Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-06-23
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and Fremont
PEOPLES TICKET.
FOR PRESIDENT,
JOHN G. FREMONT,
OF CALIFORNIA.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
WILLIAM l.. DAYTON,
OF NEW JERSEY.
Fremont for Freedom.


Sufficient evidence of the soundness of Col.
Fremont's position on the great question of the
day, has been adduced from his own lips and
pen, But, in as much as his antecedents are
called in question in certain quarters, it may be
well to examine them and see if he does not come
out of the fiery ordeal unscathed, the connection of
Col Fremont with California, he having been its
discoverer, first (Military) Gov, and first Sena-
tor in Congress- is matter of history as well as the
conspicuous part he took in its organization into
Estate Government, the framing of its consti-
tuition, and his warm advocacy of the restriction
clause against Slavery therein.
Mr.. Edward c. Kemble of New York, who
was editor of the Alta California (democratc)
when it was the leading Journal of San Francis
co, and announces himself 'an old compan,
ion in arms of Fremont and steady and con-
sistent friend of his since 1896, wrote letter
dated May % on these points, in confirmation of
Col. Frcmonts "soundness an anti-slavery
man" and recommending his nomination
true friend of Freedom, by the Philadelphia
Convention. The following Is an extract from
Mr.. Kemble's letter, which was addressed to a
elegate to the late Peoples State Convention
in New York
From the period of his Fremont's appoint
ment by Com. Stockton as first Governor of
California to the present time, and through
nearly all the vicissitudes of his distinguished
career, l have been personal witness to the
fact of this thorough and steadtast fidelity to
Free principles. The Constitution which
framed the State Convention for California
resolved at its close into something like eau
Gus and nominating convention for the cleo
tons which were to follow. The enactment
of the Slavery prohibition clause in that in
strument, it was understood, has been done
with the advice of Col. Fremont, and with an
unanimity equaling that with which :" in
voluntary servltude" had been rejected
The choice of the delegates for our first U. S.
Senator was John C. Fremont. And when
the first State Legislature assembled six weeks
after, that choice, from among a number of
candidates, chiefly from the South, was rat
fled by his election on the first ballot. He
was the colleague that winter in Congress of
our lamented friend, my associate, Edward
Gilbert, of the Alta California, whose devo-
ton to his party you well know, and it is one
of my cearest recollections of their coniunct-
ton in this sphere that they were active SYM
pathizers in the anti-Slavery spirit which, in
deed majority of our Congressional delega-
ton at that time represented. In the winter
of l850-5l, when Mr. Fremont was presented
for re- election to the United States Senate, he
was defeated, | have every reason to believe,
by the Southern Democratic interest, which
then began to look to division of the State.
There was, of course no sectional issue
arou,na by tho South any more than there is
at this time in the country, but it was i'm
piled and understood; and the successive
elections, then and since, of Southern Rep
resentatives to Congress from our State, show
something more than mere I" accident OF
birth and casual coincidence Of prfncIple
In consonancO witn the above testimony of the
editor Of the then leading democratic journal in
California we publish the following letter, written
by one who was sometime editor of the Dails
Pacific Neaos, and subsequently, of the San Jos,
Argas, both at the time, leading democratic jour
mails in the Golden State. They both coincide il
in illustration OF the reason of Col. Fremont.
defeat for reelection, on the expiration of hi:
first term as Senator, viz, because of his Free
State sentiments
To the Editor of the NeD York Tribune.
In these times, when events crowd upon
each other in rapid succession, betokening q
crisis in the affairs of the American People
that in its results must decide their destiny
for veal or for woe-for Slavery or for Free
dom-there can be no neutrality on the part
of any real lover of his country, or well wishel
to the extension and perpetuation of free Re-
publican Institutions
There is no installing the signs which indi-
cate the man for the crisis. Not more potent
or instantaneous is the electrical current
than the thought which speeds from heart to
heart, from the centre to tie utmost con-
an Of fi,a n
FREMONT as the standard bearer of Freedom.
And wisely, justly, do the people indicate
their choice.
The sentiments Of Col. Fremont have h ad
good opportunity of knowing. During the can
vass for United States Senator from California
in 1850, l was Editor of The Daily Pacific
Ne,os, published at San Francisco, the first
journal that raised the Democratic banner in
the Fl Dorado State. Being also printer to
the Legislature, 1 established The San Jose
ArguS, at the then seat of government. solely
to Esiyocate the reelection Of Col. Fremont.
know well the causes which conspred to
the defeat or non election of Fremont, after a
severe contest, extending to about one hun
bred and fifty ballotings and occupying over
two weeks of the session. II acas distinctly
because he soaS a Free State man. The plot
was already formed to divide the State and
from the southern portion form Slave State
but this issue the conspirators dared not
openly present. Of all these plots, and of
the prominent actors in them, my position
gave me the fullest cognizance. Col. Fremont
was true to the interests Of Freedom. and
was sacrificed.
1t is needless for me to testify TO the emf.
nent ability of Col. Fremont-for are not the
evidences written upon the cragpy nights Of
the Rocky Mountains, and unon Tho 1o1dan