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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-11-10

II Prefiden, Pierce has made the platform Of 1852
test for fitness FOR Office then he had ter tumble him.
self Ou pick mp his duds" ana 60 back to the hill
New Hampshire nj the earliest possible moment. " 4
wei known that he himself has refused from begin
ming 10 stand upon that platform having vioatsi ut tae
outset its most important resolution ito oppose NJ
alienaby all agitation upon die subject OF slavery.
whether IN or out ofCangress.n
What difference there is to be sure. be
twixt tweedle dun ana twecdle dee Aud yet
John Van Buren, has rightly explained it as
the difference between Mr.. Pierce aud the ad-
mipistration. Ii this war goes on, what shall
We do for satpetre?
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1855-05-18
kansas Matters.

The Kansas Tribune of the I'd, notices
the arrival of band of hardy pioneers
from Hampden county. Mass, in The 0tta-
va country and another party Of near one
hundred from Ohio, in charge of Mr. Full
Ter, who design settling in or near Law
renee.
Two parties have entered upon the sur.
vey Of the principal lines in Kansas and
Nebraska, and will proceed with all posi-
ble despatch. Mr.. Ludlie heads the corn:
in Kansas; Mr.. Manners in Nebraska.
Fine rains in Kansas on the lst of MAY
the first the Tribune says Of any conse
quence for the past ten months. Il add,
This morning the earth is clothed II
green; such has been the change we car
hardly realize that we are still upon mother
earth"
Revolver and Bowie knife Atchisou was
nominated for the Presidency 10 1855, two
days before the election in Kansas, at the
Missouri camp in the 18th election district
Isaac Toucey, of Conn, was nominated for
Vice President, and three cheers we're Civ
en- for the Squatter's candidaies-Atchisor
and Toucey." So say the official proceed
inss Of the meeting, signed James Simpson
Chairman.
Fort Scott, including all the fixtures
which cost the government a short time
since $l75,OO0, was sold about two weeks
since for about IS. Cleveland Herald
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1855-05-18
Common Sense TaIk.

The Mt. Gilead Sentinel, in a recent able
article on the prospects of the RepubIican
party in Ohio, uses the following language,
We trust it will be read and remembered
ave think the Cleveland Leader over
does the matter in relation to the move
ment of the Know Nothings. We can say
10 it, upon good authority, that no nomina-
tons will be made by them prior to the
meeting Of the July Republican Conven.
ton. They will pursue the same course
precisely, they did last year. Can anything
more be asked?
In relation TO the meeting it says was
held in Cincinnati last week BY few per-
sons who, it confesses, we're unauthorized
to speak for any body or any organization,
it also oyerstrains. Why magnify the do
ings Of few irresponsible nobodies into a
foundation upon which to rear a charge Of
treachery and double dealing against a
large majority of the Republican army p
Suppose few men did meet there, what
does it amount to? They made no nomi-
nations or recommendations. And if they
did, they are no. binding upon anybody
except themselves. And how will the
Leader prevent persons from meeting il
they choose to do so? This is free coun-
try. Everybody does as they please, gen.
orally speaking, and if few men meet and
talk over political affairs, is tha. Just cause
for charging everybody else with treach-
cry? No doubt number of who hold
the same views as the editers Of the Leader
have met frequently Of late in that Office
and spoke their preferences for candidates,
but because they have done so, should they
be charged with in6delity to the Repub.i.
can cause7 Not at all.
We can tell the editors of the Leader
and every body else interested, that the
people have taken this matter into theil
own hands. and any man. or set of men, OIL
any organization that attempts, by secre
plotting, to thwart their will, will be GOV
cred with confusion. They are determined
to lay aside all the old corrupt, haskniec
machinery Of party, and transact their Owl
business n.their own way, and to asser
that few men can so hoodwink and man
age them as to cause them, unconsciously
to play into their hands, is to charge then
with stolidity that is as insulting as it i
unjust"
We intend to wait until after the lSd
of July Convention, and whatever men ar
nominated at that time We calculate t
support with a hearty good WILL and the,
will as surely be elected as the secon,
Tuesday in October comes.
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1855-05-18
Republican Convention, 18Th JuIy.

