The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-10-04

From tho Ohio State journal.
SPEECH OF
hon. ROBERT c. SCHENCK
OE ID . = to N
Delivered atCOlumbuS, Sept, 2lSt, 1884,

Mr.. Scheuck, in coming forward to
address the people, who greeted him en-
Enthusiastically, remarked that it was a
long time since he had spoken at a pub
lie meeting in Columbus. He was clad
of the interruption, he said which oc-
CURED through the effort Of the people
to come forward aud take seats about
the speakers. They would make room
for them. The Republicans intend to
make room for them all before No
vember. But he was going to say that
he had not expected to make the open
ing speech, until a moment or two
before he rose. He felt the awkward o
ness of his position in preceding Gov.
Corwin; for all were anxious to hear
him; though he did not know but what
it was equally disastrous to follow
Gov. Corwiu, and fail to sustain the
interest which he had excited,
lie had always addressed the people
of Columbus before as a Whig he ad-
dressed them now for the first time as
Republican. He did not, however,
feel that he had changed in anything
but the name. In the Republican
platform, adopted at Chicago, he found
the principle Of Protection asserted
That was no new thing. He had al.
ways advocated the principle of Pro
lection. He found that the Republi.
cans favored a system Of Internal I'm,
provements. That was no new thing
he had always favored it. He had
found that he had always intended tho
management of the public works as the
Republicans intended; and advancing
to the question more vital than any
other--the question of slavery extension
he found that the Republicans occu
pied no new ground, but simply the
old ground of the Fathers Of the Re
public; for they claimed merely tina
Congress can and ought to exclud,
slavery from the territories. 1t was M
new thing-no novelty that the Re
publicans presented to the people--nt
new panacea Of Popular Sovereignty
no Slave Code-buta a proposition to thu
nation to retrace its steps in relation Il
slavery, until it stood with those wht
founded the Government. He onl,
glanced at the historical aspects Of thi
question, taking the record from tn
days Of 76, down to the days of l8l7
and he found all successive Courts
4 CONGRESSES and Presidents taking th
common ground that Congress had
right to exercise the authority over tn
Territories which it always had exer
cised. 1t was these latter-day squat
ter sovereigus who were the first {
dispute that right
lie had acted with the Wing part
until it ceased to exist, and when thu
time came to what party should he g
but to the Republican party? AftC
that organization, the least objection
g able one to an old Whig was til
q Bell Everett party. He had nothin
against Mr. Bell. He would have bee
, willing to trust him, a few years sine
at the head Of the Government. b.
10 now, in the FIRST place, he was not g.
10 ing to throw away his vote; and
e the next place, would not consent
ally himself with Mr. Douglas in tn
, place, or Breckenridge in that The
~ he did not want a man who meant not
20 ing, The Bell and Everett men sa
C they were in favor of the Constitutio
- the Union, and the laws. They mig
as we'll tell him they were in favor Of d
stars and stripes, the American eagI
and Yankee Doodle He wanted
it know what the stars and stripes were
wave over, aud he was answered wi