Year: 1859

pie; and like an old jefferson Democrat he
denounced all who had any hand or took
any part in this bill of yillainly-this bond
of blood and DEATH


Senator Sutliff, from Trumbull. and John
Hutchins, ESP. also spoke, as well as
Judge Newton, in denunciation of the bill
and the aiders and causes which produced
its production. And although Judge Wade
is Wing of the old line, and Messrs.
Ranney and Birchard are Democrats of the
highest order of political attainments, yet
no spectator could discover anything
throughout the exciting meeting which
would cause any one to suppose that polit-
ical feeling or party predictions entered
into the minds of the speakers or the hearts
of the audiences general and universal
was the desire and determination of not
only the speakers, but the freemen in at
tendance, to exert all their God given pow
ers to abolish not only this infamous law,
but to nail and stamp ,cith eternal pOliti-
cal mitan,y each and every villain who al
ded in its passage. God grant that the
fire of liberty which this diabolical law has
kindled in the hearts of the people at the
North and West, may not be extinguished
until every miscreant who aided in its pas
sage and approval, is hurled from power
and from the political embraces of the sons
of freedom, of honor and worth.


The resolutions are good, but the last
one, offered by Judge Brownlee. of our
Bench, received the unanimous response
and amen Of the mighty mass there assem-
Uedy Read it, and adopt it, then; for if
we must continue to succumb to the dicta-
tion of the infamous slave holder or suffer
death, let US not only suffer death, but
even the death of the Jewish crossl


The resolution referred to above reads
as follows1


Resolred, That come life or come i'm
prisonment, come fine or come death, we
will neither aid nor assist in the return of
any fugitive slave; but, on the contrary,
We will harbor and secretc, and by all just
means protect and defend him, and thus
give him practical GOd-specd to liberty.


The above, then were Jydge Ranney's
sentiments upon the Fugitive Law in 1850,
reported by a paper of his party, and at
tested by a host Of persons in the vicinity
who were present at the meeting. 1t is
only necessary to show Judge RS utter
subserviency to the bchests of his party,
even to the denying that he ever enter
tanned or uttered a manly sentiment upon
the subject Of slavery in his life, to give
his answers at Cleveland, last week, when
interrogated by Mr.. DennisOn upon the
subject. During the discussion, the fol-
lowing, among other questions, were pro-
pounded by DennisOn and answered by Mr..
Ranney. We ecOpy from the National DEM
ocrat:


Question-Did you, in 1850, deny the
constitutionality of the Fugitive Slave act
of 1S5Ol


I did not.


Question--Did you. in 1850, denounce
the Fugitive Slave act as unjust, and should
be repealed!


Idid not. / said to the gentlemen then
as would say now-that if the law did
away with habeas corpus and the right of
the trial by jury, then it would be the
proper subject for an appeal to Congress
for an amendment But said that there
is nothing to be done under free govern
ment but an appeal to the law making
power. for remedy for abuses.


We ask, in all candor, is man who so
stulti6es his own record upon question
of humanity, worthy to be elected as the
Chief Magistrate of the people of Ohio?
Let the answer be given at the ballot-box
in October.