The Tiffin Weekly Tribune, 1859-10-07

'yu apeaKing oi you a one ot llio m o o-of - of o-of I''0-,hllt T0U ,0 neiiiharraej by fereno.1 Wa. it climutej No. A nor ...... 1 ... .. . There i. a part of Mr. Lincoln, anvvch delivered In Dayt.m and at Cincinnati, In relation to tho influence of tho Ordinance of 1797 in excluding alavery from Ohio, and other Stale, of tho Week, and North Veat, w bit h for the historical information it contain., a. well aa for iu reputation of an oft repealed djcl.iratioit of Senator Doujjlita. Jcacrve an atleutivo conaitlura conaitlura-lion. - lion. conaitlura-lion. Wo copy from tho report of the Cinciunali O'tuefle; It may appear a little rniaraliral for me to mention the topio ot whirh I ahall apeak now. It ia a favorite propoaition of Dimolaa'a that the inlorlerence of tb. grt eral government, through thoonliuani'vof '87, or through any other act, never baa inado orfevor can make a Krre State, that tho Ordinance of '87 did tint make fVe. State of Ohio, Indiana or Illinoia, That theeo atntea are free upon hi groat prtn. ciplc of Popular Movoroirrnty, beratiao the people of thoae acveral SUte havechoaen to iiuiko them no, or probably hero ho un undertook - dertook undertook to compliment the people Unit they themnelvea have mado tho Hlato of Ohio free and that the Ordinance nf'87 wa. not entitled in nny degree to divide the honor with tin in. I have no doubt that the people of the Bute of Ohio did make her free according to their ownwill and judgment, but let tho Tufts be ruiicni ruiicni-bt're - bt're ruiicni-bt're In 1A02, 1 believe, ft wa von tlmt In Introduced - troduced Introduced the elaunn prohibiting alnvery, and you did it 1 reckon very nearly mian mian-iiiiounly, - iiiiounly, mian-iiiiounly, but you ahould boar in mind that tho actual iireaence of tho Institution a. mungat you; that you mnde it a Free Stale, nut with Urn onibarracainciit upon you of already having among you innny ilave, which If they had been here, and Jyouhnd ought to niako a froo State, you wou.u no. niton ntiub iu uo Vt Itll. 41 llley hud been among you, enibnrranaing dim dim-cultlea - cultlea dim-cultlea nurat probably have induced you to tolerate a.lnvo eonatitation iuateaj of frta one, a. indued tlien. vory diUicultiot have ciiitraiiied every people on thi continent who have adopted alavery. fray what wa. it thnt made you free 1 What kept you free! Did you find the State free wh.n you enm U d.cid. that Ohio thnuld boa troo Slate It i. import, ant to enquire by whnt reae-on you have found It ao! Let ua take an illimtration between the Bute of Ohio and Kentucky. Kentucky i .epnruted by this Ohio river not a inilo wide. A portion of Kentucky, by reaaun of the cuur. ol the Ohio, i. further uortii Uiau thi portion of Ohio iu which wo now etand. Kentucky ia an urciy covur.ti wnu aiavcry tllilo I. en tlrelr trut fro,n ll- Y''t """I" this dif. tiou of Kentucky waa furthor North titan than this portion of Ohio. Was it soil 1 No. There Is nothing in tlio soil of the one more favors Mo to alavo labor than the nottlimatc or mil that luauo ouo sidu of tlio lino tj be entrroTv COVOred witi, .livery asd thf other Z other. . It was nottl iraatc irtio imm it. tvuuiwosui .Mu.ly over it. Toll u, if yuu can, In all the ranuo of conjecture, If thera be anything you can conceive of that made that diUuroace.otli. er than that there was no law of any sort keeping it out of Kentucky I And the Onlinauco of ct7 kept it out of Ohio. If there ia any othor reason than this, I con confess - fess confess that it i. wholly beyond my power to conceive of it- This, then, I oiler to com combat - bat combat th. ides that that ordinunco has nev never - er never made any State free. . . , ... I don't stop at this Illustration.' I como tonne ntnto of Indiana; and what I have .aid as between Kentucky and Ohio I re repeat - peat repeat as between Indiana and Kantnck. Ilia equally applicable. One additional ar. trument is applicable however to Indiana. Id her territorial condition she moro than once petitioned Congress to abrogate the ordinance entirely, or at least so far aa to suspend it operation for a time, in ordor that they might exorcise the "I'opulnr -jomieiKni. oi nevinsT Slaves it tlm wanted them. Tho men then control!. ing the eoviTDraent, Imitntinir tho men of tne revolution, so Jura intelligence was concernod, refuned Indiana that privilege ml so we have the evidence that Indiana supposed she could have nlaves, if it were not for that ordiiinnce; that ahe besought Conrrres. to put that barrier out of the way, that Congress rofUacd to do so, aud It ell ended at last in Indiana boino; a Free State. Tell me not. then that the Ordl. nance of 'b7 had nothing to do with mak making - ing making Indiana a Fret State, when we find some men chafing against that barrier. u-onio down sgam to our )jtnt of Illi nois. When the irreat North-West Ter ritory, Including Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan aud Wisconsin wa acquired, first I believe by the British Government from the French, Lufore tho establish ment of our independence, it become a part of Virgisiiai enabling Virginia after afterward - ward afterward to tranHfer it to tho general gov government. - ernment. government. Thera wero French ettlo ettlo-ments - ments ettlo-ments in what I now Illinois, and at the arae time there wer. JVeneh settlement iu what i now Missouri in tlie tract of country tbut wa nut purchaaod till about ihuj. in iittjBO i runcu settlements uu uu-gro - gro uu-gro slavery had existed for manyyear porhups mora than a hundred, if not as much ts two hundred ysars at Kaakos kia in llliuois, aud at tit Uenevie. or Cape UirardeaUi perhaps, in lUiB-ouri, Tho number of slaves w as not very grest, but there was about the same number in each place. The wer there when we acquired tbe territory. Thera was r. ef. fort made ta break up the relation of mas ter and slave, and even the Ordinance of 1787 waa so enforced as to destroy that lavery lo Illinois, nor did the ordinance apply to Missouri at all. . What I want to ask your attention to, at this point, is that Illinois and M saouri came into the Union about lhe sumo time, lllinoi tn tho latter port of 1818, and Missouri, after a atrugglo, I believe some time in 1830. They had bueu tilling up with American people about tho aame pu pu-riod - riod pu-riod of time; their prugrei. enabling them to be reaily to como iulo the Union at about the aauio tune. At the cud of that ten years, In which they had boen o pre preparing, - paring, preparing, (for it wa about that period of time) the number of alive in Illinoia bad actually docrraecd; while in Mibsouri,bo !,ri lining with vory few at the end of that ton years, there were about ten thousand. Thia being ao, and it being remembered that XliDoouri and lllinoi ,e to a certain extent, in the mine nurallel of latitude that the No.ih.-rn half of Missouri uudthe -In

