Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-08-04

I lmpudence 70 tell that body 10 repeal the
very clause that few days before he had
said should never be touched. His plea Of
Popular Sovereignty is a blind to cover up
his treason. The great question in the bred
Scott case was, how can we crush out the
free population" On this question, Mr..
Breckenridge stands fully above board, while
Mr.. Douglas, equally guilty, does not. The
constitutional question of slavery was then
taken up by the speaker, and briefly disposed
of. By the universal law Of oil mankind, a
slave is free when he escapes from the place
of local servitude, and must be returned BY
virtue of special enactment.
The Democratic party says slave is prop
erty just like a COW or horse. Well, if q
COW or a horse kills person, do you hang
them? Did you put COW or a horse clause
in the Constitution upon which to found a
Fugitive Cow Bill or a Fugitive Horse Bill
You (the Democratic partly ask if you can
not take your old eolored servants to the ter
ritories and not leave them deserted. Yes,
you can but you shall not sell them there.
Put free and slave labor in competition, and
what will be the result? The free man offers
to work at 81 a day the slave holder offers
to put a man there who will do as much al
50 cents a day. By this competition of un-
paid wages, more than {, 1000, 900 people have
been kept out of Kentucky who would
otherwise have been there.
Since the speaker had been speaking in
the North, lives had been lost in the South
by those who had tried to defend free
speech and free presses. Barbarism is ne
cessity of southern slavery, and the tree pres
ses must be stiled in order that lawless
acts may not be questioned
Let US say TO all, Northern or Southern,
come into the territories, bring horses and
cattle, man-servants and maid-servants, but
you shall not sell them after you get there
This is true equality. What we ask of the
people of Ohio is that they let slavery alone
where tits, but to say that beyond those pre-
cincts, by all that is sacred among men, ii
shall not 90. If slavery can go into the ter,
ritory, then it can come into Ohio, and We
are slaves ourselves, and have no hope with
out revolution.
Now, is not the position Of Mr.. Douglas
the same as the other wing or worse. He
means to deceive US and betray US in the fu-
ture, as he has in the past-as he did when
the Kansas-Nebraska Bill was passed. lie
said then that the people were to be free, tc
do as they pleased. But Mr.. Chase, youl
Senator, smoked the fox out of his hole. He
put the proviso that the people of the terri
tories should have the right to prohibit sla.
very in the territories if they choose. Their
these Democrats turned right round and re-
fused to accept this. Make Mr.. Dougla.
President, and he won't care whether Free.
dom is voted up or voted down. This little
fellow who can't take the eighteen inlA-4--
But now he goes to q still lower depth
He agrees to the Davis resolution, uphold
ing the Dred Scott decision, which destroy
all his doctrines Of popular sovereignty
But now the South, like the old English No
BILE when introduced TO Benedict Arnold, VIII
| said che loved the treason, but despised tn
traitor so the South has thrown Dougla
overheard. and not single electoral vot
will he get in the South, and not one in tn
Free States. Loud cheers.l They don
| expect to elect Douglas themselves. Avoi'
3 -" Gray, of the Plaindealer does."l "N
= he don't. Just go to him and ask him col
7 fdentiaIly if you shall vote for Douglas, al
,t he will say; " Ny dear fellow, save yo
et money" Laughter and cheers.l There
some strength in the Breckenridge wing.
!" it is the nucleus of future party, and
I'd the Republicans make false step, they W
tn take advantage of it.
- Some think the two divisions of the l
p mocracy are going to do as the young lawy
= proposed to do when he got married. sa
n. he to his wife, 50 Now, the law don't all
:, the head Of q family to take more than
- acres ofland; let's quarrel and get divOr
then will there be two heads of famili
each will take $50 acres; we will then hi
- 800 acres, and then Wen make up and ma
he again"
'"e But we have got true man for our sta
'oh ard bearer, Honest Old Abe. [Cheers.l
.oi- is.s man of the people, has braved all e
'I'- of the wilderness in the course Of civil
ton. He takes possession Of the book,
axe and the maui together, and rises t
Der the first lawyer at the bar. Tried by ad
lie sitv, strengthened by contest with th'
and bors of life, he was well fitted to do b
re- with the Little Giant, and to triumph
him in the hearts of the people. HediC
become Senator, but we will make up to
need principal and interest when on the FO
lone of March next, with the Star spangled
eted per, he marches into the White H
cred TCheers.1 The " rule or ruin party vi
orn- neither. The Union must and shall be
.ared served, and our motto shall ever be Oil
. ooo and Union, now and forever, one and
proachable."
most Mr.. Clay closed amid hearty cheers
,,5i- Hon. II. G. Blake was loudly called
lean He thought that passage of Scripture 1
artv well be quoted, in which it is said
70 n devout men carried Stephen out and b.
and him."
,sr of Mr.. Blake made a spirited speech
7 suf- Douglas and OF ms recoIu uPOh INC PO
o de- questions of the country. He has c
peak slavery a degree and a half farther mort
heard the South ever expected to go, and
ePt in are asked TO vote for him for Presidel
es ana cause he has fought against Southern @
hat 1t sion and defended the rights of the
peeen' Every voter should know that every V
I
Z Pis Breckenridge or for Douglas goes to
,,,a;r the principle of representation tounde'
,dr,tic Chattel Slavery. The Homestead b
Bnt River and Harbor Improvements
anton. for the abolition of slavery in New
ze an and all other measures for the relief
t they Northern laborers and citzens-the'
Why of all been killed by this slavery intere
he Old then paid a high tribute to Mr., Clay
Ope iOT | "a ,,-;tb fru,ulfy1oug aDUlauSP.