Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-01-09

derstood that the victors would be insolent for
little while. But soon good feeling and fellow
ship, with a sense of mutual dependence re-
turned, and the new President went into power,
after all, with desire that it should be well Ar-
plause. There is something that the politicians
can not do. They have their brief hour on the
stage, like so many actors but when the play is
over they are forgotten. 1t is poor compliment
to the intelligence of the American people to say
that two or three thousand politicians, or two or
three hundred thousand even, by their squabbles
could bring upon the country the disasters which
it suffers at this day. Applause.
This is year of plenty. For three preceding
years we had short crops, but this year God has
opened the garners of Heaven, and given us
blessings so large that we know not where to
bestow them. On the other hand, he has been
bountiful to our brethren in the Southern States
But the interchange of productions is interrupted
In their rich soil they raise cotton, and rice and
sugar. We consume much of the rice, and
believe all of the sugar; we consume, also, por
ton of the cotton. The residue of it is shipped
to Great Britain, and France, and other portions
of Continental Europe. While they devote their
lands and their labor to the production of cotton
and sugar, they must have bread and meat for
themselves and for their slaves and that bre ID
and meat they get from rs. Applause.
Why is it that Cincinnati and New Orleans,
places that ought to be on terms of the most init
mate communication, stand to-day toward each
other like two hostile communities? If you say
that is the working of politicians, you pay these
politicians higher compliment than they ever
deserved don't think any set of politicians
can accomplish so much. | don't think any set
of politicians ever accomplished so much. Ap-
plause.
What is the matter? This controversy that
might have been settled-that ought never to have
fIa of
which all parties have erred-both sections have
erred-has gone on from year to year, increasing
in bitterness. Each party has demanded more
every year than in the year before The North
has become aggressive, and the South has become
aggressive 1t must now be settled on the old
foundation, or it will go forward until it consumes
not merely the Union, but the prosperity both of
the North and of the South Applause | say
let us go back to the old example / find that
under that, and under that alone, we had any
peace. Let us not merely restore the compromise,
but let us, this time fix it so fast that it will not
be disturbed during lives at least. Great APP
plause.
Now, as / said, if slavery be so wicked as some
men think it. let them not have it; but the man who
SAYS that he can not allow other States to do what
thev please, and that We must be continually in
terfering-although we have no rightlul power to
do it-does not expect the Union to continue
Applause.
1t was union of slaveholding and non slave
holding States from the first; therefore those who
formed our Government believed that those State:
could live in pence together. If they could live
in unity and pence together then, part slave ant
part free, why not now? Applause. / say, le
the South bear the sin, if slavery be sin. Ap
plause Let them have this property and then
rights. Let take care of our affairs and redress
our grievances at the balot-box. Applause.
That fellow citizens, is the substance of what
have to say on the Territorial propositions. A
to future territory it only be acqired by treaty
The treaty for its ratification requires a vote o
two thirds of the Senate. In the Senate all th'
States are equally represented. Among tn
Senators there will always be minority either t
defeat the whole acquisition to compel such al
adjustment of the question as they may thinl
proper. / do not expect to see any farther Terri
tory added to the United States in my day, excep
it is the Island of Cuba. [Applause.l
The next subject propose to treat is in regar
to fugitive slaves and the fugitive slave law
That is question which more particularly con
Germs us. There is'certainly nothing more plainl
written in the Constitution than the declaration
that slave escaping from his master from slave
holding State into a -slaveholding State, sha
not become free. Applause. But that he sha
remain as much a slave as he was before he flet
Applause.l And the State in which he is foun
has pledged her honor and the honor other peopl
that she will give him up. Applause. Now
my fellow citizens, if the Constitution of tn
United States imposes too hard a condition in th
respect, it is our duty either to amend the Const
tution or to resort to some method of getting ri
of our obligations under it. [Applause.l Let u
do it like men. [Applause. This evading an
slipping round; "patering in double sense;" er
acting laws to get up war of habeas corpus, G
magistrates and constables, pursuing the claimar
and bounding the marshals and deputies, l hav
nothing too unutterably contemplate for such cor
duct. Applause.
Ny fellow citizens, are our hands clear? IGrea
confusion, and loud cries of ''no, no.. Now, i
1856 the Legislature of Ohio enacted that tn
Probate Judge should send his writ of habeas cor
pus throughout the State, and should take froI
the Marshal of the United States any fugitiv
whom he had arrested under the laws of tn
United States. What was the consequence?
fugitive was seized by mob in the county o
Greene and taken from the Marshal. His depu
ties were imprisoned That fugitive never di
return. On the contrary, all the Deputy Mar
shals were put in Jail in Springfield, and wer
never released until order issued by Hi
Honor Judge Leavitt of the District Court of TN
Southern District of Ohio. That law was re
peale1 by the next Legislature. Applause.l
was repealed by party vote-the Democrat
voting for its repeal, and the Republicans votin
against il.
Il This same Legislature, in 1857, enacted tina
if any person should bring slave into this Stat
for any time-a minute say-even were the slav
to consent to be brought here, he or she shoul
be punished by fine and imprisonment. Al
plause and hissing.l How many thousand pee
pie pass through this city every summer, going Z
the springs-either in the East or in our ow
State. Look at the effects of this gracious legi:
lation
Suppose some poor lady from the South shoul
come here with sick child, having no otht
nurse bur slave-for there are but few 9th,
nurses in the South-she was liable to be seize
at the Spencer House. or Burnet House, or an
other place in the city, and lodged i'm jail. Than
God, that has been repealed. | know the Legi
lature in 1857 intended to rub out all these. bl
they forgot some of them. That same Legsls
ture provided that the jails of this State shoul
not be used by the marshals authorities of tl
United States to imprison fugitive slave durin
lhe period of his examination.
Why so! Our fathers passed law which ha
never been repealed, rendering the use of our jai
and prisons equally to the government of tn
United States and our own government, but tn
Legislature, in le57, forbade any jailor to recev
, fugitive slave into his custody the next Legi
ture repealed that; but that is not the end of j
the next Legislature restored 1.-THE Legislator
that is to meet in Columbus next Monday
mean-they did not do it openly, bnt by Leg
lative trick. They went to work and repealed a
the former laws, including the one / have mel
toned, and undertook TO legislate new one upo
the whole subject, declaring that the jails of tn
State might be used for the prisoners of the Unite
, States charged irih crime. They went all tbs
way around, went to all that trouble to come at
, convenient way of forbiddng the of jails fc
the confinement of slaves. That law is on th
statute books to-day; it is the law of March
1860.
!, Another fugitive, indicted in Kentucky, fed |
Ohio; warrant was issued, and Iequisition serve
upon the Governor of Ohio for the arrest of I'll
fugitive, but he, the Governor. discovered thi
the fugitive had committed an offense against d
laws of Ohio, end consequently paid no attentio
to the demands of the Chief Executive of Kel
, lucky. Governor Magoffn has gone to the 81
preme Court, and sworn out writ of mandam,
against the Governor of Ohio but | questio
much whether the Supreme Court has authorii
in the matter. BY this very act do the people
Ohio evidence TO those of Kentucky that they, Il
kentuckians, have no power in the Federal Go
ernmpnt