Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-07-18


To carry safe through the war-cloud
Ihat frowns Ger the land of the free.
Unfurl We the banner of FREEDOM
And inscribe its blue siIken folds
The names of our Fremont and D DAyToN
In beautiful "letters o. fgold." RoxEo
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Speech of RIr. FilImOre--SeetIOnaIis
Mr.. Fillmore made a most extraordinary
speech in Albany on Friday, one certainly
more worthy of the lips of John C. Calhoun
in the hottest days of notification, than Of
Northern aspirant for the Presidency who
processes to stand on an American Union
platform. In referring to the Republican
party and its prospects, he said:
We see a political party presenting can
didates for the Presidency and Vice Presi
dency, selected for the first time from the
Free States alone, with the avowed purpose
of electing these candidates. by sufrages oi
one part of the Union only, to rule ovel
the whole United States. Can it be posi-,
bic that those who are engaged in such a
measure, can seriously have reflected upo1
the consequences which must inevitably fol
low in case of success? Can they have the
madness or the folly to believe that oul
Southern brethren would submit to be gov.
erned by such a Chief Magistrate? =
Suppose that the South having a
majority of the electoral votes, should de.
clare that they would have only STAKEHOLDER:
for President and Vice President, and should
elect such by their exclusive suffrages to rule
over us at the North? Do you think we
we would submit to it? No, not for mo.
ment. And do you believe that your
Southern brethren are less sensitive on thi:
subject than you are, or less Jealous Of theil
rights! If you do, let me tell you that you
are mistaken. And, therefore, YOU mus
see that if this sectional party succeeds, il
leads inevitably to the destruction of thi:
beautiful fabric reared by our forefathers, &C.
mented by their blood, and bequeathed tc
US as priceless inheritance.
We fear Mr.. Fillmore has not been much
improved in his republicanism by so genera
a visitation to foreign Courts. He virtually
counsels treason and rebellion by the Souti
! if majority of the people of the United
States, under the rights guaranteed by the
Constitution, should decide that citizen o.
California shall be the President, and &
citizen Of New jersey, Vice President, anC
justifies sedition in the same breath that he
proposes to be a Union saver!
The Free States will give no heed to sucI
Union savings, come they from Millard Fill
more or Andrew jackson Donaldson. Sec
tionaliSm in the election of Presidents ant
Vice Presidents is no new thing in our Re
public. II the year 1928, Andrew Jack
son, Of Tennessee, was run on the same
ticket with John c. Calhoun, of South Car
O. ia, for Vice President, and both were
elected. John Quincy Adams, of Massa
chusetts, ran for President in opposition, OF
the same ticket with Richard Rush, o.
Pennsylvania Did the North rebel! II
1924, very near the same thing was present
ed. John G. Calhoun was elected Vic,
President at the same time the South had
three prominent candidates running with hin
for President, viz: Andrew jackson of Ten
nessee, who received 80 electoral votes
William H. Crawford of Georgia, who re
ceived Al votes; and Henry Clay of Ken
tucky, who received 81 votes. Every north
ern State which voted for Mr.. Adams, yot
ed also for Calhoun; while at the South
the same States which voted for him, voted
for Southern candidates for the Presidency
And yet the Union was not dissolved. MOI
will it be if Fremont and Dayton are cho
sen. The South cannot, and the North viii
not do without the Union, and John G. Ere
mont is just the man, should occasion re
quire, to repeat Jackson's fiat when the
Nulliters felt ticklish about the neck-"The
Union shall be preserved"
Has not Mr.. Fillmore been long enough
from Rome to learn that the Democratic
party confidently claim every Electoral vote
from the Slave States for Buchanan a-that
they count the 120 slave votes as certain
capital for Democracy? Is there no section
alism in this, that the Republicans should
alone be rebuked and denouncedi VIII
Mr.. F. pretend to say that Freedom is sec
tional and Slavery nationals. And therefore
Slavery must rule in the choice of President
and Vice President.
In the speech from which we quote, Mr..
Fillmore intimates that in case of Republi-
can success, all the appointments to office
members of the Cabinet, Foreign Ministers,
Revenue Collectors, &c.-must be made
from the Free States. He need have no
fear that offices will 90 a-begging in the
South in any event. F. F. VS. of Virginia
never yet refused Office, and if perchance
they should for once turn up their aristocrat-
ic noses at official spoils in their stronger
love for "nigger babies" the offices could be
rendered to some of our competent Union
men-to some of the millions of poor white
non-slaveholders in the Slave States, who
have been debarred all honorable position,
as a general rule, by the Administrations of
Polk, Fillmore and Pierce-and who have
been literally crushed out by long prefer
ment of avowed Nullifers and Disunionists.
Mr. F.'s late speech evinces bad logic, bad
taste, and bad temper.-Clevs. Herald.