Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1860-09-01
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RALPH AND SAMUEL PLUMB SUP.
PORT LINCOLN-THEIR RECORD.
Ralph Plumb was prominent among the
"0berlin Eescuers," tried in Cleveland, May,
1859 They both joined in giving the negro
Copeland, $40 to pay his expenses to Harpers
Ferry, to join John Brown, and wished good
luck to him and Leary, q negro who was kill.
ed near the Rife works at the Ferry, This
was the same Leary referred to in young
John Browns letter of September 2, 1859,
as follows Friend Leary, of oberlin, will
be on hand soon.
MILTON SUTLIFF SUPPORTS LINCOLN
his RECORD.
This gentleman is at present member of
the Supreme Court of Ohio, having been cleo
ted rs the Republican nominee and the record
is almost indentical with that of Brinkerhoff.
A member of the Old Liberty ,uard he sup
ported Brney, the Abolition candidate for
President iu 1874, against Polk and Clay he
also supported the Abolition candidate for
President in lsis: and again in 1852, in
which year he was the Abolition candidate for
Supreme Judge of Ohio, against Daniel A
Haynes of Dayton, and William B Caldwell,
of Cincinnati, the Wing and Democratic can
didates. In 1851 he was nominated, through
the influence of Giddings and the Reserve
Abolitiorists as the Republican candidate for
Supreme Judge and elected Since his eleva-
ton to this position, in his decisions, like Brn-
kerhofs in all cases where the question arose
he has uniformly decided in favor of placing
negroes upon an equality with white men
CASSIUS NJ CLAY SUPPORTS LIN
COLN-HIS RECORD.
Cassius NJ Clay is now stumping in Indiana
and Ohio in behalf of Lincoln In speech
at TiAin, on the lst of August, 1860, the same
day that Langston, the negro, spoke at Day
ton, said:
They [the Democrats tell you we are for
liberating the backs-for setting the negroes
free so WE ARE We believe, as do you,
that in l776 all men were created free and
equal endowed with certain inalienable
rights They meant just
what they said, and they repeatedly spoke Of
the NEGROES as men, and as persons. THEY
MEANT THE NEGROES WERE EQUAL
WITH THE WHITE MEM
JOHN BROWN, JR., OWEN BROWN,
FRANCIS MERRIAM, AND BARCLAY
COPPIC, SUPPORT L1NCOLN-THEIR
RECORD.
These men all now reside in Ashtabula
County Ohio, where they are voters John
Brown, jr, was the principal corresponding
agent in getting up the reasonable expedition
of his father in October, 1859 The other
three were actually on the spot and engaged
in the attack upon Harper's Ferry, but man
aged to escape first to Iowa and then to Ohio.
On the 18th of March, 1860, the day of the
execution of Hazlett and Stevens at Harper S
Ferry, all of the above, Except Merriam) with
Redpath, the abolition correspondent of the
New York Tribune, addressed a meeting at
Jefferson, Ashtabula county, Ohio (Giddings
home sympathising with the fate Of the fcl
ons J. A. Giddings was secretary of the
meeting.
SAML j. KIRKW0OD SUPPORTS LIN
COLN-HIS RECOED.
| This man is Governor of Iowa In the
winter of ls59-60, availing himself of mis-
erable technichality, he refused to comply
with the requisiton Of Gov Letcher, of Va,
to deliver up Barclay Coppic and Owen
Brown, two of the fugitive Harper's Ferry
Murderers, who had fled into Iowa, until no
tice could be given to them to escape from the
State, thereby violating the constitution of the
United States. and disregarding his solemn
oath of Office.
WM DENNISON SUPPORTS LINCOLN
HIS RECORD.
This man is now Governor of Ohio When
inaugurated on the I'd day ofJanuary, 1860, he
took a solemn oath to support the Constitu.
ton of the United States Section I'd of the
4th article of that instrument provides, that
IA person charged in any State with treason
felony or other crime, who shall flee from jus
tice, and be found in another State shall or
demand of the Executive Authority of the
State from which he fed, be delivered up, to be
removed to the State having jurisdiction Of the
crime Three times since he became Gov
ernor Of the State has William Dennison de
liberately and palpably violated this provision
of the Constitution. Once each from Kentucky
and Tennessee, acquisitions were made by the
the respective Governors of those States fo
persons, charged with larceny, who had es
capped into Ohio, and in both instances the re
QUESTIONS were refused because there was
negro in the case.
Again In the month of March, 1860, Gov
Letcher, of Va, sent a requistion to Gov
Dennison, demanding the extradition of 0wer
Brown and Francis Merriam, two Of the Johl
Brown conspirators above referred to, charging
them with ''conspiring with slaves to rebela
make insurrecton, and for conspiring witt
certain persons to induce slaves to rebel an'
make insurrection;" on the 9Th Of March, 1860
upon the ground OF some shallow and 6imse,
informally, Dennison, upon the advice Of hi
= Republican Attorney General c. P. Woleott
an old line Abolitonist refused. to compl
WIN tne Iequlsiuohi anu oIO"h anu hSliiHu
remains to this day in Ohio, laboring for Lin
coin and the Republican party.
ROSCOE CONKLING SUPPORTS LIN
> COLN-HIS RECORD
This gentleman is a Republican member O
the House of Representatives from New York
In speech delivered inthe House, April 7th
! 1860, he declares the purpose of the Republ