Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1855-08-17

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w. had yielded against bis own convictions
to the decision of the Supreme Court, but
he believed he Webster] was right
Still, as it was there let it stand.
In 1887 slavery was prohibited in the
North West Territory, which is now Ohio
Indiana, Illinois. Wisconsin and Michigan.
This was designed to render permanent
the ascendency Of the free States, ard TO
guard against slavery propagandism. But
afterwards, when the slave power came to
feel its strength it began to cast about for
the means of maintaining that power. and
then was silently created a sentiment, that
] whenever American liberty should be in q
pregnant condition and about to bring forth
new States, that it should have twins, one
Of them should be a black baby and the
other white baby, (Laughter,) or that a
free and slave state should be admitted at
the same time. Struggles followed. Lou
isiana had about 10000 slaves, and was
admitted with them, A few slaves were
scattered along up the riSer-some a: ST.
Genevieve-some at st. Louis; and on the
strength of these Missouri claimed TO be
admitted as a slave State.
By the concession of some Northern
members, acting in defiance 10 the wishes
of their constituents, she was admitted
But they yielded because they supposed
they were obtaining, in the Compromise
line sc dgress 80 minutes, something pos
tive for freedom something so sacred and
so permanent that it mus! theneeforth stand
as part of the Constitution.
He then read from Niles Register, pub
lished in Baltimore about this period, pass
ages going 10 show that this Compromise
was regarded as irrepealable and as perma-
nent as the Constitution itself.
A. length we wanted railroad to the
Pacific and one step toward obtaining it was
TO organize md settle the territory through
which it was TO run. At that moment q
plot was found already hatehed TO give it
over to slavery. 1t was not then enough
to have white baby and black baby, but
all the babies were 10 be black. And this
had been done on the wretched pretense
that slavery would not be established in
that territory. As though a neighbor
should let down the bars of your corn field
and say in extenuation that he knew his
hogs loved corn, but he didn't think they
would 60 in, and if they did you could keep
them out-and this too, q line fence, which
he had bound himself to keep up and pro-
tect you from dePredations from his side.
1t has been supposed the people would
acquiesce in this case as they did in the
case of Utah and New Mexico and in every
other, and be had perhaps done them wrong
in the appeal that on the passage Of the
Nebraska act they had set forth the people.
He had penned that appeal more as de-
spairing Than a hoping man, and he was
rcjoictd to learn that be bad no ground for
these gloomy spprehensions. 1t WAS evi
dent then that the slave power had entered
upon propagaDdism, the end of which
none could forcsee. but to which it was al
ready evident the people of the North must
become the vassals.
Cannon had been planted on the north
Of the Capitol 10 celebrate the passage Of
the bill, and were booming as they went
sad and few to their homes, on that event
ful night But. thank God! chat cannon.
intended TO celebrate the death Of freedom
had woke up the slumbering freemen ofthe
North. (Applause)
Danger to the Union did not lie in manly
opposition TO slavery, but in submission to
that calling yoke which would grow so in
toleruble that ip could not be borne. There
wss the danger.
While oilers were contending spout f.
nance and usde, be had thought chiefly of
this question, and bad regulated bis politi
cal conduct by it. He had never held any
other view on the subject than those he
had hare expressed, and if these made him
IN Abol;tiouist, then were Madison and
Jackson, Wythe and PinckDey. Henry and
Washington Abolitionists. If the reproach
Of Atolitionism fell justly upon these men,
then might so humble an individual as him
self be well content TO share it.
This question was so important that it
bad shirered all parties. The Ole parties
bad tried yielding and yielding, until they
had yielded themselves out of existence,
and were dead, except so far as Executive
patronage galvanized, and gave an appear
ance of life TO one OF them. (Applause.)
The Convention that nominated Pierce
stemmed it, though opposed BY Ohio
Their nominee had succeeded because the
South thought they could more safely trust
Franklin Pierce than Gen. Scott, and he
was quite sure their confidence bad not
been misplaced.
As if by magic then grew up the Ameri-
can party. It arrayed itself in the free
States on the side of ffreedom-intbeS South
i: could do nothing but array itselffor slav-
cry. But the South had not found their
northern brethren quite as yielding in the
Convention at Philadelphia as they had
found them at Baltimore. The northern
men did not here say to them, "Am ! not
thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden,
even unto this day? Was ever wont TO
do so unto thee 81 No; but they exhibited
what was sadly wanting in the North
that was. backbone. They came home
and re-erected their platform at Columbus,
and that they now stood upon and would
fight together, united as brethren. No
matter by What name they were called,
they would fight out this issue, and arrange
their little differences afterwards
Like the two knights who when about
to engage in a mortal combat heard the
cry of distress, having gone to the rescue,