The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1860-02-29

: or elude" his master, he shall be- fined anJ
| sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, or bt
/ inpri. oned in the county Jail not exceeding
+ sixty days, or both, at the discretion of the
} court.
The act provides the same punishment fol
, any person who shall give to any slave false
certificate of emancipation, or who shall "har.
bor or conceal" any slave who may come into
: this State without the consent of his master.
: This act passed the House Of Representa-.
& tives by vote of-yeas 53 nays 15 Among
those voting for the bill find John w. An.
drews, Of Franklin; Sas Axtell, Of Geauga
- Andrews of Lorain; Moses B. Corwin o.
Champaign; Walter Branch and John G. Camp
! of Huron; George H. Flood and Isaac Smuck-
er, Of Licking; DAVID Chambers and Charles
B Goddard, Of Muskingum; P. P. Lowe, o
Montgomery; John Hunt, Of Warren and Jo-
seph Kyle, OF Greene. The bill prssed the
Senate by a vote of--yeas 26, nays 10. Among
those voting in the affirmative, l find the name
!. Of Aaron Harlan, of Green, the distinguished
gentleman who now represents that county on
the floor of this House.
Before the passage Of the bill in the House an
amendment was offered, providing that the fu.
gitivc should have the benefit of a trial by ,ju-
ry, and was voted down by-yess 10, nays As
Among those voting against the jury clause in
the House, ! find all the gentlemen whom
have named as voting for the bill except Messrs.
Branch, Chambers and Hunt, but neither Of
these gentlemen is recorded in the negative.
like amendment was offered to the bill in
the Senate, and voted down by--yeas 9, nays
26, and among those recorded in the negative,
I find the name of the gentleman from Greene,
/ (Mr. Harlan,)
Sir this record shows where Ohio stood TWEEN
ty-one years ago, upon the great question Of
loyalty to the Constitution and the compromi-
ses on which it was founded bring forward
the names Of gentlemen whose votes are re
corded in favor of thir act, not as reproach 10
them, but 10 show that at that time, at least
they, and the great Wing party with which
most of them then acted, were sound upon
the questions which now divide the Democratic
and Republican parties. Sir | appeal to the
gentleman from Greene to stand by his early
record and lend his vote and his influence to
prevent this General Assembly from disgracng
the statute book of Ohio with the sectional and
mischevous legislation with which we are now
threatened to stand by what he declared in
1889 to be his deliberate conviction, that the
Constitution can only be sustained, as it was
framed, by spirit of just compromise" and to
perform that which he then declared TO be "the
duty Of those who received the largest measure
Of benefits conferred by the Constitution" name
~, "to recognize to their full extent the obliga-
tions which that instrument imposes" do
not ask him to do what he did in 1899, to vote
for a law to give the protection pledged by the
Constitution of the United States to the Sou
thern States OF this Union, for that is already
done by the act of Congress, but to join with
those who recognize the obligations Of that in
strument, and TO vote down these bills whose
only object is to nulli(y the Constitution and
the laws founded upon it..
But, sir let us como down to later day
In 1852, where did the Wing party stand upon
this great question: Let its platform of that
year answer. 1t declares 'that the series oil
acts of the thirty. first Congress, the act kno,on
as the Fugitive Slave la,c included are received
and acquiesced in by the Wing party Of the
! United States as settlement in principle and
substance, OF the dangerous and exciting ques.
tions which they embrace, and we will
maintain this system as essential to the nation
atty of tie Wing party and the integrity of the
Union"
On that plank the patriotic members of the
Wing party Stood both great and small. That
plank had the endorsement Of the immortal
CLAYTON it stood William Dennison, Jr., and
as o candidate for office, asked the votes of the
people of Ohio. At least one halt of the pre-
sent Republican party Of the State voted for
Scott who had accepted "the (Whig) nomina,
ton with the resolutions annexed
But here, sir, is our point of departure. The
Republican party. which is to some extent at
least the successor of the Wing party, repudi-
ates that platform, and in Ohin, as shall pro-
ceed to show, is pledged to resist, repudiate and
nulliiy the fugitive slave clause of the Consti-
tuition and all.laws founded thereon. In proo
of this do not call your attention to the insane
rawlings OF the radicals Of that party. ] only
seek to prove what assert, by the acts and
declarations of the Republican party as a party
In the Senate of the last Republican Legis-
lature (the first Legislature elected by that par
ay,) Nj Garfield on the 9Th day of April, 1856
offered for adoption the following preamble and
resolution: @
WHEREAS, in the Judgment Of this General
Assembly the act ofCongress usually called the
{ Fugitive Slave Act, approved September 18
1850, is inconsistent with and unwarranted by
the Constitution of the United States, and is re.
pugnant to the plainest principles Of justice and
humanity; therefore, a - aal fr.
Resolued, Jy the General assembly of the Stat.
of Ohio, That our Representatives in Congress
be requested and our Senators be instructed, tc
use their best exertions to procure the repeal o
said act at the earliest practicable time.
This resolution was adopted by a voto Of
yeas "a, all Republicans, to nays 6, all Demo
Gratis. The preamble was adopted by vote o
yeas 81, all republicans, nays 8, all Democrats
except Brazee and Kelley.
When the preamble and resolution came uE
in the House, Mr.. Smith, of Franklin, moved
IT, 1 tl1f .. 90 ..
Resolued, That when the Fugitive Slave Law
is repealed by Congress, il will become the i'm
mediate duty OF the Legislature of this State tt
pass an efficient act for the rendition of fug
tives from labor. b.. d.. ...........,.-...
a This amendment was lost by vote Of yeai
29, all Democrats but three, to nays 72, all Re
publicans but seven. s .assgl .r.r.a N
After voting down this amendment, the Sen
ate preamble and resolution was adopted by;
strict party vote. eds .s ,..s ....., s-
This record needs no commentary--it speaks
for itself. fa,.f.a., B Ia. s...... I'D
Let us come down nearer the present time
The same William Dennison, jr., who in 1876:
stood on the Wing platform, which pledged th'
= Wing party to maintain the compromise meas
ures, the fugitive slave law included, as essen
, tial to the integrity OF the Union, and had up
r on tnaC pialioTm tsheu tne suhiaSea VI 'he peo
pie of Ohio is candidate for the republican
I nomination for Governor OF Ohio. He know
we'll where the strength of that party lies; wha
sentiments it is necessary to express to secur
/, its favor He therefore writes on May 20
1 1859, a letter to reasonable Convention a
, Cleveland, called originally to liberate, by force
certain Saints OF Oberlin, who, for violent re
I sistance to the execution of the fugitive slav
law, had been indicted, had been tried by aju
ry and convicted, and were then undergoing i'm
prisonment in the Cleveland jail. In this let
Z ter, this ex-.Whig and follower Of Clay says
'fLet me express my ardent hope that tn
1 proceedings ofyour convention may be such a
: "will permanently contribute to the advance
..rnent Of the sacred principles Of freedom jus
. "tice and humanity, which have been 80 VIC
I Gently assailed BY the imprisonment il you