Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-09-12
Democrac, In Ohio.

Judge RANSEY, the democratic candidate
for Governor of Ohio, met bis competitor in
debate at Tiffin, Seneca county, on the 9th
inst. In the course of the debate he stated
his own, and the position of his party, on the
subject of slavery as follows:
We claim that as to slavery in the Terrific
ries, that there should be absolute non-inter-
vention on the part of the Federal Govern
meDt; that there should be no Congressional
legislation in regard to it, but leave it. in the
language of the Nebraska Bill, 10 the deter
mination of the people. This was settled in
1850 by the compromise measures. and by
the concurrence of both the Wing and Demo-
crat parties The question arose, how should
the Territory acquired from Mexico be gov
erned. Many OF US at the North, uas among
them, were OF the opinion that they should be
organized into Territorial Governments by
the Congress of the United States. and lSld-
uery should be prohibited ia them. We consulted
our wishes and feelings only in the matter,
and that was the wish and feeling of most
of us. / have never changed one iota on
that subject. 1 stand to-day as ibid in 1913,
IN my strong destre that all The territory Of the
United States shall be secured 10 freedom and free
labor. The gentlemen cannot cypress any mOre
feeling upon that sut5td than kdre felt during
all this time. The QUESTION is, how honestly to
come al it.
Here is confession of the democratic
naminee that he has as much feeling
against slavery as the nominee of the
Republican party. He desires "that all
the territory of the Uniied States shall be
secured to freedom and free labor" What
more do the Republicans want? What they
desire is to prevent the further extension of
slavery, to dedicate all our territory :. TO
freedom and free labor" The N Y. Courier
and Enquirer so affirms in it's issue of the 9th
inst. In reply to a charge made by Senator
DAVIS, in his speech at jackson recently,
that the Republican party was" organized
for the destruction of the labor system of the
South" it says
There is not fact in all the history of the
time capable of clearer demonstration than
that the Republican party is Nor "organzed
for the destruction of the labor saytem OF the
South" and that it has NO ''intention of war
ring upon the existence of Mississippi as
sovereign State" 1t can be proved by the
record, and il can be proved by any quantity
of oral evidences. The resolutions of Re
publican Conventions, while they have in all
instances claimed the right to exclude Slave
Ty from tue lelTlIOIleS, nave III no Instance
claimed the right to interfere with it in the
States. General Davis, as many years as he
has been in the Senate, has never heard Re-
publican Senator make such claim. On
The contrary, be has heard every Republican
leader in that body disclaim in the most EN-
phatic manner, all such intention; aud dur
ing his travels through the North last year
he heard the great Republican masses every.
where echoing the same language.
Here, we have the authority of the ablest
of the Seward organs that the Republicans
aim at no more than is desired by Judge
RANNEY, who is fair representative of the
democracy of Ohio, and all the Northern
States. There is but little difference OF opin-
ion between them. The freedom of the ter
ritories is what they aim at in common.
This being the the case, there is no good rea-
son why the South should favor the one party
more than the other Ii it be her desire to
stand aloof from parties at the North which
are not willing to maintain her rights, she
should shun both democracy and Republicans
ism.