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CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1856
Abstracts 2492 - 2497
POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS & ELECTIONS - United States (Cont'd)
our faces in the dust, and submit to a yoke as oppressive as that
which curses the worst whipped Negro on a Southern plantation?" (12)
2492 - L Sept. 16; ed:2/l - The Buchanan forces have been thrown into
wild confusion by the results in Maine. Many are attempting union
with the Fillmore forces in a desperate attempt to stem the tide.
"The result in Maine has settled the ma.in question; that Fremont
will carry every free state. It is now merely a question of majorities." (4)
2493 - L Sept. 16; ed:2/2 - The policy of the Cincinnati platform is:
We hold Negro slavery to be right; that there are no more defects or
evi Is connected with southern society than with that of the North; the
Negroes are Negroes and not white men, and therefore, the institution
of the South is not slavery, but natural relations with the races. The
whites have the right to spread slavery into all the free territorities
and even into the free states of the Union.
"The Democratic party agrees with this platform with Buchanan on
it; therefore, let no honest lover of Liberty vote the Democratic
tkket." (6)
2494 - L Sept. 16; ed: 2/2 - The Republ :cans of Baltimore held a meeting
with the intentions of forming a Fremont club. The meeting was
no more under way when it was broken up by a mob. The speakers were
shoved, beaten, and run out of town. "Free country and free speech,
but if you try to vote or speak against slavery in a southern state,
you are beaten and run out of the state. They tell us we are a sectional
party and have no ticket in the southern states, and have no voice
there. " (11)
2495 - L Sept. 16; ed: 2/3 - When Buchanan was running against Bigler
for governur of Pennsylvania, the PLAIN DEALER wrote that Buchanan
was never elected to any office except as a Federalist, that he has
not one throb of the Democratic feeling about his cold blooded bachelor
heart, that he cannot receive one third of the vote of the people for
any office.
"But a few years later the DEALER is throwing itself body and soul
behind this same man because he backs the slaveholder platform. 0' (3)
2496 - L Sept. 16:2/4 - In a letter to the editor, a "Republican" says:
Someone wrote in to the PLAIN DEALER that Geauga county would give
the ruffians a 200 majority, but they will not receive that many votes
altogether. At a flagpole raising for Buchanan, one that had been
well advertised for two weeks, not 25 were present. Fremont will take
nearly the entire vote of the county. (6)
2497 - L Sept. 17: 1/6 - In a letter to the editor, "C" says: On Sept.
13 a spirited Fremont celebration took place at the residence of Dr.