|
From present appearances, aud the gen.
eral unaninity and good feeling manifested
by the Republican press throughout the
State, We are impressed with the belief
that the assembling of this Convention at
Columbus, on the 18th of July, will be the
grand rallying of the freemen of Ohio
Every citizen of Ohio who feels indignant
that Slavery is being established in our
new territories, and is desirous that the
present odious tax-law should be repealed,
and wishes to see put in nomination for
State Officers, honest capable, faithful men
men who are opposed to slavery in every
form; men who will not be tempted from
an honest purpose by the desire 10 rob the
State Treasury, should feel that they are
personally interested in this Convention
1t is matter which comes right home to
every one; the poor as well as the rich 4;
the laborer as well as the business man.
That Convention will nominate State
Ticke. to be supported BY the great Re-
publican party of Ohio. which last fall gave
an $4,000 majority, and elected an unbro-
ken delegation of TWENTY-ONE Repub-
lican Representatives to Congress, and it
will expect every Republican in the State
to labor as diligently for the same success
this fall. 1t can be done. The Republi-
can party have but to ViH il, then to their
will add WORKS, and the object shall be
accomplished.
Already the Slave-Democracy have put
in nomination ticket, which has been sey-
eral months before the people of the State
Every man on the ticket is pro-slavery
man, and in favor Of sustaining the present
burdensome Legislation of the State.
Would it not be well for the Republican
Central Committee of Sandusky County tc
call a County Convention to elect delegates
to the State Convention at Columbus. We
are desirOus that Sandusky County shall be
well represented on that occasion.
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1855-05-18

James B. Stesdman, at present mem
Der of the Board of Public Works, and a
candidate on the Democratic State Ticket
for reelection, is Distinguishing himself as
a person incompetent to fill that Office
The Miami and Erie canal is under bis
special charge, and he is consequently re-
sponsible for the unnecessary delay in the
repairs :hat are being made near the iunct-
ion, IN consequence Of which Cincinnati bas
lost trade to the amount of two hundred
thousand dollars. This work, which should
have been completed month ago, is still
in state of progress, and another week
must elapse before boats will be able to
pass from this city to Toledo Gin Gaz.
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1855-05-18
The Miami and Eric Canal.

The management Of this Canal, the great
artery through which trade and commerce
seeks its transit both north and south, un.
der the administration of Mr.. SrEEDMAN,
has been anything but satisfactory to per
sons seeking to do business through this
channel. The Locofoco press has given all
sorts Of excuses for this Encouragement,
and tried to make them appear plausible
It is evident more competent and saga
cious man should be put in charge of this
work, if the State is ever to reap any ben
eft from it. The canal was reported to be
in good condition, and the Toledo Blade
says: a
"On Friday last there was another break
when they attempted to let the water in
1t is six miles beyond the junction of the
Wabash line with the Miami line, and cuts
us off entirely from the whole length oEthe
Miami. Who is to blame? Is the man.
agement competent? Do private men
manage their business in that way? Who
pays the loss Of mile of boats, said to be
detained at the break? Our merchants
have large quantities of sugar, salt, &C., de-
tanned. Who foots the bill? The canal
boat interest is subject to great expense,
aud the Detroit business going by way oI
Sandusky. Who pays? The boats from
here to Detroit go emPty-those from San
dusky to Detroit, 60 loaded. Who an
sBers for this diversion and Inconvenience %
By a telegraph dispatch of the 18th inst,
from Toledo to the Cincinnati Gozette it
was stated that the embankmenIs had
AGAIN GIVEN AWAYl and it was es.
timated by some that it viii require from
six weeks to two months to do the work oy-
er the third time. This will destroy very
nearly the entire summer business; and ii
must cause heavy losses to private individ-
uals. as well as to the State at large.
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1855-05-18
The New Threat.

