The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1868-07-14
VOL. XXXVIII.t
soY EECH OF
COL. WILL. CUMBACK,
AT PRINcEroN, IND.

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AT PRINCETON, IND
Col Cunback, Republican candidate
for Lieut.. Governor, spoke at Princeton,
Ind, on the 18th uit. The following is
= report Of his speech from the Cincin-
nati Gazette EAEE31s
"a FELLow- w-CTrIxENs-Great events have
transpired since 1 had the pleasure of
meeting with you at tais same place
eight years ago. had been chosen to
head the Republican electoral ticket for
this, my native State, and was here as
candidate for that konor at tkst time.
Being elected afterward by the people
of the State, ( had the homer to cast the
first electoral vote Indiana gave against
the slave power of the country, and in
favor Of free tabor. I recwr with emo
tons Of pride, to that vote, and stand
before you to-day the earnest defender
Of the principles and purposes OF the
party that then honored me, with in
creased devotion to the pronsoSion Of its
interest, and with the strongest convic-
ioas thak that party is the custodian of
the priceless blessing ef civil and reiig
ious liberty in this nation, and the only
party of progress and patriotism in this
our cosnmon country.
At that time the Democratic party
was the great ruaing and dominant pow
er in the nation It had the Executive;
the highest judicial department was un-
der its coR trcs; the Senate and House Of
Representatives we're, BY large majori-
ties, Democratic and with the army,
the navy. and the treasury under their
control, they were a great and formida-
bae organizations
But long lease of power had cor
rup&ed thas party. In principle It had
departed far from the wise and sound
teachimg Of tire good men WHO brought
into existence tkis good Gevernm ent of
ours.
The Democratic Congress enacted
statutes, for the purpose Of Binding
tighter the chains Of human bondage;
and when the vail Of oppressieR came
to the ear Of the Democratic Judiciary,
it was held be it said to cur everlasting
shame as natione that the oppressed,
because God had given him dark skin,
had 10 rights that the man of fairer
complexion was bcund to respect. Sia-
very Hoted over q violated Con nstituion
while freedom wept.
In half the States in the Union free
speech and free press, though graran-
teed by the organic law Of the land,
were denied to the people by proud
and despoae siaveocracy; and in the
other half the people were forced, un-
der the laws enacted by this same party,
to engage in the degrading business of
capturing fugitives seeking freedom
from slavery, and the Executive enforced
with bloody rigor the law compelling
the return Of the fugitive.
were thrown into prison, for 30 other
cffense than teaching the poor slave to
read the blessed word of God, and the
faithful minister Of the Gospel was driv-
en- froa his pulpit, his home, asad his
State, if he lifted up his voice against
the horrad wickedness and demoraiiza-
ton of this abominakie institution.
A Democratic Executive could look
after the liberty Of Martha Kosta in q
foreign sea, and Congress vote thanks
to the brave sea Captain who prevented
foreign power from interfering with
his liberty. do Rotcondemn them for
it, bat commend then. It was right
But I mention this to show that while
life and liberty were taken, before the
very eyes Of the nation, in our own
household, by the slave power, not a
single motion was ever saade by either q
Democratic Executive or n Democratic
Congress- or Court, to pxaish ths guilty
or protect the inaocent.
That great party has wandered away
from the purposes of the Goa st;tution
of the United States SO esoquentsy stated
in the preamble, and had become the
willing and cringiag servant of the
propagandists Of slavery. In cbedience
to the demand of the slave power and
in defiance Of the protest Of the people,
that party tore down the barriers our
fathers had erected arcund some terri
tories, protecting them from this blight
ing curse, and intending them as rich
inheritance for their children, requiring
and demanding that in that sacred soil
good book, and eat their bread by the
sweat of their own and not another's
brow. 10 ..ezs z
Onr God fearing and freedom loving