Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1860-04-21
C0r"1n on Caleb Gushing and Mayor
Weed.

Corwin on Caleb Cushing and Mayor
Weed.
In q speech at Waterbury, Conn,
last week, Tom Corwin, who is stump
ing Connecticut in the track of Fer
nando Wood and Caleb Gushing. cot
off the following:
lie dare say that Mayor Wood would
try and prove that Thomas Jefferson
dld not believe what he wrote on the
SUBJECT OF Slavery. ILaughter7. Pos
sloly there might be a Mayor of New
York who didn't know any better. 1t
was decided III 1910 that whatever a
State Government could do for State.
Congress could do for a Territory
Such was the decision of the men who
made the Constitution. Did they know
what they meant by the instrument? ?
Was John Marshall and the Supreme
Court in 1910 ignorant of the scope of
the Constitution He should like the
Lord Mayor of New York to 90 into
the Cabinet of Monroe, and find the
answer to the question, s'Has Con
gress power to prohibit Slavery in the
Territories" James Monroe. a slave
holder, Virginian, said Congress did
possess the power. DR.. Fernando
" God, who came up here to teach Con-
necticu,, thank Cod, knew more than
the founders of the Constitution, and
could reveal the truth. Laughterl.-
None OF these were Lord Mayor Of the
City OF New York. Renewed cheer
ing and lauglterl. If John Quincy
Adams was to give his answer now as
to whether Congress has power in the
Territories, DR.. Wood would say,
s'Who is this Yankee? Was he ever
Mayor of Boston? Oh! he could not
have known much" Laughterl.
Now We are asked to throw aside the
teaching Of the Constitution, to tram
pie on Its precepts, and bow down to
the demagosues. [Applause]. What
dld they hear from Caleb Gushing p
Why, that Moses favored Slavery
Moses was al Abolitionist, because
Moses killed an Egyptian white man
because he found him killing Hebrew
niger. laughter. Well, what
about Noah? There was no Maine
Liquor Law i'll force, so he laid down
after drinking too much, and had
very remarkable nautical adventure
and so Ham became a slave. [Roars
of laughter v hat did the Bible saw?
He would rely on it until he cot some
bette: revelation from Caleb Cushing
or the Lord Mayor of New York
Laughter He would suggest to Ca
leb that, although it was better for 6:
negro to be a slave, 1t was not better
for the white man. He would ask Ca
leb and the Lord Mayor Of New Y ork,
care You the sons Of Japhet?o Yes
"Was Japhet brother Of Ham %
''l cs." Is the negro q son of Ham o.
Eyes" ''Then the negro is your cou-
sin" Laughter, long prolonged. l.
And he would ask Caleb and the Lord
Mayor, do you think it is treating your
cousin like a gentleman by sending his
wife to Alabama aud his children to
New Orleans ?" Uaughter). He
would remind them that the Army Of
the United States MarshaIs that plrsu-
ed the fugitive to the promised land
were swallowed Up in the Red Sea,
and that the Fugitive Slave Bill was
repealed. Tremendous applause -
There were arguments to be found in
the Bible on both sides. AS the bub-
bling groan Of the doomed pursuers
rose up, the song Of Miriam--thc Hail
Columbia Of that daY-was borne
away on the wind. He should have
been glad if the Lord Mayor and Caleb
Gushing could have been at the scene.
Laughter and applausel.