Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1851-08-16
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The Traifor,s Doom,


Edward Bates, in his Grafton at st Louis,
Missouri, on the 9Th of July instant on the oc-
casion of opening the Pacific Railroad,
used the following eloquent language:
we need not dwell upon that darkest Pc
riod of our history, the interval between the
Declaration of Independence andthe establish
ment of the Federal Consultation. Collapsed
after the excitement of the Revolution, exhaus-
ted by the efforts eff the seven years war, with
out trade, without manufactures, without
the pTistige of name among nations, and the
States bound together only BY the feeble
ties of the Articles of Confederation our coun-
try stood in her utmost peril The kings of
Europe looked on with hope and Expectation
of seeing the failure Of our republican expert
ment The wisest of our countrymen were
at their wits end, an the spirits of the bravest
of our patriots of God which had shielded our
fathers from the perils of the Revolution, was
still over them. Hope, was revived, cour-
age terminated, and wisdom, and virtue, and
strength were given to our statesmen and
they were enabled to produce the glorious
Constitution under which we live.
1t was made, as the preamble declares,
In order TO form more perfect Union, to es-
tablish justice, ensure domestic tranquility,
provide for the common defence, promote the
general welfare, and secure the blessings of
liberty TO ourselves and our prosperity. :.
And has it not accomplished, to the letter,
all its grand designs? Never was a nation
SO blessed with all elements. of posterity, and
all the means of honest and Virtuous power
Individual comfort and national glory are not
only within our reach but are actually attained
Our territory, stretching across the breadth
of the continent, is not only enough for us
and our posterity but enough, also, to supply
plentiful and happy homes to the landless and
houseless millions of redundant Europe
Our nation, though yet green and vigorous
in youth, stands giant among other nations
Of the earth. Our flag floats with honor
in every port Our commerce whitens every
sea and the name ofour country is published
in thunder around the globe. And all these
blessings are the fruits Of that glorious Con-
stitution.
Hence, of her sacred Charter proud,
With eV'ry earthly good endow'd.
O'ef land and unfurle'd
Columbia waves her standard wide
Hence seas her freighted navies ride,
! O'er rivers; lakes, and oceans tide,
Thewonder ofthe world
Itis hard to conceive of an American cit
izen striving to overthrow that Constitution
and plotting TO dismember that great and
growing nation. And yet the unwilling
mind is forced to the conclusion that our coun
try has few such unnatural and parricida
sons. Men soured by disappointment pre-
verted by false ideas of sectional interest, ant
blinded to truth and reason by the madness
of their own lawles ambition. Men whose mo
rails do not restrain them from taking tn,
oath of allegiance, while they are plotting trea
son-whose pride cannot deter them from
dishonoring their fathers; and whose patriot
ism is not strong enough to prevent then
from denouncing and desecrating all that his
tory has recorded as great and good in tn
worthless of the Revolution. Men who, 70
the qualification of their own bad passions
would renounce all the blessings we now en-
10y, destroy the worlds last hope, and tea
their country to pieces, for the sake of rulinI
one of its lacerated fragments.
But, thanks be to God. they are powerles
for such mighty mischief There is pervad
ing the whole mass of our people a deer
seated, heartfelt loyalty to our Institutions
Whenever real danger shall present itsel
millions of offreemen will rally to the rescu
and drive back or crush the foe, whethe
foreigner domestic. Before one line of the
Constitution shall be erased, or one stone re
moved from the Capitol, by treacherous con
5 spiracy or histile violence thousands and ten
of thousands of royal freemen will die in ii
defence.
But if, in the wrath of Heaven, some am
bilious leader should be allowed to accomplis
the awful ruin, his name would 90 down I
r posterity blackened monument of paricid'
crime. Living he would have to bear tn
execrations of the wise and good throughor
all christendom: and in his own desolate
land.
'''Maids and matrons on his name
SAB Would call down wretchedness and shame
- And infamy and woe .l-.... 3. s....
Il Woe TO the traitor-woe.' "