Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-04-05
,ress had plenary and unQuesiionable pow.

gress bad plenary and uBQuestIonablep pow
er, under the Constitution of the Unitec
States, TO prohibit negro slavery in Terri
tories; and that it is the duty Of Congress
to exert that power whenever slavery die
not exist iu any Territory where the whit'
nan could live and work. Ny Democrat
ic friend from Ohio (Mr. Vallandigham'
stated here a few days ago that the Dem
ocratic party had been wrong upon thai
subject-meaning that they had heretofore
conceded this power and insisted on its ex
ercise. Now it is certain to look at it his
torically, that in the progress of your Gov
eminent, the first founders of it did pro
ceed upon that principle. The ordinance
of 1887 was made under the old Confed
eration; it was made by very many of the
men who sat in the convention which form
ed the present Constitution of the United
States; and Virginia, BY all her delegates,
voted for that ordinance.
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Why are we, l ask again, to be deuouc,
ced as bad men for desiring to act as our
fathers actedi We wish TO do just what
they did under similar circumstances. We
desire, if the country gives US power, to do
all things rightly and in doing so, we turn
to the bright examples of better days
for our guide. Unhappily for us, the
North and the South have no confidence
in each other, and madness rules the
hour. You think you have diverse and
opposing interests. This is all mistake,
a great mistake. Whatever promotes the
interest of Alabama and Mississippi, is, in
national point of view, equally favorable
to the interests of the State of Ohio
One gentleman has spoken of Ohio as an
empire State. If she be such State, is
not Alabama made stronger by the con-
nection with strong rather than weak
States In any national conflict Alabama
has a powerful ally. In this view, it is too
plain for argument that every State is in
terested in the prosperity of every other,
aud each in the prosperity and happiness
Of all. We are not rivals, we are brothers.
And here | may ask, without egotism, why
is young Ohio SO powerful!
Kentucky is older by many years; whilst
with. climate and soil unsurpassed by
few, perhaps none in the Union; with
people surpassed by no community for en-
terprise, for courage, for constancy, for all
the qualities which give character and in
fuence and just pride to States, Ohio GER
tainly from cause, has very far exceeded
her elder sister in developing wealth, pop
ulation, and all that constitutes a strong
and powerful State. Why is this so?-
The cause, l think, will be found in facts
which give Ohio no cause to boast of her
self, but in that very institution which
forms the :opic of all this debate. Ken
lucky is my native State. know her
well: l knew her great men, and love them
and honor them; but Ohio and her, side
by side, joined in heart as well rs neigh
borhood-look at them, and you will see
the difference between them to which re-
fer. -e
"Mr COLLEAGUE, Mr.. cox" AND THE RE-
SERVE PEOPLE.
My colleague, Mr.. Cox, spoke of meet
ing upon the Western Reserve. in Ohio.
He is young gentleman, a rising man,
and if he does not get bad habits upon the
Democrotic side of the House, may come
to something some day hence. Laugh
ter. He amused himself with the comic
power he possesses, in initiating the nasal
twang Of the Yankees of that Reserve
1t sounded strange TO you, as it did to him;
and so it did toihe army of Prince Rupert
at Martsmon Moor, when the ancestors of
these men rushed into battle against the
chivalry and curled darlings of the Court
of Charles 1. What happened then p
Something worthy to be noted and not fer
gotten. Stout Cromwell and his uncof-
querable Ironsides, when the day was well
nigh lost, charged with resistless fury up
Oh the proud columns of that host of gen.
llemen, as they were boastfully denomina-
ted, and 10! Prince Rupert and his host
we're no longer there. They we're scattered
IS the dried leaves of Autumn are before
lhe storm-blast of the coming Winter
That same nasal twang rang out on that
day, their well-known war cry, "The sword
Of the Lord and of Gideon"
These Yankees are peculiar people;
they are an industrious, thriving, pains
taking race Of men. The frailties of these
men grow out of their very virtues, those
stern virtues which founded liberty in Eng
land, and baptized it in their own blood up
on Bunker Hill, in America. They will do
so again if there is. a necessity for it. 1t
is hard matter to deal with men who do
verify believe that God Almighty and his
Angels encamp round about them. What
do they care for earthly things or earthly
poweri What do they care for kings and
lords, and presidentsl They fully believe
they are heirs of the King of kings. In
Ihe hour of battle they seem to themselves
to stand, like the great Hebrew leader, in
he cleft of the rock the glory of the most
high God passes by them, and they catch
a CLEAN of its brightness. If yoa come iu
conflict with the purposes of such men,
they will regard duty as. everything, life as
nothing. So it appeared in our war of the
WHAT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY PROPOSES.
Mr.. Clerk, it is my wish to show that the
Republican party, which proposes 10 pro-
hibit slavery in. Territories, is, in that prin-
ciple, following the example of the men of
the revolutionary period, both before and
after the adoption of the Constitution
The ordinance of 1887, prior to, or rather