Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-11-06

press passed to carry 1t out. ut."-EnqatTers
This is the stuff the Democratic organs
publish on the eve of Presidential election,
to apgravate sectional excitement and 10 J
Justify and invite violence on the part OF the
South. Mr.. Yancey made the same charge,
in his speech at Pixies Opera-house, and IN
ouired IL he was not correct in including |
Ohio, when some funkey on the stage said
she had done it. but the nullifying acts had |
been repealed. 1t is enough to make man
mack up his traps and move into a slave
State, to see miserable flunkies tolerated in
a public meeting, who will get up and bear
false witness against their own State, and
indorse an ignorant and false statement
made by sectional agitator against the
whole North. They do not have this in the
South. There no man would venture, in
popular assembly, to accuse his own State;
and especially TO indorse an accusation made
by speaker from another section. 1t is this
abasement of their own section that has
brought the great Democratic party to its
present condition. One would think that
the result might suggest the wisdom of
change of policy. But it seems that the
concern has get below any recuperative
power, and the only course is one of con-
tinued debnsement. f, .-..
If manhood, selfrespect love Of country
and jealousy of its honor, are inseparable
from slavery, for Heavens sake let US have
slavery in Ohio. There is nothing in the
condition of betweenity which we give the
negro here-neither free man nor protected
by the relation of master and servant, which
seems to be the elimination of our negro
philanthropy-that will begin to compensate
for the loss of manhood in the white race.
The instinct of selfpreservation is just as
lawful in races as in individuals, and if we
must have slaves, to save white politicians
from taking on the spirit of slaves, let US
have the negro slaves, and preserve our
manhood, and end sectional agitation at
once. For our part, we go for slavery in
Ohio as q means Of developing the white
race into a condition of superiority.
How can any Northern State nullify the
Fugitive-slave Law? Any man of sense
knows it can not be done. Nor is it done.
There is no administration of any law which
involves personal liberty, that is so sure and
successful as the seizure of fugitiyes. Ohio
is included in the States that have once null
lified the law, but seizures of slaves are
almost invariably successful in Ohio. There
was one rescued at Wellington last year, but
we believe it was shown that the seizure had
not even the slight warrant which the fu-
pitive law requires The rescuers thought
so, at any rate. But, about thirty respecta-
blemen were imprisoned most excessively
for that offense; SO the fugitive law was
triumphant.
The legislation Of Ohio, which the swift
State's-evidence at the Opera-house called
notification, was, we presume, sample OF
the whole. II merely forbid the use of Ohio
jails for the confinement of fugitive slaves
The law was foolish one, for it defeated its
own purpose. The claimants dare not put
their seizures in Jail, for fear of habeas corpus
But the principle on which the fugitive law
is founded, and the one carried out in all its
details, is, that no portion of its execution
shall be entrusted to the States, but that the
Federal provision shall be complete and ad-
equate.
The claim that the execution of this con-
stitutional provision is intended to be left by
the Constitution to the States, is the ground
which the ultra Abolitionists take, and that
is called nullifying the Constitution. Bur
the same blind partizan howl about its being
notification for the States not to provide foI
executing the same law. In their bull
headed haste to accuse their own States,
they place themselves on the same ground
as the abolitionists, who are such terrible
nullifers to them. If these politicians and
editors would commit physical, as often as
they do logical suicide, there would be vas
improvement in the politics of the country
Mr.. Yancey knew nothing of what he wa!
talking. He comes from a State where ar
escape to free border is almost impossible
to a slave, as pilgrimage to Rome; and ye
he talks of secession because the Fugitiv
Law is nullifed. Kentucky with frontie
of 300 miles exposed to free SOIL car
exist in the Union, and on civil term
with the neighboring free States; but Ala
bama, 500 miles from free border, ant
where they never lose slave, except Il
their own swamps, can not stay in the Uniol
because the fugitive law is nullifed; an,
once in while she must get up the terribl
farce of hanging some of her own poo
whites, or some innocent wandering peddle
from abroad, in order to keep up whole
some terror and ferocity toward Abolition
lists.
No free people ever made such sacrifices
all the safeguards of liberty, and of the uni
yersally-recognized principles of legal ad
ministration, for the execution of a law, a
the North have for the execution of the Flu
gitive-slaVe Law. The law itself declare
that the people of the free States are not {
to be trusted. The manner of its executio
is nothing but legalized violence. The br'
tality used in these secret and midnight cal
lures, is responsible TO no tribunal; nor ca
the question be tried whether these victim
were not really free. The North furnish'
the officers and the helpers to do this work
work which Southern gentlemen considt
degrading. And the North pays two-third
of the expense of these recaptures. An e1
ira fee, even, is offered TO the Commissions
for declaring the claim valid. Who eve
heard of a claim brought before Commi'
sioner that was not valid? Although th
manner OF every seizure is such az to Great
suspicion Of foul play, the law is almost IN
variably executed. The law is not popular