The gazette and Democrat. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1860, 1860-05-03
From the o. S. Journal.
The Dfsuuiauists.

organizations may he driven by the in
tensity Of party spirit aud the demands
Of party necessity, is found in the readi-
ness with which the disunion ultsrances
of the Southern leaders oftbe DomOcra-
cy. are palliattd and justified by their
dependents at the North. The organ Of
the Ohio Democracy has sci the exam
pie, in this State. of apologising for these
reasonable declarations. II bases its de-
Tense Of them upon alleged violations of
the Constitutional rights Of the slavehold.
ing Sla'es by certain Northern STATES
among which it assigns conspicuous po-
sition to Ohio, claiming that it has nulli-
fed the fugitive slave law by its habeas
corpus act. and by refusing the use of
its jails for the confinement Of fugitiyes.
Therefore, 1t assumes that the Southern
democracy are justified 10 their declara-
ton of purpose 10 dissolve the Union.
Ohio is thus aIaigned as disloyal to the
Consiiu ion. and as occupying an atti-
tude ofrebelion against the federal gov
ernmcnL. The slanderers of Southern dis
uuionisls against the fair fame of our
State are reiterated and indorsed by the
leading exponents Of Democracy instead
of being Indignantly reFellsd as they
should be, by every patriotic citizen oI
The Commonwealth. The people of Ohio
arc maligOed and lraduced by one Of theiI
own nuaiber. because it has become ne
cessary to end some excuse for The oper
Q treason Of the leaders Of The Democracy
Q Every honest and intelligent citizen
I knows how false these charges are. and
Dukes the motive which prompts them
Ohio has done nothing that she had moi
G right to do in her sovereign capacity
b rs an independent State. She is under
n no constitutional obligation to provide
jaAS for the confinement Of fugitive slaves
any more than she is 10 organize anc
= support police 10 detect and ares then
: in their fight from bondage. The mos
that she is required to do by the conslitu
tional impact, about which there is 81
much incohereDt defamation, is TO ALLOW
e the law for The rendition Of lugitives t.
!. b. fairly executed by the federal officer
}. upon whom that task devoves. At th
q some time, II is one Of her most saare'
obligations tu her own citizens, who hav
" a right 10 her protection, 10 guard agains
d tie abuse u any existing federal law b.
d which innocent arties may be ths suffer
y ers. This is the sole object and effect o
the hdbeas corpus act, of which complain
is made by those who are sver ready Il
cone eeds everything to slavery. and moth
n ing t., freedom. Without some such saf
guard from unlawful Imprisonment 0
/, deportation.
3" There are provisions 10 The fugitiv
J. slave law which are justly obnoxious
T. tue people Of all the free States; but it
}. not necessary now to discuss them. Man
il believe that the law is uncoDstituliona
in some Of its provisions, others, wbi!
. acknowledging It's consiitutionality, re
g gard it as unfair and oppressive, not onl
: towards the fugitive, but towards tn
free citizens Of the non. .slaveholding State
4, and oil regard il as bad law. But nei
y, ther the Republican party, nor any con
+ siderable number Of men acting with tina
party, have ever denied the obligation re
ii latipg 10 the rendition Of fugitives i'm
>. posed by the Constitution OF the Unite
States.
y This. then. is the sum Of Ohio's otfens
r against the constitutional rights OF til
,e slave States; and this is made the basi
rs of justification OF the shameless and con
.. stanty repeated disunion threats Of III
Southern leaders OF the Democratic party
10 Nothing IS said Of the frequent "violl
t. tions Of the compact" by the slaveholt
at ing States nothing Of the tariff nuli6cI
a. ton ol south Carolina. which was the pr
= cursor Of the conversion of the old Deu
ocratic party TO the doctrine Of Tree trad
D. Nothing is..Said Of the violation of I'll
I'd Massachusetts laws oil citizenship i
Mt Charleston. and the subsequent ourag
g upon Judge lIoar, the Commissioner /
-, South Carolira. Not word Of rebuk
- is uttered against the dsgraceiul espior
o. age VI the mails. TO which newspaper
10 and even private correspondence are sui
n. jected 10 their passage through the Soutl
trn States; nor the worse than Austria
o or Italian tyrany Of an oligarchy by whic
= the free expression Of opinion is :nte
N die ed and prohibited in every slaveholt
4. ing STATE; Of iacsious and revolutionar
D. resistance ofSouthrrn members Of tn
House Of Represt ntatives--in which the
70 are joined by Northern Domocrats--lo a
's organization Of that body. by which legi
e. aton WAS retarded for weeks, while ami
a! this chaos of incipient revolution disul
Il ionism held high revel in the national car
= itol; nor Of the avowed determination
o. Curry, Brown, Wigfall, ,Pugh of Alaban
'e and others. of their determination 10 r,
p sist, by force. the Inauguration of r
!. publican President. in tho event of h
election, Our contemporary, whose lhs'
ry appears to be that tho Democracy ca
u do no wrong. and that its oppouents ca
do nothing right, having exhaustedall il
es powers ofdeprecation upon the Rspubl
r. cen policy which is based upon the idt
that this government was intended to sui
serve, as its paramount object, the int
esIs Vi freedom, has nothing. except b
, way OF excuse and justification. to say
!" the manifest policy Of the Democrac
on whLh is either TO continue slavery dom
he nant in the government or 10 destroy Il
-, government itself.
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