Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-11-02

of Governor mOrehehd He Don't Wish |
to Reply 20 Yancey = He Believes the
Union TO be Perpetual.
Smith h Nixon's Hall was filled last night
by people anxious to hear the speech Of ex-
Governor Morehead, of Kentucky, upon the
political questions of the day, and particu-
larly his reply to Mr.. Yancey, which his |
friends had announced would be embraced
in it. He, however, at the outset, disclaimed
any intention to reply to the distinguished
Alabamian, and regretted that the announce
ment had been made. On the other hand,
he sympathized with Mr.. Y in his efforts to
induce men TO abandon the Black Republican
party of the North, and vote for some good
Union man for President
He said he had no idea of changing the
public sentiment at the North; the time had
passed when that could be done. He wished
howeve to impress upon the minds of the
people the dependence of the sections upon
eloh other. Neither could exist alone. The
South raised the cotton and tobacco, and
the North furnished the clothing, the furni-
ture and the farming utensils and the ma
chinery used at tie South. He then went
into details of the relative wealth of the sec
tions, which are already familiar to our read
ers. He asserted, in words almost identical
with those used by Mr.. Yancey, that the
New Englan States did not manumit their
slaves, but sold them TO the South and also
that the slave-tTade clause was inserted in
the Constitution at the instance Of Massachu-
setts.
He then dwelt upon the-evils that he con-
ceivod would result from immediate emanci-
patton, calling free negroes a worthless
class, and said that the South never would
give up her slaves.
There was no sectional feeling among our
fathers; they had no conflicts upon the sub
.ject of slavery; they were indeed oil slave
holders-Massachusetts being the only free
| State in the Union in 1887.
The slaveholding States once had the
pow er in the Government; now things were
| reversed; the North could now do as it
| pleased-elect its President and ineugurate
| its own policy. A section may elect Pres
| ldent according to the forms of the Constitu-
ton, but not according to the spirit, as un-
derstood by our fathers. By sectional or
ganzation a President might be elected,
| though he receive no more than one third of
| the popular vote.
If Lincoln we're President, he could do
the South no harm, as both Houses of Con-
| eress and the Supreme Court would un-
| doubtedly be against him; yet South Caro-
lima and othern Southern States would at
tempt to go out of the Union-he knetU they
Vould. They had no right to do it, however,
and he believed that outside of the first
named State, the maj ity of the people
would crush out secession in its ineipient
stages. But South Carolina would go out,
and he devouty prayed Heaven, that in
compelling her to remain, no drop of blood
might be spilled, else he would not answer
for the course of the South.
He knew Lincoln and had served in
Congress with him. He was violently OPP
posed to slavery, but he hoped, when in
vested with power, that he would be con-
servative. He was an honest man. Loud
cheers
He then referred to Gov. Seward, who had
announced at Madison, Wisconsin, that his
hand should never be raised to crush out the
aspirations of any man or any class of men,
to rise in the scale of manhood These were
monstrous sentiments. The class of men re-
feTred TO were negroes for who else has any
need of rising any higher in the scale Of
manhood than be is at PRESENT. Mr.. Seward
had likewise declared in a speech at Ian.
sing, Michigan, that he was in favor o
abolishing the army and navy, because the
one was only employed to prevent invasion'
of the slave States, by Northern men, and thu
other to protect the Southern waters, tn,
North being able TO take care of itself. H,
then dwelt upon the sufferings of Kentuck
isns in the war of 1912, in defense of the uu
pToteC ted Northwest, and asked if tina
section would not now recprocate if an op
| po1tnnity offered.
He said there was no doubt but Lincoln
would be elected. Even the superhumar
York did not give him any ground for hope
But the South must submit and await peace
full action at the ballOt-bOx. Disunon wa
a remedy for nothing. Kentucky had nj
desire 10 be again Ozark and Bloody
Ground"-the Flanders of America. Tht
Union sentiment is strong in the South; the
Confederacy can not he dissolved. but is des
tined 10 live forever. Peaceable secession il
3 q mOnstrOus doctrine-so mOnstrous that i
. is not in the power of the imagination Il
compass it. The right of revolution was in
herent, hut those who resorted to it mus
take the consequences of a failure. Southern
statesmen had declared that if our safety re
9 quired it, we had a right to take Cuba; ant
= if that be true, we may retain South Caro-
! lima, in case she should attempt to go out c
the Union; for certainly, the right to seiz
involves the right TO retain.
He wished the love for the Constitutio
: was as strong in Ohio as in Kentucky, bu
: was sorry 10 say it was not
!, But the Union can not be dissolved; a
well might we attempt to separate tn
! waters Of the Licking and the Miami, afte
they have mingled in the Ohio, as to sep
aTate the inhabitants of the Union, so Ion
one people.
: He said that there could in no event, b
! any more slave States, and was opposed
quarreling over a mere abstraction.
The speaker was often vehemently cheereC
especially when he uttered strong Unio
sentiments. He is a fair orator, but is a
: ways appealing 10 the past, to the wisdol
? of the fathers TO tradition, to authority, an
|, of course, lacks that power of impressin
! his audience like an original thinker.