M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1856-08-21
]pIdital
FremOnt9s Slavery ltecOrd.

OF all the candidates that have been put
up for President againstthe Democracy, Fre-
mont is the most assailabe. There does
not appear TO be an act Of his life,
OF public character, but what is eith-
er inconsistent with his present position
or corrup. TO the last degree. lie was on
an only visit to England, imprisoned on tie
the charge Of selling fraudulent gold qua. u
stock and his record at home does not appear
to be any better.
But the most astonishing thing Of all is,
that while in the United States Senate, short
as the period was, he voted with the most utfa
Southern slavery men yet accepts nOmina-
tionfrom the extreme wing of the Northern
Sectional Union-hating Abo'iIonists, and
places himself on platform that suits Jos.
X. Giddings and his agitators.
From this latter predicament. the papers
III his support are doing their best TO yindi-
cate him, not one Of them has yet published
his whole record on the subject, 1t is true
they pretend to refer to book and page where
! the record may be found but knowing that
not one iu thousand can refer to these
books and pages, they take very good care
to publish only garbled extracts, and make
up the balance with assertions.
The Cincinnati Times, of yesterday, in
noticing this course OF the Black Republi-
can prsss, makes up the following explicit
article, to which we call the attention OF
cur readers, that they may at once CO found
thsl.alsa publiasffsas e(.the Ftemons lpEese
> n From the Cincinnati Times.
q, Fremont in California
The most absurd argument we have vet
beared urged in favor OF the election Of Col
Fremont is, that be made tremendous exer.
tioas for the prohibition Of slavery in Cali.
fornia. The New York Tribune in a short
speculation in regard to the chances of Cali
fornia casting her vote for Fremont, refers to
his lahors in behalf of freedom in that State
and holds on that account he will most pro-
badly receive majority Of its votes. We
copy the following from the Tribune, the
great exponent Of RepubIicanism:
"CALiFoRNIA.-We have hesitated wheth.
er to class this as flee or slave State. It's
Constitution is free, for Fremont helped to
makei but an enormous inhQx of gamblers
and politicians by trade, mainly from the
Southern cities, has controlled its politics
ever since General Taylor's death.
But all her members of Congress, in both
houses, since Fremont was superseded, have
voted as steadily aud thoroughly pro.slayery
as those from Virginia, while her late Know
Nothing Legislature voted almost unanimous
ly in deportation Of the choice Of Mr., Banks
as Speaker"
So they did, and in November next their
constituents will vote as deprecatingly as TO
the election of Col, Fremont.
In regard 10 the above extract we have
few words TO say. 1t cannot be denied,
that both previous to and since his nomiia,
tion, we have been willing to accord to Col.
Fremont every particle Of praise to which
we thought he was entitled, but as to the
efforts OF Col. Fremont in relation TO slavery
in California, il was certainly new feature
TO us'and we have determined to ferret it
out,
We have now before us a copy of the
Constitution Of the State Of California. 1t
is signed by forty eight delegates, and these
forty-eight were all the members OF the Con-
ventlon. Now Col. Fremont's name is not
Que OF these forty EIGHT, he was not MEM
Der of the Convention nor have we any re-
cord of his exertion in behalf of introduc-
ing "freedom into California" We defy
the Tribune Or any other Republican paper,
to produce authoritative evidence, TO the
effect that he had any influential part in
keeping slavery out of California.
In view of this we repeat that Col. Ere.
melt, by no act of his own has ever proven
himself adverse to slavery. After the Con-
stitution OF California was adopted, Col.
fremont was sent as Senator'S to Congress and
there he demonstrated his giew in relations
to slavery, During the q days he served in
the Senate he cost three votes relative tosIaye-
ny, and EVERY ONE OF THEM WAS IN
FAVOR OF PR0-SLANERY ISSUES -
Letus Look at the record. FREMoNT,S
FIRST VOTE was cast on the 18th day Of
September, 1850, on bill introduced BY
w II. Seward, for the abolishment of
Slavery in the District Of California. How
did he vote Look for yourself {, :. {. ~,
AYEs-CHAsE, (now Governor Of 0hio)
DoDGE, (of Wisconsi1s Dem.) Hale. {now
and again U States SENATOR SEwAaD, (of N.
: Y.,) and UPHAs, (of Va, now dead)
!. NAys--Messrsi Atchison, Badger, Bald.
win, Barnwell, Bell, Benton, BeIrisn. Bright
Butler, Clay, Davis. Of Mass Davis, of
Miss DAYTON, Dickson, Dodge, Of Iowa;
d. Downes, Ewing, Felch. Fremont. Greene
Hamlin, Houston, Hunter, Jones, King,
Mangum, Mason, Morton, Norris, Pratt,
Rush, Eebastipn, Shieles, Smith, Soule,