Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-12-01
MisfeIIaneolls.
Cassius M. Clay on "The Lesson
of the HOur.n

Cassius M. Clay on Tne Lesson
of the H0ur.n
We make the following extracts from
the recent speech of C. M. Clay at Coving-
ton, reported in the Cincinnati Gazette.
sa. ossAwAToMIE BROWN.
Well now, come to the answering of
this "0ssawatomie Brown" affair. am
going to speak plainly and above board,
and without reserve. In my humble juGg-
ment it has no connection, whatever, with
party associations in these United States,
as such. l say il here now, as I will say
it on all occasions, that it is nothing else
but sequence, and fruit foreseen by all
sensible men, of that invasion of Kansas
BY the Southern pro-slavery party, united
to their Northern allies. If you don't like
that, you must come home to your bosoms
aad ask there, whether it be true; il is
realization of the scripture truth, that
they. who asow the wind, shall reap the
whirlwind," 1t is that, and it is nothing
else. Our fathers knew and felt all the
exciting accompaniments that have follow
ed in the wake of this institution of sla-
very. They foresaw that it would depopu-
late Kentucky, and the great States OF the
West and Southwest as it has depopulated
Virginia, and as it has partly depopulated
Kentucky, and they reserved in the far
West in the then uninhabited territory,
and home for the free white laborer and
his children, as they supposed, for ever,
against the strong competition of unpaid
labor; where, under their OWE vine and fig
tree, they may sit, and none may make
them afraid, and they passed as / told you
on former occasion, this Missouri Com
promise, that north of that line of S6 80,
including the territory of Kansas, the
scene of the feud, the scene of all our woe
should be consecrated to freemen, and
that no slove foot should pass that line
Who violated that contracti care not
whether it was got up north or south, but
1t was really got south. 1t was consum-
mated by the north and south; it was con-
summated by the almost unanimous spirit
and conscience of all the Democratic peo-
pie Of the northern and southern States.
Who violated iti Who opened up, again
this source of strife, to leave the question
to be determined as it was, by the rife,
the sword and bloodshedi The Demo-
cratic party did il. They are the men who
did it. Stephen A. Douglas is the author
of that bill. a leading Democrat, SO claim
ed, north and south. Did I not tell you
as went through here before, there was
"honey.fugling" going on as to whether
1t should be Douglas or Buchananl Don't
you see the leading papers coming out and
taking one side or the other; some for
Douglas and some for Buchanans Doug
las was the man that did it. He is a
strong candidate for the Charleston NOM
ination. The Democracy then are respon-
sible, not we. They are the agitators and
not we. If bloodshed was the fruit in
Kansassof the attempt of the Democratic
Administration, contrary to their pledges
in the Cincinnati Platform, they would al
low the people of the territories to deter
mine upon their own institutions for them
selves, | say if the Democratic party did, by a
Democratic President, violate their pledges
and the people were denied the privilege
Of free speech and free access to the bal
lot, driving old Brown from bis settlement,