The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1860-02-29

rarty, be tells US that the lnsnlting provisions
of this act violently assail 'the sacred principles
Of freedom, Justice, and Humanity" His Cleve.
land letter was q "succsauneutr' for the old
Wing platform. He felt that change was ne
cessary and made II accordingly. What was
the result? He received the almost unanimous
nomination Of the Republican party for the Of.
fee of Governor. His Cleveland letter was
fully endorsed asexprsssins the Republican SEN
timent of the State. ~
In passing allow me to say to what are
known as the conservative Republicans upon
this floor, that from this fact you may learn this
lesson: Not one ofyou catF ever receive State
nomination of the Republican party, unless
like Dennison, you get down on all fours and
eat such dirt as the Western Reserve may fur
nish you. In the opinion Of the managers o.
that party you make good voters, to aid in elec'
ting the Republican ticket, but you won't do fol
candidates.
One further item Of proof to sustain my
charge against the Republican party, Of disloy.
atty to the Constitution.
Confinement in the Cleveland jail was irk.
some TO the saints and they were for once in
their lives real friends OF freedom" They
wanted to get out, and their friends wanted tc
test the Republican Supreme Court and sec
whether that Tribunal was sound on the Fug
tive Slave Law. writ ofhabeas corpus was
sued out tor their liberation on the ground o.
the unconstitutionality OF that law, and was
tried before the full bench of the Supreme
Court. After full argument the majority o
the Court following an unbrocken line Of de.
cisions Of the Supreme Court Of the United
States and the State Supreme Courts, decided
the law to he constitutional and remanded the
prisoners. The opinion Of the majority was
concurred in and pronounced by Hon. Joseph
R. Swan, Chief Justice. His term was about ex
piring and he was candidate for re- nomination
Until this decision he had given universal sat.
isfaction as Judge. He was everywhere re-
cognized as a learned, able, upright and indeiat
igable iurist He had served term Of five
years on salary Of $170o; on his reelection
he would have been entitled to receive 5000
On every principle of right and justice he wa'
entitled to denomination. Prior to the de-
csion referred to, no competitor appeared a.
gainst him. But in making that decision he
committed the objectionable sin against the
Republican party. The "Sous Of Liberty
were thirsting for his blood. Within weel
after Plumb Peck and their devoted collea
CUES" had been remanded to the Cleveland jail
the Republican State Convention met. DowY
from the North came the lords Of the Republ
can party, filled with wrath at the rebelliou'
judge. They showed him no quarter.-Hi'
dignity and learning were no shield. They
chopped off his head with Western Reserve
cheese knife. They said be hath sinned, and
his office let another take.
Sir, this act of the Republican party speak;
volumes. 1t shows more clearly than any reso
luton what the designs and principles of thai
party are. 1t was bold. high. handed outrage
and unless the people are smitten by judicial
blindness, will sooner or later receive its jus,
punishment.
But, sir, why seek for further proofs of the
proposition have been endeavoring to establish
when we have it in the resolution adopted by
the same convention which decaptated Judge
Swan. demanding the unconditional repeal 0
the Fugitive Slave Law OF Congress, and in the
very bill upon our desks, to which have adver.
ted. All these proposed measures have beer
once upon our statute book by the act Of the
Republican party, and that party is seeking to
place them there again. An examination o.
the bills and the quarter from which they
come, will convince any one that their movers
design nothing but mischief and resistance to
the Constitution and laws OF the United States
In the light Of this discussion it may be well
to recur to the opinions expressed by Webster
and Clay, of the party which should entertain
such sentiments as have shown belong to the
Republican party of Ohio
In his letter to John Taylor, MIR. Webste.
remarked: "There are in New Hampshire
many persons who call themselves Wings, who
are no Wings at all, and no better than Disu-
nioaisis. Any man who hesitates in granting
and securing to any part o(the country its just
and constitutional rights, is an enemy to the
whole country" The Republican party o
Ohio not only "hesiiates," but buntly refuses
to give to the South its just and constitutional
rights. 1t is therefore, in the language of Web.
ster, party OF disunionists and enemies to the
whole country.
In speech delivered before the Legislature
of Kentucky, on the 18th of November, 1850
MIR. Clay said:
"If the agitation against the fugitive slave Law
should continue and increase and become alarm
ing. it will lead to the formation oftwo new
parties one for the Union and the other against
the Union. and the platform OF that
Union party will be the Union, the constitution
and the enforcement ofits laws, and if it should
become necessary to form suth party, and il
should be accordingly formed, | announce my.
self,n this place member of that party, what
ever NAV be its component elements. Sir,
20 further, ! have had great hopes and conf.
dence in the old Wing party, but II it is to be
merged into contemplate Abolition party,a
if Abolitionism is 10 be engrafted on the Whig
creed from that moment renounce the party
and cease to be Whig." "af fsa .s
II the Republican party OF Ohio is not the
party, which Mr.. Clay describes as one Spring
inc from the agitation Of the fugitive slave law,
as the contemplate abolition party, as the par
ty against the Union, then his language meant
nothing. .r .. .
Sir, the fact that thousand Of tho ancient and
tried followers of Clay in this State, have for.
gotten the lesson which he taught them, and
are now found in the "contemptible abolition
ranks of the Republican party, warring against
the Constitution, the Union and the enforce.
ment of its laws" is enough to cause his sepul,
chre to open its ponderous and marble Jaws
and his dead corpse to revisit the glimpses o
the moon, and with gaunt strides traverse the
hand and warn the people that there is some
thing rotten in the State of Denmark.
appeal to the friends Of the great departed
Statetrnan on this floor, to heed his words, te
retrace their steps, and join with us in resis
tanee W bildt Ctdco VI iV6otSpiOi'i thO v
which will be evil and only evil; to remember
the obligation Of that oath which we have al
taken, to support the Constitution of the Uni
ted States; in the language Of Webster, wher
speaking on this very subject, 'to be up to oul
Constitutional duties" and at once and forever
put an end to this petty, irritating and insult
ing war upon the Constitutional rights of ths
South. This is no time for this kind Of legis
lation when recent events have excited the jeal
ousy and suspicion of our Southern brethren
when the bitter waters of sectional strife ar,
stirred to the bottom, and when men both a
the North and the South arc coolly calculatin,
the value Of this precious Union and specula
ting upon the result of its disruption. Letth
North show fixed purpose to adhere to ant
carry out, in good faith, tho provisions Of tn
national compact, to discountenancs all disloy
atty and rebellion, and we shall hear ne NOR
from any quarter, the insane cry Of disunior
and sober reason will resune her sway Wit