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JUL u HIdhS ptildl d NOlof'hoe VI NSf'U%1@E tion, to seduce them into the State ol Ono, and to make more effectual laws in favor of indemnifying masters, as well as Tn other re- spects to protect us in our property m that State. The Ohio Legislature and Executive were at that time, as it IS now, decidedly Democratic; our commissioners, charged With our request, were, however, met m spirit of great cor,liality, and treated with dlstin- gushed respect by Governor Shannon and the whole Legislature. They were completely successful, and all we asked was granted to us. On the passage of the act by the Ohio Legis- lature, confidence was established between the peopleof Kentucky and Ohio--the people of Kentucky being assured that their fellow citizens of Ohio, as a whole, were not only willing to do so, but had done them justice. We all hailed this act as the hamburger of a lasting peace and fraternal confidence between Kentucky and Ohio, and as certain means by which we were to be finally relieved from Canadian negro-thieves.

 But, sir, the aboliionists of Ohio rallied against Governor Shannon and the Demo- cratic Legislature that passed the act, under the lead of Governor Corwin, and although taev could not drive a majority of Democrats oat of the Senate for passing the act, they turned Governor Shannon out, and substituted him with Corwin. This done, they tempt- ed a repeal of the act, but our friends in the Senate remained firm, and the bonds oi fra ternal affection between the States remained as Shannon left them. But during the last year, Shannon and Corwm were again in tine r sf negro stealing on his back in the race. The friends of Corwin held him up as the friend of equal rights-the friend of Ohlo--and, above all, as the friend of the poor slaves :; and, as such, in favor of the repeal of the bill against negro stealing, which Shannon and the Democrats of Ohio, as they alledged, had passed in spirit of servility to the negro tyrants of Kentucky. This negro issue had been tried, and had beaten Shannon in the House of Representatives before, and 1t was again made, as the only means of defeating the Democrats again. Corwin was the Clay candidate, and Shannon was the Democratic candidate but with all of Corwin's support from the negro stealers, and Ohio jugglers against Kentucky, the people were with Shan non, and, the negro bill out of the contest. Shannon's election was safe; but the Corwin- ties hearing of the great feast of the virgin heiler, concluded that they would try Mir. Clay's mode of reaching the hearts of voters through their throats, and to eleculiy the buckeyes, proposed to give them sight ol the idol to whom the cornciackers sacrificed heiacombs of bulls and heifers. The place for the grand sacrifice, Is the plains ot the great Dayton. and the day. the - of -. 1912 The whole preparations are making. and the grand exhibition that is to be, IS shad- owed forth on a sheet as large as an Ohla aholtionist's barn door. The whole world was invited. and to entice them to come, the wonders to be seen were enumerated; and above all, the wonder of all wonders. Henry Clay was to be there. Yes, Clay and Corwin. par mobile tfdtrun,, were to be there and John Q. Adams was to be there too. Al length the great, the important day, big with the fate of Corwin and of Clay, approaches From the Alleghany to the Lakes-lrom the Lakes 10 the Mississippi. the volarles oi whlg- cry are in notion; but the buckeyes surpass all in numbers and zeal on horseback. in pleasure carriages and on foot, they still press

 

 sands, men, women and children, i'll covered and uncovered wagons, all crowded together, heals and tails-some drunk-some sober vending their way to the bull feast. Some of these wagons are moved with horse power, and some with oxen; and, far in the distance, Is seen the mvrads of bullocks and virgin hef CTS, rams, lambs and pigs, advancing slowly to the slaughter pens. And old Kentucky where is she? The sage of Ashland, with a thousand knights in armor, onward move, bearing high the flag of Ashland, and, lest that any should suppose the knights were not good and true, the vessel they sail in bears the name of their lege lord, and throws his broad pennant proudly to the breeze. It was day of days to little Maysvlle, when the Ashland weighed anchor for great Dayton. Long, long did gossip again and again recount the anecdotes concerning the gallant chief and his chivalrous knights. Happy the whites that lived to see that day, and thrice happy the blacks. As the vessel leaves the wharf the welkn is made to ring with the shouts of the multitude of corncrackers assembled to do honor to their chief The day dawns, and the cornerackers crowd in upon the right --the buckeyes take the centre-the hoosiers occupy the left, but the suckers lanked il with the thousands that ranged themselves under no flag. In the imposing position of the hundreds of thousands that stood amazed at their own numbers, a calm ensues, when a knight is sent from the chief of Ashland, to defy the host of buckeyes-not as Douglas did Percy, to mortal combat-but to wager another feast, than that then before them, that i'll lS4l, the corncrackers would beat the buckeyes, by giving larger majority for the Ashland hero than the buckeyes would. The bet is taken by the chief of the buckeyes, and then the work is done. Corwin is 10 be Governor, and Clay is to be President, by exclamation; and our slaves are 10 go free as air But all great plans are not free from mishaps, as the result of this great carnival most clearly proved.

 II seems that Mir Mendenhall and com pany. having read in Prentce's life of Clay, how ln elections he strove to set other peo- ple's negroes free, and how successful he had bppp n braa linu Iou-n ,i.rhtS op afb