The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1860-08-31

i which will turn any way. Laugh
teri Does any man want tariff
: "The tariff is good thing-I stan,
2 on the Constitution" Does any MAJ
'' want free trade? "Free trade is
good thing--I stand on the Consti
tuition" Is any man in favor q
4. slavery "Slavery is II first-rat
thing-I stand on the Constitution.
Langhter) Menl this is not tn,
time for non committalism. If ther,
ever was time when no man coulc
: stand neutral, it is now. DO yor
: vote to put the power and patronag,
oil this government in the hands o
; the people, or do you vote against
1t. Shall the strength of the govern
: ment be placed upon the eide oI
liberty or slaveryl 1t is a delusion
There is nothing IN it. When you
come to siit these Bell men they arc
As pro-slavery IA tho Breckinridgo
party. IL you are for liberty, go for
Lincoln; If Tor slavery, 60 Tor Breck-
inridge. We don't want your sup
port unless you stand upon princip pie.
II you love liberty, go with us; II
you love despotism, go with them
and that speedily. (Applause)
THE DOUGLAS PARTY.
! Next in order is Mr.. Douglas and
bis partlzans. | am disposed to be
charitable towards Mr.. Douglas.--
For the first time begin to feel some
remorse for the hard things I have
said of him. When I see a man
down and disarmed, dying and dead,
| begin to have some sympathy for
him. (Laughter.) Another reason
l have for sympathy. He and
though serving different masters,
have had a hard life of it. have
made q great many sacrifices .or
liberty, but Mr. Douglas has not
been behind me in making sacrifices
for the other principle. And in re
ference to the great object of reaching
the Presidency. | am not sure but
we are in similar attitude. (Laugh.
ter and cheers) Therefore have
sympathy for Mr.. Douglas. But
our masters are very diff rent -
Mine is not hard master. for not.
withstanding all my cares and trib
ulations, | am in pretty comfort
able fix physically Qaughtor.J and
my conscience is at ease.
Mr.. Douglas was Democrat
lie held, with our fathers, that
slavery wns curse to the master and
a wrong to the slave. There was no
d ference OF opinion in that respect.
Douglas was against the importation
OF Africans to this country. lie at
one time did not believe that the
way to christianize n man was to
take him from his home, break the
marriage tie, sacrifice one halt the
lives of his race by sea and land,
ignore all those great qualifying
sentiments which are stronger than
law -prccluding almost the possibil.
ify Of elevation, denying that the
man who raises the corn should eat
the corn--that the man who builds
the house should live in the house,
acknowledging that he was created
in the image of his Creator, not that
he might work out his own sal
walton, but that he should be in Dll
things subject to the will Of another.
Our fathers didn't believe that that
was Christian institution. They
didn't believe in this kind of means
of outstanding their fellow men -
The universal Democratic doctrine
was that slavery was a curse to the
master and wrong to the slave
1t was in every way an unniitigated
curse and an unmitigated evil,
Before the formation OF the Cunstitu-
tion, they protested earnestly against
the veto OF the British King, who
would not allow them to put down
the "infernal traffic." as they called
it.
Again, by the Ordinance of 1877,
every foot of soil that they then
owned they declared should be tor
ever consecrated to tree men, and
that tue foot of the slave should
never be set therein.
Mr.. Madison said they were not
willing even to admit that man
could hold property in man. SO far
from protecting slavery, they utterly
repudiated the idea that man could F,
hold property in his fellow man, and
so the Courts all stood up for the
enactment Of 'S7, and all declared
that slavery was creature OF local
law, and that whenever a slave es.
capped into a foreign territory the
slave WAS free. That WAS the COM
mon law. 1t was the law laid down
by the Supreme Court Of Louisiana.
1t was the law pronounced by Lord
Mansfield in the Sommersett case,
in which that eminent Jurist de-
clared that slavery was so repugnant
to the consciences of mankind that
nothing but positive law could make
a man slave. Even distracted
and expiring Mexico will not return
slave because it is disgraceful to
our common humanity. .... ..
Now, men OF Ohio! these were
Democratic doctrines from 1776 up
to tho decision OF the Supreme Court
in 1856. ! appeal to Democrats to
aay II they were not. Why did they
change these principlesl Have they
come to believe that the unparalleled
development of the free states
physical, social and intellectual--is
an experimental failure9 1t is not q
failure; and there is not Douglas
Democrat North of M ason and Dix
on's line, who has sense enough to