Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1860-09-29
WHOLE NUMBER, 56I22..' 56I22.''
Thc case stated.


In speech, delivered few weeks since.
Mr. Hickman, ofPc1n., made the following
concise statement as to the position Of poll
ticaI partics: - sa1 ao' s1'v1'rf 'trr.Frats ~
"Ihose advocating The claims of Mr.. Bell
would please every body by promising moth
ing They compose the party Of extreme
faith. They stand upon constitution with
out interpretation. and upon'nn endangered
Union without announcing the means by
which it can be saved Let US .notbe de-
ceiyed There are bnt two doctrines be-
tween which we can choose wien we come
to deposit our ballots, One is that the cou-
sti;ution ators slavery as fully as freedom
that neither has advantage over the other
that they mast travel together and exist To-
gether, under equal protection until the
territory shall beelothed with State severe
ignty, and that both alike are NATIONAL
The other is, that the constitution treats,
slavery as a local municipal institution; docs,
not give to it single attribute ofnationality
/ that il has not aii eGualstdt9s with freedom
and that its extension is to be discourage
ed. How shall we act between these OPP
posing yiews2 | answer the inquiry b
Our laboriug classes deserve all the eucour-
| agemeut and protection we can give them
southern Statesman regard them as " bite
slaves let US not surrender them to such
mercies as the owners of cbattellabor would
extend to them. Our farmers and maufac-,
turerS have long been cut off from all
the bountes of legislation, by tue force Of
southern perjudce; we should enlist on their
side. Our country has suffered mnch il the
estimation OF mankind, from our manifested.
attachment to system, notoriously in coun-
teraction to the principles upon which our
government was founded considerations OF
morality, eXpediency aud consistency should
incline us to do all that we lawfully may do.
to save ourselves from further imputatious.
Slavery within the States stands behind i'm
pregnabe defenses, but it holds no charter
to travel without restraint. It has loug
| labored for, but has not yet reached, a posi-s
! tion of absoluusm. 1t grasps for empire, as
it is the only means by which tyranny can
! ever save itself. Our danger is imminent,
! but we can yet overcome it, if we allow
reason, rather than perjudiee, to shape our
efforts. Democracy, as now interpreted by
those kDidest in the profession Of il and al
most monoplizing its name, no longer means
the will of the majority it eontemns the
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and utters no word of encouragement to the
poor. It's professions are impostures, and
must soon fail TO deceive. 1t has become
worse than the ally of slavery--it is its PHI
ant and prostituted tool" bra so. a1l Jll
Mr.. II. adds the following, which should
be specially interesting to Douglas men :
! Tie body of the Northern vote viii be
i given to Mr. Lincoln Mr.. Douglass sup
porters can do nothing for him the only
significant result they can possibly produce
will be to withdraw enough strength from
Mr.. Lincoln to throw the election into the
House. This done, and Lane would GER
tainIy be chosen by the Senate-the con
.diton of the parties in the House being
such as to prevent a majority of the states
agreeing to either of the candidates. Rest
ing on these admissions, for they are ac-
Lccpted universally, we discover that every
vote given TO Douglas must tend to the
i elevation Of Lane, who possessing neither
education, experience, or executive ability.
has been selected to enable the South to
make the most ont Of an accident in case it
shall occur.