Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-09-30
From the Mahoning Index, Nov. 1, 1880
Death to Oppression.

From the Mahoning Index, Nov /, 1856
Death to Oppression.
The ~Indigaation Meeting for Mahoning coun
ty came OF here on "Wednesday, the Both, il
the Court House, and a grand, sublime and in
viting Convention it was to the feemeR o
Mahoning. We are happy to be able to sa!
that NO DouGHFAcE ATTENDED the Convention
for the blessed reason that Mahoning Count,
contains none, or at least but few who stant
ready to justify the infamous Fugitive Law, Oh
to sing peans to the slave power of the South
which fattcns upon the sweat, the blood and
death of his fellow man. No ONE, we say
spoke to the asseiablage of one thousand free
men, tUto did moi deoounce, as UNCoNsTTrUTIoN
AL and INFAMOUS, the Fugitive bill of 80, ant
pledge himself and all his God-given powers t.
seek its REPEAL, and TO DEFEAT the oppressiY,
and disgusting features of this doughface anC
hellish emanation of infamous, impious ant
distempered minds.
His Honor, Judge Wade, the President o
this Judicial Circuit, spoke first, for about ont
hour, upon the dcmerits of the bill, in his EN-
phatic manner denouncing not only the bill
but all who voted for it, or skuIked it on it
passage and the way he held up His Acct
dency, Mr.. Fillmore, for whom, in 49 he voted
was a caution to all political sinners. II ap
peared to do the souls of the vast audience
good to hear the true-hearted Wade pour on
his spirit in whitening anathemas upon the in
famous panderers from the North Ito the Slave
ocracy of the South) upon the passage of this
most infamous and diabolicaI law.
Next upon the fortuna was called, by the uni
ted voice of the meeting, Rufus P. Ranney, o
Taumbull, a distinguished delegate to make
our Constitution-one of the brightest mind;
10 Ohio, and an old Democrat and nothing else
ga politics He exposed not only the infamous
s1nz1ner in which the bill acas rushed through the
House under the gag rule Of the southern and
s'3afaoas oppressors, but IN sCArHING AND Bills,
TERING CURSES, denounced the echole bill as UN-
CONSTITUTIONAL(9 and the M1scREANFs
teho assisted IN us inception and passage By then
Uotes, or fleeing tcten God and their duty requi.
red their aid in behalf Of liberty and the rights
Of blood and life, as unworthy Of our regard
as UNWORTHY OF OUR ~UFFGAGE-no or here
after.
1t is worthy of remark to say, that it did the
souls of the Democracy good 10 hear the noble
and fearless RAxxsy d~oaounce an has ebaste and
sarcastic style, this outrageous and pestterous
O~t. I'll VI iEduy ", duu ufQ GuuOTS6
every word uttered by him on the occasion
feeling of a truth that although the apostates
from freedom for the sake of office had sought
to sell us and our children to the Infamous slave
power of this nation, yet that we had in our
midst men of strong, vigorous minds-men
who could not be made, for the sake of office.
or public plumber, to help to approve of the
infamous bill-men who would stand by the
freemen of the North, and aid us all to battle
for the right, and for the overthrow, not only
of this pestilential law. but for the political
death of every son of Belial who aided in the
procreation of this bill of unmitigated infamy
Hon. Mathew Birchard, one of our ex-Chief
Judges, next spoke against this communicating
bill, and the way he dclineated and exposed the
infamy of this ungedly law, in his cool, sedate
and sarcastic manner, is not in the power of
our pen to describe ; but it was made to tell
upon the hearts, the sympathies, and the judy
ments of this people and like an old Jeffer-
son Democrat he denounced all who had any
hand or took any part in this bill of viIlainy-
this bond of blood and death!
Senator Sutliff, from Trumbull, and John
Hutchins, Esq, also spoke, as. well as Judge
Newton, in denunciation of the bill and the
aiders and causes which produced its produc-
ton. And although Judge Wade is a Wing
of the old line, and Messrs. Ranney and Birch
ard are Democrats of the highest order of po-
litical attainments, yet no spectator could dis
cover anything throughout the exciting meet
ing which would cause any one to suppose that
political feeling OF party predictions entered
into the minds of the speakers or the hearts of
the audiences general and universal was the
desire and determination of not only the speak
ers, but the freemen in attendance, to exert all
their God given powers to abolish not only
this infamous law, but to nail and stamp wth
eternal political infdmy each and every villain
who aided in its passage. God grant that the
fire of liberty which this disbolical law has
kindled in the hearts of the people at the North
and West, may not be ~extinguiShed until every
miscreant who aided in its passage and appro-
val, is hurled from power and from the politi-
cal embraces of the sons of frecmen, of honor
and worth.
The resolutions are good, but the last one,
offered by Judge Brownlee, of our Bench, re-
ccived the unanimous response and amen Of the
mighty mass there assembled! Read it, and
adopt it, then for if we must continue to sue
cumb to the dictation of the infamous slave
holder or suffer death, let us not only suffer
death, but even the death of the Jewish cross I!
fI'he resolution referred to above reads as
follows
Reslued, That come life or come imprison-
ment, come fine or come death, we will neither
aid nor assist in the return of any fugitive
slave but on the contrary, We will harbor and
s~eerete, and by all just means protect and de-
fend him, and thus give him a practical God |
speed to liberty.
The above, then were Judge Ranney's SEN
timants upon the Fugitive Law in 1850, repor-
ted by a paper of his own party, and attested
by a host of persons in this vicinity who were
present at the meeting. 1t is only necessary to
show Judge RS utter subserviency to the be-
hests of his party. even to the denying that he
ever entertained or uttered a manly sentiment
upon the subject of slavery in his life, to give
his answers at Cleveland, last week, when in
terrogated by Mr. Dennison upon the subject.
During the discussion, the following, among
other questions, were propounded by Dennison
nswere 10y Mr.. Ranney. We copy from
the National Democrat
"Question-Did you, in 1850, deny the con-
stitutionality of the Fugitive Slave act of
1850?
did not.
Questionable you, in 1850, denounce the
Fugitive Slave act as unjust, and should be re-
i did nos. / said to the gentlemen then as |
would say now-that if the law did away with
corpus and the right of trial by jury,