Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-02
Republican Meeting nt Eighth and Mound
atreeta-SReeeh Of senator WnIe.

Republican Meeting nj Eighth and Mound
stroets-speech Of Senator wade.
There was fair attendance in point of
numbers, at the meeting last night at the
corner of Eighth and Mound-streets. Il was
composed almost wholly of voters, who
listened TO the speech of Senator Wade with
the utmost attention. The following were
the officers:
President--Dr. S. Sexton. ..
Vice-Presidents-W. B. Bisby, John Pol
lock, ]. w. Sibley, r. NJ Corwine, DIR. Vim.
II. Mussey, J.Kirby.
Secretaries-Jas r. Day and D. Thrasher.
The meeting was called to order about
eight o'clock, and Senator Wade, taking the
stand, proceeded to address the audience.
lie particularly devoted himself to taking
to pieces the reputation which Mr.. Douglas
has made through his public acts, and spent
an hour in dissecting the popular-sover-
eighty doctrine.
The Democratic candidate for the Presi-
dency, he said, wished to leave the people
of the Territories free to settle their domes-
tic affairs in their own way; but when the
Nebraska Bill was before the Senate it was
moved to amend it, so that the people could
exclude slavery, and Mr.. D. voted "no"
1t was then moved that they be left at lib
erty to choose their own Governor. Again.
Mr.. Douglas voted mo" II was then
thought that if the people governed them
selves, they should select their own judges;
and, for the third time, Douglas voted mo"
The bill having no shadow of popular SOW
ereignty about it, then passed, nOtwith-
standing the Republican protest; aud when
Mr.. Thayer introduced a bill afterward, Civ
ing the people of the Territories right to
govern themselves, it was defeated by the
very supporters Unpopular sovereignty.
Mr.. Wade spoke of the English Bill, and
the relationship Douglas bore to it of Brod-
erick, and the compact which the Senator
from Illinois had made with him; of his at
tempt to Tecede from it. and the contempt
ible manner in which he treated the brave
young member from California; of his re-
fusal to speak in his favor after his death;
and of his vote for the confirmation of the
appointment of the man who had seconded
his murderer.
He then referred to the Charleston Con-
venton, and gave history of the proceed
ings that resulted in the nomination of Mr..
! Douglas, the national candidate for the
Presidency. After stating that the Conven-
ton which nominated Lincoln contained
more Southern votes than that which assem-
/ bled at Baltimore, he admitted that Doug
las was q national man. The South had de-
serted him before he was nominated, and the
| North afterward. He was national because
both sections of the country repudiated him
alike.
party. He said Mr.. Bell was an honest and
honorable man, and deserved to be in better
company. The party of which he was the
leader meant nothing, and was good-for-
nothing. Ask him what he thought of the
slavery question, and he would answer, "Pm
for saving the Union" What of the Home
stead Bill? "Im for saving the Union"
What of the question of Internal Improve
ments? "Im for saving the Union" and
| this was the reDlV alwayS
Why, said the speaker, the South does not
think we will dissolve the Union; but that
some how if the Republican party should
happen to elect President, it would drive
them to dissolving it. This was marriage
in which there could be no divorce. Every
thing tended to bind the States together, and
there was no possible means by which they
could be separated. They might talk about
it-that was their privilege if they chose;
but the act was treason, and when it was
attempted they would hang. Dissolve the
Union To talk of it, was to talk like fool.
He spoke of the idea Of protecting slavery
in the Territories, and stated what it meant
and why the Democratic party opposed the
Homestead Bill. 1t promoted emigration
and emigrants would not locate in the South
There were 100000 of free white men in
the South, 100000 of slaves and 375,0 00C
Shareholders. The 100000 would leave for
l60 acres of land each in the Territories, and
the slave-owDers would be very lonesome
They would have no one to protect them
from their slaves.
The South objected to the Homestead Bill
because l60 acres of land to them amounted
to almost nothing; but they would have
voted for it if the proposition had been to
give them l60 acres for each negro they
owned-give it to them in townships, and
they would take it.
Mr.. Wade spoke of the boast which Demo.
Gratis make, that Republicans could not &c
South and advocate the principles of theiI
party. He thanked God this would not al.
ways be the case, and referred to the election
of Frank Blair and said the Democracy il
such boasts only gloried in their own shame
The speech lasted two hours and half
and was frequently Interrupted with louC
cheers. Our abstract meager as it is, ALREADY
is longer than our space admits, and we clos(
without suggesting one-half the points thai
were discussed.
TRIUMPHANT success of Geraldine, will
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