Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1851-11-08
Revival Of Agitation.

RCFFdA vi hSitdtAOus
The cause Of Free Soilsm has again fallen
into The keeping of the original liberty party
men. There let us hope it will remain. All
other organizations founded upon it, have dis
solved. They no longer avow separate or
ganization from one or the other of the two
great parties. Its rather interesting to wit
ness the welcome given to the cause by its
old friends and supporters. Here, in our own
Stale, encouraged by the demonstration made
at the recent election, the abolition journals
cheer the hopes of their supporters. with the
assurance that the day of freedom for the
slave is very near at hand-that soon very
soon. Il revolution in public sentiment will ef-
feet his release. The abolitionists are charg-
ed to stand frm, and present an unbroken
front The allies that have left them, were
never their real friends. They could not bear
the prospect Of adversity, fed when they dis
covered that they were not likely to succeed,
and basely gave their strength to the Oldest
and most inveterate enemy of the cause.
In New York, the old leader of the aboli-
ton party, Gerritt Smith, has addressed let
ter to the Liberty Party full of the vengence
of the one idea. This letter is directed against
the Fugitive Slave Law. What il lacks in
logic is more than made up in invective.-
President Fillmore and his associates are
charged directly with AN attempt to murder
men, because they seek to punish the rioters
at Syracuse and the murderers at Christiana.
The abolition of slavery is declared to be an
event near at hand, for the reason that the
free blacks in this nation and in Canada
have given signs that they will stand for
their life.' among these signs says Mr. S.
ARE the manly resistance offered to the kid
nappers at Cbristiana, and the brave and
beautiful bearing of the black men at Syra-
cuse. Heaven grant that all of the half mil
lion may have the manliness and courage to
stand for their life. They may be assured
that if they do, the whites will stand by
them
This language, strong as it is, and full of
reasonable advice, contains nothing more nor
less, than the very essence of the doctrine
contended for by the free soil party. They
may dsavow it, but what else than an effort
to uphold the free blacks in resisting the law,
and to aid them in it, has been the course
pursued by every free soil journal in the ma
ton? Stand for your life,' in other words
6yht Lii ,lo anvtb;nor coooor tboD riold oba
dience to the law. We doubt not that per-
verted by constant thought upon the subject
of abolition, the naturally noble mind of Mr..
S, has yielded passive obedience to these
reasonable notions He is victim of mania
that knows no other object In the pursuit of
it he has spent the greater portion of prince
Iy fortune, and devoted the best energies of
lofty intellect He is honest, and his language,
though harsh. grating and unseemly, is the
language of honesty. Would that as much
could be said in explanation of the course pur-
sued by thousands of others who have advo-
Gated free soilsm.
The letter of Mr.. S. is mirror in which
every free soiler can sec himself reflected at
full length. Supported only by man whom
mistaken philanthropy has crazed, it will of
course fail of its object but STILL it will serve
to strip the disguise from all the devices
which the free soilers as party have en-
ployed TO effect the same object Years ago
party sprung up in this country, which like
free soilism, aimed to destroy particular class
of citizens. 1t charge them with every spe-
eies of iniquity. Itinvoked public sentiment
against them, through the press. and from the
bench. They were hunted and prosecuted
without mercy. The blast of Anti Masonry
swept over the nation like simeon over the
desert, carrying all before it. But it was only
a wind after ALL And now it is remembered
only to be execrated. Not political anti-ma-
son can be found in the country. II is rapidly
becoming SO with free soilers Already has
it thrown up its organizations. The journals
that were its loudest advocates, now claim to
belong to the democrats. The leaders have
sold their interests, or dwindled back into the
old liberty party. Our country does not pos
sess the inhammatory elements necessary to
build up and maintain such party. 1t is
not the proper product of Anglo Saxon blood.
In France, or in Ireland, such an organization
would be no anomaly; but here it can meet
no other fate, than one of shame and igno-
miny. Toledo Blade.
Spiritual Manifestations.