Excerpt from Speech of Thomas Morris, of Ohio, in the U. S: Senate, February 9, 1839 Cincinnati. There they are in the ascendant. They control the city elections, regulate what may be termed the morals of the city, give tone to public opinion, and rule the roost by virtue of their su perior piety and intelligence. The Republican tells us that they are not laboring Loco 'focos - but drones and consumers - the rich and well born, of course; men who have leisure and means, and a disposition to employ the latter, to equalize whites and blacks in the slaveholding states. Even now the absconding slave is perfectly safe in Cincin nati. L've doubt whether an instance can be addu ced of the recovery of a runaway in that place in the last four years. \vhen negroes reach the Queen city, they are protected by its intelligence, its pie ty and its wealth. They receive the aid of the e/ile of the Buckeyes, and we have a strong faction in Kentucky struggling zealously to make her one of the dependencies of Cincinnati! Let our mutual sons go on. The day of our mutual retribution is at. Hand - much nearer than is now imagined. The Republican which still looks with a friendly eye to the slaveholding states, warns us of the danger which exists, although its new born zeal for Whig gery prompts it to insist, indirectly, on the right of petitioning Congress to abolish slavery. There are about two hundred and fifty abolition societies in Ohio at the present time, and from the circular is sued at head quarters, Cincinnati, it appears that igeuts are to be sent through every county to dis tribute books and pamphlets designed to int-lame the public mind, and then organize additional societies -or, rather, form new plans, to aid in the war which has been commenced on the slaveholding states. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.