The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1863-08-20

to avert the war. This proposition OF
the Peace Conference was opposed by
nearly all the members from the South y
ern States. \
l wish now to come to the gist OF this
matter Is there a Democrat of High.
land county, that is willing to be taxed |
to pay the full value of every negro that
may escape through the inoapacity,
carelessness or cowardice of the mar.
shal? Is there such manS don't
believe there is. l have never seen
one. But that was one of the PROPOSE
tons of the Crittenden Compromise
Article 9th says that Congress shall
have power to provide by law for the
payment Of the full value of any slave
that may, by connivance or intimida-
tion, be enabled to escape from the Off
GERS him in custody. How easy for the
Marshal to swear that he was intimida-
ted, when resolute officer would have
experienced little dificultyl There has
been no difficulty in executing the Flu.
gitive Slave Law in Southern Ohio. 1t
was odious enough to many. but this
CrittendenCompromise proposed tomake
it thousand fold more odious 1t pro
posed to make you the "nigger catch
er" for the Southern slaveholderl Are
you willing then to get down upon your
knees to the Southern nabobs? ["No!
no!' l have always been in favor Of
according to the South all their rights
under the Constitution, and the people
ofOhio have been willing to accord
them to the fullest extent.
But should the Marshal ask you to
volunteer to help him catch niggcr,
would you do it? I would not. would
tell him Gas said distinguished Sounth.
ern gentleman) to 60 to hell first and
catch his own niger. [Great laughter.
They are welcome to catch their own
; niggers. or hire others to do the job for
them. But when it comes TO ordering
3 us out to catch them for nothing, We
beg to be excused. But should we re-
fuse, that Crittenden amendment of til,
} Constitution proposed to make US pa,
D for theml Had I voted for it I nevc
= could have looked my constituents il
n the face again.
) Again, that compromise proposed t.
, place property in slaves upon perfec
f equality with all other property in al
d the territory South of ,2G0 so. Woul,
any Douglas Democrat agree to that?.
f Would he then overthrow his cherisho Q,
r doctrine of popular sovereignty? Nc
4 That compromise went further eve
!. than the demands of the South at tn
e Charleston Convention. 1t went ia
l. beyond the claims of Calhoun himself
1t proposed 10 establish Slavery forev
N er in all those Territories and all thu
er might hereafter be acquired. 1t pre-
,r posed thus to forever exclude the pei
d pie of the Northern States from II
&. privilege of settling in the territoric
o South of that line, unless they woul
cucumber themselves with this evil
v And they had incorporated the do
e. trine of popular sovereignty in all Il
ut bills organizing the Territoresl
Is there a single man here who
4 willing to make Ohio a slave State?
ry The Crittenden Compromise would ha
1t fastened the institution upon you ASST
de ted by the Dread Scott decision. Und
k that compromise I could have broug
ke negroes and held them in my powt
Or, and been sustained by the courts!
gh you wonder, therefore, that the Repu
ed licans could not sustain that measuI
'as mo, Sir" Pugh said in his spec
H. at Washington, Fayettc county, that I
co. Crittenden Compromise only extend
yer the Missouri line to the Pacific Ocei
ro- when he said that he knew he lied.
his have told you what it proposed, but
7as was to be part Of the Constitution
he rcvocable Even were it true, is it v
consistent in Pugh to ask us to re-
tablish the Missouri Compromise, that
nus and the whole Democratic party hi
pronounced uncon stitutiOnal? But
isonly one of the damnable inconsiste
les cies with which they attempt to dcce
-, Sc" the people, and one of tho nj
,ad falschoods by which they mislead
not multitude of their party!
and Mr.. Trimble concluded by say
ace that if he had time he could con
mo' W sively show that the Compromise We
ov not have aVerted the war had it /
lsh passed,
nor After music by the band, the Pl
Il dent of the meeting, Judge, form
,ave Captain Sloane, who was wounde
tin. the service, and long time a Domoc
down TO the breaking out Of the