Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-09-29
CITY n ewS.

Bnthusinstic Crowd = speech of John
sherman.
The Republican meeting at the Fifth |
street Market-space, last night was very !
large, numbering more, perhaps, than any
political gathering held this year, except the
Douglas reception, on Wednesday night 1t
differed from that, however, in the fact that
il was a much less divided audienee-nearly
ALL judging from appearances, being ke-
publicans. The meeting was organized by
the appointment of the following officers;
President-Judge G. d. Coffin.
Vice Presidents-Judge D. K. Este, George
Carlisle VIM. Dennison, ST., Robert Hosea,
Stephen Molitor, Howard Matthews, A.
Trounstine, NJ. Cooper, Alphonso Taft.
Secretaries - G. Richards, jr., and VIM.
Stanton.
Judge Dickson was called upon, and made
q short address. He said that Mr.. Douglas
had two speeches, one for the North and one
for the South. At Cincinnati he had both
Northern and Southern auditors, and hence,
every time he ever came here, he was hoarse.
He had spoken Immediately before he came,
the last time, and he spoke at Lawrenceburg
and indianapolis the next Cay, but when
here, his voice was gone.
At this point Mr.. Sherman arrived, and
was introduced by the President, amid loud
cheering.
He commenced his remarks by saying that
the first duty of the people, in every political
campaign, was to ascertain the real issue
upon which they were called upon to decide
by their suffrages.
In this instance, the Bell party would have
us believe that it was the preservation of the
Union, although nobody in the North pro-
posed to dissolve it; Douglas declares that
the real issue is popular sovereignty, though
he knows that, as he breaches it, it is an ar
rant humbug; Breckenridge contends that it
is whether a STAKEHOLDER shall have the right
to carry his slaves into the Territories, which
is correct; and upon this the Republicans
ioin issue. No matter what efforts may be
made to avoid the responsibility, the real
question before us is, shall slavery or free
dom control the destinies of the Territories
of the Government
Broken-down politicians in this country
and elsewhere, endeavor to avoid RESPONSE
bility by saying that Republicans are in fa-
vor of negro equality-an assertion they
know to be false. Republicans believe that
free negroes have a right to life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness, and it would
be mean white man that would wish to
deprive them of these. Republicans only
marry white women, and they have no need
of laws to prevent them from taking negro
partners; butaaf Democrats can not resist
the temptation without a prohibitory law,
then let them have it. [Cheers.]
No political party wished to invest negroes
with the same political rights as white men.
The Constitution of 1901 had conferred the
right of suffrage on white men, and Dem
ocratic Supreme Court, thirty years ago, had
decided that any one with more white than
black blood was white, and our Consti-
tutional Convention of 1850 refused to change
| the wording of the provision, and our
| present courts had only adopted the old
| Democratic construction.
What the Republican party wants, is to
| keep the Territories for free labor, and free
men-such men as he saw before him. He
would commit our great Western domain to
them, as worthy heirs to princely in
heritance.
With regard to the Bell party, he said that
they claimed to desire but three things-the
Union, the Constitution, and the enforce
ment of the laws. No issue could be joined
with the Republicans on these questions, for
they were in favor of precisely the same
thing. If any Republican would have the
| hardihood to advocate a dissolution of the
| Union, he would be at once kicked out of the
| party and sent among the Democrats, where
he belonged. LCheers.1 He believed that
many of the provisions of the Fugitive-slave
| law were unjust and oppressive, and ought
to be repealed [cheersl; but while it was a
law, let it be enforced. He believed that,
under the Constitution, the shareholders
could reclaim their runaway slaves in the
free States; but the law should be framed so
that, in carrying out one provision of the
| Constitution, several others would not be
nullified.
He had said that popular sovereignty, as
| Douglas preached it, was humbug. That
| individual was the author of the Kansas-Ne-
| braska Bill, yet by that act the President
| appointed the judges and the secretaries of
the Territory, as well as the Governor, which
latter functionary had a veto on all the acts
of the Legislature. These officers were SUBJ
ject to the will of the President, and were
| usually broken-down politicians, such as
Shannon and Medary are, and such as Pugh
will be after the 4th of March next. But the
bill provides, it is said, that the people of the
Territories have the privilege of choosing
their Legislature, which, by a two-thirds
vote, can override the gubernatorial vote;
but there are the Courts to reverse the acting
of the people and sustain the Governor; so
that they had no real political power, save
such as the President chooses to give them.
He (the speaker) had voted to make all the
offices of the Territory elective-a thing that
Douglas never had done and never dare do.
Whenever ''My great principle" was before
the Senate, Douglas was always on hand to
make a speech; but when any other measure
was brought up, he was sick. He was absent
when the vote was taken on the Homestead
Bill, on the bill TO abolish slavery in New
Mexico the Tariff Bill iwhen his vote, with
that of his friend Pugh's, would have passed
it) the bill abOlishing polygmy, and
numerous others indeed he would challenge
any Douglas man present, or he would chal-
lenge the Cincinnati Enquirer to point out
single bill of importance for which Douglas
voted, at the last session of Congress. He
had talked protection in Pennsylvania, and
regretted that her interests had been ne
elected; yet he had lodged the Tariff Bill,
when his vote, with that of Pugh's would
have passed it.
He continued for nearly two hours, but
we are unable 10 publish any more of his re-
marks. He was once interrupted by the
arrival of the Wide awakes, whose approach
was loudly cheered by those already on the
ground When Mr.. S. closed he was escorted
to the Burnet House, and serenaded, after
which the people dispersed.