Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-09-22

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EpIToR CLEVELAND LEADR=I am
told there are some few Republicans in
this State disposed 10 be Influenced by the
Locofoco twaddle flung at our candidate
for the Supreme Bench. 1t grieves me
that any Republican should be so unrea-
sonable as to object to Judge Gholson be-
cause be sold his house servants to his
neighbors, when he left the State of Mis-
sissippi, fifteen gears ago. When the
Judge resided in that State, there aoas no
Republican party an eristeace, nor for ten
years after he left il and became a
resident of Ohio. As, well might such
persons object to fellowship in the church,
with a brother, on the grounds, that, at
one period of his life he was uneonverted
and walked with publicans and sinnert.n
Is the Republican platform of Ohio, &c
post facto in its operations? Does it object
to men on account of the sentiments they
entertained a dozen years before the Free
mont campaign, and when they were citi-
zens of other States? Two-thirds of the
members of the Republican party voted
for Gen. Taylor, who bought, sold, and
held scores of slaves; and l want to know
if they are to be ostracised for it. l sub
NIT that those who voted for the Free
Sol slave holder, Taylor, have as little to
be ashamed of as those who cast their bal
lots for the Kinderhook magician, Van Bu-
ren. E-
Judge Gholson did not profess to be an
abolitionist when he lived in the South
He regarded slaveholding at that time
much in the same light that the rest of
the people of Mississippi did. He owned
two OF three domestics and when he re-
moved from the State disposed of them to
his neighbors, precisely as any other man
in Mississippi would have done under sim
liar 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 for a 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 that do own them. The
morality of the thing is the same; and if
Judge Gholson is 10 be condemned for
selling slaves fifteen years ago, so must all
the men of Ohio who were guilty of vo-
ting for shareholders for the higest 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 were not only guilty of owning
slaves, but of having bought and sold
some, and all the people voted for them,
except handful who bolted Clay and sup
ported Birney-not because Clay was
but because of his avowals in
the "Alabama letter" in regard to the an
nexation of Texas.
l remember that Joshua R. Giddiugs
not only voted for slaveholding Clay, but
stumped the State for him. And so did
Tilden, B. F. Wade, Hiram Griswold, John
A. Bingham, Sam Galloway, and scores of
the leading Republicans whom l might
name. Judge Spalding, Judge Briuker-
hof, Hon. d. 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 feE James X. Polk,
the Tennessee stakeholder. Are all these
men ostracised? And put it to the over
righteous brother:-"was it any worse for
a private citizen of slaveholding Mississippi
to sell his colored domestics to his neigh
bors, before leaving the State, than for
.hree hundred thousand citizens of free
Ohio to support two big Tennessee and
shareholders for the office of
"King of American And | put this
question to every honest man: Would you
not rather, to-day vote for John Bell, of
Tennessee, or Frank Blair, of Missouri,
both slave holders of slave States, than cast
your ballots for either Frank Pierce or
James Buchanan, both non-slave holders of
ree Statess Of course you would. And
so would any Republican, save those. who
stand so 'consclentiously" erect as to lean
backwards. g 81
Judge Gholson has neither bought, sold,
nor owned slaves since the Free Soil or
Republican parties have had an organized
existence. No man alleges it. He has
oeen firm and consistent supporter of our
,ause ever since the party was known. He
S opposed to holding slaves in Ohio or in
he Territories; is opposed to enlarging
he domain of slavery in any way, or Of
ending it any toleration or countenance
lot guaranteed to it by the Conststution.
lie endorses the Philadelphia National and |
he Ohio State Platforms of the Republi-
an party, and walks according TO their
'recepts. He is man of spotless moral
of unimpeachable integrity, and
If superior legal attainments. As a Judge
md citizen of the Queen City of tho
Vest, he is highly respected and popular.
Are these considerations and qualifications
lot sufficient to entitle him to the cordial
upport of every man calling himself a
republican, for the office to which he was
ominated by delegates of the Republican
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