Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-10-23

venturous young man started 70 rescue tue
child. lie clambered up the mountain by
the help Of Clinging shrubs and sheltering
rocks; he reached the vulture's eyrie, where
she sat with the child What then says the
vulture? GLANDS Off Non-intervent.Jnl
desire to be left perfectly free to tear the
flesh Of this infant as ! please Great
laughter That is tho modern Democratic
doctrine. [Renewed laughter.l Now Mr.
Douglas would say, "That 10 very good IL
luEtratlon of Lovejoys, the high priest Of
Abolition Laughter these are very good
illustrations if men are 10 be considered
wolves and vultures, but they are not" l
say they are good illustrations. You know
the rhetoricians sayl you must not make q
comparison crawl on all fours. You only
want one point of comparison. | have that
point. Ny point Of comparison is this: That
wolves have just as much right to steal and
guaw at lambs, and vultures to tear the flesh
of innocent babes, as men have 10 make
slaves Of their iellow-men. [Great and pro-
longed applause.
Non-intervention Left perfectly freei-
Free to do what There is more sOphism-
if you will excuse me the use Of that language
lin this high-prest Of modern Democracy
than was ever before crowded into any liy-
ing man, believe; for he will state posi-
ton, not false in words, making false inn
preston on his audience, and then shoot off
and argue point he has never stated, and so
blend and mingle the statement and argument
together as TO allow the audience to glide
along without being aware they have been
cheated in the statement and argument
He states popular sovereignty: he says the
people may have slavery or not as they
please, and from that what does he argue
The question of selEgovernment Whoever
denied that? Whoever doubted the right
of the people to govern themselves, since its
| organization2 No man that l ever heard
Of out of bedlam. Laughter. What
does he mean by squattor sovereignty, or
popular sovereignty if you please,-for am
willing to give him all the benefit of his
own language. lie means the right Of the
people by vote Of the people to enslave
men. That is popular sovereignty. When
you come to the real gist and kernel of the
thing-tear off its coverings and disguises
and reach the vital principle, it is that
when one class of men get together, and
| vote another class of men into slavery, it
is all right What do you think about it,
Judge? 81 don't care 2" [Laughter.l But
| | do care, | care whether 1 am voted into
Slavery, or not. l deny the right Of this
vast multitude deny the right Of the thirty
millions of Americans,--I deny the right
of all the teeming millions of earth to vote
me into slavery. Loud applause. Never
never can it be done [Great enthusiasm.
| am my own man. So far as my right to
life and liberty is concerned, I did not get
| it from Congress or Parliament; l did not
| get it from the Democratic party; did not
get it from any evil spirits whose names
commence with the same initials as the
Democrats. Loud laughter and cheers. +
| have my right to life and liberty from the
| Eternal God who made me, and every other
man derived that right from the same source.
| TApplause1 What is Democracy This De-
mocracy says that the popular vote can take
right away, aud once taken away the act is
sanctioned, and upheld by all avs human and
divine; deny il; say it is wrong how
ever it may be perpetrated. Why, mothers,
what do you care how you are robbed OF
your babe The question is not how it is
done; the outrage is that it is done at all.
No matter whether it is by an individual, OF
by a conspiracy of many individuals in a
community agreeing and cOncerting accord
ing to the forms Of law, if the poor babe is
torn from your heart, that is the unspeakable
wrong-not the manner in which it is per-
petrated. Great cheering. And Douglas
don't carel [Uproarous laughter.
Ny friends, when you hear of popular soy
ereignty remember it does not mean the right
of the people to govern themselves. We dc
not propose to take away from the man going
over the terry into Kansas the right of sell
government. We propose to take away
from him there, and everywhere that the
federal government has jurisdiction, the right
of keeping another man against his will
Great applause.
And this, citizens, was the doctrine of thC
fathers-the prohibition of slavery in thC
Territories of the United States. They erec
ted a wall of freedom along the Southern
border of Ohio Indiana, Illinois and ali thi
vast territory west of us. Do you see tht
strong barrier Of freedom built BY then acros
the continent, and stretching away up thu
sides of the Rocky Mountains until it rest
upon the summit of that lofty range-tree
dom's wall built by our fathers Who mad
a breach in it? Who broke down the wall
Who opened the gates, and made it at leas
possible for slavery to enter, and take pos
session of that ground, the magnificent do
main that God had made for freedom2 Th
Democratic party under the leadership 0
Judge Douglas. What did you do it 70
Judge2 You have heard him give the rea
son thousand times have you not2 Al
ways, in every speech, l hear he makes tn
same quotation from the Nebraska bill, Civ
ing the reason why he repealed the Missoul
COmpron ise:-"l 1t being the true intent an
meaning of this bill not TO legisldte SLAYER
into any State or Territory, or exclude
therefrom, but to leave the people thereC
perfectly free to regulate their domestic in
: stitutions in their own way, subject to th
: Constitution of the United States" THE in
imitable mimicry of Judge Douglass name
with which the speaker recited this passsg
provoked shouts of laughter from the aud
l ence.
Perfectly freel Yes, vote it in, or vote
out But that is a delusion-that is a chea
: which has been exposed so often that I al
almost ashamed to expose it again. Indeet
l feel it is sort of disrespect to the dead,
talk about this Democratic party any NOR
: TGreat laughter. Leave the people theret
: perfectly free" | say that is not true.
there are eighty thousand people in Kansa
8 and they all vote to keep slavery out, the
e what2 Is it valid? viii it abide JUDI
e Douglas, you know, says; "Subject to Il
e Constitution" What Constitution, Judge
n The Constitution that our fathers gave ui
r Not a bit of it. The Constitution Whit
D Judge Taney has given US in the Dred SEQ
decission2 Applause. Now what2 II
: territorial law is enacted prohibing SLAYER
l. A STAKEHOLDER comes and takes possession
% portion of the territory. The slave su
= for his freedom, saying: al claim my FIRE
l. dom, by virtue of being brought into t.
- ritory where there is no law to make me
l. slave, but positive enactment declaring tn
le shall not be slave. What fOlloWs2 ind
u Taney drives him away from the halls
ic Justice, kicks him out saying; "You ha
Oh no right to appear here. You are not ci
y zen of the United States in any such cause
Is to entitle you to be q party to suit in t
courts of the United States" Is not th
D. correct? Is not that the Dred Scott decision
rs TCries of ayes" "yes." How can he a