Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1860-07-03

low from the Ashiabuln Sentinel, written by
Mr.. GmDINas himself will eorroborate all we
hive said in regard to the ultra-they call it
the true position occupied by the Republi
can party in the Northern portion of the
State.
PIRACY * CINCINNATI
A colored man named Waggoner, born in
Cincinnati, of free parents, was forcibly seiz-
ed, taken before n United States Commission
or, pronounced n fugitive slave, and hurried
across the river TO Newport, and confined in
the Jail Of that village. The people of Gin.
%cinnati stood looking on with folded arms,
saying, the fugitive law must be obeyed, They
quietly saw the sovereignty Of Ohio trampled
upon, and humanity outraged, because the
Supreme Court had said we must submit 20
that mandate of despots, called the Fugitive
Slave Law.
The pirates who kidnapped him, having got
him into Kentucky, no longer claimed to own
him, but insisted that he should be sold 10 pay
tie expenses of his capture and Imprisonment
Public notice Of the sale was given, and the
people Of Cincinnati looked ON qnietly, and
saw a man, born on our Owl soil, consigned to
chains and suffering, instead Of fattening the
soil of Kentucky with the blood Of live pirates.
Instead Of laying Newport in ashes, they
permitted the pirates of that city to enslave o
freeman of Cincinnati. 1t was a dastnrdly
submission, disgraceful to our State. The
kentuckians came over to Cincinnati, precise
ly as Spanish and American pirates go to AZ
RIGA they seize and enslave ireemen Of Ohio,
precisely as their brother pirates seize and en-
slave Africans. The people of Cincinnati
with all the apparent imbeeility and cowardice
of the heathenS of Africa, submit to see their
people captured and enslaved
We are not sufficiently yersed in c~ausistry
to discover any difference in the guilt between
the African and the Kentucky pirates. If
one be worthy Of the gallows, the others ought
not to escape. Nor can we draw any very
marked difference between the stupidity, the
heathenism of the Africans who quietly sub
nit to the piracy, and the barbarous supine-
ness manifested by our brethren of Cincin-
natl. They however hold it the duty of good
citizens 10 submit to such despotism; we would
slay the despots and pity the towards who
trcmble before those who profess to execute
despotic enactments.
The Supreme Court say we must submit to
this tyranny, and our friends in Cincinnati
think they must bow submissively TO such die
tation; we would strike down the tyrants, and
pity the inbeciles who fear the power of DIES.
pots. Our State has been disgraeed. Its soil
has been contaminated with the footsteps Of
~piraiea, Gnd its citizens bow down and submit
like towards. We hope the pirates may next
take the Mayor Of Cincinnati; he is just as liza
4 BILE as Waggoner was, and as he seems viii
! ling to see his neighbors taken and enslaved,
D we trust the pirates may next take him, as the
1 lpcople will not dare to oppose the Fugitive
Law. They hold that obedience to tyrants
, is obedience to God"
s The Cincinnati nouar enaoL ont op1 cborga
c the Democracy with this barbarism but we
can discover no very great distinction between
the Democrats who passed fugitive act, and
those Republicans who uphold it, saying We
are bound to obey it, Waggoner had received
I from the Creator II right to liberty, and none
4 but pirates would rob him of it. Palsied be
the hand, and cursed be the man who would
j ~enslave human souls. The Reserve would
= give such men hospitable graves.
. We know not what Gov. Dennison has done
or is doing in this matter The public will
: hold him responsible il he fails TO do all that
u he is authorized TO do in the premises. fine
: cessary, let the Legislature be convened. Let
e efficient measures be taken for the return of
3 Waggoner or let the civil war which Ken.
lucky has thus waged upon our State, be met
, in II spirit Of manly resistance. &.
Citizens of Southern Ohio, we ask you are
the sentiments and doctrines of the above
such as you can endorse2 Are you willing to
! join the ranks of those who thus openly de-
nounce and counsel resistance to the laws of
the land2 who would thus nullify a Constitu-
tional requirement. Mr.. GmDINGs is in error
in stating that the Fugitive Slave Law is a
Democratic measure. 1t is one of the famous
Compromise measures in which the prominent
members in the Senate and House in 1850, of
all parties, joined in passing, and became a
law by the signature of WILLARD FILLMORE,
who was then President of the United States
II received the sanction and endorsement of
both the great political parties Democratic
and Whig) at their National Conventions in
1852. But the question MS to who passed the
bill, has nothing TO do with its enforcement
1t is sufficient to.know that it was regularly
passed, and is Constitutional, TO require at the
hands of all good citizens, faithful and prompt
obedience to its provisions. 1t may be dis
tasteful to some-t may come in conflict with
individual yiews-yet, SO long as it remains
npon the statute book, it cannot be evaded
"N'"N 'N"NNAHb NHS PNASSha "AO httomPt
evasion, liable to the penalties attached
If the Republicans Of this State, are sin
cere in their Instrumentation of tiff the Re-
publican Stats Convention of this year as well
as last-mean what they say, why do they not
make an effort 70 repeal il, at least so far as
their party has the power2 In the last House
of Representatives the Opposition had a large
majority, why did they not so far as the
House was concerned, remove this act which
they declare "abhorrent TO The moral sense of
the civilized worldT' Why did not the Re
Pnblicans give the world evidence Of the HON
esty of their hatred of it by recording their
votes in favor Of its repeal2 Such a course,
certainly would have been much more to their
credit as good aud loyal citizens, than to conn,
sci resistance, even unto the committing Of