Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-06-01
Speech of Senator Chase.

Sp69CA OF senator SnaS6s
At an immense ratification meeting at Col
umbus presided over by Governor DennisOn,
the speech of the occasion was made by Sena-
tor Chase, who said
My FELLOW CrrzExs:-Tn this mighty
gathering and in this all-persading enthusiasm,
l see the issue of the campaign. The manner
in which you and your fellow citizens through
out the country respond to the nominations
made at Chicago is a sure presage of success,
! and l congratulate You upon the cheering
prospect before US. The connection of my
own name in the National Convention with
the nomination for the Presidency renders it
proper that | should say that was placed in
that attitude by the action of the Republicans
of Ohio, very large majority of whom in their
State Convention presented my name TO the
Republicans of the Union as their choice for
the Presidency. I regard the expression of
the State Convention as the law for the State
delegation and so regarding it, had expected
of it the same unity of action that character
lied the course of the New Y ork delegation in
the support of Mr. Seward, of the Illinois del
egation in the support of Mr. Lincoln, and of
the Pennsylvania delegation in support of Mr..
with the final choice of the Chicago Conven-
ton l am entirely satisfied. Every principle
in that platform I-have publicly avowed and
advocated for many years and its declara-
tions still meet with my cordial concurrence.
1t has been said that the nomination of GER
tain candidates might have endangered the
success of the cause we all have so much ut
heart. God forbid that my nomination or that
of any other man should imperi the triumph
of Republican principles! Those principles are
dearer to me than all merely personal consider
ations, and l rejoice that although | was not
nominated, my principles were; and that they
have so true and so faithful representative in
the coming contest as Abraham Lincoln, of
Illinois.
The doctrines of the Republican party are
about TO receive a triumphant vindication at
the hands Of the American people. They and
those who have advocated them. have hereto
fore been perSistently misrepreSented but let
me say even the slave-holding States them
selves, under a wise and patriotic Republican
administration, will soon discover the error III
to which they have been led by these misrep-
reservations. For myself | cherish no hostili-
ty towards the people of the Southern States.
I would not deprive them Of a single right
guaranteed to them by the Constitution-nor
does the Republican party propose to do So
1t simplyeontends for freedom in the terrific
ries. against the Southern demand to introduce
slavery there. 1t believes that freedom and
free labor will best develop their resources,
and contribute most TO the welfare and hap
piness of those who may emigrate thither
from the Slave States as well as the free. In
the former there is a comparatively small class
of Shareholders, while the great majority of
white inhabitants are non7slaveholders and
poor. We contend that the territories should
he opc1ied to the poor emigrant, whether from
the North or the South. and that thus shall
be perpetuated true popular sovereignty in
which the majority shall govern rather than Il
class control. In the Southern States there
are thousands kept down by poverty and So
cial distinctions, who long for schools and
churches, and for unrestricted opportunities of
self culture and elevation in the social scale
We Republicans propose. by keeping the ter
ritories in reserve for them, to furnish them
these advantages, and it is a very fortunate
and significant circumstance that this leading
idea of the Republican creed is so well repre-
sented by our candidate.
The life of Mr. Lincoln furnishes an iIIustra-
ton of the operation of that idea. His grand
parents were natives of Virginia, his parents
of Kentucky, and they were poor. Young
Lincoln left the unfrendly atmosphere of slay
cry, in his native State, and removed to Iudi-
ana, where he could breathe free air and carve
out for himself more favorable destiny. Had
he never made that removal it is scarcely
probable that, hampered by the difficulties that
surrounded him, he would have risen TO the
high position he now occupies before the pco-
pie Of the nation. But he came over on to
free soil, where generous sympathies awaited
the laborer, and helped him on in his upward
career. Rising by his own noble efforts, he is
today the chosen Presidential candidate of
the Republican party, and on the fourth of
March next he will be the duly chosen Presi-
dent Of the United Statcs.
OF the nom. nee for vicc President, ! can
truly say that he is emineHty worthy Of She |
confidence reposed in him. l have served with |
him long in public life, and have known him
well. He has been lifelong Dcmoerat-not !
Of the modern type, but of the school of j effcr-
son and Franklin. His Democracy is not of
tidt hii4d W hulCH COllS!oto III SuDSGlFlCnC} ~ /
the dictates of slavcholding class, and whose !
highest manifestation is in the alacrity with |
which its devotees will chase a runaway nie-
ger; but that Democracy upon which our in
5titutions are based; which, towering sublime
ly above the selfish interest of classes and fac |
tions, is enthroned upon the solid foundations
of true popular sovereignty-the expressed |
viii Of an intelligent and patriotic peope. !
can pronounce upon him no higher euIoeium
than TO say that he is worthy of association
upon the came ticket with Abraham Lin
coin.
Gov. Chase concluded his speech, of which
the foregoing is an imperfect and hasty sketch.
by a stirring appeal to Republicans to do their
whole duty in the coming campaign. There
is now every indication Of success, but success
S never won without effort, and it is always
we'll to make assurance douby sure. If this
oe done, on the evening of the 4th of March
next the country will rejoice over the election
If Abraham Lincoln as President of the Unit
ID States.
The speech was well timed, and repeatedly
Interrupted with applause. At the close the
'ast multitude gave three rousing cheers for
chase, and three more for Lincoln.
Hon. J. r. Giddings, as our readers will re-
member, was a delegate to the Chicago Con
-ention, and showed great interest in its pro-
eedings After the nomination many dele