Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-08-10
The speech of Hon. r.. w. Thomp-

For the great Republican occasion o.
Saturday night, which was designed to sci
the Capital, and through It the State o.
Ohio, ablaze with enthusiasm for GRAM
and CoLFAx, Hon. r. W. THOMPSON, o.
Terre Haute, Indiana, was imported 20 dc
up the oratory. Hon. SAMUEL GALLOWAY
was likewise posted for the-occasion.
1--WE think we did something to help Mr.
THOMPSON to an audience. On Saturday
morning we gave liberal extracts from The
speech he delivered atTerfe Haupe, Indi
ana, on the 1lth of August, 1856.
Many Democrats attended to hear fol
themselves how he would dispose of tha
speech. On the 18th of the month of ,Au
gust, of that year, in a note responding tt
the request of sundry gentlemen to furnish
copy of his speech for publication. hs
expressed great qualification at being called
on to do so, especially as there were ther
$50 many others inclined to give encour
agement to sectional controversy" He ther
calleI the sentiments of that speech "Na.
tional." In that speech he went back &c
the, days of ABRAHAM, claiming that the
Institution of slavery-not African sla.
very, but White slaveryApassed ssdowr
from him to ISAAC and ] COB, and to. the
patriarchs who followed them, by way Of
Inheritance :, and he claimed that-there was
nothing in either the Mosaic or i'm the Chris.
tian dispensation, making it wrongful OF
immoral institution, The object in thusgo.
fng back waato show chat morally we were
under no obligations to take notice of the
institution of slavery in the South. Then
he took up the Constitution, referred to the
history of its formation, and claimed that
it enjoined us from itermeddling politi-
cally with the institution of slavery in the
South. Said he:
= .BptF you say that, the South threatens 30
go out of the Union, and If SHE willsgo, let
her go. The So,tth loves tbe linton as aoeH as
upon many battlefield, mingled her blood
with the blood of the North, in defense OF
the Union, and 1T an alien foe to its integ-
rity shall ever assail it, while it exists, she
will do so again. She will forget her own
wrongs, if she has them to defend, with
the life of her best sons, the common honor
of the whole country. She does not desire
to go out the Union. Butshe comes into
10. .upeneterms 1ofy political sequasity-and
institutions which you of the North helped
her to. .create-to assail her honor and her
integrity which are as dear to her
as life when you seek to place
herSl in dependence on your = po,oer and
60asty,. in violation your constitutional
shall she stand still and submit to
the degradation without murmur or COM
plant? She would be fdithless to the ad-
monitions of her great statesmen, if she
did. The North would not do ir. The
North would not Yerndin in a Onion where
she had to be disgraced and degraded. The
North would not submit to indigpity, and,
to .contumely and reproach. The
difficulties would be greatly complicated
II Kansas should apply as a slave State.
Ii she should come in as a free State. the
North would, at once, consent to her ad-
mission and that,would settle the question.
But II as slaUe State, and the North would
INSIST upon the restoration of the compro-
mise, it would amount to her rejection
merely because she was slave State. This,
)f course, would have to be done by an
Exclusively sectionQlvote. 1t would array
,he united North against the united
south; it would destroy all brotherly
ceiling and confidence between the two Sec
ionssan IT is my deliberate opinion that
he Unton could not surUive such an act. When
uer the time shall Grrtue gohen By SUCH sec
i State shall be kept out of the Union,
lpon the single ground that the citizens of
have established slavery, THE UNION WILL
'E PRACTICALLY DISSOLVED. The South
'ANNoT stay in the Union upon terms of inc
udlity. The North would not Neither
will consent to be degraded in the eyes of
he other"
Mr.. THOMPSON then launched forth in
trong reprobation of the leaders and meas
res of the Republican party, as seeking to
BAD the country into the condition that
Tould render it impossible for the South
remain in the Union. In reply, on Sat-
rday night, to question put to him
'uching this speech, he said he took nothing
it back. That is, he had no apology to
fer for it, or for any part of it. He did
OF rt gret its delivery. There was not one
tterance in it that he would erase or quail
y. he stood by it all. i
Thirteen years after the delivery of that
oeech, written out by himself at the time
nd carefully revised, he arises before a
olumbus audience, and virtually re-de-
vers it. d True, he did not re-deliver it
ord for word; but ON the morning of that
~ the material part of it was given to
ie public, and by his unequivocal indorse-
lent at the West Front of Ohio's Capitol
. Saturday night it became really part
his speech. That party which he warn |
! against in 1S55-the Republican party, |
;cording to his understanding and teach
IL, was sectional and hence deadly to the |
hion-was successful 1860. In this speech |
9 told the South that by reason of that
lccess the Union had become ssprac-
cally disslvoed," as it put them in a |
1sition of ''degradation," and that it |
ould be unbecoming in them to remain
the Union, sinasmuch as they could |
ot do SO any longer on terms of equality. |
It did not then occur to him, as it did on
sturday night, that the Democratic Ma
onal Platforms ofl852 '56 and go, by the
dorsement of the Kentucky and Virgin
Resolutions of 1853, were the stimu-
ting causes of Southern Secession.
Then it was the aggressions of the Free
ii and Republican parties that were dri-
ing them on to this alternative. 1t is not
r us to reconcile these discrepancies
hat is for Mr.. THOMPSON and his friends
do, if they can. i
We give him credit for bearing testi-
ony to the fact, that the great body of
70 Democratic party wentinto and sus-
ined the War as patriotically and as cor
seously as the Republicans, and in this
S testimony conficted with that of the
lllet rfddled and hacl1ed and Scared vet
an who spoke after him-Hon. SAMUEL
ALLowAY. v .....s.qg
Mr.. THOMPSON undertook to make his
1dience believe that. there would be an
;her Rebellion if the Democratic party
ere successful, inasmuch as they repudia-