Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1851-12-27
The Administration and the LOcOfOcO

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Poins Pray God, you have not murdered
some of them.
FaL Nay, that's past praying for; 1 have
pePpered two of them: two, am sure, 1 have
paid; two rogues in buckram suits. tell thee
what, Half tell thee lie spit in my face
call me horse. Thou knowest my old ward
here lay, and thus bore my point -Four
rogues In buckram let drive at me-
p. Hen. What, four? thou said'st but two,
even now.
Fdl Four. Hal; told thee four.
Potns. Ay, ay, he said four.
I FGL These four came all a-front, and main
ly thrust at me. made me no more ado, but
took all their seven points in my target. thus
P. Hen. Seven? why, there were but four,
even now.
FaL In buckram.
Poins. Ay, four, in buckram suits
FdL Seven, by these hilts, or am villain
else.
p. Hem Pr'ythee, let him alone, we shall
have more anon.
FaL Dest thou hear me, Hal?
p. Hen. Ay, and mark thee too, Jack.
FdL Do so, for its worth the listening to.
These nine in buckrsm, that told thee Of
p. Hen. So, two more already,
Fdl Their points being broken
POins Down fell their hose.
FdL Began to give me ground: But 1 fol
lowed me close, came in foot and hand and,
without thought seven of the eleven paid.
P. Hen. o monstrous! eleven buckram men
grown out of two.
So with these Falstaffs of the Locofoco par
ty. They first set out with an untruth, skill
fully told, and ain-glorious of their own i'm
portance, keep pileing them up with such
quick succession, that all honest men become
faced libel of these base and arrant dema-
gogues. is the charge that the President and
Mr.. Webster were opposed to the public re-
ception of Kossuth. This has not only been
done without evidence, but against evidence.
and for the poor, miserable purpose of making
foreigners believe that they. the Locofocos,
were the exclusive friends of the foreign pop
ulation.
Let these defamers of our public men look,
for moment, at the facts, and then hide their
guilty heads, and more guilty consciences,
from the gaze of an honest people:
First, then, when the noble Kossuth, and
his exiled followers were banished from their
native land and had found an asylum in the
dominions of Turkey, we find President Fill
more, in his annual message to Congress in
1852, recommending to the consideration Of
that body the propriety of its authorizing the
employment of some one of the United States
Vessels to bring those exiles to this country.
In accordance with his recommendation, Con-
gress passed the following resolution:
"Whereas the people of the United States
sincerely sympathise with the Hungarian ex-
lies, Kossuth and his associates, and fully aP-
precatc the maguanimous conduct of the
Turkish Government in receiving and treating
those noble exiles with kindness and hospital
ity; and whereas. if it be the wish of those ex-
lies to emigrate to the United States, and the
will of the Sultan to permit them to leave his
dominions-therefore, the President Of the
United States is requested to authorize the
employment of some one OF the public vessels
which may now be cruising in the Meditera-
mean, to receive and convey to the United
States the said Louis Kossuth and his asso-
ciates in captivity"
In accordance with the power invested in
him. the President employed the Steamship
Mississippi to perform this duty.
Secondly, when Kossuth, and his associates,
were nearing the shores of America, Mr.
Fillmore ordered, on his own responsibility,
that every demonstration Of respect be shown
them by the authorities of the Government
Instructions were given to the Army, Navy
Arsenals, &c, to fire salutes, display the stars
and stripes, and to exhibit every token of re-
spect consistent with the dignity of the Gov
ernment These instructions were executed
to the letter.
But we will prove the allegations of tn ese
political tricksters false from the lips of Locofo
cos themselves Mr.. Foote, the Senator from
Mississippi, made a speech on the subject ot
Kossuth's reception, in the Senate, on Tues
day, the 9th inst, which is reported at length
in the National Intelligencer. Hear what ht
says:
Il do not rise for the purpose of continuing
this debate; and if any gentleman wishes to
discuss the resolution, shall give way to him
intend simply to put myself right before th'
country in regard to this matter. introdu
ced the original resolution, as have already
stated at the instance of the Secretary o
State, [Mr. Webster, and, as declared to mt
by him, and doubtless truly, with the sane
, ton of the Administration itself, it being tht
opinion of the President and his Cabinet, as il
clearly intimated in the last annual message
that it was the duty of Congress, under a.
: the circumstances existing, to provide suit"
, BILE reception for the distinguished Personag'
whose character and actings have been tn
subject of such extended remarks on this oc
casion.''
He introduced the original resolution 70
the public reception of Kossuth at the spec'a