Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-06-08


and manifested, while he was making h, that
they did not sympathize with il. The New
York Tribwne deprecates u as,endangerine
the admission of Kansas. The Gazette of
this city indorses what the Tribune says Of
the speech, and disparages it as calculated
rather to provoke angry feelings than to
persuade and convince;" also for the rather
contradictory reasons that it has brought
together vast number of facts to show the
effects Of slavery, which have nothing novel
about them, and that it is the production of
o theorist not practically acquainted with
mankind. It may be that vast collection
Of well known facts, with nothing novel
about them, indicates the production Of an
impractical theorist, in the Gazette concern.
Reason usually gets mixed up in that way
by the time IL has revolved around its six
cylinder. 5fl i ''
The difficulty is, Republcanism is fright
eued at its own shadow. Mr.. Summers
speech was an assault on slavery; not holding
it to be good where IL is, and bad only where
it is not but bad everywhere. If Republic
cans do not believe slavery to be bad, what
justification have they for resisting II in the
Territories2 If slavery is good where it is,
il is good everywhere. Unless Republican
ism can make out case against slavery
ITSELF the party has no ground to stand on.
This is what Mr.. Sumner undertook, and the
4 whole party is shaking in its shoes. 1t hoped
to conceal its features by nominating man
who had not been exposed to attack, and TO
smuggle itself into the administration, just
as the ostrich sticks its head in the sand and
imagines itself hidden; but Mr.. Sumner has
exposed its hinder parts, and the whole party
is alarmed for the consequences. $50.
i Pro-slavery men do not shrink from dis
cussion of the merits of slavery. They have
press by advancing the propositions that
slavery is founded in Scripture and an i'm
memorial custom, that it is the proper rela-
ton between the white and black races, "the
most safe and stable basis for free institu-
tions," "the cornerstone of the Republican
ediRce,I. "a great moral, social and political
blessing" 'the normal condition of human
society hest for the happiness of both races"
and that "the very keystone of the mighty
arch which, by its concentrated strength, is
able TO sustain our social superstructure con-
sists in the black marble block of African
slavery 9-.t..t a
These propositions have been reiterated in
Congress. If they are true, the Republican
, party has no right to be, for it is founded on
: resistance to the extension of this relation
! If they are not true, and the Republican
} party fears or fails to attack and overthrow
them, it has no right to be, for it fears to do
what it proclaims to be its duty. The friends
of slavery boldly fling out their banner and
challenge discussion on the abstract right of
African slavery the Republican party, which
insolently assumes to be the only party
founded on principle, shrinks from the dis
cussion of the principle, and frowns on Mr..
Sumner because he will not be gagged.
If there is any tangible principle in Re-
} publicanism, Mr.. Sumner represented it in
} his speech. If there is not, what right has a
} party to make the country hideous with its
: soulless, unwholesome corpse2 ng
Mr.. Sumner recapitulated re the propositions
: which had been laid down in Congress, in
: favor of slavery and took issue with them.
: The propositions themselves were an invita-
ton to this. In Congress was the very place
to discuss them. Republicans affect great
sensitiveness about any infringement on the
freedom of the press, or of speech, or of the
government mails in the slave States, yet
they shrink from the discussion of slavery in
Congress where they have perfect right to
it, because, as the Tribune says it may offend
the South and, as the Gazette says, it may
provoke angry feelings" 1t actually seems
that this party which, with ghastly face
, tiousness, used to call itself "the party Of
freedom" is ready to give up the right of free
} speech in Congress- because it may provoke
angry feelings. Starting on anti-slavery
fanaticism, it has found the doctrine of negro
human rights too heavy to carry, and instead
ofhelping the party to rise, the negro question
is sinking it into negro subsection. Already
) it is cowed into silence on its "great princi-
pie" by the fear of provoking angry
feelings"
The party boasts that it has put in its plat
form the deslaration that "All men are ere.
ated equal" 1t is said that the venerable
Joshua R. Giddings was about shaking of
the dust from his feet against the Convention
when he was brought back by the reiteration
of that "selfevident" and practical truth.
This was the doctrine of Mr.. Sumner speech
yet it almost created stampede in the party
II is not likely that this speech will have
much circulation in the Republican papers
The Tribune throws cold water on it and pub.
fishes a brief abstract. The Gazette is occu.
pied with debate in Indiana, and can moi
:, find room for the most elaborate speech which
, has been made in Congress during this ses.
sion, aud that by Senator of the high.
est scholastic attainments. As the Re.
: publican press is afraid to touch this
, thing, and as our limits prevent US
9 from publishing it we will attempt 10
6 state briefly the plan and general tenor of ths
e speech; and we will remark first, il is strictly
e parliamentary, courteous and free from per
: sonalities, and has nothing which can atforC
= any excuse for the Republican cowardice il
Z regard TO it. Taking for its text the propo
sitions on the right of slavery, which we hay,
8 mentioned, and others Of the same nature
T it takes issue with them all. 1t argues tina