The leading Press in the interest of the
Slave oligarchy in the North is out in favor
of Kansas being made slaveholding State
BY way of preserving the balance Of power,
and as the only means Of preserving the
Union!
Here is avowed what we have often as
serted, that the admission of Kansas as a
Slave State is to be the next Union saving
measure. The open audacity of the oil
garchy and their Northern tools is only e.
Iqualled BY their iniquity and violence
They dare to repeal time-honored ordin-
snce in favor of Freedom, open a vast Ter
ritory to Slavery by shameless aggression
and freebooting conquest, and then turn
round and say to the Free States, whom
they have robbed and dishonored, that IN
less they are permitted the peaceable pos
session of the conquest the Union shall be
dissolved! II a more insolently audacious
proposition than this on the part of the oil
garchy can be framed or suggested, it is
one past our powers Of conception. And
If there is lower deep ofmeanness, serVil-
ity, and poltroonery into which their Nor
thern seryitors can descend than to back
such proposition, that also is also fatholn-
less for our penetration.
We do not allude to this position 10 dwell
upon it or to urge opposition to its gigantic
impertinence and odious audacity. If the
bare statement is not of itself enough to
rouse the highest indignation and the most
determined opposition Of the masses OF the
North, words would be employed in vain
to arouse them. In such case they are
abject traitors to Freedom, 6t only for the
chain and the halter. If the North will
hesitate in her purpose under such ,ihfa,
nous suggestions to her fears, race more
deserving of the degradation to which such
hesitation will doom them does not exist
If the people Of the Free States are capa-
bic of listening for an instant to the humil-
iating threat, they deserve the eternal
brand Of coward and slavery. The most
outrageous of The agressions of Slavery
.pust be tolerated or the Union shall be dis
soiSed! LIE: it be thousand times dis
solved we answer. before submission to the
first step IN the stride of the slave power
to don.ineer over this continent shall be con-
ceded. But the threat is empty as the
wind. The North has only to stand reso-
lutte and firm in hostility to Slavery extern
sion, in order 20 eKtinguish the daring crew
who not only mediate the conquest of all
cur territories to Slavery, but the essential
subjeciion of the Free States TO the slave
oligarchy Dissolution of the Union, Mes
sieurs Slave Driversl You dare to inti-
mate that on rejection Of Kansas? The
Northern people will meet the threat with
the scorn it merits.-N. r. Tribune. ..i
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1855-05-18
r.nle from Cnllfornin.
New Orleans. NAY II.

New Orleans, May ].
The steamer Empire City has arrived
here from Havana. She reports that the
steamship Illinois, en- route from Aspinwall
10 New York, had put into Havsna-hav-
ING on board the California mails, &c. to
April IL.
The steamship Golden Age left San
Francisco, April l7th, with 75S passengers
and $4,000 in treasure on board. On the
night Of the 2Sth she struck a sunken rock
of the island Of Quios, and about Eve miles
from Panama. The steamer was going at
full speed when she struck. The water
gained rapidly on her. Perfect decipliner
however, was maintained among the crew
and passengers until communication was
had with Panama, when the steamer John
L. Stevens went to their rescue, and land
cd them at Panama,on the Sd. The steam
ship Panama was seat on the Sd to the
assistance Of the unfortunate vessel, and
With strong hopes Of saving her, although
the tide ebbed and flowed into her.
The Golden Gate would take up to San
Francisco passengers who left New York on
the 5th.
News from California is Of little impOr-
tance. The rains continued and the mines
were producing well:
In commercial circles con6d dence was
gradually being restored. :,
The Legislature would adjourn April
30th, and on the 23d Of April another ef-
for. would be made 10 elect an United
States Senator.
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1855-05-18
I8th of July Peoples State Con.
VenIiOn.


