THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN: Great Republican Demonstration at Rochester; An Alleged Negro Plot in Mississippi; Editorial-Trinity Church and the Prince (10/19/1860)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 10/19/1860

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Special Dispatch to the New-York Times. ROCHESTER, Thursday, Oct. 18. The Republican mass meeting here to-day has been one of the most splendid and successful political demonstrations of the canvass. The weather has been unpropitious for two days past, but cleared up about noon to-day. Immense delegations from the neighboring towns and counties came pouring in at an early hour. The procession was the largest and most imposing that has been seen here since 1840. The speaking commenced at 3 P.M., at Jones' Square. Messrs. WADE and CARTER, of Ohio, DOOLITTLE, of Wisconsin, and SCHOLEFIELD, of New-York, addressed the multitudes from three stands. Mr. WADE made a powerful and effective speech. He demonstrated the Compromise measures of 1850 to be a concession from the North, while the South yielded no right, and said they were acquiesced in by all parties as a settlement, though not generally approved. The Fugitive Slave law was unnecessarily harsh and contrary to Northern sentiment and humanity. He had told the Senator who drafted it, to his face in the Senate, that he had drawn the act so as to humiliate the North, and not for the better inforcement of that provision of the Constitution; that no Southern gentleman would do the dirty work of catching runaway negroes, but the North had lived up to this law a great deal better than the South had the law against the Slave-trade; that the continued concessions wrung from the fears of the North had encouraged the extreme demands and insolence of Southern ultraists. The Democratic Party, under the leadership of DOUGLAS, were responsible for all this sectional strife. The repeal of the Missouri Compromise was an act of treason to the Union which merited the severest punishment. DOUGLAS was now politically dead.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Free Republic University, Department of History presents U.S. History, 1855-1860: Seminar and Discussion Forum
Bleeding Kansas, Dred Scott, Lincoln-Douglas, Harper’s Ferry, the election of 1860, secession – all the events leading up to the Civil War, as seen through news reports of the time and later historical accounts

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The Presidential Campaign: Great Republican Demonstration at Rochester – 2-7
Life in the South: An Alleged Negro Plot in Mississippi – 7
Trouble with the Slaves in Virginia – 7
Military: Inspection of the Seventh Regiment – 7
Editorial: Trinity Church and the Prince – 7
Editorial: New Phase of Immigrant Swindling – 7-8
Editorial: Virginia in Arms – 8
Vengeance in Syria – 8
Capital Cities in the United States– 8

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

How did people hear debates back then with no microphones? You ever see that photo of Lincoln giving his inaugural address and all the people around him? How can they all possibly hear him?

[Vaquero]

You use your OUTSIDE VOICE. People in my family use them inside too.