Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-01-01

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natl on the state Of the country, drew a large |
and attentive, but mixed, audience TO Smith
h NiXon's Hall, yesterday, anxious to hear
his hopes and fears with reference 70 the
ultimate result Of the pending controversy
on the slavery question. Democrats were
there 10 say, swell done, good and fsithful
servant ~ Americans to listen to their favor
lite proposition to restore the Missouri Com
promise, and Republicans to witness one Of
those great political summersets.which the
force Of circumstances often render neces-
sary.
On motion, Charles W. Rowland was
chosen President, and Job Pugh and M.
Hopple appointed Secretaries.
A Committee on Resolutions was likewise
appointed, and retired when Mr.. Pugh was
loudly called for and appeared.
He assured the audience that he did not |
intend to fatter them, but to tell them the
truth. The time was when he believed that /
this Union would be perpetual; and even
till within a few weeks he had hoped Con-
gress would pass some compromise that |
would heal the threatened breach bat all
this hope was now gone; the announcement, |
the apparent authoritative announcement,
that the President-elect would not step OF
the Chicago Platform had blasted all his ex-
pectations; the cotton States-seven in num-
| ber-would go out despite of all we could do,
and all that was left was to shape events so
| as to bring them back again, by kindness
! and concession. To these things the public
might as well make up their minds, for they
| were unavoidable. The President-elect
should not think 1t beneath his dignity to
| speak out for concessions he would yet live
| to see his error.
| All parties had committed faults-his own
amoDg them. But his party had been prop
/ erly punished. From proud ascendancy in
| the North west, it had sunk into mi
nority, and even that minority was divided.
He then referred to the old method Of set
Ting the slavery question in the Territories
by partition. 1t had been tried and found
effectivs in 1887 and in 1920, and it was his
opinion at the time that it should have been
adopted again in ls4S; but as it had been
| rejected, and, as in 1850, the plan OF
leaving the slavery question to the Supreme
Court had been agreed upon, with reference
to New Mexico and Utah, the South de-
manded its application to Kansas. This de-
mand would have required the strongest
craftsmanship to oppose, and the Northern
. Democracy gave way, and he (the speaker)
J went with it. He, however, believed, at the
} time, that dreadful consequences would
. | ensue, and he wished that some man had
possessed nerve enough to have said so,
e but no one did. The South now saw, and
I acknowledged, its error.
l He then appealed to all parties to assist
i him in the restoration of Missouri line. Il
d the people south of it wanted slavery, lei
t them have it; it was none of our business
e If the question were whether slavery should
= or should not be admitted into Ohio, h
: would oppose its admission, because our sol
and climate is not adapted to it. He thel
proceeded to show that we OF the Nortl
It have no power to interfere with slavery il
n the States, and favored the suppression o
n all organizations with view of incitin
n servile instructions. He claimed that tn
ID politicians of the country were not at fault
r, or at least the blame did not all lie at thei
ID doors.
le He then discussed economical subject
Is and said that the principal source OF tn
l. prosperity of Cincinnati was its central pC
sition; and that if the Union were dissolvet
E. the plow-share would turn up the sod whel
to the city now stands (This remark was II
er ceived with perfect storm of disapprobl
no tion). Crops had been abundant, both Mort
I'D and South, during the year now drawing
ad close; but the current OF exchange h9
is been broken, and hence the pressure of Il
ut times. Commercial intercourse should |
resumed; the States had existed together
harmony for eighty years, and by divisiC
M of the Territory, as proposed by Mr.. Cri
ay tenden, could do so again.
xt Upon the subject of fugtives from justiC
lg, he condemned the course of Governor De-
Ids nison, and his remarks were received wi
re- both cheers and Kisses, the former predom
nat mating. That Mr. Dennison had only f(
me lowed precedent, he admitted; but it was
en bad precedent, though set by both his Der
ole ocratic and Wing predecessors. He tn
is showed that, although the impression ge
Till orally prevailed that all the PERSONAL---VERY.
. is acts of Ohio had been repealed, yet it wa
by mistake There was still an act to preye
ray kidnapping, and also one denying the use
our siails to fugitive slaves. He likew
J. read NE Joint resolutions instructing
NO, Ohio delegation in Congress to vote agaiI
for the admission of any more slave Stat
of which he regarded as an insult to the Sou
hin | He then recommended sthat the persons
lis liberty bills of all the free States be
aw, | pealed, but said nothing about the laws
? of the South making slaves of the free citiz
fice sailors of the North, and which have be
va in existence for years. This, however, PR
ably was forgotten, for he started out W
he the declaration that he would show up
delinquencies of both sections.
He seid that some resolutions passed
= the Ohio Legislature forty years ago, dra
,ht up by a committee, of which General H
ties rison was member, expressed his views
an secession but as not one in hundred pr
sent had ever read them, his auditors W
her as much in the dark as ever on the subjt
500 If we had only South Carolina to deal wi
we could manage her; but commence
. of ercion, and the whole South will secede.
and coercion of the whole South was attempt
ace. who could count the cost? Where is
army, and our munitions of war; Voice
the HSent to help the traitors."1 Our Natio
the Treasury is bankrupt; [Voices-"How ca
il so 2'l and our only resource for revel
ngs would be direct taxation and he asked
tbe people to remember, if civil war did col
ON that he told them it would be costly.
cen Mr.. Pugh was frequently cheered, {
: II hissed; but it was plain that his friends "
/ IS more numerous than his enemies. In
sto- whole course of his remarks, he was mild
l6; persuasive, and he universally spoke Of
nils Republicans without using the epitl
the ''black," which shows that his mind
ide- deeply impressed.
The AS soon as Mr.. Pugh concluded, Mr.. He
Vallette stepped.on the stand and endt
= oOa orCd to explain the remark with referenc
1900 the desolation of the city, but was bis
1000 until he desisted.
06OO Judge Carter, from the Committee
l,A0 Resolutions then reported the tolloWi
"a 1oo and advocated them in few remarks:
Ians ave, citizens of Cincinnati, without
With tinction of party, now assembled for the
/ of pose of deyising ways and means to ar
.om- the fearful advance of disunion and anar'
looking upon the preservation Of the VI
we're of these States as paramount to all other {
siderations of a political naturei hold
an with the great Webster-Liberty and Un
in one and inseparable now and forever
,om- with the heroic Jackson, that the UI
must be preseryed;' and filled with ap
4 ON tensions Of alarm at the present crisis Of
ving national affairs and the unsettled and
satisfactory condition of our hitherto ha
AZ country, hereby declare that we are