TO the Friends of Freedom in Ohio:
At meeting of the Republican State
Central Committee, appointed by the anti
Nebraska Convention which assembled in
Columbus on the 18th of July, 1854, il
was resolved, in compliance with the pub
lie voice, that Republican State Conven.
ton, to be composed of Delegates chosen
by the Independent anti Nebraska voters
Of Ohio, who participated in the glorious
triumph Of last year, and such others as
may sympathize with them, be called, tc
meet in the city of Columbus, on Friday
the 18th of July, 1855, for the purpose o.
nominating candidates for the following Of
fees, to-wit: Governor, Lieutenant Gov
ernor, Auditor of State, Treasurer of State,
Secretary of State, Attorney General, Mem
Der of the Board of Public Works, and two
Judges of the Supreme Court.
In compliance with the usual rule Of rep
resentation adopted in State Conventions
it was resolved that the ratio Of represen-
tation in the Convention to assemble OF
the 18th of July next. should be one dele,
gate for every fve hundred votes cast in
each county at the last election for Judge
of the supreme Court, and also one addi-
tional Delegate for every fractional vote SC
cast exceeding two hundred and fifty.
1t is recommended BY the Committee
that the Republican Friends Of Freedom in
each county Iseet at the usual place of bold
ing County Conventions, on Saturday the
7th of July, for the purpose Of choosing
Delegates, according TO the above appor-
tionment, to represent them in the State
Convention to be held on the 18th.
When it is considered that, in addition
to the officers for the Executive Depart
ments of the State Government, there is &c
be chosen General Assembly, on which
will deVolve the duty of selecting U. s
Senator to fill the place of Hon. B. F
WADE, whose term expires in '57, and be-
fore which will come many measures ofre-
form in the domestic policy of our State
the importance of the approaching election
will be comprehended By our rejecting tel'
low citizens.
If the outrage upon the rights Of the
Free States by the repeal of the Missouri
restriction, made it duty last year to bury
all minor differences in a united effcrt to
arrest the progress ofthe Slave power, how
much stronger has that duty become by
the more recent exhibition of fraud and VI
oIence at the Kansas elections, and the de-
nial of the rights of citizenship and the pos
session ofproperty to free citizens Of Mis-
souri, and Kansas? The day of "Compro-
misses" has gone by. We therefore appeal
to our citizens to be active and Wig
liant. Send up Delegation to the 18th
of July Convention like that which assem-
bled last year. impressed with the magni
tude of their mission, representing the dig
nifty of the State and the will of their con-
stituents, and assuredly success will again
crown our united efforts.
By order of the Committee,
A. P. STONE, Chairman.
L. G. Van SLYKE, Sec'g
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1855-05-18


Gov. RREDER AND KANsAs.-Ths Wash.
ington correspondent of the Journal Of
Commerce writes under the date Of tha
Sth:
Gov. Reeder, OF Kansas is here, and had
an interview With the President, for the
irst time, yesterday. He is here for the
purpose of concerting measures with the
Postmaster General and Secretaries Of War
and Of the Interior for the execution Of ths
several acts of the late session for the ssiab-
lishment of post-routes and military roads
and the construction of public buildings in
Kansas Territory. He has net asked any
protection or aid from the Government and
says be shall not do so. He has submitted
no legal or other question TO the Executive
in regard to biz official conduct. he de-
cides all questions that arise before hin1,
and will abide by those decisions; but, n
some cases, he said to the other party-his
opponeuts-lhat il they fels sggrieved By
his decisions, they might refer 70 the law
officers of the Governments But as late a.
this morning, happen to know. that no
questions have been so referred.
The Pittsburg Gazette ssys-@At the
time the legislature adjourned, The bill for
the repeal Of the charter Of the Erie and
Northeast Road, bad not been signed By
the Governor. He thus has II ia bis pow.
er to hold it over until the meeting Of the
next Legislature.
The Buffalo Advertiser says:-sTbs
work on the new railroad bridge st Paines-
vile, to take the place of the one lately
burned, is progressing rapidly; and we are
assured that it will be completed by the
first Of June. Everything is so arranged
at present that passengers suffer very It;le
delay in crossing. 80.
We learn from an official source that
since the last of October, there have been
inspected and embarked at Fort Columbus.
to Join their regiments in the West, l,s47
recruits. only 324 Of whom were born in
the United States, or a little more than 6ns-
sixth. OF The whole number $50 we're
Irish and s9s Germans These are about
the proportions Of natives 70 foreigners fcS
some time past.
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1855-05-18
Amaricans Rnad-


The extract below is contained in the order,
of the Pope of Rome, TO Archbishop HueHEs, o.
NewYork, who has just returned from pilgrim.
age to the Holy Father, whittier he went to re-
port the progress Of Catholicism in America
The comm and is,-"CRUsH OUT REPUB-
LICAlJISM." Read it, Americans! arc
swear then the oath of our Revolutionary sires
that sour LIVES, our FORTUNES, and our SA-
/" CRED HONOR" shall sustain the American
Cause. The Pope says:
{" IF our Church Is to hrc, IL must be in finer.
ica Governments and States are lettering here
" EUery thing IS uncertain. .another gear and q
F." reuoiiltion may hare sTept all GicGy. Ny good
I" ".Areh5ishop, look 10 you for The future. =
f" SPREAD ROMANISM IN AMERICA.
"CRUSH OUT REPUBLIC.4NIS.M. Tn
{" Church may beore month flee to your shores.
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1855-05-18
The Kind oflLen Chosen 20 be Our
judges.

