Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-09-16

y believe they could, question Of IN,
ownership Of a horse, believe taat the pcople Of
Ohio could decide as impnrtialy In accordanes
with the evidence tho question Of man's title 10
bis freedom, / cay therefore, that when tho gen.
| ucman says 10 me that the people Of Ohio ara
not loyal to the Constitution and the laws say
that he bellies the people Of Ohio. / say that he
! ISLANDERS the people Of Ohio. say that the peo-
| pie Of Ohio have ever been loyal 10 the Constitu-
[ ton aud tho laws, aud they intend 10 be 20; bu,
they intend TO insist upon their riphls their full
rights undor The Constitution Of tho United States
| If the Congress, " the general Goyornmeni, feels
/ II 10 bo its duty 10 protect slavery in Virginia wo
\ demand that that Government shall protect free.-
dom IN Ohio. II il be right If Is be just that the
relation Of MASTER and slave shall bo guarded Ia a
] slave State, then L say the relation to feedom
which every man sustains 10 this slate shall be
sustained aud vindieated here to the last extromi.
| ty. The Governor elect Of Virginia says ho will
| defend the rights of Virginia / say, elect mo
/ Governor Of Ohio, and ! will defend the rights Of
| Ohio.
| Now, sir have answered I'll Of his ques.
/ tons. How has he answered mine asked
the gentleman two or three question:. I asked
hun whether he affirmed or denied the interpre.
tatlon OF the Federal Constitution made by
majority OF the Judges Of the Supreme Court
Of the United States, in the Drod Scott case
that the Territorial Legislature has no power
answer that question. (Cries Of mo" 'no -
"no y No, sir ho told you what he thought
was decided by the Judges OF the Supreme
| Court H. that case But did not ask his opin.
ion on that subject. don't care a fg what
he thinks about that. l asked him whether
that Interpretation was or was not accepted bv
him, and he does not say l answered his
his questions. lie did not answer mine Did
he Cries Of no, no.) asked him questions
in Tiflin, which he took two dvs 10 answer,
and did not answer them then oil than. |
called his attention TO the letter Of At.
torney General Black, and instead of IN.
swering that question, he tell you that he
don't care anything about newsp lper articles al
all! Now, sir, l do,-I want TO know, and |
shall ask the gentleman again, because we have
another discussion. l want an answer tO that
specific question. | want TO knO whether we
are any longer to be cheated by this Democratic
party. Iwsnt TO know whether they shall any
longer have two sides to their faces, a black
side for the North, and white ride for tho
South. ] want an answer. | see tha, they are
beht in dodging these questions, They are at.
tempting TO cheat the people Of the country
say again, your papers here represent two
Th'zes Of this Slavery question, and he has
not yet told US which is and which ia not tho
democratic phaze. want to know whom we are
contending against. lfit be Northern Democ
racy, as interpreted by the gentleman, We will
not give ourselves much concern, for that will
be entirely extinct next year, when the power
comes up from South Carolina. If It il the
Southern view, then it becomes a formidable
party, as it has ever been, because the
South unite with the unprincipled men of
the North and wage desperate warfare.
Now, sir, we dUnt intend to be cheated
any more in this way. We arc going, in this
canvas, to have perfectly plain sailing, free
fight all round and whoever shall come Oft
victor let him wear the laurel But no man
shall steal 7gan into the camp, az was done at
Cincinnati, with that Janus faced, forkeJ.
tongue and crooked eyed platform, TO wheede
an mislead us. Senator Brown, of Mississippi,
said in speech few days since that some
body had been cheating, for the Cincinnati
platform didn't mean what they thought it did,
and he was right We've had more than enough
Of that sort Of thing.
And now tell my Douglas friends here that
when they come TO 20 down 10 Charleston next
Summer, they will find that they will have TO
agree to any and every demand OF tho South,
or he driven without ceremony from the very
building whers they were seated They will
have to do more. They will have to swallow
tho doctrine of the re.opsning of the African
Slave Trade. That trade is already opened
hAalAh dlo hItuul uhulCIOuh NIltTb Dbs
grOes fresh from Africa are unb!ushingly
exposed for sale Il is so stated Ivy Mr..
Douglas and others, and tell my good Demo.
cratic friend back here, that he will have in take
a longer jump than he did from '4S TO the
Hoffman letter, or he will no longer be mem,
Der of the great Democratic party. But my
friend has discovered lew princpes in tho
history OF government TO lustiGY Lhp doptriub
of Squatter Sovereignty. lie tells us that the
,traN a. N
cratic party of the North is the same old doc d.
trine that was advocated by the men who
fought in the American Revolution. lie tells
us that the old men of those days who waded
through the Red Sea of that Revolution thought
that they poured out their blood and treasure
thus like water, to secure right of having sla-
very in the territories They put it on record
they fought for the privilege of solEgovernment
My friend tells Us that by this they meant the
privilege OF having SLAVES in this country, and
yet these were the men who 30 bitterly denoun-
cod 'he King OF Great Britain because he ap-
piled his negative to acts of tho Colonies, pro.
hihitlng the importation of slaves from Africa
These men, the great apostles of human lber.
ty, men who fought, and prayed, and died for
ir edOm,-theso men are now presented by my
friend here, AZ by Senator Douglas, as engag-
ing In this war for the great purpose of estab.
fishing slavery firmly and universally in the
Colonies Of the United States, wherever It might
not then have been established Sir, / stand
here to vindicate those old men of the revolution
from so foul an assertion. / say that The memory
of those men should be protected against such as
saults upon the part Of their children. I protest
that these glorious old men who so joyously sacr-
feed everything for liberty, could never have be.
como the advocates, or defenders, or apOOgists OF
slavery. say that old Tom Jefferson, Who de-
clarci the relation Of master aud slave to be one
of unlimited despOtism on the ono hand and of
degrading submission on tho other, would nevor
have raised his voice for any principle of local self
government, the object Of which would be to give
the electors the right to hold savos. II lis o libel
upon JeiieraOn. 1t Is n libel upon Washington,
upon Henry, upon Jay aud upon all those great
and good men who have given us all We hAvethat
is worth possessing, no small part of which ia
attempted TO be taken from US by this power south
of Mason DixOn's line, Why cir, Mr.. Douglas
pnys 10 The very same manifesto In which this
doctrine is onunciated that the principles now sd
vooated by tho Republican party, Of interfering
to prohibit slavery in tie territories, ia nothing
more ofs than the doctrine OF the old tories Of
| the Revolution To this extreme, my fOllow-ciu-
zens, men driven when they endeayor to falsify
history and defend great wr,ng. To this ex-
lremc nro men driven when they turn their bRek
upon all the Information that has come down 70
them embalmcd in the memory of all the
great men who have embellshed tho an
nails OF our country from the Revolution
TO this time. Thus you arc now charged
with advocating the very principles of tho tories
l of tho Revolution, in asking that slavery shall
not be carried into, or allowed in the territories
in demanding that Congress shall inteIfer
for the prohibition Of slavery in the territories.
You are soberly told that if you had lived in
the days OF the Revolution, you would have
| been Que of those tories who sought TO keep
| the Colonies subject to the British Government.