Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-04-30

suc immense importance Of executing the thrice
execrable and infamously unconstitutional Fugi-
! tive Slave Law in this Black Republican
hole" During the whole Of General Pierce's,
and the half Of Mr.. Buehanap's Administra-
/ ton, no efforts were made in these parts in a
business so odious to the people, aud so disrepu-
table to the actors therein It is but a pery
short time since Judge Wilson and Marshal
Fitch were understood to have boastel that
these exciting cases had been most adroitly
' dodgeJ by these functionaries within their
official beat (the great nli.Slavery den OF
Northern Ohio) This mystidcaton Of the
! good people Of the Northern District is natural
enough, and therefore not unreasonable
Hence the inquiry is spontaneous, why this
sudden change of tactics, to the very opposite
extreme Why are his Honor, Judge Wilson,
ana his Ancient Pistol, i" Marshal Johnson, so
eager to harrass, fine and imprison the "Oberlin
Fanatics" for acts, the willlul omission OF
which, in the judgment of these people, would
exclude them from Eternal Felicity, by the in
exorable FIAT of Him who "came to preach de-
lverance to the captives aud the opening of the
prison doors to them that be bound z" What
exigencies u State--to avert what calamites im-
pending over the people of these United States,
moved lhese functionarios to fly in the face
of the Omnipotent, by casting these, not only
Innocent, but pure, simple hearted aud just
men, into a dungeon, for the performance OF
what they deemed, and what in the judgment
of all lust men, in all nations, is deemed to be
a simple act of humanity, the omission Of which
would expose them to that fearful denunciation
Of that Just One" who has declared what all
! Christian people believe, that " inasmuch as ye
! have not done it to one of the least Of these
my brethren, ye hare not done it unto me. De
part, yc cursed into everlasting fire, prepared
ior the Devil and his angels" And the whole
Universe shall join in the great chorus, "Served
them ri yht :" tor all dislnterested men everv-
where, believe ami Judge, that they who do the
Devils work on earth, should receive the Dew
IFS wages, and board in his kitchen in the bar
gain
Nov what political or party necessity has
caused this last outbreak of PrO-Slavery lanai
icism in these United States officers This is
the inquiry on every mans lips.
In my judgment, it is by no means difficult
question to answer 1t arises Of l may be al
lowed the expression,) from bowel com
plant" in the Slave Democracy itself Mark
this. Old Mr. Buchanan thinks that he may
not be able ia four years, to " write himself an
ass" in hand writing as legible us he deems
necessary, and being anxious for further lease
Of four years, in which to perfect his record, he
is moved to this exhibition of his sefvility In
Northern Ohio, Mr. b. has probably just as ma
ny friends as he has Offices TO give, and not one
surplus Never, probably, did any man mum
Der among his friends, such a proportion Of
blkerS aud fsh-mOngerS with empty stalls
These are his friends, and they follow him tai h.
fully, while the leaves and ii hes hold out, tut
not moment longer. These hungry "starving
souls" expect a renewal of their utliclal leases
ON the re election of their patron, and hence
their serviIity to that slave power, which holds
in its hand the destiny Of their master, Is Of
that famshing kind which hungry cur eIhl6
its, when his master, with bone IN hand, bids
him "rol o5er-stand on your hind legs-speak
give paw" DC, through the ours alphabet
aud 4" abs !" These are the performances OF
Mr. Buchanans pack. But there is another
Democratic kennel more numerous, and II p1s-
slble, more lean, hungry and voracOus,who are
all looking up to the CUmmOn master OF both
the slave power" This is the Douglas De-
mocracy." This band of political mercenaries
is more scattered through the Free States and
consequently can act more etfectually as "bll-
ancc OF power" in favor of slavery and slave
holders than he Buchanan Democracy. These,
therefore, are of more use 10 their master, than
even the Buchanan shoulder-htLers OF the
cities of New York and Philadelphia, DC The
.'r-nk and file" of this squat Of Douglas Dem
ucrlls are less reliable at all times, Tor the ser.
vice of their masters, than the Buchanan " riff
ralT" of tue cities. From necessity and from
policy, the Douglas Shdms are obliged TO bow to
the Anti Slavery sentiment Of the Free states,
as la the case Of Kansas and the LecomptOn
Constitutions The Free State BuchanauiLes did
not feel and therefore did not bow to this neces-
sity but went in for slavery, with natural ap'
petite for such garbage.
am aware ut this plausible answer to these
harges against the Douglas Democracy -
IS Wny," say they, should we At this early Pc
riod in the Presldentlal canvass, commit our
selves to this most odious, insulting, oppressive
and scandalous prosecution against these Oberllu
people, ut a time, and under circumstances, cal.
culated to exasperate the people of the Free
States to the highest degree against slavery,
Shareholders, and those whom you call the
awnIng crew of miserable Free state dough
fees without whose mercenary aid, slavery
could not exist in the U nited States for quar-
ter of a century 2" Aye, all that is plausible
enough, but neither DOuglJs nor his dOughiaca
friends are Ignorant of this one simple fact, VIZ
lbat without a NOMINATION at the Charleston
Convention, his election is impossible, and that
some base act 10 appease the saveholders-an
act which shall at once atone for his course on
the I.ecompton rascality, and prove his devotion
to the interests, present and future, of the slave
power, his nomination, and OF course his cleo
tJn, are simply IMPOSSIBLE.
Hence the IusoleRt threat of Douglas IN the
Senate some five years ago, We mem to
subdue yOu," is now being put in execution
against the people of Northern Ohio Doug
las friends here are, if possible, the most con
spicuous and most active tools, in this desperate
and degrading effort TO PROSTATE freedom and to
enlhrone and eternize oppression. But LEI go
on, and let the actors in this Infamous Herod
and Plate conspiracy against the Constitution
oi the United States and Of Coo ALMIGHTY Con
sutution Of Human Nature, GO ON IN their
downward cOuTse-let them, like their great
LEADER, wax exceedingly fierce, knowing that
their time is short" for their time or the time
OF American liberty is short lIdeed
All Just men-ali who love impartla liberty
all who despse the meanness of those who
Cypress, and much more those who gratuitously
make common cause with the Oppressors of the
weak aud hel pless and with the despisers of the
Declaration Of Independence and its authors,
will of course commiserate these noble lovers
and defenders of the oppressed, on whom this
stealhy and c1waTdly blow has fallen and yet
none have more cause to rejoice at thls, than
those prosecuted ones themselves, for though
the blow was stealthily aimed at them, 1t has
yet iu the arrangements Of Providence recoiled
upon the heads of those who aimed It at them.
So mote it be Let the enemies of human
liberty uuite-and let those who are for and