Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-10-24

appeal from this decision Of Taney--
from this tribunal drunk with the
Circean cup Of despotism 10 the thirty
millions OF the men and women Of this
cOuntry-frOm Courts to those who make
Courts and Presidents and Senators. Citi-
zens Of America, know you not that around
the brow Of every one Of you glitters the dia-
dem ofpower invisible2 Know you not in eve
ry hand is the sceptre ofdominion2 appeal 70
you TO reorganize this Court and give US
judges-what kind Of Judges? like LovejOy2
ultra and fanatical2 No. Judges like Mar
shall, and Jay, and Story who will interpret
this Constitution as it was interpreted by the
early judges. That is all ask. Applause.
"How are You going to reach it2' lam go
ing to elect "Old Abe" Terrific applause
Or, propose that the people shall elect him.
sWhat are you going to do then-Old Abe is not
judge2' No, he is not. But after we elect
'Old Abe on the sixth day of November
next ! shall importune heaven day and night
to prolOng the improbable lives of these
judges until the fourth Of March next
Laughter.
A VOICE. Three times a day
Mn. LOvEJoY-Yes, that was as often as
Daniel prayed, and the fervent effectual pray
er Of the righteous man availeth much
Laughter, And that | am such all the
Democrats will testify, [laughter1 over the
left. Renewed laughter. Alter we have
elected Lincoln, and the fourth Of March
comes, and he is inaugurated, as he will be-
l shall continue to pray; but then shall feel
as the ScOIch minister in Glasgow felt when
required to pray for Prince Charles, who had
come in arms from France to displace the
reigning house of Brunswick, and regain the
throne of his ancestors. His army had sur
rounded the city, and his scommander-in-chief
sent word that they must pray for the Prince.
The ministers were loyal to the reigning
kiL but they must pray for Charles. So one
old Scotch minister. when Sunday came,
prayed in this wise: "Now Oh Laird, as for
this Prince, who has come hither seeking an
earthly crown, we pray thee, Laird, that thou
wilt speedily give him a heavenly one. -
TRoars of laughter So after LincOln's in
auguration, if it please God to give some
heavenly commission to Taney and his assO-
cates, shall submit to the dispensation Of
Providence. Great laughter and cheer
ing.
If we cannot do it in four years, we will do
it in eight, or twelve, or sixteen, or twenty.
Applause. Do not suppose anybody expects
that the forbearance Of long-sufering God
will endure these judges longer than that
Laughter More than that we will add to
the Court we will add to the number of
Judges. The slaves States have now five
Judges, and the free States have four. Judge
Mclean, single one of the free State Judges,
has more business in his circuit than all the
Judges tn the slave States have together
Applause Wewill add to their number
We will look this internal power Of slavery in
the eye, without quailing, or blanching; and
while we violate no clause of the Constitution
and do nothing that is illegal, violent or rev.
olutionary, do insist in the name of the
sovereign people, that there is no wrong in the
administration of government which we can
not remedy in constitutional modes by our
votes. Tremendous cheering.
We will elect our man; we will inaugurate
him, and if there is any attempt at disunion,
which nobody save towards threaten, and
which no one breads except the same class
Tapplause If Wise fuses and busters, and
/ gallops around as he did when he threatened
to march upon the Federal Capital, compa-
nies of Wide Awakes will riseup in his own
State, as well as in the North, and organize
themselves in defence of the Constitution and
/ the Union; and my word for It, before an
army Of these young patriots the disunionists
will scatter like chat before the wind. They
will run to their hiding places. Already their
| fears have pictured these Wide Awakes with
pixies on the end of their lamp poles. We
will elect our man, and when we elect him, I
/ tell you we will inaugurate him, and he shall
administer the government. He will replace
the Judges as they die; and we will add to
/ their number if they won't die. Laughter
We will bring back this government to
such an administration as our fathers had
We do not want to injure one plank, not
one pulley, not one shroud, nor spar, nor
streamer on that old Ironsides, the Constitu-
tion-the Ship of State, that our fathers built
We want to drive out the pirate crew that
have possession of it; we want to wash off the
blood from its decks, and throw overheard
the manacles and fetteTS; tear down the pirate
flag of slave Democracy which now floats
black and portentious, and run up the stars
and stripes of freedom. We will put "0ld
Abe at the helm to guide her, and as soon
as his hand touches the wheel shew sweep
majestically around to her old course, and
start off on a new race, walking the water:
like a thing of life, cen like a steed that
knows his rider. Applause.
Gentlemen, | must close. "Go on, "GO
on | am worn out and cannot go on.
have been working for weeks. All last week
was at work, speaking and travelling in the
cars from place to place, and I will be a
work next week. l would have been glad t
have had little more strength to address
you tonight; but we all feel so kindly un
der the influence of the good news from
= Pennsylvania, Indiana and Ohio, that
reckon nobody will find fault. In this new
see an earnest of coming triumph. I d
not see it in offices and patronage, and homo
and promotion to men; but l see this natiOl
|. brought back once more to the policy AM
faith of the fathers; l see it starting on
new career; | see moral revolution effect
ed; see the spirit of freedom revived her
and everywhere. l behold it going int
the slave States, and the slave State
commencing a system of emancipation
, and finally emancipating their slaves
and ridding the country of this evil
and in that bright future now close at hanC
z l behold free American Republic reposin
: proudly among the nations of the earth.-
E [Great applause.
Mr.. Lovejoy closed by calling for thre
cheers for the Declaration Of independence
! which the Democrats pervert and violate
= three cheers for the Constitution and Ii
r Union which they threaten to subyert an
destroy; three cheers for Pennsylvania, Il
diana and Ohio: and three cheers for old AL
! and the whole ticket. The audience respond
D ed with the widest enthusiasm.