Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1855-07-06
"Let the pead Rurr their Dead" ;"

Inc old issues which have 80 long dIVid'
ed Wings and Democrats are dead. The
old war cries have lost their significance
After all the toll of the ancient leaders
whose political salvation is at stake, the old
party hacks cannot be made to stand or
their legs They will never move again
No prophecying over their dry bones, will
call them together. or bring up the flesh up
on them. Woefal are now the lamentation;
Of the men who have hitherto ridden these
hacks into fat Offices and good livings.-
Doleful are the cries they raise against con.
signing their old friends to the tomb. They
protest they are not dead but sleeping
They watch day and night; they cry and
howl and cut themselves. Ike the priests oi
ancient Baal, and cry, 40! BaOl, hear US; -
they perform incantations and sacrifices -
they curse and pray by times. but all in
vain! The dead hear not The ghosts oi
Old Wbiggery and Democracy refuse to re-
turn and re-animate the purifying remains
that now lie stark and stiff before their an.
ciens worshipers The dead must bury
their dead. They may do this with what
pomp and ceremony they will, but it must
be done.
They may mourn and lament over their
bereavement for We know it is great; they
may put on sackcloth and sit in ashes
They should be allowed full time to com.
plete their days of mourning; but when
once all things are done decently and in or
der. let then, forget the dead, and turn to the
lining.
To-day there are but two living issues
before the people of Ohio; they are these
First. Shall the policy of this nation here
after favor Freedom or Slavery?
Second. Shall the people of Ohio submit
to the present overwhelming and increasing
burden of taxation?
The contest between freedom and Sla-
very in this nation has at length reached
the point of evaporation where no quarter
is shown. 1t is contest of life or death,
The slave-driyers have made i: so. The
South demands that the governments Of
these United States shall foster and
strengthen and defend Slavery; that the
influence Of this nation shall aid the opp-es-
or; that all its millions of broad and fertile
acres, shall be thrown open to the slave and
his master We Of the north would be con
tented, so far as any political action is con-
cerned. to leave Savery with the States
that are cursed with it, if they themselves
we're willing. But when they ask US to aid
in extending it; when they ask US to throw
open our common patrimony to the back
curse, we answer, MOI We have been a
long time s;iffening up our back to
give this answer We have been kicked and
spit upon BY the Southern task-masters as
their nature is; we have been cheated by
our own Representatives, who have sold a
part Of our inheritance to the Shareholders /;
but at last, after having exercised more
patience than Job, we have determined to
say NO! to the demands of the slaVepower.
We demand back our inheritance, unlaw-
fully wrested from us. We are now re-
solved to set the limit beyond which Sla-
very shall not pass.
Then as to the second issue, greater or
less taxation. We must have a reforma-
ton or flee. Taxation has reached the ut
most limit of human endurance. Tens of
thousands in our State as soon as one years
tax is settled, begin anxiously to enquire
how the next is to be paid. In our own
county last year, the tax duplicate footed
up over Sixty Thousand Dollars. One-third
of this might and ought TO have been saw
ed The question now is, whcther this
state of things shall continue; or whether
the stealings, perquisites and wastes Of
County and State officials, shall be dimin-
isbed, and the burdens of the people light
ened. People of Sandasky County, think
on these things.