The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1860-11-30

voto Of 1876 to 60 that body baviug a Whig
majority of twenty members. and acting
under an Administration which you had
assisted TO inaugurate, aud which YOU new
hold up as an example worthy to be followed
by Republicans. believe tho country will
award to both you and myself tho merit or
demorit Of adhorng to our doctrines aud
policy. | continue to maintain the duty
and policy Of separating the Federal Gov
ornment from the support of slavery. and
leaving that institution entirely with the
several States. On this point l stood on
! tiroly alone in that body for some years
MT. Adams refusing to admit that the Fed.
cr"l Go'ornmcnt might not undor some
circumstances abolish slavery in the States
Whom you wero again SOLICITED as a Cabi.
net officer for tho purpose of inauguratiDg
u second and last Whig Administration, you
found mo still in tho House of Representa-.
tiycs, associated with seven as good and
true men rs ever served the cause of free.
dom. We were united upon tho doctrines
which now constitute tho basis Of the Ro.
publican party. You continued to maintain
the Whig policy under which that party
disbsEdod and forever disappeared from the
theatre Of political power. ] and my friends
continued to maintain those doctrines; you
retired to private life. Tho advocates of
liberty increased in number and influence,
until at Philadelphia, in 1885, Convention
Of as high moral character as any that ever
convened on this cont mont, assembled. ]
ponnod the second resolution of that plat
form. which asserts the rights Of all men to
life, liberty and happiness that tho primal
object and ulterior design of our Federal
Government was to protect all persons
under it's exclusive jurisdiction, in tho on.
jpymcnt Of their rights. These funda-
mental principles wore ro.asserted by the
Chicago Convention. You say such inser.
ton was in bad taste. deny your criticism.
You say these doctrines are true ia a uague
and general sense. l do not understand
rdgne truths. Our fathers called those
"selt. evident which you term rdgne You
fear to admit, but oaro not deny thom
| This timidity is not consistent with that in.
delicacy which prompts you, unnvitod, to
thrust your opinions upon party 10 which
you huyo over boon, aud still are opposed.
| When you hold up to the Republicans
tho humbug of "dssolution," YOU detract
from tho dignity of your own manhood; !;
none but cowards, none but unviriio minions
OF the slave power will be alarmed at it.
In assaiIing the Executive, the Legislature
and people of our State. you assume self.
importance, you evidence an arrogance
seldom united with great moral worth.
You censure Gov Dcnnison for adhcring
to a practice that has bcen followed by Ex.
ecu:ives of both slave and free States for
moro than thirty years and in a notc con.
tninod in tho pamphlet edition of your
speech, you half apologize, saying the heresy
had its origin ten years. since when you were
eugagod in official duties, and did not notice
it. You next read lecture to tho people
of our State for not clectipg Judge whose
opinions they dsliked, while you always
approved them; and then condemn the
Legislature Of our State for not passing
law to protect slavery, by prohibiting the
organizing of o military force in Ohio for
the purpose of invading other States. No
such organization has ever occurred in our
State, nor have our people over invaded
any other State. But while our State has
been often invaded by armed forces from
other States, while innocent mon have been
barbarously shot down upon our soil, our
citizens driven by armed force from other
States, and FREQ mon. born under our laws,
have boon kidnapped and carried to slavery,
| you do not ask protection for them. But
tho electors of our State have responded to
! your attacks in language moro emphatic
! than can use.
You speak snoeringly of "irrepressible
coutiict men" of men of 'oxtreme opinions"
of "Aboitionists," of "hgher law men.
Epithets arc not arguments. Thoy are
adapted to minds that revolve in q certain
sphere Of thought. but arc seldom uttered
i by statesmen or philosophers. You, how
j ever, are understood as referring to mon
irho are gour peers men whose statesman.
ship, whose integrity, will not suffer by q
comparison with yours; to mon who will
not shrink from the judgment Of the pres
eDt or of coming generations.
], sir, believe in that "highcr law" of the
Creator, which holds the sun in mid.
heavens, guides tho planets in their courses
gives action to your throbbing heart and
heaving lungs, which inspres you with o
/ love of lifo, q thirs: for happiness. a con-
seriousness that liberty is yours, impresses
you to acquire knowledge, and removes you
to another sphere at the close of this life.
! You sneer at those doctrines a cold Athc-
ism peryades your speech In it there is
no recognition of right, of enduring princi.
! plo, of God. His attributes or lave. You
evidently hold that human governments
possess tho Same power to legislate for the
murder of innocent men and women, which
they have to protect human life the same
power to enslave men which they have to
protect liberty. Republicans hold with the
fathers that governments arc Instituted to
srcure The enjoyment Of life and liberty -
| That the murder or enslavement of the
humblest of the human family, is not merely
unjust, but criminal. That all enactments
by Congress, authorizing or proposing to
authorize one man to hold another IN bond
age, 10 fog him, to rob him of his lob Dor, his
wife, his children, his intelligence, bis mau-
hood, arc not only despotic. but barbarous.
and in direct violation of that clause in our
Federal Constitution which declares that
mo person shall be deprived of life, liberty
or property, without the process of law"
that is, without trial before court of COM
petont jurisdiction, by jury of his peors
For the establishment and maintenance
of these views have laborGd long and
steadily. You have labored long and just
as steadily to oppose them. We have lived
| to see an overwhelming expression of the
American people ~ tS5ir favor. They have
elected President pledged TO their sup.
port. VIII he redeem that plrdge? be-
lieye he will. Time will solve the problom.
Very respectfully.
J. Il. GIDDINGS.
SOUTHERN MANIFEsTo.-The Washington
dispatch to the Philadelphia Iaquirer OF
| the 18th saws: at il reliably ayerred thai