The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-10-04

this world would not be worth q quarter
Of q dollar IF VIC have to work do you
prefer that it should be done by slave
or freeman2 If the question is, do you
prefer the African and his family to a
horse or a mule, you would probably
say you prefer your neighbor. IF work
is the law which must be obeyed and
upon which our existence depends,
would you prefer a "fair days wages for
a fair days work." or send to Africa
for bondsmon to do your work and keep
you in sloth and idleness2 And this
question Of free labor is the rea-
son for Bepublioanism. We hold, he
said, that the white man must have en-
ployment, room for work. and fair wa
ges. IF denied these, he will soon bo-
come unfit for work. IF the poor whito
man and his pale-faced wife is compoll-
ed to stand at the door of tho rich man
who owns laborers, begging him for
work, the rich man will have the power
to say to him, cote for me or darUc.-
This is no fancy sketch, but the solemn
truth. IF you look back to the Grecian
States, you will find it was verified there.
You will find that in one little republic
Of Greece there we're fourteen slaves to
one freeman. One man rises in their
Assembly and moves that every laborer
be made a slave. Why? He found
that the work was all done by slaves,
and he concluded that it was better for
all laborers to be placed upon a common
basis, for the slaves mouopolized the
work, and none was left for freemen,
and they must have starved. This is
the result of slavery everywhere Free
labor is reduced in price by slave COM
petition, and the laborer must become
pauper x
SLAVERY IN THE TERRITORIES.
Mr. Corwin devoted a paragraph to
| platforms-which he regarded as delu-
sions. He held them in contempt X r.
/ The great point at issue is, have we the
power to exclude slavery from the Ter
ritories2 Douglas and Breckenridge say
no. The Bell men say we have no right
to think anything about it. A Voice
they are asleep Yes they are taking
nap for keeps We say we have the
| power. The speaker said he had GER
tain venoration for the fathers of the
/ Constitution. He could not help think
ing but they knew what they were
about. He certainly would prefer to 60
to Washington, Jefferson, Adams, &C.,
for advice, rather than depend upon the
wisdom Of these profound postmasters
about the country. Yet, many of those
differ with Washington and Jefferson
say they knew nothing about govern
ment &c. X 4 x Yet. said Mr.. Cor
, win, would as soon be a dog, aud wor-
Iry a hog at the bidding of my master,
as to yield my free thoughts for the
sake Of being even in the White House,
to be badgerod by every man who wants
a clerkship or an office. Il But
what did these old men say? Freedom
is better than slavery; that we should
have liberty in the Northwest Terrific
ry. They held that this was the com
mon territory of the confederacy, and
under this principle the confederacy
laid hold of its common territory and
said there should be no slavery in it.
Here Mr.. Corwin condensed the history
and operation of the Ordinance Of 1897,
and showed wherein the principles Of
its authors were identical with those of
the Republican party. He invited the
audience to the books to verify his state
: ments X X Il X 4
THE HOMESTEAD MEASURE.
Mr.. Corwin, after alluding somewhat
atfectionately to the project Of the old
Whig party for the distribution Of the
public lands among the States, said that
since that was not favored, the Repub-
licans propose to give 100 acres to every
+, poor mau and woman who are engaged
, in the holy state of wedlock, so long as
! thev live, if God should be pleased to
= spare their lives that long. Laughter
Breckenridge aud Bell are opposed to
. this. They prefer to impose charge
upon the land. They defeated the
y Homestead bill Of the Republicans in
the Senate, but passed another to sell
the land, aud the Republicans Of the
n House, rather than to take no law at. all
- accepted it, and Buchanan vetoed it.
" He is the poor mans friend. lie want
~ ed to keep them poor. The Bell and
., Breckenridge policy was right from
, their point Of view. They didn't wan
little quarter Of a section of land no
~, less than 1000 acres would answer TO
their institutions. But see how 10 wOulC
- operate upon the working men Of th'
~ North. A poor young man just weddeC
~ to one Of these rosy y-oheeked girls belor
" me, borrows travelling expenses frou
his uncle and sets out for the West II
- locates his farm, and by his industr
makes the wilderness blossom as tn
rose. Republicans sympathize will
that class. They say to the young man
20 out into the West increase and pros
in per, &c.
,tI THE SOUTHERN METHOD.
Adopt the Southern policy which o.
o. low Slavery, according to the Democra
m tic idea, to go to the Territories. Loo
at the Territory after it is thus settled
A STAKEHOLDER locates 1000 acres Of th'
It land and occupies it with his singl
< family and negroes This same Ian
Cd would settle h0eiUe families Of freemer
ad Twenty years hence you dud in tho on
he case a farm, and one family Of three
be four children. There is also Kankt
ne school.marm to teach the girls mus
ow and French, and a lean, spectacled pa
,w SON teach the bows Greek and Geom