Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-02-29
The Richmond ENQUIRER.


The Richmond ENQUIRER.
"Until recently the defence of slavery has abored un
DER great diheuties because its apologsts, or the
were mere apoogists took halfway grounds. They con
hnea the defence OF slavery to negro slavery thereb
giving up the slavery principle admitting other forms
slavery to be wrong and yielding up the authority Of tn
oe and o the history practices and experience Of
KIND Hulan experience, showing The NniUersGE sKoces
Of slare society and fhe HRiuersal failure OF free society
was unavang to them, because they were recluded from
employing it. by admitting slavery in the abstract To h
wrong The defence mere negro slavery involved tbe
in still greater difficulty. The laws Of all the Soutberr
states justified the holding Uhe in slavery provided
through the mother they descened however remote
y from negro slave The bright mulattoes accordn,
TO their theory, were wrongfuly held in slavery.
me line of defence, however is now changed, and th
orh Is now completely eornered and dumb oyster
The South now maintains that sLauerH is right zainTa
and necessary 1t shows that all divine and almost
human authority jusfes it. TheSouth further charges
that the te experiment of free society in Western Eu
rope has been from the beginning cruel failure anC
that symptoms Of failure abundant in oar North
he II IS lar more obvious that negroes should be slave
than whites for they only fit to labor not to direct
yet the principle Of SLAVERY itself right and does not de
Pa ot atBereHee Of complexion Difference Of race, line
g Oh language, oi habits and customs all tend to rende
the institution more natural and durable and although
slaves have been generally uhes still the masters
slaves have generally been Of different national descent
Moses and Aristotle the earliest historians are both a
color"
| We wish every democrat in this county
who still inclines to adhere to the Admins
tration party 1--WE cannot falsify words by
calling it democratic,) would read and in
wardly digest the above extract. 1t sets
forth precisely what we have stated to be
the logical and inevitable consequence, Of
adopting the principle Of squatter sovereign
ty. The case is this. If, as sham democra-
cy teaches, the people of Kansas have the
right to introduce and maintain slavery,
then the majority anywhere, in Ohio for in
stance, have the right to reduce the minori-
ty to slavery. For, what is the right to make
black men slaves but the right of the
strength? If the blacks had the power
would they not reverse the position of mas
ter and slave? And could they not then
maintain, with quite as much logic and de-
cency as the sham democracy do, that it is
the right of every people to fix their own
domestic institutions, slavery included p
This right if it exists at all, docs not depend
on the condition that the master shall be
white and the slave black The master
may be white and the slave of the same
color. This is what the organ of the Vr-
ginia democracy openly declares in the
above extract And if the principle be cor
rect, viz: that any man or body of men
have right to enslave their fellow men,
then the conclusion is inevitable. We wish
our foreign population would consider this
matter The Enquirer states that the right
to make slaves is not restricted in its choice
of subjects to the blacks, but thinks it is al
ways advisable that the masters and their
slaves should be of different races. We
doubt not that in the opinion of that demo-
cratic { 2 sheet the Germans and Irish
might very justly be reduced to slavery
True, they are white men, but this, accord
ing to the Enquirer, is no reason why they
should not be slaves.
Outrageous as this sentiment appears it is
but the inevitable result of admitting the
doctrine that the people of a state orterrito-
ry have the right to introduce slavery among
their domestic institutions. Can our read
ers, whether native born Americans, Ger
mans, Irish, or whatever their descent or
color may be, understand that in resisting
this doctrine of sham democracy, we are re-
sisting a despotic principle, which may be
as justly applied in making them slaves, as
in making the negroes such? And let every
foreign born citizen remember, that just as
surely as sham democracy now asserts that
the people of Kansas and Nebraska have
the right to introduce black slavery if they
viii, just so surely will they swallow, in due
time, the doctrine of the Enquirer that
they have the right to introduce pchite
slavery.