Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-08-06
Mass Meeslus saturday Evening.

Band furnished music, and large audience
gathered to hear the speaking.
Gen. Crowell introduced Hon. Edward
Wade as the first speaker of the evening.
Mr.. W. spoke Of the discontented condition
of the American people, under their past
and present rulers. And all this IS not
without reason. A change in the admins
tration Of the Federal Government is absO-
lutely needed, for during the course of the
present administration, there has not been a
single Republican principle which has not
been outraged, and everywhere it is believed
that the government must of necessity be
changed. This conviction has brought to-
gether this crowd tonight. Il il time Of
change from Old Federalism to true Repub-
licanisn, and it was this feeling of universal
distrust that led to the adoption of our can
didAtes, Lincoln and Hamlin.
He said 70 the Demoeracy-"W are you
not as you were four years ago? What has
come over you? Didn't you select and elect
the man who was to regenerate the country
and save the world2 You had gained mo-
del President as you said. The trouble with
him is that while he has tried every means
Of bribing that he thought would elect him,
there is not a Democrat but feels that he has
been a despOt for four years, and that is the
sentiment of the people all over the country.
There is not probably on the continent of
Europe nation that has been so hopelessly
corrupted as this Democratic party. Your
money has been taken from the Treasury by
the ofice-holders, to bribe their way into a
re-slection. 1t is for this that we propose to
supplant them, and him in favor of Arabian
Lincoln. The difference between the two is
that between an open-hearted, able man, and
adeliberate perverter of law, of truth and of
righteousness"
What has Buchanan done? Were not all
the forces at his command, employed for the
two first years of his administration to force
Slavery upon Kansas What sort of Ad-
ministration is that that will so labor? The
Kansas troubles and outrages were then
touched upon by the speaker, and Buchanan's
discreditable part in them exposed in plain
language. Gov. Walker, he said. saved the
State of Kansas by disregardiDg the instruc-
tions of President Buchanan.
sinees Pierce was first elected-or elected
at all, for he never was elected but once,
thank God-there has been but the one de-
sire on the part of the Government to devote
all new territory to the service of the slave
holders. That, is the Democracy of Douglas,
of Breckenridge, Of Joe Lane and of the
Democratic party. New York, under the
rule of such Democracy, has become the
head slave-trading port Of the world. Mar
shal Rynders here got side notice not very
supplementary,
What has tbe Democratic party done for
the protection of your harbors? It has, on
the contrary, done all it could to make these
harbOrs useless. Annually, since the speak
er had been a member of the House, had
they passed an appropriation for these Lake
harbors, but they have all been killed in the
Democratic Senate, except small sum at
More than 10000, 900 acres of public land
have gone into the hands of Government
speculators, while no Bill can pass which
will give free homes to free men. He ar
raigned the Democratic party which had
proved false to the trust reposed in them.
"a voice, g." Tell about Douglas" There
is no Douglas he is a goner, and has gone
up" (Laughter.) Some of the Democrats
are hunting him up-trying to run him in
for President. The Democrats will follow
Douglas as long as he viii give them any
plunder, but when his funds and brides are
gone, they will trot back and follow anybody
else who viii give them their bread and but
ter.
1t has been declared that Democrats were
always the same, wherever they were, but
, now they are bitterly quarreling with each
other.
True Democracy is the equality Of all men
before the law, The Democrats act as if they
feared the negro was their superior. If that
race is really inferior, they will sink to their
natural level. The Democrats are apparently
afraid the negro will supplsnt and swamp
them, and get all the offices from them. No
man of high and generous ambition would
permit himself to be SO made the dredge-
boat of all the offal of the Democracy es
Douglas has done.
The Administration has devoted itselfto the
enforcement of the infamous Fugitive Law.
The speaker denied that it was constitutional,
and when we get a Republican President and
Congress the law will be repealed or modi-
fed. 1t is degrading to our fathers, the fran
ers of the Constitution, to say that they evel
intended to perpetuals this great curse o
slavery and the execution of such law al
this. The position and intention of tht
trainers of the Constitution were spoken 0
by the speaker, and the law denounced il
plain words. He would never admit it to b.
constitutional. ...-...-......
Cheers for Mr.. Wade and thres more 70
Lincoln were then given, while the call from
an outsider for az three cheers for Douglas
met with response of silent contempt.
Hon. Hiram GriswoId was called upon 70
a speech. He was not disposed to be quit
50 severe and pointed in his condemnation
of the men to whom the previous speake
/ had referred, as he had been. They ha
E done as well as they could do, considerin
the place they occupied. The agitation {
! the slavery question, as soon as Pierce en-
/ tered upon his administration, was the faui
: not of himself, but Of the party. Every ma
( who votes for Breckenridge or Douglas isis
, bad as Pierce or Buchanan. The demand
Of the slave power repealed the Missoui
Compromise. It had sought to obtain Cub
and failed; Walker had tried fllibusterin
). and failed, and g0ths the free Territories
o the North wers turned over to the sla'
power. The war of slavery is war Of al
/, gression-ceaseless in its marchings an
y never retreating. Douglas and Buehana
Y had only obsyed the commands Of their ma
ters at the South. The former believed tn
he would be supported and upheld by h
!, party in the South, and repaid by place al