M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1860-02-23


uness like Dennison, you get down
2 on all fours and eat such dir! as the
Western Reserve may furnish you.
In the opinion OF the managers ofthst
party you make good voters, toad
in electiEg the Republican tieket,iBdt
/ you won't do for candidates. ihi4h9D
} One further item of proof to sustAih
my charge against the RepuDiekh
, party, of disloyalty to the Oohstltution.
Confinement iu the Cleveland ian
was irksOme to the saints, and they
| were for once in their lives real
, "lriends Of freedom" They wanted
to get out, and tiieir friends wanted 10
test the Republican Supreme Court
and sec whether that was sound on
the Fugitive Slave Law. A writiof
habeas corpus was sued out for their
liberation ON the ground ofthe uncoii!
stitutionality of that law, and was
tried before the full bench of the Sa.
preme Court. After full argument.
the majority of the Court followingari
unbroke n line of decisions, of the Sus
preme Court of the United States and
the State Supreme Courts, decided
tue law to be constitutional and res
manded the prisoners. The opinion
OF the majority was concurred in and
pronounced by Hon. Joseph r. Swan
the Chief Justice. His term was
about expiring and he was eandiJ
date fol denomination. Until this
decision he had given universal satis.
faction as judge. He was every
where recognized as learned. abs.
upright and indefatigable jurist. He
had served aSerm Of five years on a
salary OF 81 100; on hisre,o election he
would have been entitled to receive
three thousand. On every principle
Of right and justice he was entitled to
denomination. Prior to the deci-
sion referred to, no competitor ap-
Ipeared against him. But in making
that decision he committed the unuar-
donable sin against the Republican
party. The "Sons of Liberty" were
thirsting for his blood. Within A
week after "Plumb, Peck. and their
devoted colleagues" had been remand
ed to the Cleveland Jail the Republi-i
can State Convention met. Down
from the North came the lords ofthe
Republican party, filed with wrath ae
the reb9 llious Judge. They showed
him no quarter. His dignity and
learning were no shield. They cbop-o
ped off his head with a Western Re-
serve cheese knife. They said he
hath sinned, and his Office let another
take. ii. F. .y-'19lI
Sir, this ACT Of the Republican, partya
speaks volumes. 1t shows more
clearly than any resolution what tho
designs and principles Of that party
are. 1t was bold, high-hauded out.u
rage, and unless the people are smit. b
ten with judicial blindness, will soon.
er or later receive its punishment. uoa
But, sir, why seek for further7
proofs of the proposition | have been %
endeavoring to establish, when we
have it in the resolution adopted by
the same convention which docapi;aGo
ted Judge Swan, demanding theunsa
conditional repeal of the FugitiusH
Slave Law of Congress, and 30 the
very bill upon our disks, to wlrcbOi4
have adyerted. All these proposeiig
measures have been once upon 0uu2
statute book by the act Of the Repabgd
lican party, and that party is seeking :
to place them there again. Anex-
animation of the bills and the auarter!o
from which they come will convineeA
any one that their movers design.i
nothing but mischief and resistance
to the Constitution and laws Of thoii
United States. l.as5rgo7q
In the light of this discussion il may!i
be well to recur to the opinions exz2
pressed by Webster and Clay, of the,d
party which shOuld entertain Ysuchb
sentiments as | have shown belongito,1
the Republican party of Ohio. .gnilagd
In his letter to John Taylor, MI.
Webster remarked: "Thera are in1i
Now Hampshire many persons whob
call themselves Wings, who are lnoa
Wings at all, and no better than Diso0
untOniSts. Any man who oLhesitates ;
in granting and securing to any patt5l
OF the country its just and constitn.e
tional rights is anenemy to the wholsr
country" The Republican party off,
Ohio not only "hesitates" -bnt bluntlyS
refuses to give to the South its just
and constitutional rights. 1t is there.is
fore, in the language of Webster, al
party Of disurionsts and enemies to D
the whole country. lsao.ib5a
In speech delivered before the
Legislature of Kentucky on the 18th .
of November, 1850, Mr.. Clay said:
"Iftho agitation against the fugitive slavc law
should continue and increase and become alarm
ing, it will lead 10 the formation OF two new
parties, one for tue Union and the other against
the Union, and tho platform Of that q
Union party will be the Union, the constitution
and the enforcement Of its laws and If Il should
become necessary to form such q party andit 81
should be accordingly formed j announce myself, a
IN this place a member Of that party, Whatever
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