Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1852-10-30
The LaSt TIme.

"osS VI 0oui S~siuS our TeauErS previous 20 the
Presidential election and short retrospect of
the past. and few words of admonition for
the future, may not be out of place.
Our readers will agree with us. we think,
that as far as we are concerned, and for the
mos: part, as far as the Whig party are con-
cerned, this canvass has been conducted with
fairness, with honesty, and with an eye single
to the honor, glory, and interest of our com
mon country.
In our advocacy of the claims of General
Scott upon the American people for the Pres
idency, we have referred to his unparalleled SER
vices to the country during period of more
than forty-ive years. surprising those of any
other man, save Washington. the nation ever
produced. We have pointed with pride to
his brilliant deeds during the war of 1872
With admiration we have referred to his civic
services to the Government. in settling the
notification rebellion in South Carolina; TO
his quieting the turbulent spirit that was be-
ing engendered by the Maine boundary ques-
ton; to his invaluable services on our North
ern frontier during the Patriot war, and TO
the happy manner in which he succeeded in
removing the Cherokee Indians beyond the
Father of Waters without the sacrifice of a
human life, and by which was secured to the
country that peace and safety SO much needed
by the hardy Pioneers of the West We have
also referred TO his unparalleled military tti-
umphs in Mexico, and his civil government Of
that nation.
In our opposition to Pierce, We have stead
lily refrained from all personal abuse of the
man. His private character has been unmo-
Tested, although ample material was at hand
for such warfare. We have given you
history-if it could be called history-of his
civil and military services. His military SER
vice was blank, and it would be better for
him, and more of an honor to the country, if
his civil services were blank, for, as we have
repeatedly shown, he has opposed every thing
calculated to benefit this great counlry-es-
pecially of the West. While in Congress, he
Invariably opposed all appropriations for the
of Rivers and Harbors. He has
as invariably opposed the right of petition, as
We have frequently proven. He has voted
against giving pensions to the old Indian fight
ers. He is opposed to giving the public lands
to actual settlers, or distributing their proceeds
among the States. He voted against giving
the widow of Harrison the remnant of her
husbands first years salary, and 10 fine, he
opposed every thing that was liberal. greats
or good.
Thus. we have endeavored to give good,
within US. But how has it been with our
?-How has it been with the oppo-
sitlon paper in this place? The hole course
Of its editors has been one Of personal abuse
and vituperation of Gen. Scott. That paper
has represented Gen. Scott as the personiti0a-
ton Of all that was infamous and abandoned!
ist--bobbing to doge his adversary's balls
1t has published him rs proud, conceted
coxeomb, as naughty and insoIent, and an ar
rant knave and dem"gngue. He has been
represented as a Car bunckled- faced drunkard,
and as having embezzled the pay of his sol
diers. The term of "Old Fuss and Feathers
has been applied to him, and an effort has
been made 10 rob him Of his laurels won at
Lundy's Lane and Chippewa In fine, not
one manly sentiment, not an honest word has
been uttered by that press in honor of the
glorious old Hero-all has been one continu-
Gus stream of abuse and slang-not one word
of argument.
Next Tuesday the people of this Nation
will be called upon to render a final verdict
on the claims of these two men. Let every
freeman candidly and impartialIy investigate
the services, character and virtues of Scott
and Pierce, and then to honestly decide be-
tween them. 1t is the duty of every man to
vote. and to vote :ntelligently, If this is done,
we have no fears for the result.