Year: 1859

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they take the money, I can send you
to the penitentiary. That is the NOR
ality Of individuals, but the morality
OF nations seems to be to take all you
can. There is a country above us,
where at tribunal we shall some day
find Him who will tell You that the
same morality that prevails amongst
individuals, prevails between nations,
and if there is no tribunal here, there
is one elsewhere, where wicked rulers,
as well as wicked subjects, have to
account for what they have done in
this world, and we have examples OF
this responsibility attaching before
they get there. Run over the history
of the world and remember what Rome
has done. Owls hoot in the palaces
of the Caesars. From those palaces
there went forth the voice of imperial
Rome that shook the world. They
thought manifest destiny" led them
to it. but manifest judgment des-
troyed them, and that was the end of
their power.' They said we carry the
plow of civilization to the barbarian.
You say that you extend the area Of
freedom. That is like this, to make a
man free you put a pistol to his head
and blow out his brains. You call the
previous question, and take the vote
with saltpetre and lead That is what
you mean to do with Cuba, and God
Almighty will smite you as he did the
whitened wall. Let them alone, and
we can meet on the banks Of the Ohio,
and can take to our fraternal embrace
those of Kentucky and Virginia as OF
old, as lhave SCENT, in days gone by,
when the footsteps of the invading ar.
my of England crossed the lake and
came on the frontier of Ohio with their
barbarous allies, and run waste parts
of our western country, with their red
tomahawks reeking with the red blood
of the women they had slain, while
the bloody scalps hung drying over
their fires by the long and beautiful
hair Of our wives and daughters, when
we were too weak to defend ourselves.
Their negroes came with their mas
ters, and | should then have like to
have seen any fellow get habeas cor
pus for one of them. 1t is because
we are thus bound to defend each 9TH
er, that our Constitution provides that
we are bound to preserve this good
feeling. If you are assailed by for
eign soidiery, the freemen of this land
are bound to rise up side by side with
you and defend your cause. 1t is
damnable to do otherwise. 1t is in
iernaI, and the devil invented the
scheme. Some of the able men have
tried to carry it out, but they have
been mistaken. That is my view oI
the subject of the Fugitive Slave Law
That is the Republican doctrine. They
don't like the way you have invented
of carrying it out. Remodel the law,
and tell them exactly what the law is,
and where the courts say it is right ;
they will have to put up with it. II
any man takes you, my Republican
friends, by the nap Of the neck, and
say: Catch my nigger," all you have
to do is to send for me, and he never
will do it over again. will take hin
to some Of those Justices that we have
in this State of Ohio, and he will new
er again order our white men about


but when the majesty of the law ii
resisted, then hold that every mal
is bound to execute that law. If this
be not done, you must ask despot t.
substitute his will for yours. If you
don't like the law, you must remember
that you made it. You elected the
men that made the law. Some people
say that States ought to make the law
That might have been right enough
but in 1898 Congress made law
Two years afterward, the Constitution
was made and they gave it to Con
gress to do, and the South has enjoye,
it ever since. Mr.. Corwin conclude,
by recommending Kentuckians, whel
men meddled with their State politics
to give the party gentle hint t,
leave by the showing of a hanlspike
but insisted that he should hold Il
his right to discuss national politics
anywhere in the Union.


!. lie ended abruptly, amid loud erie


for him to continue. The pressing in
) vitation he declined. The meeting
soon after closed