The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1862-10-31
For Me JtByrso,lian.
Hon. VI. c. Whiteley,

This gentleman made speech in rron, oI
the Court House. or Saturday evening, Cc.
toher ls h, 1852, IN which he denounced m,
Aholitionisis In the strongest terms OF whic,
he was capable; ann whyf Simply becaus,
they had spoken ageinst slavery as on evil
TMr Whitley takes the ground that SLAYER,
IS OF great value to this country; 'iat !. j,
OF so much Importance 10 the safety OF IN.
| Union and the Constitutions; that it ought
not even to be spoken against; that u.
present bloody civil VA. is, on account ol
what Greedy. Wade, Beecher. Lincoln, Pre-.
mont and others, have 81 bid ses,nst slavery.
Now since his IIonorI Judge Whitley is
out cursing A Abolitionists. and chsrcin. up-
on them the fearful responsibility Of blood
let us look after his record on the negro
question:
Mr.. Whteley was a member of the Ohio
Democratic State Convention, of 1850. Mr.
Noble, OF Tiff'n. was also member Of the
same Convention, and so was val!andighsm.
Mednry. MedIll and Bartly. This Conven.
ton under the control OF such men as sboy.
n"med' adopted the following bold, black
Abolition resolution.
Resolved, That the people nj Ohio, now,
as they have always done, look unon ,he in
stlution oi Slavery in any part the Union
Us an EVIL, and unfavorable 10 the full de.
velonmett OF the spirit and practical bene-
MS OF Tree institutions; and, that entertain
ing 'hese sentiments, they will at all times
Ia, h.. hi.
clearly given by the terms Of the National
compact, to prevent its increase, TO mitigate
and finally eradicate the evil"
Now, it will be seen by the above resolu.
tion, that Judge Whitley will have to NEE,
a fearful responsibility on account of his
early Abolition record. The Judge will
not deny but what the above rrso ution was
threatened interference with the sectional
question OF Slavery, and q threatened inter
Terence too. such as no other political organ.
izalion IN tins or any other State had ever
made. We have never seen anything IN
the ianatical teachings Of even Wendell
Phillips Il al is so we'll calculated "to exc ite
he sensitive and impnlsive people OF the
South to state OF mind rendering them
ripe Tor rebellion" as this very resolution.
1t carries with it the idea OF intervention,
Tor how can the people OF Ohio "erndicate
he evil" how can they tear out SLAYER, b,
the roots without going where it is-with.
out going into the slave staiesi Can the
Judge inform uS7 For our part we can moi
See how the people ofOhio can eradicate
the evil' without a direct v'oiat ion OF III,
Constitution, AID yet thatis just what ,hi,
Democratic eradication resolution proposed
TO do. II proposed to interfere with IN,
sectional question OF ofslavery-a thing tha
WINS never proposed in any Convention on,
side Of the Democratic party.
! Now by the adoption of this eradication
resolution the Ohio Democracy has don,
more to alarm the "sensn,ve' people O
the South for the safety OF their domes,i,
relations. than all that has been written o
spoken against slavery by Greedy, Sumner
beecher and others. II is plain then 10 b.
seen that II the present wsr is on accou n
Of what the North has said against slavery
tho' MI hlleIy ana ms party will hav,
10 mec, a fearful responsibilities responsi
bility from which they can no more escap
by the cry OF 'Abol,tionisr than the thief ca,
escape by tho cry of "stop theft
Now is IT not strange that the Mobiles
50 Whiteleys, Msdarys and vallandlghams O
| Ohio, that few years ago were so deter
mined upon The "cIad1cation of the evii,'
ale now the only men in the State to oppos
that "eIadiGation"--the loudvst men il
their curses OF Abolit onists. Men have
right to change their position on great Ma
t'onaI questions, but they have no right /,
charge the responsibilities OF their errors OF
other parties. The Oh'o Democracy by th
; adoption ol The slavery eradication resolu
lon, tlt,alrnrd iuterlr,ence wlth ,hr sec