Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-09-07

ton Of the mass Of people whe could not ge
within hearing distance were addressed b,
honest Ben. Wade, of Ohio and another por
ton by Gen. James ". Nye, of New York
Mr.. Wade spoke for an hour and a half an,
the Detroit Advertiser says ''the peopl,
seemed unwilling that be should close. Hi
speech, was the able effort OF mastel
mind.
Mr.. Wade's remarks were directed chiefly
to an exposition of the inconsistencies of Mr.
Douglas. We clip from the Advertiser
synopsis of his speech:
Mr.. WADE ON Mr.. DOUGLAS.
He said he did not wish to be understood
as traducing Brother" Douglas, whom he
had met almost daily. He rather liked him
socially, but his political heresies he felt il
bis duty to expOse, When Kansas had been
suffering from the wrongs inflicted upon her
by her invaders; when her sons and daugh-
ters were slain for no other crime than that
ofloving liberty and seeking to establish il
in that territory on the Popular Sovereignty
principle and when the friends of Kansas
petitiOned Congress for protection and re-
dress, Brother Douglas was among the most
vehement denouncers and opposers Of the
petitioners. When Kansas had met and
adopted Constitution prohibiting slavery,
in the exercise Of the right Of Popular Soye-
reignty, and the Republican House of Repre-
sentatives had passed the act of admission
with the Constitution so adopted; when that
bill was sent 10 the Senate for approval, and
every vote that could be had in the Senate
was required, where was Brother Douglas
He was "sick.' (LaUghter.) Whenever
anything was to be done for slavery they
never heard anything OF Brother Douglas
sickness, but US soon as freedom required his
aid, though seen about every day, he was
always sick and could not attend in his seat
(Cr,es OF that's so.") 1t had been remark
cd that Mr.. Douglas was now travelling in
search ofhis mother, daughter, but his, Mr..
Wade's opinion was, that he was in search of
the Democratic party. (Laughter.)
DOUGLAS, FITZPATRICK AND JOHNSON.
he would not vote for brother Douglas be-
cause he despised a craven-hearted man.
When brother Douglas had occupied the pO-
sition of Chairman of the Committee on Terri
tories for tenlOng years, a caucus was got up
in the Senate, and in order to evince the dis
trust in which he was held by his associates
in that body, they voted him out of that posi-
ton. And who was most prominent in this
against Douglass 1t was none
other than Fitzpatrick, whose name was
placed on the ticket as the nominee for Vice
President with that of Douglas; who accept
ed the nomination and consented to run with
the man who had thus conspired to destroy
himl He (Mr. Wade, could respect christian
but when it assumed the charac-
teristics OF the spaniel, that would turn and
lick the boot that kicked him, he thought for
ceased to be virtue. Cheers. =
But Mr.. Fitzpatrick took a manly view Of the
matter, and said be had not asked to be placed
in nomination with Douglas and would not
run with him. He (Mr Wade, respected
Mr. Fitzpatrick for this, and would in no case
consent to run on a ticket with man he had
once kicked. Laughter and cheers. But
they had placed on the ticket with brother
Douglas one Of the most ultra slaveholders-a
man who had a short time since declared in
Philadelphia, that capital should own labor
referring not merely to the labor of the color
ed man, but to that of the white man as we'll
Yes, Mr.. Johnson believes that every labor
ing man should be the property of his en-
ployer. And this is the man for whom the
Northern laboring men are asked to vote for
as Vice President and on a popular Soye-
reignty" platform. Cheers and laughter.
It was true, Mr.. johnson was not nominated
by the convention; there was not even
appointed to make a nomination
in case OF Mr.. Fitzpatrick's refusal to accept.
And yet he was, doubtless, selected with
view to carry strength with the strong pro-
slavery party in the South.