on the Scott ticket. I made speeches in several counties and
cities, but was recalled to Wooster by a telegram stating that my
mother was dangerously ill. Before I could reach home she died.
This event was wholly unexpected, as she seemed, when I left home,
to be in the best of health. She had accompanied her daughter,
Mrs. Bartley, to Cleveland to attend the state fair, and there, no
doubt, she was attacked with the disease of which she died. I took
no further part in the canvass.

I wish here to call special attention to the attitude of the two
great parties in respect to the compromise measures.

The Democratic national convention at Baltimore was held in the
first of June, 1852. The resolutions of that convention in reference
to slavery were as follows:

"12. _Resolved_, That Congress has no power under the constitution
to interfere with, or control, the domestic institutions of the
several states, and that such states are the sole and proper judges
of everything appertaining to their own affairs, not prohibited by
the constitution; that all efforts of the Abolitionists or others,
made to induce Congress to interfere with questions of slavery, or
to take incipient steps in relation thereto, are calculated to lead
to the most alarming and dangerous consequences, and that all such
efforts have an inevitable tendency to diminish the happiness of
the people, and endanger the stability and permanency of the Union,
and ought not to be countenanced by any friends of our political
institutions.

"13. _Resolved_, That the foregoing proposition covers, and is
intended to embrace, the whole subject of slavery agitation in
Congress, and, therefore, _the Democratic party of the Union,
standing on this national platform, will abide by, and adhere to,
a faithful execution of the acts known as the compromise measures
settled by the last Congress, 'the act for reclaiming fugitives
from service labor' included; which act, being designed to carry
out an express provision of the constitution, cannot, with fidelity
thereto, be repealed, nor so changed as to destroy or impair its
efficiency_.

"14. _Resolved, That the Democratic party will resist all attempts
at renewing in Congress, or out of it, the agitation of the slavery
question, under whatever shape or color the attempt may be made_."

The Whig convention, which met at Baltimore on the 16th of June,
1852, declared as follows:--

"8. _That the series of acts of