Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-01-23
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THE SNAKE AND ITS SKIN.
Let us trace the consequences like the snake;
yearly they shed their skin, but they never
20 back into the old one beautiful is it st
6rst but it Immediately returns 10 dust and
ashes. Let us look at the consequence
Here was the formation of the 'blue-lodges''
in Missouri, according to the Congressional
report remember don't intend to give any
statement upon my own say so appeal to
history to substantiate all ssy.) You march
under your Missouri hordes so formed into
the territory of Kansas, and although it is
well known, and as history has proven, that
the Republican party was in clear majority,
by force of arms; you took down the judges
of election that were appointed legally. They
were taken by force, the Missouri forces going
out with banners flying and with colors dis
played, and the question was asked not ''are
you 8 judge according to the Constitution and
the laws 2" Not "are you a judge Of the
election carrying out the declaration Of the
Cincinnati platforms of 1852 and 1854, that
the people should determine upon their do
nestle institutions in their own way" But
''are you sound on the goose2 ?" That was
what they asked them, in other words, "are
you for Slavery 2" Not 'are you for the con-
stitution and the laws, and for the support of
Republican institutions and principles as cur
fathers handed them down to US 2" No but
"are you right on the goeseP and if q man
did not answer thatthe way that pleased them,
they caught him Iby the collar and elected
him, and many who upheld the Constitutional
right of election we're compelled to fly for
their lives, and many we're wounded and
killed. Where then stood the Democratic
press Of the United States2 Aiding and
abetting al1 this Treason. The free-soil citi-
gen from the State of Kentucky, as veil as he
from the free States, who had seen by actual
experiment the glorious benefits Of free in
stitutions, and others who had seen the woe
of slavery, end who found that the pledges of
the Democratic party bad been kept to the
word and violated in fact, late in the day sent
to their homes, both in Kentucky, the slave
and the free States and took up arms, and up
on every field, and by the whole power that
God and nature had bestowed upon thsm, they
resisted this attempt to enslave them What
then did the President Of these United States!
All the time he, by the forces Of the United
States, disarmed the Republican party, and
left them at the mercy Of those invaders Of
their rights.
JOHN BROWN AND HIS RAID
Then sprung up this John Brown. say
he is the Legitimate son of the acts and avoWsls
of the Democratic party that they intended to
take possession of Kansas by force of arms
"peaOsably if they could but fOrceably if they
must" and it was only when these descendants
of revolutionary fathers took up arms in their
own defence, and [ thank God there were
Kentuekians as well as Ysnkees fighting there
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the invaders: and now a great and over Whelm.
ing majority Of the people of Kansas say that it
shall be free, notwithstanding James Buchanan
lifts up his impious hands, and perhaps pray
ing that it may be so, says that 'Kansas is as
much slave territory as South Cardinal" Is
that democracy? In the name of that God to
whom he so impiously appeals, is it so-is it
slave State? Not at all. History tells US that
just there began John Brown. How It is will
state, as it comes to me authenticated To the
best of my knowledge and belief, before he shed
the blood of a single man, one of his sons was
chopped to pieces incold blood; and another son
was dragged in chains by vehicle, until from
the heat, the exposure, the ignominy, and the
torture of the moving chains, his brain was
crazed, and he went mad and his sister, look
ing upon all these sad calamities and scenes of
horror, was also craIed. Then this man took
up the knife, and made war DISCRIMINATION
upon the shareholders and the invaders of the
soil. There is the secret Of the whole matter,
so help me Goo, as IbelieVe lam Cassius Clay, as
stand here tonight, say this was the begin
ming this raid on Virginia. John Brown felt that
there was no protection for him in the Demo-
cratic party, that the laws of Missouri and Kan
sas gave no protection to him, and that he had
once more to appeal to the God Of Hosts for
defense, and he carried that war on in Kansas,
and in Missouri, and inVirginia. The WHOLE story
is told; it was nothing but the raid Of a man
injured by aggressions made upon him, and
these proved to have been begun and compile
ted by the Democratic party themselves. There
fore, hurl back the impntatiOu, and history
will stand by the record, and will record
the uRwelcOme truth. That is all of
of It was so serviIe insurrection at ALL /
see before me this night man who committed
John Brown in Virginia; and hear from other
sources, as Senator Mason. that there was not
slave rose in insurfeetiOn. 1t was a raid; the
fruit of Democratic action, and injustice, and
# it is the thing tits said to be, that win yet