Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1850-11-30
The Fugitive slave Lnw.

The Fugitive Slave Lnw.
Let those Wing papers which are talking
about the Democratic doughfaces look here
for moment and see the language used by
their leaders and big guns in regard to the
fugitive bill
G~ approve it-Henry Clay.
Eg- l approve it, the Constitution gives it,
and requires it-Daniel Webster.
Eg- 1 approve the foregoing law.-Mil-
lard Fillmore
GS The law is necessary and constitution
al, and approve it'll Crittenden.
In addition let it be remembered that the
Intelligencer and Republic, the two central
organs of Whiggery at Washington, have
both sustained it from the beginning-that
the chief office holders under the administra-
lion throughout the country, when cOrnered|
and compelled to speak out, generally sustain
it. The Wing leaders throughout the North
will all approve, or at least cease to condemn
it, within the next three months. The signs
of the times Indicate that this will be their
certain course.
The above we find going the rounds of the
locofoco press, and contains, perhaps, as much
truth, as ever emenates from that fraternity
of defamers of men who have done more for
the honor and renown of their country, than
all the patriotism evinced by these bipeds
combined, can ever effect
Henry Clay, to commence with, never ap-
proved the fugitive slave law, in the shape in
which it passed the Senate. 1t is well known,
that when the bill was before the Senate, Mr..
Clay offered several important amendments,
among which were to give the alleged fugitive
the right of jury trial, and the benefit of the
Ao5eas c9ramM They were voted down, Cass
and BEL AZ voting in the negative.
1t was with the greatest reluctance that Mr..
Fillmore signed it; but being convinced of its
constitutionality, and it being one of the car
dinal doctrines of the Wing party, that the re-
sponsibility of all laws should rest with Con-
gress, he gave it his signature.
Let those hypocritical friends of the fugitive
slave remember how the northern free vote
stood on the final passage of the law. Thir-
ty locofoco members, (three of the Senate.
and twenty-seven of the Housa,) voted for the
law, while there were only three Wings voted
for it.
| Let them also remember that Thomas H.
Benton, the great arch-aRgeI of locofocoism,
stated in his late speech at st. Louis, that he
voted FIVE times for the principles of the
present fugitive slave law.
Let them remember that Cass, Senator
Dickinson, of New York, and host Of other
prominent free Northern Democrats, support
ed the bill while in Congress, and are satisfied
with all It's features.
| Let them bear in mind, furthermore, that
the Washington Union, New York Herald,
and the New York Sun, the leading Locofoco
papers in this country, approve it, and that
the Ohio Statesman has not dared to say a
word of ofdisapprobation of the law. Also, that
three of the four Locofoco papers in this Con
gressional district approve the action of the
majority in Congress.
AS far as our knowledge extends, there is
not a leading Wing or Wing paper, north Of
the line of the Missouri compromise and west
of the Ohio river, that approve all the features
of that law. In fact, the word repeal is in,
inscribed upon the Wing banner, and until the
right of jury trial, and the benefit of the la
6eas corpus is guaranteed to the alleged fugi
tive, an eternal warfare will be waged against
it, the assertion of all locofoco papers to the
contrary notwithstanding.