Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-09-02
Como, T.et us Ronson Togcthor.


EDrTok CtHvrLAND LrADsR II am told
there are some few Republicans in this State
diaposed to be influenced BY nc Locofoco
twaddle flung at our candidate ioI The Supreme
Bench Il grieves me that any Republican
should be so unreasonable as to object to Judge
Gholson bcoauao he cold his house servants,
to his neghbors, when he leR the State Of
Mississippi, 6iicen years ago When the Judge
resided in that State, there tOas no Republican
party IN cristence nor for ten yeirs after be left
It and became resident OF Ohio. As well
might such persons object to fellowship in the
church, with brother, on the grounds that, at
one period of his life, he was unconverted and
walked with publicans and sinners.
Is the Republican platform Of Ohio, erposi
Jacto in ts operations Does it object to men
on account Of the sentiments they entertained
dozen years before the Fremont campaign,
and when they were citizens Of other States I!
Two-thirds Of the members Of the Republican
party voted for Gen Taylor, who bought, sold,
and held scores ofslaves and want to know,
if they are to be ostracised for it. l submit
that, those who voted for the Free Soil slave.
holder, Taylor, have as little to be ashamed of
as those who cast their ballots for the Kinder.
hook magician, Van Buren.
Judge Gholson did not profess to be an Abo.
litionist when he lived in the South lie re-
gardsd slaveholding at that time much in the
same light that the rest of tho people of Mis-.
sissippi did. He owned two or three lomestics,
and when he removed from the State disposed
of them to bis neighbors, precisely as any other
man in Mississippi would have done, under
similar circumstances. Besides, there was no
slavery question at issue when he lived in the
South The Free Soil party was not in being
for several years thereafter, and the Republican
organization, was not dreamed of for decade,
subsequently. 1t is as bad to buy or hold slaves
as to sell them, and no worse TO do either than
to vote for those who own them, The morality
Of the thing is the same and if Judge Ghol.
son is to be eondemnedl lor selling slaves fifteen
years ago SO must all the men of Ohio who
were guilty of voting for Shareholders for the
highest office under the Constitution. The same
year that Judge Gholson came to Ohio the
| Wings and Democrats ran Clay and Polk both
Shareholders for President. These candidates
WtIt tiob Only Hhllbl Oi uWulu9 hihNEbt Out OF
having bought and sold some and all the peo-
pic voted for them, except handful who boted
Clay and supported Birney--not because Clay
was elaveholder, but because of his avowals
in the Alabama letter" in regurd to the an
nexatiOn of Texas.
l remember that Joshua r. Giddings not
only voted for siaveholding Clay, but stumped
the State for him. And So did Root, and Til
den, b. +. Wade, Hiram Giiswold, John A.
Bingham, Sam. Galloway, and scores of the
leading Republicans whom / might name-
Judge Spalding, Judge BrinkerhofI Hon. D.
K Cartier Gen. Ashley, Day of Cincinnati,
| Case of Newark Letter of Canton, Nichols
Helmick, and dozens more of the leaders in the
Republican ranks Of Ohio, voted for James K
Polk, the Tennessee stakeholder Are all these
men to be ostracised And | put it to the
over righteous brother -" was it any worse
for q private citizen of slavehodirg Mississippi
to sell his coored domestics to his neighbors,
before leaving the State, than for three hundred
thousand citizens of free Ohio to support two
! big Tennessee and Kentucky Shareholders for
the office of liking of America?" And put
this question to every honest man Would
you not rather, to day, vote Tor John Bell, of
! Tennessee, or Frank Blair, of Missouri, both
| shareholders of slave States, than to cast your
ballots for either Frank Pierce or James Bu-
cbanan, both non-slaveLolders of free States
OF course you would. And SO would any
Republican, save those who stand so con.
scientiously' erect as to lean backloGrds
Judge Gholson has neither bought, sold, nor
owned slaves since the Free Soil OF Republican
parties have had an organized existence. No
man alleges it. He has been a firm and con.
sistent supporter of our cause ever since the
PsTty was known. He is opposed to holding
slaves in Ohio or in the Territories is opposed
to enlarging the domain of slavery in any way,
or of lending il any liberation or countenance
not guaranteed to il by the Constitution. He
endorses the Philadelphia National and the
Ohio State platforms of the Republican party
and walks according TO their .precepts, He is
man of apotess moral character, of unim-
peachahle integrity, and of superior legal at
tainments. As a Judge and a citizen in the
Queen City of the West, he is highly respected
and popular Are these considerations and
qualifications not sufficient to entite him to the
cordial support Of every man calling himself
Republican, for the office to which he was
nominated by delegates of the Republican
party A REPUBLICAN,