Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-08-28
SPEECH OF r
HON. JOHN BRoUGH
AT WARREN, TRUMBLL CO., OHIO.
Ir. Brough on being introduced said;
NO. 90.

'he DtOple Dy Tue score lot some days, and
re- somewhat hoarse to-day. must thereE
ng ask all this vast crowd to maintain as mu
SS' Hence as possible.
ay l regret more than anything else that GC
Tod is not here to-day first because / knC
TX you would be glad to welcome him with t
nu hearty salutation of " well done thou good al
u" faithful servant" and secondly, because d
70 sired that his clarion voice might ring out
n, this great cause. He is probably the harde
:" worked man in the state of Ohio, while we r
II gret his absence he is freely excuFahle.
" | regret also that he is not in my positio
J, before the people of Ohio. L have been h
III lieutenant in two companies in Ohio, and
should rejoice in being his lieutenant in tb
: contest. / should have been glad 10 have el
capped this respons biliiy but the people sas
fl to call me, and in such crisis every MAJ
II should be ready to respond to every call OF hi
countrymen and his Government.
For the first time in the history Of th,
: world, our fathers announced the fundamenio
principles of free Institutions, TO wit: that tn
, people are capable of self Government, and al
political power should be delegated from them
nnd the governing agents should be accounts
be to them. Hence the fathers so constitnlee
our govel nment that the people might full,
control their political affairs Accordingl,
the CLief Magistrate was TO be elected for Ii,
short term of four years. and tie representa-
tive FOR two years. The peop'e were Il u
constiIutionally to sit in Judgment upon tht
merits of their Iublic servants at these sht
intervals, and as the majority should decide Il
the ballot-box. so should be their fate. Th
laws enacted by the majority were TO be III
supreme authority, TO receive the obedience Il
all during the terms Of office of the law-makin
power, and until the majority should repeal o
modify them. They LETT no ground for conflir
or the least excuse for forcible resistance TO ID,
laws
But Notwithstanding the easy and perfect,
just method which the fathers prescribed fo
enacIing the popular will at short in;ervaIS
VIC are now in rebellion without parallel
the history of the world rebellion NOR
causeless and with less excuse than any rebel.
lion that ever occurred The world has hilb
erto held all revoIutionsis under obligation {,
give some reason for their rebellion against Ih1
constituted authorities. They have been re-
quired TO make out a just case as prerequisiI,
TO tho sympatbies of the nations.
Whit reason have these southern rebels Civ
en-? Nothing at all but the election Of a can
didate, they were pleased to announce as sec
tional, to the Presidency. Is it claimed thai
the election was not CONSTITUTIONAL regular
and in all respects proper? Not so.
We in the North have always submitted tt
the decisions of the majority without a mur-
mur. Who of as ever thought of raising ih,
fnf
was not elected? You may talk it out a
your leisure and pleasure, and it all comes I,
this that they have set up the mOnslrous
doctrine that the minority may rule the ma
joriIy. What, then, is the great question be-
fore us 1t is, shall we virdicate the authOri
~ of our majority, or shall the minority b.
perui ted to rebel and set up all indel g d4Lt
government at pleasure?
The issue is one they have themselves pro
duced. 1t is but an attempt to establish tb
claim to either rule or ruin the land. The,
had nearly all the Presidents, and when they
did permit the Northern Democrats to have
President they put him under bonds and man
acles more calling than those they put upon
their slaves.
In the Constitutional Convention OF 1881
they acknowledged that slavery was an evil
but they knew not how to get rid Of it. They |
knew that free society would rapidly gain up |
on slave society in numbers, wealth and pow.
er. Accordingly they demanded certain com
promises.
l. You must give US an effective promise
for our protection against the escape Of slaves.
and the fugitive clause was adopted.
2. In the second place, in order to equalize
Is with The free States, you must allow us three
votes for every five Of our slaves, or the ap-
Dointment of representatives. This also was
granted, and it secured to them one-third more
power than the North was allowed under the
Constitution according to the respective num-
Der of flee whites. They saw at that time the
progress of free labor would l,e far more rapid
han that Of slave labor and, therefore, some
heck must be placed upon Northern advance
neut.
3. The ordinance of 1887, that Slavery LIQUID
lOt be extended north of the Ohio, was anolh-
r compromise.
Who has most faithfully kept these com
promises We mad not only maintained tie
uthority of the fugitive slave clause, but in
$50 we gave them a blank sheet of paper
nd asked them to write out their own nc,
which they did and which they adopted. We
ave also steadily upheld the apportoinmeu,
lause, and without murmuT have conceded
o them a full third more of poIit-
sal power by this representation Of their
lave property. In no respect have we fallen
hort in our constitutional obligations to the {
outh
But how have they kept their part of the
greement? Have they for five consecutive
ears quietly submitted to the compromises of
he Constitution? AS early as 1916 they in
sted that free State should not be admit |
ID without a slave State to match il. They /
'ere determined that free labor should moi |
dvance in political power beyond slave Ia
or. q
Then in 1920 they threatended to dissolve j
ne Union and we compromised on the parallel I
5000. They remained awhile in tolerab.e G
uietude under the compromises, hut in a few I
enrs again, they threatened and demanded its '
epea so as to give the privilege of extending $
avery north of that line. You repealed the
Dmpromise, regret TO say, but it was done a
} prevent trouble from these fai,hless men. v
1htn in 1882 South Carolina stepped forth IA
} nu!lfy law Of Congress, because she did W
ut like it. But they came in bad time - el
ackson then put his foot on Secession and put
out as you would put out a candle. on
regret that John Calhoun did not commit
ne over act that old Hickory might have hung II
lml
At last they demande ! that Slavery should
e permitted to go where ii pleased, should be-
rO,ected IN IGnsittt through the free Suites. h,
nd should everywhere be guarded by the
-mei lean flag. They thus urged on these de- \
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