Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-01-27
A Voice-Who do you propose -?

A Voice-Who do you propose?
Dir. Clay-I am willing to take, for in
stance, this muchca!umnated man Seward,
Chase or Mclean, Lincoln, Bates Bell, Bolts,
or old Kentuckys favoriie son, Crittendcn,
Applause,] if we could have him fairly and
squarely upon the platform. Any bedy ex-
eept the old Doctor. l have sad distaste for
him. Laughter.]
DISSOLUTION.
Let US look at that thing of dissolution. A
body would suppose with Canada far removed
that when it has become dangerous for me to
speak where there are millions of white men
to few hundred thousand slaves, that slave
property had become unsafe Dissolve the
Union and move the line to the north of Ohio,
and would you have additional security? Does
any man suppose-s is any man mad enough to
suppose that it these people, once bound to-
gether by a common brother hood Of suffering,
by association in churches, by common
christianity, by the ties of education, cannot
remain in peace III the Union, that they would
remain in peace ou. OF it Docs Mr. Breck-
/ iuridge or Gov Masoffin suppose such case
as that ?
You have your answer when you see Gov
crnor Wise, who in the last Presidential race
talked of seizng upon the arsenal and march
! ing to Washington, to take possession Of the
archi YES, and preventing the inauguration Of
Republican President, saying, now if any
fighting is to be done it is to be don. in the
Union and not out of it; when you see your
democratic orators talking round and becom-
ing the defenders of the Union. Don't you
all begin to see the folly of this thing? Don't
you all see, what all men of common sense
must see, that outside of the Union there lies
no security for slave property? Certainly you
do! Nobody supposes that there would be
anything other than the way Mr.. Caldwell
SAID to-day. Do you suppose you would have
peace? No sir, it would be war TO the knife
and knife to the hit. That is what wCu'd
be the result Where is Your secnrity for
your slave property then? Would you eight
millions of white men enter upon contest
with twenty millions and hold your slaves at
home. Ii is not to be heard of. More safety
No.
The fact is you would have to sacrifice your
negroes, like France and Hungary did their
slave property, at once, at the beginning Of the
war Then " hat would you gain so far yeu
are Shareholders? What are Tie non->lduebold-
ers to gain Why it reminds nc of histu-
ry, that a friend of mine, all ingenious man.
used to tell of IA white man and an Indian
i They got into Il fight and after while the In
dian proving too hard, the white man took to
his heels, and while outrunning the Indian the
! latter cried out, stop white man, stop and
the white man haoed out stop. l will be
damned if l do" Why gentlemen, you ask
all of non-slaveho!ders of the Union who
! have borEe al the oppression, TO sacrifice al.
! the liberty We have to return to those rules and
/ regulations Of despotiSm, against which W.
rose up in arms i'll l116.
What do You propose to give lis in lieu OF
this great Union lis Il protection Why the
/ Charleston Mercury and the Richmond EnGui
rer say, We will send to Louis Napoleon
and We viii ask him 10 lend US troops to de-
! fend u.s. Oh, shame! shame Are you go
! ing to bring us to this? Is this the reward
d! that you offer Us, that yen will call on Louis
i Napoleon, the deSpot of France ana his troops
and he will defend us against these Northern
traitors and fanatics. Are you ready for that
! Democrats? We have been led long by Dem
ocratic rs. Is this the feast to whic you
be preserved, that they will get Lops Napo!e
on, (thcy can't trust Victoria, she has too ma
nv notions of freedom about her.) to preServ,
us? What docs it mean? 1t means going alb
soutc'y back into French despotism. Art
you ready for that?
The Vice President is unfortunate in his al
lusion TO the great Athenian orator. 1t is WI
who defend the liberties Of the people, anC
they who propose to call in Philip of Macedol
Louis Napoleon, is it not? The battles il
ansas, which were fought for the common
liberty, is the rcproach of Eschines. Not on
" these, but all the glory of the illustrouS deat
IS in vain, if the Democratic party consun'nat
the sltbiecting US to foreign and alien tespotism
! would that could evoke the genius Of tn
il!usrious defender of Grecian liberty, that M
voice. like his con'd touch the hearts Of m
countrymen with the divine fire Of my own as
pirations, till they would be again ready to or
out with one voice, Let us march against Phi
/ ip!"
No, gentlemen. That is the reason / can,
here tonight. because l heard this thing
talked of-because it is threatened. l come t
, tell you as | live, and as we all live, there
not single true Republican but will shed hi
last drop of blood before he will submit
this; they will fight you for thousand year
ere they will submit they will not relapse ir
to French servitudc.
!, =. We preach no new doctrine, We invoke Il
new God, but standing by the old doctrine {
70, upon which our fathers fought and die
: we say, with Crittenden, that I" that which
good to stand upon is good ground to fall u
on"