Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-01-25
CLEVELAND WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 25, 1861

| No, gentlemen. That is the reason cam,
here tonight, because / heard this thing i
talked of-beeause il Is threatened came t,
tel you as live, as we all live, there is not
single true Republican but will shed his lls
drop OF blood before be will submit to this
they will fight you 1or thousand years err
they will submit; they will MT relapse int,
French servitude.
We preach no new doctrine, we invoke nc
new God, but standing by the old doctrine o
'76, upon which our fathers fought and died we
say, with Crittenten, that ''that which IS Qoot
to stand upon is good ground to fall upon" We
invoke the people of the Moth and South e
stand by the Constitution of the United States
and yindicate it beyond the possibility Of a
doubt. Who are the meh that have avowet
the intention to dissolve the Union! Look al
ell our record. Not a single county meeting
nor district convention, nor State assembly, MOI
national convention Of the Republican party
has ever declared that, in any emergency, viii
they dissolve the Union. No, sirs, we say all
the time that we submit to Democratic rule
while you slaVeholderH rule rs, and We submit
because we know of no other policy, no other
alternative, except it be force, and when that il
used all law is silent, and the Government be.
comes a despOdsm; whenever you resort to
which is continually at war because it does moi
stand by any Constitution or law. All oul
pledges and our antecedents prove that we are
bound to be loyal TO the union of these Stairs s;
and, therefore, can safely claim your suffra-
ges, not taking US by our aVOwals, but taking
us by our acts. If we have submitted for
eighty years, we are willing to submit for
eighty years more, unless we can persuade you
to take hold Of those glorious privileges which
we feel to be right.
HELPERS CRISIS.
There is a man in Carolina whose father was
born, it is said, upon North Carolina soil, and
We know not how many centuries before his
ancestors lived there, and it so happened that
he belonged to that large class of North Caro-
lima that may be called the working class, the
non Shareholders He saw the influence oi
slavery upon the interests Of that class Of men,
and he broke away from the trammels of that
party, and published book, and be tells us
that however good thing slave labor is for the
STAKEHOLDER, free labor is better for non-slsye-
holders. He takes up the census Of the United
States and he complies at all unqueEtiOned, and
shows how the institution Of the South affects
the mass. He appeals to these masses and asks
them to see for themselves and act upon their
knowledge thus obtained, if this thing is not
according to the doctrine of Jefferson, this
which believe was pretty good Democracy
once
Now about this book 1 am going to be frank
/ didTeeommend this book I say have read
this book carefully, and there is not q single
incendiary doctrine in it-tAere is not single
appeal to the slave. If it be insurrection among
a people protesting TO be free to appeal to the
legal white voters of the country, for whose
protection the Constitution processes to be made,
to rise from a seridom to the same power and
control of the government that the free labOrers
and free people Of the North have done, it is
insuTectionary.
Let me 90 one step further, and say, that
there were some places in that book published
BY him that we did not regard as just and in
asmuch as we conceived that the shareholders
held their property on the tenure that the Brit.
ish held it, we thoughtit was political ques>
tion-we thought that the Shareholders should
not be taxed. / wrote to him that that was q
foolish thing, but it was understood that ell
thaaa objectionAb bic things shOuldbe sKpunged,
as Mr.. Blair, Of Missouri, has said. He says il
was understood that these parts were 10 be
stricken out, not that they were incendiary, but
that it was blunder not to be urged.
tell you, gentlemen, ! stand on Helpers
pamphlet, and you may make the most Of what
say.
(Cries of, "GO on" and 1--WE will stand by
you all night."D
l have stood by you all the long days Of my
youth and manhood, extinguished all the aspi-
ration of ambition, suffered ignominy and con-
tempt, been denounced, spurned and avoided
by the men whose interests I was arguing, by
the white man, and Wronged by the black man;
but still holding myself true to one purpose, l
stand there still. What to me now are the
rosy tints of life, with my hair siIvered over,
with my sineWs Stiffsned with age ; in the
course ofhuman events, have but little time to
remain here say Kentuekians, come war,
come peace, ! trust in God that 1 may have the
fortune to stay here during the rest of my
days, and that although the millions may de-
part from me, there will be in Kentucky one
standing true to the last, whose aspirations
may be, however visionary, however theoreti-
cal, true to the banner which I would have
float over US. The same old banner Of 1888,
and each stripe with the progress of the ages
paling into brighter galaxy of stars In the
IanEuage of Webster, its motto no such miser-
able intenogatory, as What is all this worth
Nor those other words of delusion and folly,
slavery and Union, far less, "Slavery first
and Union afterwsrd, and yet more "Slavery
with or without Union !" But his own glOr-
ious sentiments-for the which and with which
with filiaI piety walk backwards and cover
the late political nakedness! LIBERTY AND
UNION, NOW AND FOREVER, ONE AND INsRPA~
RABLR!"