; In tbe Democratic psrty consistency'' is a jewel one that derives its value from ita excessive rarity. It nevor perform, one ioU thnt, U promise", it succeeds by promising one thin nnd doing another, and in fact, 1 nothing short of a gigantic UK. It claims to be the only National par party. - ty. party. With l hia prole.tstion on its Hp, U consent to allow tha Union to remain' whole, if a Prssident be elected by fif fifteen - teen fifteen Southern and tw. Northern States, hut protents .thai it Will rend it ssundsr if tho sixteen Northern States elect one. Iu the North it professes to b. Anti-Slavery In tho extreme. Yet the ma majority - jority majority of Its member are nigger driversmt' ilia owned and controlled by the alava' power exclusively; It went Into power In Ohio ten years1 ago, by asserting th. Fugitive Slav. Law. Law.-to - to Law.-to be not only inhuman and unjust, but unconstitutional. Now l'tdufonrfs that law' and brand every man as traitor that will not obey it, It elected a l're!dnnt by claiming to be ill favor of a fre Wsst, and back up that I'resiilsnt In s. villainous sttemps to en enslave - slave enslave Kansas as ever disgraced the moft tyrannical ruler the World ever produced. It claim 1 1 be thn friend of t f.,r.tn rr and yet would allow any of thorn to be orrced into the armies of European king, whenever found nn their soil. It mouths loudly of its love for the poor man, vet it give our wild lunds to the Braaniiiir speculiitrir. thut he mav fill his overflow ing colters by selling them at an enormous advance to tho poor emigrant - wno goes to tne weal to make himself a home. It professes a holy horror at Trraaary sucking, yet allow it officer to ateal $500,000 from tho public Treasury, and knowing the crime, re-noininatcs them forth, same otllces and when finally, caught, defends them. Wu might go on ami point out a thou thousand - sand thousand inconsistencies like these, hut these are enough. Whst honest msn can re remain - main remain in communion with party so cor-, nipt, so foul lltii It upon a foundation of lies, with it path strewn with brokeu promise, snd uuliiltllled pledge, how can any eonsiitent man who loves truth.hold up Ills brad and say he is s member of it? There are many such, but they are so on- ' !y because they caiinol believe in its ol-, tor degradation. Tlie number is becom becoming - ing becoming leas and lei every day, and, thetinio is not far distant, when only those who make politic a trade 'and will bold tor anything that pluiler, will cling

It will bo well for the'ponjileofOhio to examine carefully tho act of tlie twu po litical parties of out tilsteln relorenretu our Finiiices, bolore they oa.1 thuir vote. t r .. t . P" "r '"" -si.i.d atiuuiu 1101 10 OflTlUOtiJU lit UU t; UI f a.JfIl . which has more, iiamodinte connection with our own duinuxtio all'aii. Let tis call tho attention of our readers to till subject briefly. . , , The peoplo of Ohio now py over ttn millions vt Dollars annually io Taxes for all purposo.i, Stato, County, Township, City, School, c. This vast Interest should be caro fully watched slid guarded, l'iihlio servants should be elected who will honestly aud fairly disburse this sum, in accordance with tlie purposes for which it was assessed. Wo have been cheated, plundered, and betrayed by those who have been selected to the responsible post of Treasurer of State. Let us ba very caroful to satisfy ourselves shout the char acter of thoae who fill that position. Good laws are vory woll. Hut honest, faithful men to carry them out are better. We fearleaaly point to the administration of our Ropublicun candidate for the lawt twu yonr, as tho highest typo of financial in tecrity. To show Under which party wa have drilled into our present li.-avy taxation; we publish a table showing the total tax ca for all purposes, in Ohio, fur t few y oars pasti ;.