition; and hIr. Ma lisOr, when that clause was
about to be inserted, begged that thev would
not use the word Slave, and they substituted
phraseology, "owing labor" not bv the C0nsti-
tuition OF the United States, but III the express
language Of the Constitution by the law Of anV
State, rccognizingi it as local institution. and
not at all as enc OF those natural rights ofpro-
Iperty which would DC recognized with Consti-
tutional provision at all. They recognize it.so
far that it shall not cease to be property by
running away into a State where slaves arc not
recognized as property.
Some Of our people of the Republican party
deny that Constitutional right Gentlemen,
ladies, men, women, Democrats, Republicans
| Wings, everything and everybody that has ears
and that can, hear me while Ttell you that is
not the doctrine OF the Republican party, either
1 in Ohio, New York, or IN any other State O:
/ Territory of this confcderacy. The doctrine of
| the Republicans (6ecause am the founder of
that party; they got all their doctrines from me:
/ l proclaimed them years before the party called
Republican was ever heard 5of,) is identical with
the Wing doctrines Of lS44, upon which in
everyFStatc of the Union where Mr.. CLAY was
run, and where his election was advocated.
know that they were his own convictions. which
| lie had held through catumny and fair fame
through storm and sunshine. Almost the last
speech he ever made was that he would prohibit
Slavery everywhere in the world where it did
not already exist, but he also believed that that
article that authorized the master ola slave in
Kentucky to- come to Ohio to take his fugitive
slave wasjust,an right, and as Linding as any
other provision Of the Constitution Its in the
bond and we intend to aotere toit TApplanse.l
we noh Ike the Fugitive Slave Law, and. the
peorlc o! Kentucky won't say that it is right.
It has got certain things init that We don't ike
fldon't believe they are ofany account, but thcy
are hateful to our people, for instance, they arc
opposed 10 it under the supposition that any
Slavehoidev has a right to come here and nut
his hand on my shoulder, and say go and catch
my niger" That is their construction. MS I
understand; Cunning to Mr.. Moore, am right,
sir?
Mr.: sM0orc-That is So ry-ss5-
Mr.. CorTin--That is your construction
Now. sir, Congress never meant that. That
world make slaves Of US white men, and we can't
suffer that. Well, theislaveholder puts his hand
on my shoulder, and tells me to go and catch his
niger, 'Wcll,'' says /, what will YOU Give
me, sir2" Nothing, sir, go catch my niger II
Congress meant nc. snch thing. They enioin
all good citizens to aid in the execution of the
law, hut they mean nothing more than yonr
States all mean when. you give the power. to
sherifs to execute your laws. Ifsome Of your
people in Kentucky have got such a thing as
to Sunday School, g.
AIr. Moorc-We say if they are resisted.
Mr. CorwinLThat is another thingi / am
not helping them to arrest the fugitive slnye-