Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-10-03
VOL. XXXV.

to coatiase In each a Osson. IT WOULD BE DOING
VIOLENCE TO rsEa PLATFORM or TIE PATTY
TO WHICH BELONG. We hdvs adopted ttdoid Dec
t0r"tfoH of idependeEce as the basis Of oJti-
cal novenents which declares that any people when
their Government ceases to protect their rights
pose OF s as 70 oppre.s t5 ae% Ssrs
ssaF TO to 6eC1 psfR e prDoiplss and
WHICH TsEY LIVE AID erect on IT RUINS another
a2RaRiIyf s9sf nss HSsR e ssaS sT
Props yor ezeroistngsft. whenever GE1HER-GA
think the Q ntingency has come. certainlylshall
be the adgocate of that same doctrine wheneverI
20 20
BELONG that free people ought not longer to
s1s ss 4 ss ~ Rss s'S D8 M tSs,f but
that CONT seency neyer having come have never
FoUcoxNNorf FoRcIBrY HOLD MEN IN THIS
gogLD s0BKS6T THE, FIRST rR,NoIPLEs OF THE
aor0t Glooe 34ta EenSress. Sd Session, page 25.R
] There are some Senators who profess CREST
regard for the rights Of the States l am one of
-tsese who have quite as regard for the rights
of the Z stes as some yho make louder professions
s%s: I% 4, ,RFEElLLEyEIN SiSoa, CON
-THE VIRGINIA. RESOLUTIONS Of l7ss AND
-fsS. Iground myself upon those resolutions, and,
ston. not on Of the spirit Of those resoiuiions.
pat as an attempt totrampe upon the rights of the
Jhates ana ueprfvet tnem Cf tn power To protect
their own citzens IRON aggression and abuse. Do
gentlemen suppose that the States awakened
TO q Keen sense of their righis aud the danger of
eensossdatfon. will eyer submit to such bill as
this Ilell yeu nay rsr-,.sn
Wao tsto be judge IN the tdst rsso-tof taevfols-
ttofe of the G0as,itttio of tia United States 6g the
tssact1aeaf Of lasoi Wao is TIE f.nAl eiiert
ts b.1 Sas
to yield up all the rights of the states to- protect
t1eir own citzensi md teseonsolidate this Govern
ment into q miserable despotism I tell you sir,
whaterer you NAV think of II. If this bill pass. cot
Hsfo1s teA arise the Federal and State jx
wordy wars which are got up in Copgress-con-
flicts in " hiCh the States Will never
Yleld, for the more you undertake to load them
wsn ss acts like this the greater win be their resist
Il stated that this bill was intended to promote
and help the res ecution Of the fugitive bill. The
Sc etof does not deny itsl said there were States
IN this niQn whose highest tribunals hao acjuged
that bill TO be uncOnstitn tiona and that one
of those who bel eyed 1t unconstitutional that my
State believed it unconstitutional; and that, under
the old resolutions of 1913 and 1899 Stats must
only Be she jndge of that but OF the remedy in such
;.There is one sovereign State which has asserted
in the ch r invoked ia f7ss to free yourse YES from
the exerci of powerthat threatened to reduce you
to slavery. Your great ancestors rose against it,
and made the deeaf alton of the platform which
Democrats stand, an from which you will not
shrink IN the day OF trials unless you mean to in
doFse them at Ba timOre and deny them at Wash
ington, lLaughter.] Then am not to be condem-
the great Democratic .rty upon the main plank in
the last plstfrm which thew erested "-Sse Com
gressionoI Globe App.ndi1. S3r Congress. Ind Ses-
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