Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-01-25

5th OF the practice of the Slave trade YeF gen
tlemen distinguished persons in the South have boast
ed openly not emily that they intend violate the laws
prohibiting the Slave trade, but that they have pro-
ceeded to carry their purposes into execution and had
landed upon the Southern coasts what have been Doto
ousy acknowledged TO be Slaves fresh from the coasts
Of Africa and have yet 10 learn Of the first pun
ishment for this violation Of law.
ADvIcE GRATIS.
HereI remember to speak Of those Northern allies
that to-day you afraid to trust. You are right
tell you now, you are right, and am going TO give
YOU little extra advice. Some Of you were wanting
10 know how long they will stand by YOU They will
stand by you just long you pay them, and no
longer, and the moment you cease to pay them, the
moment you cease TO have possession Of the Govern
ment soon they will leave you. That is the kind
Of you have for your Northern allies. Gentlemen
take it that you all Of sense, and so put it
to you here tonight, II was 10 get up here and say
that believed slavery WAS divine institution, and
that all nv previous declarations false, that
convinced bad been wrong and that it was preferable
to liberty and religious institution favored Of God as
Gov Magofn has said would not every Of you put
your hand upon your purse for fear would steal your
money! You would at once say, THAT man thinks
to-day he always did and In addition to all the ras
eaities have charged upon him. he Is an Internal
hypocrite; will not trnst him. is because IcOnie
out and tell you what believe that you to-day trust
me to go among your negroes. Move the scene
the line, aud it is just the same. The man who has
the sanetiT Of the haaFthsone preserved in
violate, and who has gone into common school to
receive his education and who has watched the
aeled development Of the free States who reads his
Primer his English Reader Gtuuie6 the Bible,
rises from the reading and tells you that from bis OBJ
servaion the condition Of slavery the true condition
Of humanity viii day teach you that at Last the
unjust thing shall not prosper, and lie shall not live
forever. He who has all these things, and turns
round and tells you in the South, 81 have lived under
all these institutions and bseve slavery TO be good
thing, divine institution, the best state OF society,"
dent you know enough to say that that f. not I
to be trusted? Some Of your said to-day state
the truth and make them tell the TRUTH survive per-
ish. That is the true sentiment You ought not to
trust them.
will tell you whom you ought to trust.
trust the man who says: "Gentlemen, l don't
believe that Slavery is divine institution, that
it is any source Of political, social and moral
good, but believe you had better try all chem
ical power of Heaven and in the winds, the
steam power and the power of the waters, than
to hold the African in bondage, because after
all it is a blunder in an economical point of
view; and although we are determined to stand
by your institutions, don't ask US to deny the
life which we live out in living letters, 80 that
all the nations of earth can read We not only
believe liberty is preferable, but we believe
that slavery is a curse to white and black -
That is the man for you to trust.
am here to day and gone to morrow, but l
tell you if ever the time does come when the
sIaveholders need aid to protect them from the
violence Of slaves rising for freedom, that aid
will come from the men that are opposed to the
Northern Democracy, and not from the DemOc-
racy of the North themselves, because there is
not a logical argument on Gods earth that
can bring them to the conclusion which
they pretend to draw Therefore it was that
Stephen A. Douglas was ready to beat you in
1878. when YOU were attempting to force
slavery upen Kansas. He has backed down
beyond doubt 10 day, but if you had not elect
ed him Senator, he would have been in the Re-
publican ranks. You are right when you say
you can't trust these "a voce-"Ws didn't say
so.'O You did say so, I appeal to the reports
of the convention to bear ms out, This YVES
said ''if they would not march up to that line
set down, let them 60" Why let them got
Because you don't trust them of course. II
YOU trust them you will want them to stand by
YOU; if they are your friends you want them
all Mr.. Silvertooth said that Stephen A
Douglas was outside Of the Democratic
party already Whyi Because he stands
upon the Democratic platform Of 1855.
A voice in the erowd.-Did the convention
coincide with that view I
Mr.. Clay-Mr Graves resolutions were vO-
ted down, which understood to coincide with
Douglas view. 5
A voice-Was he named
Mr.. Clay.-Ify you vote down the doctrine and
the man that makes o speech, you don't leave
much of the man. (Laughterl l tell you
Douglas stands no chance You have already
degraded him from the Craftsmanship of the
Committee on Territories in the U. s. Senate,
are you going to take him up again! Your own
Senators won't trust him, can you believe in a
man whose masters are continually watching
him, pistol and bowie knife in hand. BreckenN
ridge is the boy l believe. Guthrie is an honest
man, as honest man as the Democratic party
has built up for number of years, and that is
not saying much.
FILLIBUSTERING.
8. charge the Democratic party with fill
clustering. You all know what that MEANS
Going out with armed bands of men from the