Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-06-07
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Acting upon the maxim Of Michmvol, that
'it is better to do evil than do nothing Che
late Democratic State Convention of Ohio ig-
nored all their past professions in relation to
slavery, by prononcing in 'aDor Of the prelen-
sions and aggressions of the Slave power If
we are to receive these "ordcrs in council as
law, Slavery hcncelorh is to be the rule, and
freedom the exception in conformity 10 the
bred Scott decision, and in obedience to the
behcsts Of our Southern olgarchs. It is true'
popular sovereignty, non-intervenuon and some
other nice distractions, designed Tor the odds
and ends Of the Democracy, come in for a sop
IN the pan, but then, l apprehend all such
chimeras are about done simmeriug, and their
silly expounders will soon be done broiDn.
obedience TO Law is now the sovereign
balm and attribute OF the Democracy, and car
ries ia its train the virtual endorsement of the
Fugitive Slave Act, and all other tyrannical
laws having for their aim the propagation of
slavery A little later and we will be called
upon to embazon on our escutcheon the Slave
/ lrade with Africa; a measure which ex-senator
WALKER BRooKE, of Miss, declared in the
Southern Convention, recently held at Vicks
burgh, as infamous, and, to use his own an
guage, "would revive the black cole Of South
Carolina a century Bgo, in which man was
authorized tu kill runaway negro, whether he
res sted or no,-he was authorized to bring him
IN dead or alive. IL he was brought in alive,
ne had his nose slit and his ears cut off If be
| gappttI trt third he pttbar ha1 IA
one of his legs sawed of or suffered the pen-
atty of death. If the country were to be over
run with barbarous hordes from Africa, the
condition OF white men would also be put back.
| Every sembauce of humanity would have to
| be blottcd out from the statute book, aud the
slave holder would become instead of the pa.
| trlarchlCal friend aud master of the slave, a
bloody, brutal and trembling tyrant who in
stead of importing Africans ought TO be ox.
! ported himself, TO make way for pOre enIight-
ened people
Doubtless the expression OF the Ohio
| Democracy in declaring their devotion TO laws
iavuring the propagation and extending the
area of Slavery, will not be without signif
;lnce in determining the complexion OF the
! Democratic creed speedily TO be promulgated
| by the heroes OF the Charleston Convention -
| 10 was not always however, that the Democracy
held the Federal Judiciary IN such high venor-
| alton. When Gen. jackson seized the Govern.
| ment deposits IN the u. 5. Bank, without color
OF law aud against the interpositon Of the U,
| s. Court the 'uuterrhed" were iubant in their
admiration Of the act and their orators and
press excoratcd the Federal Judges with a
vengeance; terming that august institution,
the Supreme Court, feudal relic of Federal.
lsm bantIng OF one Alexander Hamilton,
who borrowed its monarchicll tea ures from the
| British Constitution, and torsoOth, ought to be
abolished or its sting extracted. And 50 eyi.
Ieutly thought "Uld Hickory who shortly
alter the event, elevated the instrument of his
will, Roger B TdHty, to a seat on the Su.
preme bench, to be the chief an ruling deity o
It's deliberations. But circumstances change
and with circumstances, change men,
Thus we trend. A few months since oul
mentors assured us, the line of demarkation be
tween the Democratc and Republican parties
on the vexed question of Slavery was dein
lively settled, and would no more come home
to plague the Democracy But now comes the
Democracy OF Ohio, in Convention assembled
and re open the case by declaring, if they de
clare any thing at all, that deUOtiOH to slaDery i,
the paramount duty of man, aud thrt hence
forth the rendition OF slaves under the Fugi
tive Slave Law, is a fixed fact, and now and for
ever more, tn. slogan Of Democracy. All the
old issues, touching Banks, Tariffs and Char
tered privileges, opposed to which were tn,
Democracy, IN the past, are treated with silence
and evidently viewed as political anachronlsm
Of All antedeuvian period, of no sort Of conse
quence whatever, in this progressive aye U
Democracy Truly, the travel southwark ha
set in And thou most honored and puissan
publican; obsequiOus deyotee of slavery "al
hog and diew ''"
Here we see the vast and omnpotent powe
Of Slavery The great State of Ohio, the hear
Of the Democracy, and of the nation, whici
gives no 600 Democratic votes against the 81,
900 Democratic votes of Virginia, and nearly a,
many as all New En- land combined is the first
Northern State to frt away her Democratic
prestige, aud give ia her adhesion to the twin
relic o barbarsm, Slavery and Piracyl The re-
suit of this overture, is neither doubtful or dis.
tant to the Democracy it presages defeat and
dissolution, to the South disgrace and dlreful
disaster.
And so this grand old Democratic party that
has weathered the storm for nearly three quar-.
ters OF a century, that was founded by jefferson,
nursed by Madison, its youth renewed aud its
JaekbOae prodigiously strengthened by sold
| Hickory" that has welded the helm of State,
if we except four short intervals of time, from
| the inclpicnt formation of the Government, and
if responsible for errors is entitled to the credit
Of shaping the past that has led to the elevation
Of the nation from three to twenty seven mil
lions OF people, from thirteen to nearly three
times thirteen States, whose vast domains lite
rally extend from the center of the Western
! Hemisphere "all round to The seas aud whose
power is immense, is at length demoIaized, de-
bauched and demenied by the foul arts of slave
no ders, aud about, ROieRS BOieRS, to surrender
! It's mission unluhlcd and descend to the tomb
Of the ,pulets," unhonored unwept, unsung.
SIC transit gloria muRdi The hand that rang
the bell came from Washington.
The political rag plckers" in this State,
known as the "Miami Tribe" who have ever
desired that the Democratic party of Ohio
should be like that Of Massachusetts, "conven-
ienty small, are in a fair way to see their OBJ
jects permanently accomplished More anon.
OLD SCHOOL DEMOCRAT.