Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1855-10-19
The Late Election.

The Republican majority Of this State
will count out by thousands. We are not
yet sold to be the oJls of southern task
masters. Sham democracy is no where
The People of Ohio repudiate it. In 1855,
this State will give 100000 majority for a
Northern man with Northern principles,
for President. A most desperate effort has
been made TO deliver this State, bound
hand and foot, to 100000 Southern slave
ers, TO be as truly their servants as the
blacks who trembls at their nod.
But the spirit OF liberty is not yet extinct.
Thousands Of our citizens, especially the
foreign-born, have voted the Democratic
ticket, not because they wished 70 support
sham, slave-driving democracy, but be-
cause they thought their rights we're in dan
ger. They did not understand that in Vot.
ing the Democratic ticket they we're voting
to shut out themselves. their descendants
and their kinsmen from the new territories,
or compel them to work beside the slave
The scales will fall from the eyes of thou.
sands more before October 1855. We
have not fear for the position Ohio will
then take: and We may add that slave de.
mocrscy has not hope of carrying the
State at the next Presidential election
Men who have fought Republicanism and
their own consciences in the late contest,
with the hope of going into the next Dem
ocratic National Convention, and obtaining
the promise of fat Offices from the nominees
are doomed to be sadly disappointed =
Their game is up.
In this county the battle has been fought
with all the lies and cheats, that shan
democracy depends on for success. The
foreign population have been beslavered
with fattery, and gulled with lies, till one
would think their very souls would sicken
But the thing has been overdone. Many
democrats who have looked on and seer
the ofdce-seekers nsturalizing men who
have not been in the country two years
and then licking the dust at :heir feet tC
obtain their votes, have said little but tho
much, and another election will show the
result of their thinking. We have not {
doubt that if another election we're to b,
held to day, that the county would show I
majority the other way, greater than tha
obtained BY the sham democracy. Indeed
we have voters enough in the county t.
have given US the majority had they beer
at the polls
Let one thing be understood, this elec
ton has been decided in this county By &
horde of Irish employed on the railroad
many Of hom had not been in the country
three years, and not one Of whom ha,
any interest in the affairs OF the county
social, political or financial. Let no mar
say that @e are an enemy to the foreign
population. We are willing TO grant them
every privilege consistent with their Iiber.
ties and our own.
We do not complain that those who
we're fairly citizens Of this county, and who
were entitled TO vote, exercised that priv.
ilege. But We do say that to have oul
county offices placed under the control o.
body Of Irish who have no dwelling place
among us, is an outrage hard to bear. By
such means and BY the negligence of 8
hundred and twenty-five or ffty Of our owr
friends We have been beaten.
Let sham democracy rejoice over its vic
tory in our county. Its joy is destined tc
be short. 1t is digging its own grave
The very means it has used to obtain .hi.
victory will ensure its future defeat. The
very men who have Gebased themselves b,
using these means have ruined their OWL
prospects. The Judge who descends from
the bench to act the part of political bul
| ly, and hobnobs and befuddles himself with
the lowest vagsbOnds Of bis party. can nev
er be elected to Congress! He has cater
dirt in vain
Let no Republican be disheartened al
this defeat in our county; il is but a tenn
porary and partial evil.
We may well rejoice that our victory in
the State will introduce new order o.
things. Reform in our system Of taxation
is now secured. A safe and sufficient cur.
lsncy will be supplied. The management
of State and county finances will receive q
thorough sitting. The men Who have fed
and fstteued at the public expense will be
choked of, and new order Of things es.
tablished.
"N0 rogue e'er felt the halter draw,
With good opinien of the law"