Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-05-30
The Sunner Excitement.

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number of the leading men of the town
were in attendance Judge Spaulding,
Hon. F. T. Backus, Hon. D. r. Tilden, VIM.
Slade and others, addressed the meeting.-
Judge Spaulding introduced the following
In view of the characteristic exhibition
of brutal violence made by the organ of the
slave power, Preston S. Brooks, of South
Carolina, upon the person of the Hon. Chas.
Sumner, Senator of the United States
from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
in the Senate Chamber at Washington, on
Thursday, the 22d inst, and, as a manifesto
ton of the sense of the citizens of the city Of
Cleveland upon so anomalous an outrage OF
every principle of social order and parlina-
mentary security.
ReSoIUed, That we regard with abhor-
renee the base miscreant, Preston S. Brooks,
who has so ruthlessly violated that whole
some provision of the Constitution of the
United States, contained in the 10th sec
ton of the 1st article, TO wit :--"And
for any speech or debate, in either House,
tthey (the Senators and Representatives.
shall not be questioned in any other place. +"
Resol0ed, That we commend this act of
attrocity,as well as the principal actor, Pres
ton S. Brooks, to the scorn and contempt Of
all honorable and high-minded men, and
hereby stigmatize the villain as a cowardly
poltroon, from the conclusive testimony
furnished by his own conduct.
RESOLVED, That Justice Hollingshead,
who held Preston S. Brooks to bail in $500,
is better fitted to be an eyerseer on a South
Carolina plantation than guardian of the
personal rights of Free American citizens.
ResolUed, That the Hon. Chas Sumner
merits our heartfelt thanks for his noble
and masterly efforts in the United States
Senate, in behalf of Freedom; and whilst
we tender him our sympathy and respect in
this his trying ordeal, we beg to admonish
him in common with the Senators from the
Free States, that Oliver Cromwell, while he
recommended 'prayer to his troops" put
his main dependence for success upon "dry
ponder"
Resol0ed, That we recognize in the
prompt efforts of Hon. John G. Crittenden
to arrest the rufianly attack upon ChaS.
Sumner, the conduct of honorable high
minded man, and for that interposition we
tender him our sincere thanks.
ResolUed, That if this evenings intelli-
gence be true, that "Lawrence" has been
sacked by the border rufians at large sacri-
flee of life and property, the time has in
deed arrived when every man who inherits
a drop of the blood that sealed American
Independence, should utter the war cry of
Patrick Henry-@Give me Liberty or give
me Death.n
These resolutions were adopted and or
Idered published. There is no installing
their tone, and yet we know they express
the sentiment of seven-eights of the intelli-
gent people of the Free States. 1t has
come to a fearful crisis, indeed, when such
things can be said deliberately, by meet
ing of the leading men of the North. The
last resolution finds its echo on the lips of
all men of all classes, whose eyes are now
turned so anxiously to the West.
Of the meeting in Boston we quote the
following from the correspondent of the
Tribune:
Everywhere groups of anxious citizens
were gathered to discuss the attrocity of the
outrage. As consequence, long before
Icandle-light the Hall was crowded by the
indignant public almost to sufocation. 1t
not being one-tenth large enough to accom-
odate all o.wished to enter, it was at once
announced that fremont Temple would be
Iopened for the gathering and the immense
phalaux moved thither By 81 O'clock the
hall was lighted up and densely filed
The venerable Samuel May, retired mer-
chant, called the Assembly together amid
Ideafening plaudits.
By enthusiastic choice the Hon. Samuel
Greelee was called to the chair, and Henry
Edwards and Hamilton Willis chosen Sec
retaries.
The venerable Lyman Beecher uttered
an earnest and feeling prayer.
The meeting was addressed by the chair
man, by Rev. Jas Freeman Clark, Thea
dore Parker, Wendall Phillips, DR.. Beecher
and others. This was on Friday evening.
On Saturday evening as will be seen by
telegraph, further most enthusiastic proceed
ings were had. Intense excitement pre-
walls throughout Massachusetts in particu-
lar, and through the New England States
in general.
In N. Y. City it is still the theme of
newspaper paragraphs and conversation
The New York Nirror-a strong Know
Nothing paper and not usually given to the
expression of sympathy for Free Soil men
and movements, says:
The excitement which followed this
bloody outrage was intense in Washington; !;
and as the lightning flashed the disgrace
full intelligence through the country, the
heart of the people burned with indigna-
ton. We have never witnessed a more
unanimous or a more emphatic denuncia-
ton of any man, or of any act than was
poured from the lips of the crowds who
swarmed around the bulletins when the
news reached this city yesterday and it is
no exaggeration to say, that where there
was one determined Free Soiler in this city
yesterday, there is one hundred to-day.
This is the report that Freemen are glad
to hear-''where there was one Free Soiler,
now are one hundred" 1t seems to need
such outrages as have lately followed fast
upon one another, eliminating in the sack
/ of Lawrence and the murder of its law-abi-
ding citizens, to rouse our people TO a sense