Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-09-20

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not the necessary yariety of institutions there
Their States are all free States. There is
uniformity there. How can they have fed
eral institutions with uniformity2 How can
there be liberty without variety2 Impos-
sibie. Poor, innocent souls they think they
are free, and have no slaves. Let the Judge
90 at once on a missionary expedition TO lib
crate the Swiss lie will have an opportu-
nifty to try that other great original idea Of
bis, that "any political creed must be radi-
cally wrong which cannot be proclaimed ev
erywhere.p venture TO p edict that every
honest Swiss boot will lift itself and kick the
great variety Douglas respectfully from ALP
to Alp.
Now look ut the strange consequences into
which his variety doctrine inevitably leads
him. The necessity of preserving slavery for
the sake of liberty that is Of preserving the
variety Of instituhOus-wa3 the principal
ground upon which he placed the necessity
Of passing his Conspiracy Bill. The same
man who tells us that slavery must be pre-
served because its extinction would bring
about uniformity, which in its turn would
produce a consolidated despOtic government
the same man advocates the passage of a
measure investing the government with pow
ers which put it upon the courses of consoli-
da'ion; for without the grant of these pow
ers, without that act of consolidation, Slav-
cry cannot be maintained. Slavery, accord
ing to him, must be preserved by measure
which is necessary TO popular liberty, for il
Slavery is not preserved, uniformity will en-
sue and the liberties of the people will be in
danger. In other words, he tells us that the
existence OF slavery is necessary for the pres
ervation Of our rights and liberties. and then
he tells US that a measure undermining our
rights and liberties is necessary for the pres
ervation of slavery. The variety must be
kept up for the purpose of maintaining our
liberties, and our liberties must be put down
for the purpose Of keeping up the variety.
We are, indeed, greatly indebted to Judge
Douglas. At last we know what Slavery is
good for, and why its extinction is neither
possible nor desirable Even the black man,
in his sufierings, will find soothing cons, H.
ton in the Judges philosophy. When Sam.
DO is flogged down South, and the whip lace
rates his back, the benevolent Judge will tell
the poor fellow that he has got to whipped
for the sake Of variety laughter and Sam
DO will smile in the sweet consciousness OF
being whipped for very great principle
Renewed laughter. And when the Judges
bill has passed, an,. he has opened for Won the
prison cells wherein be blandly invites you,
20 drag Cus your miserable lives" you will
with pride remember the old Roman proverb,
"DaLes etdecoTlm est patri mOri;;" and improv-
ing upon the text you will exclaim, at is
most sweet and honorable to die for yarietys
sake"
This then, is Judge Douglas philosophy Of
government; not an idea occasionally
dropped in a speech, but his great original
conception. This shallow, ridiculous, child
ish nonsense is what he emphatically pro-
claims to be the fundamental doctrine Of his
whole political wisdoml Oh, Douglas DEM
ocrats, how proud you must feel of your
greatest statesman alive" Permit me to
offer you, in the name of the Republican par
ty, our sincerest congratulations.
ARRAIGNMENT OF THE LITTLE GIANT.
But, as to Judge Douglas, here l stand up
before the great jury OF the sovereign people
aud bring my bill OF Indictment.
Iarraign him or having changed his po-
sition in regard to the Missouri restriction,
time and again, according to the interests c.
Slavery.
arraign him for having broken the plight
ed faith o. the people by the repeal OF the
compromise of 1920.
l arraign him for having upheld the most
atrocious violations of the ballot-box; for
having trampled upon the most sacred rights
OF the people Of Kansas, SO long as the strug-
gle between Freedom and Slavery was doubt
fll.
r-----:- - l---i-.s committed fraud
upon the people by forging and adnlteratinq
the principle of Popplar Soverei0ntv and
4 laking it the machine of siovqry 1T2Upagand- e
n.
o l arraign him for having deserted the cause
p Free Kansas when the people, having COM
Iiied with all reasonable conditions, applied
Or admission into the Union.
( / arraign him for having repeatedly made
Aas attempt to disturb the system of consitu-
tional checks and balances, by placing the
war-making power in the hands of the Pres
ident.
| arraign him for having attempted, by his
couspiracies, a thing more outrageous than
the Sedition Law of l79s to put the Hber-
ties Of speech and press at the mercy of
political inquisitiOn, and to make the judi
cial persecution of opinions a standards ystem
Of policy.
l arraign him, lastly, for having attempted
to pass off upon the people the doctrines of
political philosophy, which is an insult to the
popular understanding. No, beg your par
don, do not arraign him for that, for this is
a free country, where everybody has a right
to make himself as ridiculous as he pleases,
"suIject only to the Constitution of the Uni
ted States" Loud laughter And yet I
arraign him for that also, for protest that he
has no right to make the Republic ridiculous
with him.
Here is the charge. 1t is for the people to
give the verdict
DOUGLAS ASA PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE.
Mr.. Schurz closed his remarkable speech
With an exposition of Douglas attempts to
get himself nominated for the Presidency,
and Of his conduct since the nomination was
obtained, showing the trickery by which the
nomination was procured. The orator also
showed how the candidate had been over
whelmed by bis own devices, and he asked:
Where is the bold, powerful agitator, whose
voice sounded so defantly on every contested
field 2 Behold him on his sentimental jour
ney, vainly trying to find his mother home
and his fathers grave, apologizing with
squeamish affectation for his uncalled forand
indecent appearance in public, like one of
the condemned spirits you read off in the
myths Of by-gone ages, restlessly perambu-
lating the world, condemned to a more ter
rible punishment than Tantalus. who was
tortured by an unearthIy thirst, with grapes
and water within his reach-more terrible
tnun that Or the DAnnaidss, who had
to pour water into the seive, for he is con-
demned to deliver that old speech of lis over
and over again. APplause and cheers and
laughter. As often as be arrives at hotel
that has balcony, as often as his hasty
journey is arrested by spontaneous gather
ing, when you hear subterranean spectral
voice cry out 'my great principle of non-in-
tervention" that is the dead squatter sover-
eign atoning for the evil deeds he committed
in his bodily existence. PROLONGED laughter