Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1850-07-20
From the Cleveland Herald.
Judge Johnston at CEeveIand-His


friends, forming new acquaintances, and mln-
Cling freely with the people Like the honest
old Patriot at the national helm, the better he
is known the better he is liked and we venture
that no man inthe State has the happy faculty
of making more friends, or faster friends,
whether in social life or on the political stump,
than WILLIAM JOHNSTON, of Yellow Creek
Strong minded and sound minded well form
ed and well wellinformed-plain spoken and honest
spoken-he unites the roughness and kindness
of the early pioneer, with the urbanity and
worldwide philanthropy of the modern truly
good and useful citizen. Sprung from the
people, his thoughts, bis sympathies, his aspi-
rations are with the toiling masses When
they know him as his old friends know him
and he viii, blessed with health, devote the
whole season to forming their acquaintance
the People will vote him.
Judge JOHNSTON addressed bis fellow citi-
zens Saturday afternoons in this city, and made
most favorable impression on all his hearers
The address was well received by all political
parties 1t was able, frank and convincing
a speech which We wish could reach the ear
of every freeman in Ohio On the vexed ques-
ton of free and slave territory he had no con-
cealments, no evasion; and we take pleasure
in presenting the public with correctly re-
vised report of that portion of his able address
| On being introduced to the assembly, Judge
JOHNSTON said:
I left home in feeble health, and having
made pleasant tour among my old friends in
Eastern Ohio, came here few days ago in fine
health, and better spirits visited the Queen
City of the North, as used to visit my lady
love when was young. without note of pre-
paration, to see her en- dislsd6iIIe and learn her
domestic habits Here found her in youthful
loyelness, at her toilet, with busy fingers re-
pairing her beauty aud improving her charms
and shyly but proudly displaying her queenly
majesty in the broad, clear and beautiful mir
ror of the lake.
After few days rest and recreation, and a
VERY pleasant visit to the hospitable mansion Of
my old friend Judge WooD, on Rocky River,
I come now to try whether can launch my
slender barque in the troubled waters of the
North without breaking her keal.
This is an experiment which in view of the
great agitation on the question of Slavery,
was advised not to try. Wings, Democrats,
and Free Soilers, advised me not to try the
experiment IF had relied on rumoF in the
] South, should have believed that all the beau
tiful green meadows of the Reserve were Ser
bonian bogs ready to swallow me up-that
your friendly doors thrown open to receive me
were underlaid with gins for my feet-and thai
at every corner, I should meet somebody with
lcatechism in hand, ready to involve me il
lendless perplexity. And even now, while my
Town heart is perfectly calm, doubt not tina
the hearts of thousands, of my friends at tht
lother end of the wire, are futtering with anxi
ETY. for my fate.
When the injured Menelaus challenged Pa
ris to single combat, and his gallant brothel
[shamed him into an acceptance of the chal
lenge; when this Eoluptuos young spark wa
, sinking beneath the indignant sword OF his ad
versary, the goddess of Love descended In |
, cloud and covering him with her mantle carried
him from the ield and laid him softy in tht
arms of the beautiful Helen. And doub
not now, that at the moment as stand befor,
: you hundreds of weak hearted friends ar
praying that a goddess ofs.Notse and ConfaI
sion," who whilome held herreign in this en-
chanted city, and once snatched favorite her
from danger, might now descend upon M
and shelter me from the peril of this hour.
:, Butthis may not be. am not worship
per at her shrine. She is not the patreness G
! my fortunes / am bound to speak out
1 cannot afford to be honest, cannod affort
be Governor There is spot of earth amids
the rude wild hills of Yellow Greek, whithe
my heart turns when groundless fears bese
me. There are the scenes and the friends Q
d nv childhood and youth. There are tn
streams where bathed, the woods where
hunted, the brooks where fshed, the field
where toiled, the shades where / reposec
. the springs where drank, the rock where
= climbed There the song of the bird and th
cA-
poetry, and the holiness of the hills first file
5 nv soul with ambition. There rustic beaut
!. first taught my heart to love,and rustic honest
i first taught my heart to confde. There ar
the honest rustics in whom then conided an
still confde Thither / look for courag'
knowing that from the mouth of old Yello1
:. Greek where Dunmore's bloody war began, I
] her highest source, where the chaly lybeate four
: tains gush from the barren hills, every maj
. and every woman who was acquainted wit
me in youth, would hang down their heads
confusion, if they were told that | feared
! speak the truth as it is in me-here or els
: where-North or South.
Let us then, approach fearlessly butcandldl
8 this vexed question of slave territory and ire
e territory.
= By the ordinance of 1851 for the goEernmel
OF the North western 1eTTlVOI}J II 10 ueelAIe {
lthat-"There shall be neither slavery nor Il
! voluntary servitude in said territory, oshe
"wise than in punishment of crimes wher
! E@the party shall have been duly convicted
y This Godlike sentiment was first revealed
- Thomas Jefferson. They to Nathan Dan
who perfected and incorporated it in the orc
nance Of f's7. Then it was incorporated by Il
= fathers of these western republics in the co
i situations of all the five States carved out
the North Western Territory.
= This is what in the nomenclature of mode
- times is called the "Wilmot Proviso." Wi
:" what justice this wreath of unfading glory
i stripped from the brows of the illustrious det
iS and placed on the head of Mr.. Wilmot,
:. M not care at this time to enquire. | will n
n quarrel with good thing, because it is false
i ascribed to the wrong man. And as cam
- - ascribe it to Wilmot, and you will not ascrl
Il it to any body else. let US agree to call it
- - way of e-eminence-THE PROVISO.
OF this proyiso. or rather the benifcent el
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