CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1852 Abstracts 2559 - 2562 SLAVERY (Cont'd) 2559 DTD July 5; ed:2/1 - The National ERA says: The Whig resolve does not deprecate or pledge the party to discountenance the agitation of the question of slavery as a normal or religious question, but the Democratic resolve does, in comprehensive and unqualified terms. 2560 DTD July 14; ed: 2/4 "The PLAIN DEALER is sorely vexed. It has sold or sacrificed all its professed Free Soil principles to the South and Slavery, and now fears the Free Soil Press will sell or sacrifice itself to the Slave Power. Thereupon it floats itself bravely. All your fancies are false neighbor, and you know them to be so. out with your 'developments' and your 'facts. Give us these, and not idle charges or vague fancies, the coinage of your imagination.' ་་ If not, (7) (2) 2561 DTD July 16; ed: 2/2 The PLAIN DEALER is very anxious about Free Soilers, and manifests a brotherly care for them. Why then does it not publish Senator Chase's letter to the Massachusetts Free Soil convention? Why not let its readers see Townshend's address and the action of Elyria Democracy? Once it claimed to be the organ of these gentlemen and their friends. But now it will not notice them or anything which pertains to Free Soil. All all for slavery and Pierce. But again we have exposed the monstrous surrender of right made by the PLAIN DEALER to slavery and the South. The PLAIN DEALER has claimed to be the special champion of Europe's oppressed! But what is its position now under the platform which General Pierce avers his judgment approves and all his life endorses? Why it says to the struggling freeman of Europe German and Hungarian - look not to the Democratic party for help; we are silent and must remain silent; we can do nothing for you or your cause. to The apostacy and venality are with the PLAIN DEALER and its atrocious platform. In that accursed record of infamy and of shame is seed enough planted to sow these United States with the thick and brooding wrongs of slavery and to make all Europe hug its despotic fetters without one effort in all time to come to rid them. And that platform and the nominees who stand upon it, the PLAIN DEALER upholds, gives all it has to strengthen; and will labor to confer upon them the power of this republic. 2562 DTD July 19:2/3-4 The remarks of Charles Heinzen on the general subject of slavery are as follows. (10) In the metropolis of slave states, after long continued intrigues and machinations, assemble a number of so-called delegates who assume the title of delegates of the people but the majority are nothing but political humbuggers by profession. South Carolina has not granted her approbation even to Fillmore, who has gone as far as the farthest in matters of slave-catching and neutrality, but with this General Pierce, who voluntarily in a letter to the convention declared compromise measures identical with the constitution and democracy, with him the secession state is fully satisfied and under his rule thinks CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1852 Abstracts 2563 - 2565 SLAVERY (Cont'd) of enriching the union with a few new slave states instead of withdrawing herself from it. "That its progress has been 'monstrous' is equally clear. We hear, it is true, of Northern aggressions upon the South, but the complaint is groundless, and to fortify Mr. Heinzen on this point and make certain, to any democratic mind, that what he declared is true. Let us again, however, urge our friends, and our German friends, especially, to study the logic, and facts, of this able man, and to circulate his speech." 2563 DTD July 22:2/2,3 Hiram Griswold in his oration in this city said: "These two systems, freedom and slavery are utterly hostile to each other, requiring different legislation, a different governmental policy. The two cannot always co-exist. One must give way before the other. So our opponents understand it. Hence their struggles, ceaseless and untiring, hence their claim, and necessity of their claim, that the Constitution should be perverted from its original design, and made an instrument of oppression, a claim, indeed, on which the South has ever acted, but which is either put forward with more boldness, now, or thanks to a growing intelligence, is more keenly scrutinized. "It is because of this canker in our system, eating its vitals because of assumptions, and usurpations of slave power, that our nation has not made more rapid progress still, in national prosperity, and that her influence is not more sensibly felt in the family of Nations. "Our Foreign Policy. I have made these remarks not solely because they involve interests, and the honor of our own country but because of their bearings on other nations. How can we recommend to them the principles we profess when we daily repudiate them ourselves? We must appear to such, little better than a living lie, an organized falsehood. And I regard this as of almost as much importance as though it directly affected ourselves. This country has a duty to perform in aid of the world's regeneration. God is so marshaling events that she cannot avoid it, and in very self-defence she is called upon to proclaim, and propagate her principles." 2564 DTD July 22; ed: 2/3 - Griswold's oration "glows with pure thoughts, and is full of appeals for humanity. Hunkerism finds no quarter with Mr. Griswold. He deals against its blows, which, if given by the whole North, would quickly rid the land of Slavery, and the world of despotism." 