Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-05-16

| IN iOHOmliS cAITdcG VIC Ldho from IN
letter OF Mr.. F. P. BLAIR, addressed to tn
Republicans of New York. The letter
too long for insertion in our columns entire
We give, however, portion of it, in whicl
the writer speaks of what the Democrac-
was under the administration of JACKSON
and what it now is. Mr. B. is right OIL
Kansas matters; he speaks the sentiment
of true Republicanism, and they find re
sponse in thousands of hearts. Mr.. BLAu
says:
''The Kansas act is now the test of De
mocracy. This is the declaration of the
President-of his official organ-of his of
ticeholders, and of the shareholders. The
Jefferson and Jackson democracy is utterly
secuted. And how is this test of democra-
cy represented in Congress? In the House,
from the North, "IHe Union" counts about
seventeen; and of these there is scarcely
one that did not reach his seat upon
other issues than the Kansas question. In
the Senate, from the North, there is not a
Senator who can stand by the test, without
notoriously y misrepresenting his State. From
the South there are no longer Wings or
Democrats parties are swallowed up in
notification of party principles for the pur-
pose of extending Slavery over new regions,
and without the justification of the want of
room in the Slave States. The fifteen
Slave States have an area of 85I, sos square
miles; the Free State only 6I2,597 square
miles-the Slave States having also the
advantage of better soil and milder eli
mate.
"What revolution in the course of the
first century has Slavery wrought, in the
principles that gave birth to our Republic! |!
Freedom was the basis of that Republic
1t is now insisted that the Constitution
carries the principle of bondage wherever
its flag makes an acquisition. The Demo
cratic party made Jefferson the apostle of
its faith Compare the Kansas act with
the Declaration of Independence, and the
ordinance of 1887. In his first paper, Mr.
Jefferson asserts the rights of humanity
in the other, excludes Slavery from all the
territories of the Union. The Kansas act
would spread it over the continent; and to
effect it, establishes new system of poll
ties and morals for the Democratic Party,
for which it is prescribed as a test.
at is democratic now to break faith pligh-
ted between the States, in compacts made
to preserve the Union and its peace. It L.
democratic now to break faith with eonstit-
ueneies and violate the representative priu-
ciple on which our republics are all founded
1t is democratic now to disobey the instrue-
tions of constituent bodies, and exert the
force of Government to defeat the efforts Of
the people to redress the wrong committed
by one set of representatives, by turning
them out and choosing another 1t IS dem
ocratic now, after multiplying the clause au-
thorizing Congress to make rules and regu-
lations for the Territories, and all the com
promises regulating their mode of settle
ment and interpolating the new principle of
non-intervention as the substitute, to connive
at the use of armed force to defeat the
new law-tO drive the settlers from the
polls where they were invited to decide the
question of Slavery-to introduce voters
from Slave State to impose Slavery on
the Territory against the will of the right
full voters, the actual settlers-and to elect
a Legislature representing the Shareholders
of the invading State-to usurp the Gov
ernment of the Territory-repeal the Or
ganic act of Congress-and destroyed the
rights guaranteed under it.
at is democratic now TO defend the es-
adjustment of test oaths, requiring all set !
tiers opposed to Slavery to swear allegiance
toa law they hold to be unconstitutional, TO
entitle them to suffrage and enabling those
not entitled to vote as settlers, to avoid tax
ing the oath of residence, on which the
right Of suffrage depends, by paying a dol
lar as substitute for all other qualifications.
It is democratic now to expel, as aliens, cit
liens invited by the act of Congress to set
tie the Territory and to intimidate emf
grants opposed TO Slavery from entering, by
examples of Lynch law which would dis
grace barbarians. It is democracy now to
pass sedition laws prohibiting discussion
and the denial of slave ownership where
Slavery was not authorized, denouncing the
penalty of death against that as a crime,
which the organic law deputed as a duty to
be performed by the people. 1t is democ-
racy now in a President to see this reign Of
terror established by force and arms, and a
made to triumph over the laws
Of the United States by a series of inva-
sions publicly prepared, announced in adj
vance, and occupying more than year in
accomplishing their object, and yet not to
raise a finger to avert the wrong, but after
its consumation to proclaim that he would
use all the force of the Union, of the army, |
Of the militia, if necessary, to maintain it.
Against this spurious democracy, which
has thus perfected its system in the Kansas
Act, and made it their test, I, as a Demo-
erat of the Jefferson, Jackson and Van Bu-
rem school enter my pro. est.
F. P. BLAIR"