Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1850-07-20
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and the Democratic party is corrers The
federal government is corrupt, and the Stats
governments are corrupt The Judges Of the
courts are corrupt and the minister Of the ooss
pei are corrupt The State is corrupt and the
Church is corrupt. The wisdom Of earth Is
corrupt, and the revelations Of Heaven are
corrupt, People whose faculties are deranged
by a,moTal disease, parallel to that horTied
disease of the body, which initsriper stages
subverts the bones of the nose, and SO Yitiafes
the olfactories as to make its victims smell
corruption every where.
20 such persons donot wish to speak
desire to speak to men Of healthy brains and
honest hearts. Men who feeling themselves
to be sincere, are willing to believe that other
people are sincere also. Men who are not
painting for notoriety at the expense of offairness,
Men who are not seeking for place except as
sire the happiness of the whole human fauily,
and the happiness Of the African race as an
integral part Of the whole Men who in their
hearts desire, as do, to set the narrowest limit
to human slavery, and give the broadest area
to human freedom Men who look with a sin-
gle eye to the great end to be accomplished,
rather than to the means and the men By which
and by whom it is to be accomplished Men
who are willing to regard the unforeseen deve-
| lopments of Divine Providence, as well as the
narrow views of men, in the accomplishment
of these great ends.
To. all such | say-''Come, and let Us rez-5
son together"
The man who honestly desires the aadviIl
not cavil about the means, if the means be
honest
Ifmy child is lost in a bowling Nildefhesss
as a father, what shall / do? ContTave the
best means for its recovery which my UNDER
standing enables me. mount tSenty men
on horses, with earbines on their backs, and
i bugles at their sides; and sending them forth
charge them for the love of God, never 70 dis
mount from their horses. or cease to sound
their bugles till my lost one is restored. While
these men,
i "Over the hills and far away
j tare making the earth resoundt to their foot
steps, and the heavens resound to their bugles,a
poor peasant who never sounded bugle, OF
shouldered carbine, or bestrode horse IN
his life, brings my lost one home ia bis arms.
Shall drive my child from my bosom and is
] suit the honest peasant, because God was
[ wiser than me, and brought about the end
!, by means which / did not contriye
) Where is the hollow hearted eharlatan who
can distrust the speechless rapture Of my sohl.
by telling me that have changed my platform
: Now see, if you are not doing Us the same
t sort ofinjustice, when you accuse US Of depart
e ing from the Wing platform Of lS48.
Il speak adyisedly on this point, Ipaused on
b my way to enjoy the hospitality Of one Of the
a friends of my youth, whose life Of late years
' has been very much devoted to the cause Of
ii African freedom-who understands the polifi-
e cal tenets of the Free Soil party wen, and
!. who is too honest, and too kind to doiniustiee
willingly to the views or feeling Of an old friend.
: He admitted that Taylor administration was
r not so bad as he had expected, but insisted
+ that the Wings of Ohio were entitled to no con-
S fdence, because they had abandoned their
+ platform of I84S. The same charge has been
a made by an intelligent friend in my hearing
since came to this city. Now where Wsbelsk
e How has this been done
It In january 1s4s, the Wings Of Ohio. "a corr
e lvention resolved to sustain s'fhe Prouiso,' As
e an end2 mol But as means of setting the
g narrowest limits to human slavery, and giving
+ the broadest area to human freedom At that
o time neither you nor we thought Of what has
e since transpired. We both looked to q long
iprobation, under territorial government, for
) all the newly acquired territories In this ter
of tritorial government we wished to inseit abs
Ifi Proyiso."
10 Since then, three great events have taken
st place. hich Wilnot,s philosop dream.
r ed Of. Which your philosophy, and my phi
I'll losophy never dreamed Of Events which
If Cromwell would have called 'the births. Of
70 Providence p and which for want Of better
Iflanguage, I call by the same name.
Is First: A treaty has been concluded betWeen
j, Mexico and the United States by which the
l existing laws of Mexico have been secured to
lie these territories until Congress shall pass other
h laws for their government. By these laws
d slavery is expressly inhibited.
v Second These new territories have been
y flooded by population sufficiently large to
e entitle them to q rank in the Unions US inde-
ID pendent States.
e, Third; California frst and then New Afezs
" leo, have held conventions and framed con-
to- stitutions 6y cich sEageYy is forever eeelsded
n and are now at the door Of congress knocking
n, for admittance. Every Wing m Ohio says
ID @Come in p Old Zack says-sC Come IN l,'--s
in You honestly thought he would not aAy So
to honestly though. he would say so. I am glad
e he did not disappoint me. Are you sorry he
disappointed you? Again they knock: and
" with the hospitality of an oriental palriarchs
ee the old man throws open the door and says,
*come IN, We blessed of the Lord, for there Is
Mt room enough What do you say VIII you
ed too say,--@Come in ?'s Or viii you remand
n them back to their territorial condition w ID
n you say to the gallant Fremont and to Smith
of the standard bearers of California and New
/" Mexico. Fold up your banners that the
to world may not see your mcttos Of Freedom
le, Go home to your people, and bid them hang
IL their harps on the willows, and weep BY the
hel waters Of francisco and Rio-delNorte till
M the aniable Wilmot can run the dubious. nay
of desperate risk Of procuring for you the pas
sage Of a territorial governrnent. with q .sNViI-
TN Emot presiso' Init? WiIlyou say this is this
th now your platform? If MOI. then you too,
is have changed your platform. But no / have
ad too much charity to make sach a charge
do against you I shall be sorry if you have so
lot little charity as to repeat such chaage
sly against us
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