Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1850-07-20
Judge JohnstOn,s CIeyeIand speech.

Judge JOhnStOn'S Cleveland Speech.
We have read Judge Johnston's Cleveland
Speech; and we think that Notwithstanding
the 'tnoise and confusion,') he made splen-
did affair of it. There is something soul-stir-
ring and eloquent in such a speech, and those
who heard it must have been highly enter
tanned The People can see in it the refec-
ton of one of themselves-not one of those
self-styled lovers of the ''dear people," who
only throw off their ruff1ed shirts and aristo-
cratic airs just before election, and resume
them again as soon as the result is known
Indeed, it seems to be utterly impossible that
men of sound sense and good Judgment should
hesitate for on instant to give him their hearty
and unqualified support.
His remarks on the subject of Slavery were
particularly happy and appropriate. 1t is true.
that the Wing party indorsed the principles of
the Wilmot Proviso, and battled for it as long
as it could be of any earthly benefit; but
never for an instant supposed that this was to
be the end and not the means of prohibiting
the further extension of Slavery. The Wing
party, ever foremost in the great cause of hu-
man liberty, remained firm to this principle, as
long as it was for the interest of the Union to do
So and would in all probability have remained
its active supporters even yet, had not events,
lately transpired, rendered the discussion of it
absolutely unnecessary.
These events plainly demonstrate the false
position of the present Wilmot Proviso men,
and show most clearly that the plan proposed
by the late lamented President, was the only
one that could be carried out agith safety.
For what are the sticklers of the Proyiso
now contending? Do they now fear that any
more Slave territory can be admitted into the
Union, under the present state of affairs p
Have not the Slavery propogandists been al
ready foiled at their own weapons? They
brought upon the Nation, in connection with
northern "dough-faces,' the annexation of
Texas, the curse of a Mexican war consequent
thereto, and after all their trouble and their
pains, what have they gained ?-The State
of Texas!
California has stood up in her own majes-
tic greatness, and declared that human bon
dage shall never blacken her national escuth-
con. New Mexico, in defiance of Texas, and
the whole south, has sworn that the curse of
all curses, shall never stain the pages of her
history. And what sane man will believe that
Utah or Deseret, settled as they are, by free
men of the north, will ever suffer the clank of
the bondman's chains, or the crack of the
slave-whip to be heard in their borders? It
can never be- They will not suffer it
What do we see in all this? What mighty
events are shadowed forth in these emblems
of the coming times? Slavery is doomed =
Let the South writhe as it may-let Northern
"dough-faces," for the sake of Office, persist in
their cry of dissolution yet it is all in vain.
Wilmot Proyiso or not: though the voice of
its firmest advocates should be forever hushed,
yet the young Hercules will be strangled in
its very cradle, and the Nation will soon be
redeemed from the evils consequent upon IFS
unhallowed existence.
As 10 these things. Judge Johnston is no
''mum candidate" His opinions can be known
to every man who will take the trouble to go
and hear him; or read what is said of him by
the Press. What he thinks upon other great
principles at issue between the "two parties, -
he is not afraid to make known; and his op-
ponents, as far as he is concerned, will never
have cause to gramble, that he does not tell
them what Wing principles are.
Asa whole, we commit it to the careful con-
sideration of his Democratic opponents, and to
the Free Sellers most especially do we say,
read it. and when you have thoroughly perus-
ed it, honestly come out and acknowledge that
his arguments in favor of the non-intervention
of Congress, in this exciting era is right, and
his conclusions just. We most sincerely hope
that the Wing Free Soilers of the Reserve,
who have been duped by the promises of the
"Great Party" in regard to this vezed ques-
ton of Slavery, will get their eyes open; and
give heart and voice TO the nominee which the
7th of May Convention have placed before
them. If they do his election is placed be-
yond the shadow of doubt.