Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-06-16
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conquer, tOr our cause is Just and cur trust is
God.
I We are engaged in the same struggle that
warmed the hearts and nerysd the arms Of
our forefathers in the cause Of American free
domi their contest was for the right Of The
people 70 govern themselYes--their rights
were not in parohihents but in the viii Of
their Creator. No man is SO humble, no child
but issdrrouhdsd with an -arnor Of bis rights
impenetrable without wrong, There Is in
every human soul an aspiration for the per-
fectidn Of himself and the government and
we must do at all times what we can for AZ
tanning that perfection dtwas supposed by
the fathers Of the country that the institution
Of slavery would disappear from the country
but instead slavery has fortified itself, and
seeks to extend its control over all the ter
ritories, and control the government ITSELF
Under our Republican institutions, neither
Congress legislatures, orassociAtiohs or Of men
have a right to introduce slavery into the ter
ritoTies That Is the fundamental principle
ofthe Republican party. III
The Constitution says no person shall be
deprived Of Liberty except by due process Of
law The Constitution means TO say no per-
son shall be deprived Of liberty except on fair
trial upon Just accusation The principles Of
the Constitution and Declaration of Indepen-
dence are the religion Of every human heart.
We don't want our free laborers, men and
women, to come into competition with slave
labor. We don't mean to interfere with -sla-
very where It IS, but we mean to stay Il there.
We mean to respect their rights and maintain
oCr own. Democrats don't pretend to deny
these principles A few years ago they in
scribed on their banners ''equRl rights and ex-
act Justice 10 all men" The abandonment of
these principles has got them into trouble,
and destined them TO certain defeat They
have gone to Egypt for help, and Egypt wants
TO subject them and make them slaves. They
''haye heWn ont cisterns for themselves yea
cisterns that hold no water" They are de-
nying the Declaration of Independence and
the honest Convictions of their own hearts.
We believe in the sovereignty of the people,
but Democratic popular sovereignty never in
tended to give the people of the Territories
the right to exclude slavery. The Supreme
Court gives Shareholders a Constitutional right
to take slaves into the Territories and hold
them there. This is the issue we mAke--We
say the Supreme Court has no right to decide
that question. If a Court-any Court--de-
cides any great political question, the people
have a right to reverse that decision if they
choose. The people rule Courts, and rule
rulers, and thank God, are above Presidents
The Democratic party are like the conduc-
tor who run into the hind car of his own
train on crooked road, because he had one
car too many. The Democracy had one car
too msny-the Dred Scott Decision-and the
popular sovereignty locomotive run into it
and all is smashed to pieces.
The Republicans ask for home Jteads for her
citizens in the free territories-for a Pacific
Railroad protective Tariff, and privileges
to naturalized citizens, treating them as bro
thers. .
Lincolns the man that will carry out these
things. His life is one. Of the best lessons of
the character of our Republican institutions
born to no inheritance but poverty-a clear
head, good heart and protecting Providence
under Republican institutions, he has been
able to achieve for himself the highest station
in the world, the nomination Of the Republi-
can Party for President Of the United States.
Mr. Chase charged the young men to be
wide-awake- -slumber not in maintaining
Republican principles; and he called upon all
to Join in carrying through the glorious Re
publican cause to successful termination.
Gov. Chase was heartily eheered through
out his speech.