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CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN.· 1 TO DEC. 31, 1856
Abstracts 2384 - 2389
POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS & ELECTIONS -. United States (Cont'd)
2384 - L July 23; ed: 2/2 - The PLAIN DEALER accuses us of misrepresenting
Judge Bliss in his recent speech and tells us what he said,. as
follows:
His position was that the Democrats, individually or as a party, in
the making of the laws of our country or in administering its government,
are with the intention and design of .extending slavery beyond its present
limits. and this, he said, was necessarily so from the democratic
principles.
"Isn't that clear? Isn't that a well defined position? Who can say
it isn't .democratic? Not we; for we confess it is a position beyond
our comprebension." (3)
2385 - L July 23; ed: 2/2 - We are glad to learn from tbe PLAIN DEALER
tbat Judge Bliss. and his party friends, who sympathise with tbe ruffian
violators of Kansas, are not wholly lost to shame.
"But the people wi 11 not bel ieve the softening of the speech by the
PLAIN DEALER. for they know Bliss is not a man to lose his head on the
spur of the moment, and what he said was not what he meant. But let
him not blame us, buL rather be thankful for the realization his home
is among people who recognize christian principle and are actuated by
humane sentiments." (5)
2386 - L July 23; ed: 2/2 - The PLAIN DEALER need not attempt the assertion
that the Republicans of Cleveland would tolerate the interruption
or intimidation of a Buchanan meeting. "But when men stand up here. and
openly declare that no man in Kansas is in prison who ought not to be,
they must expect to meet the indignation of outraged public sense." (2)
2387 - L July 23; ed:2/2 - The Hon. W. M. Burwell of Virginia, one of
the ablest· men in the movement of the.South, says: That neutrality in
this crisis would be little better than treason; therefore, he will vote
for the Democratic candidates because the opinions avowed by that party
upon the subject of slavery represent his own.
"Freemen of tbe North who believe freedom is better than slavery,
allow themselves to be divided upon mInor questions while the South
is uni ted to a man." (7)
2388 - L July 23; ed: 2/2 - A Republ ican mass meeting is being held in
Fremont, O. "No section of the country bas came up to this Republican
work like the North Western counties of Ohio.... Let us all go and
have one of those good old fashioned. times." (5)
2389 - L JulY.24; ed:2/1 - The PLAIN DEALER says that James B. Clay, son
of the Union loving Clay has come aut for Buchanan.
"And James B. Clay inherits about as much of the keen sense and lofty
spirit of the 'great Clay' as do a pair of the 'great commoners' old
breeches." (2)