Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1860-09-01


the rsupreme1 Court, with Just regard to Com.
mercial and POLITICAL considerations, is one OF
the auspicious promises Of Republican ascen-
dancu "--1ppeHdir 10 Cbn0. Globe, le5y-G0,
page 236.
HARRISON g. BLAKE SUPPORTS LIN
C0LN-HIs RECORD
This gentleman is Republican member Of
congrdls fcu.Qhip an ne HQusgpf Repre-
senta,iyes on the 26th Msseb, FsSa, b offered
the following preamble andresolution:
WHEREAS The ehattezing Of humanity,
and the holding Of persona as property, is con-
trary to natural Justice and The fundamental
principles of ouf political system, and is no
toriously o reproach to our country throughout
the civilized world, and serious hinderance to
the progress Of Liberty throughout the nations
of the earth therefore,
Resolred, That the Committee on Judiciary
be, and the same IS hereby instructed TO in
quire into the expedieney Of reporting BILL
GIVING FREEDOM TO EVERY HUMAN BEING, and IN
TERDicTiNG SLAVERY wherever Congress has
the constitutional power to legislate upon the
subject
Sixty Republican members Of the House
voted for this resolution, including c, f.
Adams, Aldrich, Bingham, Blair, Burlngame,
Carey, Conkling, Edgerton, Grow, Gurley,
Helmick, Loyejoy, Morrill, Potter, sherman
c. c. washburn, r. B. washburn, Window
c. p. woLCoTT SUPPORTS LINCOLN
HIS RECORD.
This gentleman is the Republican Attorney
General Of Ohio. On the I'd Dee, 1859, the
day Of John Browns execution, being IN at
tendance at the Court Of Common Pleas in
the town Of Akron, O., he moved that the
Court adjourn as a mark of respect and admi.
ration for John Brown, and accompanied the
motion with some highly eulogistic remarks
Of that old murderer.
JOS. NJ. ROOT, SUPPORTS LINCOLN
HIS RECORD.
This gentleman has for years been an old
line Aboltionist of the Giddngs school, and
is now one of the Republican Electors at large
for the State of Ohio He was in attendance
and spoke at the Cleveland Convention, OF
the 25th, May 1859, called to overawe the
Supreme Court in the 0berlin Rescue trials
dboNt w. AIt Muh u VI lut
Abolition State Convention of Ohio in 1851
which nominated Brinkerhoff for Supreme
Judge, and as q member of the Committee on
Resolutions, reported as follows
Resolred That the Fugitive Slave Law, en-
acted by the last Congress, is in derogation oil
the genius of our free institutions an unwar.
rantable encroacnment upon the sovereignty
of the States, riotation Of the principles Of
natural and reredied religion, an Gssunsp tioR
Of Legislative pOioer not constitutional, and
a monstrous exhibition ofyranny, injustice
cruelty and oppression WE WILL NOT
REGARD 1T AS OF ANY BINDING FORCE
OR EFFICACY WHATEVER. In the Ian.
guage of Patrick Henry we say "If this be
treason make the most oft"
THE OHIO STATE EJ0URNAL SUPPORTS
LINCOLN-ITS RECORD.
In an article, on the 9th of Oct, 1869, de-
Tending the then recent John Brown raid, the
Ohio State Journal speaking of the South
: said;
at would be well for them If this touch oi
Brown, that has collapsed all their buster
show their utter weakness, should bring them
to their senses, and teach them their depend
ence on law and constitutional obligations
Their whole history has been one of open dis
regard ofboth, and ofinjury and insult tu their
sister States Let Brown have
the HONORABLE DEATH OF THE GIBBET, in pref
erence to a monument in country that builds
monuments for the Brookses A whole Dem
ocratic Senate justified the assassination of a
Northern Senator, for words strictly within the
proprieties of debate We have but little zeal
to demand vengeance on Brown while these
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TIE FUGIrIvE SLAVE LAW ITSELF is NOTHING
BUT AN ORGANIZED INVASION, JUST AS MUCH IN
VIOLATION OF ALL LEGAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL
PRINCIPLES AS BRowYs WAS; MORE, FOR
/ BRowN's s HAD THE INHERENT RIGHT OF EVERY
, MAN TO BE FREE as starting point Every
seizure under the forms of the law, is nothing
but an insuTrectiOn against all legal rights,
and to this is added decision of the Supreme
Court, that claimant may seize man any
, where without a legal warrant"
THE SPRINGFIELD (O) NEWS AND
JOURNAL SUPPORTS LINCoLN--ITS
RECORD
e On the Sd Of December, 1859, the Spring.
+ field News and Journal, referring to the exc
= cution of JOHN BRowS, said:
poor misguided, but earnest, sincere and
! heroic John BrOWH is dead and IN hedren,
safe from Virginia governors and the tender
mercies of intriguing politicians, For him
there is no more sorrow-no more slavery, no
e more Border Rufhanism, no more Virginia
e chivalry The death he died wiped out his
indiscretion, and Judged simply by the human
ity and righteousness of his motive, he stands
undoubtedly, as one Of the redeemed around
= the great rhite throne
JOHN WENTWORTH SUPPORTS LIN.
a COLN-HIS RECORD
e John Wentworth, editor of the Chicago
: Democrat, Republican paper, who was re-
e Gently reelected Mayor of Chicago, by the Re
t publicans of that city and particular friend
y of Abraham Lincoln, in commenting upon
J. Summers Speech in the Senate on the 4th of
n June, above referred to, said;
e "This speech is the embodiment Of Repub-
e licdnism, The spirit which it breathes is the
. spirit which animates and giUes ritality and
force to oar organization The spirit has
= never before been so faithfully and powerfully
= embodied as it now is in this speech. Here.
n as in a mirror, can be seen the barbarism of
:, slavery, painted in all its hideousness, and
the weapons with which the Republican party
e assa this monster of iuiquity by the strength
II of which it shall finally be slain The speech
s. of Mr. Sumner expresses, in thoughts that
>. breathe and teOrds that burn, the sentiments
of Lincoln and HdmiiR, and Of epery tpe
a Republican on the great principle of antago-
nism to slavery, which binds our party togeth-
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