C9a
Judge Lumpkin, Of Georgia. is one Of tho
gentlemen selected by Gen. Pierce for The
delicate and responsible duties Of the Court
for the adjudication Of claims. The follow
ing opinion delivered By him, will serve to
show what bis ideas Of Law and Justice
are. Il may be found in the Georgia Law
Reports, volume IA, page l9s: a
"Like the slave, the free person Of color
is Incompetent to testify against = free
white citizen. He lives under and is tried
BY the same criminal code. He has Meth
er vote nor voice IN forming The lava By
which be is governed. He is not allowed
20 keep or carry firearms. He cannot
preach or exhort without special license,
on pain Of imprisonment, fine and corporeaI
punishment He cannot be employed n
mixing or vending drugs or medicines q
any description. A white man is liable 10
fine of $500 and imprisonment il tha
common jail, at the discretion of the court,
for teaching free negro to read and write !:
and if one free negro teach another, be is
punished by fine or whipping, or 6ne end
whipping at the discretion Of the court To
employ free person of color to set up type
in printing office, or any other labor Es-
quiriDg knowledge ofreading and writing,
subjects the offender to ine notexceedine
800. do not refer to these severe re-
strietions for the purpse Of condemninR
them. They have my hearty and cordial
approval.
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1855-05-18
Pans1pExrIaI CAnnIDArra-IEa a..

PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDArEs.-TRs Con.
cord Statesman thus describes the leading
Democratic aspiIants for the Presidency:
"Mr. Buchanan is too penurious, and be
sides, cut bis own throat by signing the Os.
tend document. Gen. Cass has reached
garrulous old age. If in the Presidential
Chair Ais Messages sOould probably make
from fifty to seventy fire columns solid bre.
vier. Douglas, beside bis Nebraska infa-
nv, carries a sort of sailor boarding house
OdOr about him caused by liquor and cigar.
smoke"
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1855-05-18

A WELL ON THE ScHoot HOUSE LOr.-
Would not it be an accommodation to the
school children to have we'll dug on tbs
School House Lot? Asis now Is water
has to be brought some distance, and some
of the citizens in that neighborhoOd are
making serious complaints, from the dAily
annoyance of the School Children, and have
desired US to call the attention Of the Truu.
tees to the matter. H
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1855-05-18
Raker Arr.sted

By telegraph from New York the 5th, it
is reported that the barque Grape Shot re-
turned to that port with the fugitive Baker,
the murderer of Bill Pool, on board. She
arrived off Palmas in II days from sail
ing. and laid on and of, till the Isabella
JeWett hove in sight, when they boarded
her, and captured the fugitive.
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1855-05-18
american Party in PhiIadelphin


The result Of the late election in Phlla-
delphiG IN which the Know Nothing candl-
dates succeeded by only about 500 MAORI
tr. has been referred to in various quarters,
as showing falling of of some thousand
in the strength Of the party. Unexplained
il would appear so, but 10 former contests
the Wings and democrats both ran tickets,
while at the last election the old parties
united on fusion ticket against the new
The Executive Committe of the Ameri.
esu Party of Philadelphia, have published
an address to the Americans throughout
the United States, in which they claim the
recent election was about the greatest tri-
umph their party has ever achieved They
say:
"Our friends never entertained a douol
that the strength of our organization would
enable US to triumph over either OF the olo
political parties, but the most sanguine ol
US scarcely anticipated that the period
would arrive when We would be stronger
numerly than those old parties combined
The recent election, however, has not only
shown this to be the case, but has also DEM
oustrated, that IN this vincity, our strength
has already gone far beyond this latter
point. 1t has not only exceeded the united
vote Of the Wing aud Democratic parties
but it has, in addition, beaten the entire
naturalized vote, both Catholic and Protest,
ami, which were srrayed against US, and
which united upon the Wing and Demo
cratic Fusion ticket to defeat the American
candidates. Notwithstanding all these ele-
ments of opposition combined, We succeed
ed in elec:ing our ticket BY a large majori'
", and exhibited a strength which was
much beyond any calculations that had
heretofore been made BY us. Wetriumph-
ed, therefore, single handed over The for
eign vote and the united efforts Of the Wing
and Democrats parties, and encountered
as formidable an opponent as could under
any circumstances be arrayed against US. )"