Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1851-08-30

made OF me 10 that paper, 20 me IN any other
than political point Of view?
3D. Wherein have l been dishonest, in a
political point of view?
Bird. Do you claim that it is right to charge
every man with dishonesty and corruption,
who claims to be Democrat?
4th. Do you mean to say that the offering
by me, of the names of central committee at
the county convention, was brought about in
any other way than by Saxton Rathburn,
one of the Green Greek delegates. handing
me the list of names with the request that
would offer it, which did stating that fact at
the time? @7 s.4 3s4
Ifyou will publish the above with your an
swers frankly made thereto, without prevari-
cation or pettifogging, and in manly spirit
you can do So Otherwise forego your boas-
ted fairness of your columns being open to
treat all fairly who feel agrieved by your pa
per. M ss sod5 B. J. BARTLETT.
August 25th, 1851.
The above communication we received
through the post Office. To your first inquiry,
we answer: That we had no intention of allu-
ding to you in any other than political point
of view and would exceedingly regret that any
one should construe our rema is ia any other
manner, ltis not in our province to attack pr-
Yate character, and under no circumstance y
should we do ii, save some great public good
was to be attained by the act. In this case We
can see no good that would accrue to any per-
son or party from such course, even were
there any grounds to so upon, which, as far as
We know, there are none.
h To your second inquiry, we would say that
you have been politically dishonest in the
following manner, in oar opinion: Up to the
time Of the Wing National Convention, that
nominated Gen. Taylor for the Presidency,
with one or two short intervals. you had al
ways professed a strong attachment to Whig
principles and Wing measures. One ofthese
short intervals alluded TO above. WAS when,
some six oi eight years ago, you stood at the
polls with the statute under your arm, chal-
longing Democratic" votes, and when it turn
ed out that thesWhig party was defe,tted by a
burger vote than usual, (probably on account of
your axtra exerlions) you went out to Ha-
mer's Corners, on the evening after the elec-
tlon. and there denounced the Wing party,
and renuunced all connection with 1t from
that time hence. This act proves you to be
politically dishonest. because no man will de-
sert his principles. on the friylOus pretexs that
some Of his party did not go to the election, or
that others did not use that exertion that they
should. You showed by that act that poper.
not principle, was what you wanted But
from some cause, probably from the "sober
second though" !" or the success ofthe Wing
party at that time, you were found laboring in
the Wing ranks at the next election, and in
the winter of ls45 '46, you did the Wing
party some service by writing against Amos
E. Wood. In ls4S, you could not support
Gen. Taylor, on accoInt that he was South
ern man. but We believe you voted for the
entire State Wing ticket FROM this time up
to 1850. you were known as Free Soier,
disconnected from both the old political par
ties, and opposed to all who did not subscribe
TO the zone idea" doctrine. The Free Soil
party at that time promised to absorb all 9TH
ers. and bid fair to be the party of the North
ern States. OF course, those who first faced
public opinion. and prepared the way for 9TH
ers TO follow, would stand the best chance to
obtain Office, and We can only account for
your zeal for this "lanatical faction" from the
above facts. In 1850. however, when the
compromise measures were settled by a Lo-
cofoco Congress, and nothing being left for
this party to continue their system of agita-
tion, it commenced growing small by degrees
and beautifully less" and We again find you
deserting your new principles, and new party,
and for the first time we lind you voting an
open Lncofoco ticket At this stage of your
political course, we have heard you denounce
the compromise measures, and declare that
you would support no man who upheld them.
You voted for Governor Wood uen, not
knowing his opinions on these questions; you
are now laboring for his election, when ERu
know him to be in favor of carrying out every
principle of the compromise measures. and
after he has declared that the fugitive slave
law. in his opinion, is constitutional in all its
features. First, we find you to be Wing
next we find youa Hamer's Corners denour-
ing your former opinions, and from that time
stating that you should be democrat; again
we find you claiming to be Wing, then a
free soiler, and now again democrat. II
your "whifiing and shufaing" about from par.
ty to party at one time protesting one set Of
principles, AT another time different set, and
at third time still another, does not prove
you to be politically dishonest, why then We
do not know what would be necessary TO con,
stitute political dishonesty. The fact that the
LocofIco party elected you Mayor of Fremont
before you had served probatonship of nine
months in the party, and that you are to be