Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1852-01-31

aud our Government and our country not only
ought to respect il themselves but to make
others respect IL.
We'll, now, dear Governor, if you shouldn't
think it best to accept my offer about the
Presidency, and should rather go back and run
your chance in Hungary, the next question is
to see what can be done for you on that score
Iou say you want that we, that is. all Amer
lea and the universal Yankee nation, should
say you have a fair right to be called Govern
or Of Hungary. Agreed; I've already proved
that you have that right, and shall have it as
long us you live There wont be no more
trouble on that score. That question is dispos
ed of forever, hope.
In the next place. you want us to say that
Hungary got her independence Of Aust la
fairly, and ought to haveit Agreed to that
too. We say it, aud will stand TO it, all wealth
ers Hungary TT it out like man, and ought
to be free forever and thousand years after
wards And the traitor Georgy ought to
have his neck stretched, and the Russian Bear
ought to have his toe nails cut off and his nose
muzzled, SO that he couldn't bite and scratch
any body agin, nor interferein in other folks do
mestic affairs.
Ia She next place, YOU say you want SOME
thing else, which as near as can find out by
the papers. means money matters and food and
raiment and clothes, and few guns, and the
ike Of that because you are going back to
have another tussel with Austria and Russia
Agreed to that too. You shall have all you
want jest hold your basket and we'll Gil il,
if tbs dozen times a day. | see money is
beginning to pour upon you in u thoasandlit.
tie streams and some pretty large rivers, and
itwent be long before you'll have a whole mint
Of it, besides guns and knapsaolis and cart
ridge boxes. When | read some of your
speeches to our folks about your poor down
trodden country, it made the tears come. l
tell We Cousin Nabby said she would knit
stockings S9 winter and send 'em over for
your sogers so they shouldn't go barefoot as
ours did in the revolution. Aunt keziah said
them two great cheeses, that she was going
to buy silk gown with, she would sell for
money and send it to the Kossulh fund in New
York. Uncle Joshua said, he would sell his
three year old steer, for he could do his plow-
ing next summer with the old oxen, and send
the money to you. Cousin Sargent Joel sot
in deep study; at last says he, / don't know
as I've got any thing to send but that little
piece Of remonstrance,' and he pointed to his
old rifle that hung up against the wall; says
he, 'l'll send that over to Hungary to shoot
the old Russian Bear if he comes growing
round again. And then he sot thinking min
ute longer, and he jumped up and smit his
fists together, and says he, no. wont send 1t,
III go and carry it myself So you see dear
Governor, there isn't much danger but what
you'll get something else
In the next place. when you come to
scratch, you want our Government and this
whole nation to hold the Russian Bear back
and not let him meddle. while Hungary and
Austria has fair tussle And you want we
should give him fair warning beforehand,
and tell him he shant NEEDLE no how; and if
we do you think he'll mind us. Maybe he
would, and maybe he wouldn't; and if he
wouldn't, what then? Then you want US to
go right at him. and fight him down, and make
him mind, because its right and Just; and now
we've got to be great and powerful nation it
is our duty to look round and take care of
lbe world, and make folks do right every
where.
Well, now, dear Governor. as to that, |
don't know but what we ought to stop and
think about it little In the first place, we
hare rule here that all just governments de-
riges its power from the consent Of the govern
ed So, if we've got to look around and gov
ern the world, had'nt we ought to get the
worlds consent first? And as you want us
to take hold of Russia first, suppose she is
the first one we ought to ask consent Of And
if the Russian will consent that We should hold
him back, we'll hold him back and run the
risk of ii.
Aud in the next place. dear Governor, it
might be very well for US to take care of the,
and carry out the laws of nations, and make
every body do right everywhere, if there
wasn't no danger of our getting more than
our hands full But only look at it. Suppose
when Hungary begins her tussle. the Russian
should show his teeth and grab hold of her
Then We should have 10 send over an army
and ships to help drive him back. Then sup
pose Poland would start up and want to be
free-aud She has as bloody a right 10 be free
as any nation in the world-then we must
send an army 10 take care Of Poland, for the
Russians would fight most awfully there. And
there's France too. You say the Government
of France is on the side of the oppressors. and
the nation of France is one of the oppressed
nations Then Of course, it will be our next
duty to send an army and put down the Gov
eTnment Of France, and let the nation go free
And then besides the East Indies, and China
and Carcassia. and lots Of other places that the
geography tells about, there's COED many
things that we should have to look after near
er home. When Fillibusters go to upset Gu
ba, We must send our ships and armies TO take
care of that. And then in Mexico and South
America there's troubles all the time going on
that would take. about a dozen Of our armies
to keep matters straight there.
Now, don't you think, dear Governor, there
might be little danger of our getting our
hands full? But, come what may, dear Gov
ernor; shall remain your friend forever.
MAJOR JACK DOWNING.
Here is the last slander which has been put