Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-10-24

Now, my friend, some one asked what
about the Fugitive Slave Law2 If thought
| was not trespassing too much upon your
time loud cries Of "Go or" ego on."1 l
have nothing TO say about men. ] am talk
ing about everlasting principles in the pres
ence of which individual men sink away into
nothing. BY the way, have spoken to you
about negro equality; now want to talk
about "negro stealing, and that will bring
me plump to the Fugitive Slave Law. Twill
not dodge anything. | never mean to hold
my tongue. II you, American citizens, want
to crawl and cringe, and skulk and dodge
around and over American SOIL under the
stars and stripes, beneath the Constitution,
and hold your tongues TO secure your per-
sonal liberty you may do it, never will
Immense applause.
Negro stealing You know Douglas says
that Abe Lincoln undertook to abolitionize
the old Wing party and Lyman Trumbull
undertook TO abOlitiOnize the Democratic
party, and then they were to lead them into
the Abolition camp TO be baptized by that
Abolition high priest LOvejOy, laughter and
LOvejOy was a negro stealer. What did that
mean2 That Just shows how these men have
forced their nomenclature upon US. When
they say "negro stealer' we say "negro
stealer" The Shareholders say negro
equality" then all the Democrats echo ne
gro equality" and you take it up "negro
equality" Have you any manhood 2 If
you have not, will appeal to the woman
hood Of this country. Cheers and laughter I
You remember when Franklin was asked by
a British minister if so many British troops,
red coats-and the Democrats have adopted
the red coats, because there is no party 50
like the old Tories as the modern Democrats
he asked, can so many red coats march
through the colonies2 franklin replied; If
they behave themselves, and pay for every
thing they purchase, they can march unmo-
Tested; but let them take single chicken
without paying for it, and if the men are all
gone, the women will take their brooms and
sweep them into the Atlantic" Laughter. I
Now, ladies, if these men will not vote slav-
cry down, if you let them 90 and vote with
the Democrats, we will make you-hold your
tongues. Much merriment A lady shakes
her head. You think it can't be done. PRO
longed laughter. But if the men do not
vote down and clear out OF sight this sham
Democracy that is doing all it can to unmoOr
the government and convert it into an old
despOtism, / ask the women to sweep them
with their brooms into the Atlantic or into
Lake Michigan, if it is deep enough to bury
them with their sins. Laughter.
Negro stealing What has Loveioy done,
and what do the Republicans do, that they
should be charged with negro stealing?
will tell you, ladies. A poor white girl, of
remote African descent, but without one par
ticle Of that descent evident in color or fea-
ture, comes flying to my house, like dove
pursued by a hawk. What is her story?-
That she was betrOthed to a man of her race,
though not Of her color; that she was sold
by her master, then in want of money, to a
hbertine down South, whose greedy eve had
seen and fancied her; that, hearing of it, she
had escaped and fled. What then did Love
joy do? He pointed to the north star, shin
ing atar of, and to a country where her vir-
tue would be in her own keeping and not at
the caprice of master-where she might rest
from her pursuers. That is what Loveioy
did, and he is a negro stealerl TGreat ap-
plause. The Democrats cry out "negro
stealing" and poor, thin-skinned conserya-
tism, resigning all title to manhood, except
what it receives from the tailor or 1nilliner,
stammers out, am not a negro stealer.
didn't help the fugitive slave" Well, did.
l told them-yes, as you may remember
told them in Congress, when they wanted to
know whether l did it or not-I marched
right up to the confessional and told them |
aided every fugitive slave who came and ask
ed it. l said to them, if the demon of slavery
expects to cross my threshold and bid me not
| feed the hungry and shelter the houseless,
bid it defiance in the name of Almighty God.
l told them, if they wanted to know it, they
might proclaim it from the house tops, from
every leaf in the forest, make it blaze out in
the light of high noon, and in the sparkle Of
/ every star that gems the heavens; they might
| repeat it reverberating through the depths
and arches Of hell, where slave catchers would
| be very likely to hear it. Tremendous ap-
! plause. l told them I lived three-quartery
of a mile east of Princeton, on the Peru road
and would help every fugitive that came
and so | will. Applause.
" But you violate the Fugitive Slave Law 2
| do not do any such thing. If do, | canno
help it. / know Of some people, away bach
in the worlds history, who would not bow
down and worship the golden image that tn
king set up. "But this is revolutionary ant
disOrganizing" No it is not-not the least
do all this and I resist no sheriff, l fight nC
/ marshal. If you want me to rot in iail 70
feeding hungry people, will do so. l will
suffer the penalty Of the law, if l violate il
but you must prove Il on me. After yel
prove that have resisted you may fine me
you may imprisOn me, you may hang me an
and then reckon you Democrats will let m
alone. Laughter. IfIam a tolerably goo
christian | reckon shall not meet you in tn
next world to trouble me any more Pro
lOnged and renewed laughter.
Ihear it said everywhere by the Democrat.
"The South is entitled to Fugitive Slav
. Law" 1 want any man to point me out thG
clause in the Constitution which requires
law for the South that it does not require "a
the North-for South Carolina that it doe
not ask tor Massachusetts-for Georgia tina
it does not demand for New York | te
you there is nothing sectional in the Cor
stitution. 1t requires no local Legislation
and if you tell me where it requires me t
vote for law for the special benefit Of NSrtl
South, East or West, / will vote for it, for
love the Constitution. 1t is enshrined in m
heart. love it better than any dozen Den
ocrats in the land do to night. Applau;
and laughter Here want to tell you thi
there is no Fugitive Slave Law in the land
never was one passed. Here is where the
get the advantage of US, by making US u!
their language. What law was passed 2
There is law to reclaim fugitives from labC
or service. There is no law entitled Fug
tive Slave Law in the United States. n
part ofthe Constitution requires a Fugitiy
Slave Law. "What is that" you exclaim
Do pray be patient now. "Noperson held
service or labor in one State, under the Law
thereof, escaping into another shall in col
sequence of law or regulation therein, be di
J charged from such service, or labor, but sha