Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-08-27


JuDoE RASNEY on rnR SrUNr--The hurrah
That went up from The more windy portion Of
our Sham friends at the announcement Of Judge
Ranney's intention to stump the State, seems
to be hardly Justified by his bearing since the
ball has been opened. His effort at zanes-
willie on the 10th, is reported TO have been a
decided failure State afFairs, he INDUCED q
very natural inclination to ignore, though even
on that subject, Il was hardly wise to make a
show Of courage aud general information, mas
much as the Office for which he is running has
no immediate concern with other than home
matters. He occupied bis time almost exclusive
y with rather commonplace remarks on popular
sovereignty and the fugitive slave law. He was
understood to take the side Of squatter sovor.
eighty and expressed himself 10 favor Of sustain
ing the fugitive slave law, notwithstanding his
zeal, nine years ago, for nufying the same
The Courier says:
I" He told how the delegates from the free
Staes in the Federal Convention inserted in
the Constitution the provision, that when a
slave escaped into a free State, (these were his
words) be should be delivered up upon claim.
Pray, Judge, will you tell us how many free
States there we're at that time; and 10 what
edition of the Constitution the words free
State occur
One other point, noticed by the Courier, de-
serves attention, as showing the degree Of can
dor and honesty which Judge Ranney mauifests
while soliciting the suffrages Of the people
Referring to the presence Of Gov. Chase at the
Cleveland meeting
." He said in effect, that meeting number
ing 10000, composed Of men of oil parts Of the
Reserve, who had gone there under the promise
that they should tear down the Jail in which
were iucarcerated number of men who had
violated the Fugitive Slave Law, met at Cleve-
land, short time ago, and he was sorry to say,
that the Chief Executive Of the great State of
Ohio was present encouraging them"
This is grave charge. Now let us see hOw
for Gov. CHAss encouraged" this unlawful
and riotous proceeding. The following ex-
tracts from his speech on that occasion, will
show
He was not expecting to be present to-day;
but had felt it his duty to come. He had not,
however, come to advise them to do anything
which they hereafter might have occasion to re-
gret. He had not come to counsel any violence.
The American people, having the control of all
power by the ballot boxes, it was for them to do
it in their own legitimate way.
at was not necessary that we, the sovereigns
of the land should resort to any measures which
could not be carried out at all times, and under
oil circumstances"
"Let the Courts be appealed to- and let them
act in accordance with their own conscience
and their duty between themselves and their
God. The great remedy is in the people them
selves at the ballot box. Elect men with back
bone, who will stand up for their rights, no
matter what forces are arrayed against them"
We cannot put high estimate upon the
moral integrity of a man who would SO wanton-
ly pervert history, and utter SO palpable SIAN
der against the man whose place lin the Ian
guage OF Douglas) he is after. If we are not
Judge Ranney will find very few
audiences in Oho whom he can proftably at
tempt to impose upon in this INSCRIPTIONS