2565 DTD July 31; ed: 2/2 - "In this our goodly city of Cleveland warning us against compromises, John Van Buren solemnly pledged himself thus: "I am, however, the unmitigated enemy of slavery, and would have it abolished without delay. I say, therefore, for myself, and I wish to (16) (33) (1) CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1852 Abstracts 2566 - 2570 SLAVERY (Cont'd) be understood as speaking for myself alone, that, let what will come, "All this is plain talk. How then could he get over his pledges?" 2566 DTD Aug. 5:2/3 - - In a letter to the editor, Kappa of Oberlin says: The free soil spirit in this town, and indeed in the whole county, is beginning to manifest itself. An earnest appeal to anti-slavery men has just been assured from the Whigs of Lorain, but it does not meet the point of difference. The anti-slavery men in this section are not so green as not to see that the platform and the man on it are one and the same. 2567 DTD Aug. 13:2/2 - In a letter to the editor, "Kappa" of Oberlin 2568 DTD Oct. 25:2/4 - Colonel Benton in a speech at St. Louis said 2569 - DTD Nov. 19; ed: 2/1 - Judge Paine's decision declaring that when slave-owners bring their human chattels to a free state they make them free is hotly denounced by the New York hunker press, especially by the JOURNAL OF COMMERCE. "Who shall say, that anti-slavery men have not work to do? Who, not feel that they should be busy now, busy all the time? This fell spirit must be met and overcome." 2570 DTD Nov. 19; ed: 2/2 The New York TIMES says that the anti- An address just issued by the Southern Central society of Georgia contains an avowal to fit the Negro for civilization, to relieve him from his present servitude without sinking him to the level of the free Negroes of the North and the West Indies. (4) (5) (3) (1) (2) CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1852 "To talk, then 'of the anti-slavery action having expended its force' is to talk of a moral impossibility. It will soon be understood, and when understood, it will be the living element of society. Not narrow or sectional, but national and American; comprehending every interest, and caring for every interest; creative, beneficient, humane." 2571 - DTD Nov. 23; ed: 2/2 The Lemmons brought eight slaves to New York intending to ship them to Texas. Judge Paine declared them free. The Virginians of Richmond met and indemnified the Lemmons for their loss $5,000. The free states manifest no such liberality or spirit. "Let the North be itself. Let the character of the olden time nerve its action. Let it conquer for freedom." 2572 - DTD Dec. 1; ed: 2/1 - Alexander Woods from Kentucky is now in the city for the purpose of raising money to purchase the freedom of his seven children, now in bondage. "His case appeals with peculiar force to the hearts and purses of the humane. Let no one turn a deaf ear to his appeal." DTD Dec. 14; ed: 2/2 See Annexation & Expansion It says: "This is, in 2573 DTD Dec. 15; ed: 3/3 - The London GLOBE declares that marriage (DTD) "This cannot endure; or Modern Civilization itself, at its heart's core, must be Atheist and Communist. A dilemma worth pondering, (16) (7) (3) and pregnant of some consequence, which time will not fail to develop." (9) 2574 DTD Dec. 24; ed: 2/2 - Tobacco grows well in Algeria. "Let us have hope and faith. This will be the end, whatever may be the means by which it shall be reached." Fugitive Slaves 2575 DTD Mar. 13; ed: 2/2 "Daniel O'Connell was want to speak of 'the Lone Star' as 'that nest of plundering pirates,' and Texas continues to vindicate its claim to the infamous designation. Not long since, (6) CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1852 Abstracts 2576 - 2577 SLAVERY - Fugitive Slaves (Cont'd) four Massachusetts citizens in Galveston, being proved or suspected to have given a little material aid to an American in pursuit of liberty, were seized by the authorities and 'sold into perpetual bondage.' What action the 'Old Bay state' will take in regards to the outrage remains to be seen." 2576 DTD Mar. 31; ed: 2/1 Four plans are afoot to introduce slavery The second plan, a move by the slaveholders, is to call a convention The third plan is to legalize the introduction of slavery. About 1,200 citizens of Florida and the Carolinas sent a request to the California legislature for permission to import 2,000 slaves into California. "And what does this mean? The managers, the pro-slavery leaders of the House, will give to slavery what it demands if the people will submit." The fourth plan is to establish peonage through a bill already before the legislature to enforce special contracts for personal service. "Once declare the act valid, and the years named will be a life of slavery for the blacks and their posterity." 2577 - DTD Apr. 1; ed: 2/3 - The California fugitive bill came up to the popular branch of that state's legislature Feb. 8, and was in substance: Sec. I empowers the owners of a slave, or his agent, to seize the fugitive or obtain a warrant from any judge or magistrate for his arrest. Sec. XI provides a penalty for rendering assistance to fugitives not less than a fine of $500 and two months imprisonment. Sec. CXI prescribes the duties of officers and penalties not exceeding $1000 for non-compliance. Sec. LV provides that persons in the state refusing to return to their owners will be treated as fugitives and subject to Sec. I. Motions were made to strike out Sec. IV, but the house ignored them. On Feb. 6, all amendments to the bill were voted down and the bill itself passed by a vote of 42 to 11. "If this does not cause every citizen who knows it... to ask himself 'shall this injustice be done, shall I lend my voice to the freemen, who are resolved to labor against the extension of Slavery with whatever of intellect and heart which God has given?' We mistake wholly the grit of the north." (6) (15) (16) |