Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-08-06
MORNING LEADER.



ed 70 run IS S candidate for the Governor
ship Of Ohio, aia order % vindieats she
rights q frss di5ru,si0H and personal liberty.
This book is too large for the general
reading public, but We propose te extract
some Of its plain unequiy0eai dootrines,
that the every day newspaper reader may
knew Whist are the sentiments Of this "a
mously infsnous man. The work is pub.
Hsbed By J. Walter Co, Of Columbus,
Ohio, and they win consider themselves
highly csnplimen;ed in being styled Simon
Pure followers Of their hero. In the pub
lishers' notice we are told tks oJ5set is 70
JIrnilh the mems 'oi-a eorTsstj ja5gusnt in re-
Iatioz 70 man, who, through tie malignaai
as,aults Of his easmies, and the sitesm Of his
.frisads has be.oas one Of The most generally
talksd-of mes Of these times This record
sho'ps sOhy Ar. Kauaadighan has 50 many
enemies.D
Now, from its pages we propose to CLEAN
briefly that the "msny enemies . Of Mr.. Y.
must be the friends Of the Union, and
none Others.
The first speech Of the series is one
made in 1855, at Dsyton before a Demo
cratic meeting L appears from the Rec
ord .hst this meeting hsd assembled to
consider he cause Of the decline Of Dam
Ocratic power; to inquire Of their party
gods and prophets why the banners Of
Democracy vert down before their oppo-
nsnts; and Mr.. ValIandigham, as q great
prophet and philosopher, explains to his
own apparent satisfaction the reason why
the Democratic party had been left to suf-
fer defeat. he finds the cause in their
"neglect Of good doctrine vigorous disci-
pline, and true and good men," The latter
two causes are barely iutimated, while he
enlargss 8 speech Of thirty three pages
upon the heresies that have grown into the
Party--the greatest Of which is Anti-sla-
very doctrine and Free Soil principles. He
Gays;
"The political parties at the North,
gentlemen, have faltered and some OF them
fallen, before Abolition. The Whig party
bargaining with, courring, and seeking TO
absorb il into its own ranks I've smile ct
the idea Of absorption being the end Of
courtiag , has, ITSELF at last been swal-
LEVIED up and lost. Even the Democratic
party, never losing its identity, never
ceasing 70 be natiOnal-has, nevertheless,
in whole or in part ct some period or an
other in every State covered before or
tsmpered with this dark spectre" He
then questions What remains to be done9'
and answers, AT speak il boldly-to be
true 10 your great mission, and to succeed
in it you must take open, manly, one-sided
ground upon the Abolition question. In
no other way can yoU now conquer"
Let US look for a moment at this high
sounding philosophy. The Democratic
party has lost power because it yielded IN
par, to the grim speetrs Of Anti-sla-
very. The Free Soil party has triumphed
BY agitsting The Anti-sIa7ery question:
ErgO-(S Of Whsatlyl The Democrat.
te party can regain power only BY coming
out boldly against Anti-Slavery. This is
specimen Of the would-be Governors
early training in the philnsoPhy Of poll
tics.
But the most remarkable passage in
this maiden speech of our Ohio Exile, is
one upon the reception given in the North
to those champions Of Anti Slavery, who
first entered the arena Of free discussion.
Speaking Of the mere moral discussion,
before it took on any type Of political ac-
ton, he says, coming thus in such q
questionable shape, even the North started
back aghast as at o goblin damned.
Its presses were destroyed, its assemblies
broken up, Its publications burned, and its
lceturers mobbed everywhere, and more
than one among them murdered in the
midst Of popular tumult and indignation" !"
Wen, exiled martyr to the cause Of free
speech, why did you not then speak out
yeut Jonshie dsnuneiatiOEs against Che
assaults Of free speech Why not then
pouF out your Jereniad's over the degen-
eraey Of Government that was too weak
(Or too corrupt2 even in time Of pro-
found internal peace, to protect this sacred
right Of the people to assemble and dis
cuss their opinions, when no excuse Of the
ovsrbearing force Of civil war held back
the arm Of administrative justice? You
have just now found out have yOu, that
this interfering with discussion "gores
your o."
Bat in his future apology for the South
/. be says, "But the South has fOrborne q
little. She has not yet (hoW is it now, Mr.,
w organised societies, and fOstered and
protected them by legislation 70 steal that
which our law recognizes as property,
and refused restitution on the pEetext tha
By the higher Law Of conscience, no righi
Ofpropsrty exists in the thing stolen. -
Well, sir, If she had done these things
va suppose in that pure uncorruptet
mind Of your political maidenhoot
you would have given rs spicy speci
mems Of rebuking eloquenee upon her en-
eroachmenta Where are they now, sir
has she yet stolen anything which, no
only cur Government but every Govern
ment civilized and barbarous, recognizes
as property Where are the stolen Forts
the stolen guns the stolen deposits II
treasury vsults7 and where, brave rebukel
Of larceny, is your denunciation Of Ii,
theftf
There are Jet richer views Of stump ei
oquenee and political sophistry ia thil
aRecOrd" which We must leave for futar,