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

sympathies, we're it not that the real cause
of their grief is the fear that slave driving
democracy NOT the Union, will be dissolv-
led. They greatly fear that they cannot
purchase an alliance with the south, by
making Kansas and Nebraska, slave States,
AMI still make the people of Ohio believe
in their love of Freedom. They are there
fore much tumbled up and down in their
minds, and give vent to their distress in a
wailing cry that the Union is to be dissoiv-
ed, if Mr.. CHASE is elected Governor Of
this State.
Now we beg these gentlemen to compose
their minds, and be assured of two things:
First, that Mr. CHASE CH be Governor of
Ohio; and, secondly, that there are no
frmer friends of the Union than himselfand
bis supporters. If any danger threatens
the Union, it arises not from the action of
those who would denationdlizs slavery. but
from those aOho WOULD nationalize It, Does
any sane man SUPPOSE that this Union
can be maintained if the spread of slGrery
is to be the policy?
The North CANNOT and WILL NOT
al,Oays submit to the lash of Southern task
masters.
Ever since the formation of this govern
ment the slave-driving element has sue
ceeded by bullying and threatening, in
maintaining the asoendency. 1t has COM
PEELED the North to select Presidents from
the South; or, if Northern msn were Sc
lected, they have made him two-foId more
the tool of slavery than themselves. In
the selection of officers for the Army and
Navy, and for foreign service, the South has
received favors hreeJold in proportion to
her population. The interests Of the South
have ruled the foreign policy of our gov
ernment. If they do these things an the
green tree, what shall Be done in the dry?
Let the South succeed in the contest which
is now waging, to decide whether Slavery
or Freedom shall be the policy Of this gov
ernment, and henceforth the North must
take with thankfulness the crumbs that fall
from their masters table. The interests of
TIE North will then be openly trampled on.
We shall be N the hands Of the Philistines
No Northern man will receive Office from
the hands of the general government, till
he has sworn allegiance to Slavery. Insult,
degradation and shame will be heaped up
on US as We shall deserve, if we now yield
to the southern shareholders. Does any
man believe that under the domination of
the South, and with its whole policy direct
ed TO the extension of Slavery, this Union
could last ten years? If there is no way to
save this Union. but to submit to all the
demands of the South; if in order to pre-
serve it, we must not only permit the ter
ritories to be turned into slave States, but
approve it, then indeed we say, away with
the Union. We cannot purchase its safety
at such a price as his. We cannot become
parties to every crime and outrage which
man can commit or suffer; in one word, we
cannot become parties to the spread of
American Slavery, even TO preserve the
ULion. II this is disunion, then we are a
disunionist. We would rather to-day live
under the rule of Louis Napoleon. than un-
der that of supreme slave oligarch-
Does any man suppose there would be
freedom of speech, or the press? Let the
Parkville Lsmaiaary;; let clergymen driven
from the South for even THINKING FA-
VORABLY TO FREEDOM, answer the
question. In ten years if the South sue
ceeds in its present war on Freedom. the
Slave Trade will be revived, and a despo-
tism established under the name Of Democ-
racy, not more oppressive for the Southern
black man than for the Northern white
man.
But say our opponents, ''If we do not
yield to the demands Of tile South, THEY
WiH dissOlve The Union. They will do NO
SUCH THING. They know as well as
we do that the Republican policy of dena-
tionaliziDg slavery is right, and once they
see it enforced with the mighty energy of
an aroused free North, they will submit
The whole number of shareholders in tie
United States is little more than 5000.
The great mass of Southern people, though
now led and controlled by these domineer-
ing spirits will never consent TO see the
Union dissolved to please them. They
know :beir own interests too well for this.
Besides. the shareholders themselves, will
never DISSOLVE the Union. They dare not
Let there be division and what would
slave be worth within hundred miles of
the boundary? And that boundary would
extend from the Atlantic to the Mississippi.
But in case of division, war would be in
evitable; and when war came the North
would invade the South and offer Freedom