Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-04-28
I..,,ar-nar Repunllcnrl.n.

LultDE-Dul hDNoMhACAuhnms F.. .
As expounded by such lattef-day saints as
Corwin, Republicanism viii soon become the
mildest-mannered thing that ever sailed a
SLAYER on the middle passage, with twenty
four inch slave-hold, short allowance of wa
ter and the smallpox on board. The Repub-
lican opposition to the Fugitive-slave Law,
as defined by him, according to the tele-
graphic report of his last entertainment in the
House, has none of the nonsense or fanaticism
of humanity, or regard for the liberty Of free
men about il. Il is not because a free man
can be seized and carried into slavery with
less legal investigation than would be re-
auired TO establish title to a dog nor any
abstract niceties about depriving man of
liberty without a trial by jury-a thing SO
sacred in case of title to q mule; but 1t is
all on account Of their anxiety that the South
should have greater facilities for their sport,
and because the Fugitive-slave Law throws
the impediment of Commissioner, and an
affidavit to the claim, between the claimant
and his right to take the Constitution in his
hand and go into free State" and seize and
carry off his negro, with no other warrant
which this apostle Of latter-dAy Republi-
canism says he could do, were there no Fugi-
tive-slave Law. We quote:
"Were there no Fugitive-slave Law,
Southern man could go into the free States
with the Constitution in his hand, reclaim
the fugitive because the Constitution gave
him the right, and said the person owing
labor or service shall be delivered up. The
hal All tnf
tion, and therefore he adhered to this view of
the subject" ...... DID,. -.H
Great Caesar s. clay may be used to stop a bung-
hole, but to make castinets of the bones of
''the trainers of the Constitution" to be rat
tied in this way by the "Bones" of the House,
is carrying the matter little too far. i
Besides this great constitutional dispensa-
ton has grave doubts about the constitution
ality Of the Commissioner provision in the
Fugitive Law, though when it was passed he
was member of Fillmore's Cabinet and ad-
vised its approval-proof of the superior
brightness of the new light.
But would the Republicans repeal the law
and remove all distractions from the owners
right to hunt negroes, with the Constitution
in one hand and a revolver in the other2 o
mol He said: "There was not one in hund
red thousand Of the Republicans who woult
undertake to repeal the present law and sub
stitute State legislation" The Republicans
it seems oppose the law solely because i
obstructs the constitutional right of the Soutl
to hunt negroes in the free States, but not ont
in hundred thousand would be willing Il
have the law repealed and trust to themselve
, to fulfill their constitutional obligation
without it-a most laudable Republica
meekness and humility ofspirit, which throw
Moses in the shade and quite comes up t
Uriah Heep. ...... ..-...
The apostle of latter-day Republicanisl
also announced to the South, cheering an
; conservative indications that soon all the fire
States, even Massachusetts, will be passin
laws to exclude free negroes, and the Mort
will express its sympathy for slavery by a
} inhumanity utterly destitute of the excu'
and of the ameliorating protection of slavery
; all of which he regarded as symptoms of
fraternal, national, and conservative spiri
a which ought to be satisfactory to the Sout
o Republicanism, lately rampant as your
r lion, is now content to be represented by 4
g senility and garrulity and versatility of ol
4 Polonius; under which "now it resembles
e camel, and ''now by the mass it looks like
v weasel" and noyiit is 'very like awhale."