Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1856-10-16

ueneral Houston, the distinguished Senator
from Texas. in his closing speech in the Senate,
said .fr.
"They tell me il Fremont is elected forty
thousand bayOnsts will bristle about the Capt.
ItOl-that the South, in fact will secede. Mr..
President, l scOrn the suggestion. There viii
be neither bristIing bayonvts nor secession, il
Col. Fremont shall be elected by the majority
Of the people. Though l am not his supporter,
shall respect the majority Of the people and
to Col. Fremont, as the chief magistrate Of
their choice, shall pay my respectful HON.
IAge." The Hon. Henry Winter DiVis, tai
ented and eloquent American member Of Con-
gress from Maryland. holds the following SEN
timents, which are much more becoming an A.
merican than those uttered by Mr.. Fillmore st
Albany -
"There are men who go about the country
} declaimiug about the inevitable consequences
Of the election Of Fremont and the question
3 is asked whether that simple fact is not sufi-
cient, not merely to justify, = but TO require q
dissolution of the Union The question has
been asked me to-day. That is question
which / do not regard as even subject Of dis
cussion' 1t never will be done while men
have their reason. 1t never will be done until
some party, bent upon acquiring party power,
shall again, and again, and again exsspsrate
beyond the reach OF reason the NJrLhern
and Southera minds, as my Southern friends
have now eKasperated the Northern mind. Ii
would be an act of suicide, and sane men do
not commit suicide. The act itself is insanity
1t will be done, II ever, in tempest OF fury
and madness which cannot stop to reason.--
Dissolution means death, the suicide of Liber.
ty, without a hope of rrection-death with
out the glories Of Immortality with no sister
to mourn her fall, none to wrap her decently
in her winding sheet and bear her tenderly to-
a sepulchre-dead Liberty, left to all the hoi-
rors of corruption, lOathSome thing, with a
stake through the body, which men shun. cast
: out naked on the highway Ofnations. where the
tyrants of the earth who feared her living, will
: mock her dead, passing by on the other side,
waggipg. their heads and thrusLing their tongues
t in their cheeks at her, saying. "Behold her,
how she that was fair among the nations, is fall
len is fallen !'-and only the few wise men
who loved her out Of every nation will shed
tears over her dissolution as they pass, and
cast Landfulls of earth on her body to quiet
her names, while we, her children, stumble a.
bout her ruined habitations, 10 fad dishonOra-
bic graves wherein to bide our shame. DissO-
luton How shall it be made Who shall
make 1t e? Do men dream Of Lot aud Abraham
parting, one east, and the other to tie west,
peacefully, because their servants strive =? That
. States will divide from States, and boundary
3 lines will be marked BY compass and chain p
Q Sir. that win be porteutious commission that
o shall settle partition, for cannon will be planted
d at The corners and grinning skeletons be finger
!. posts 10 point the way. II will be no line gen.
r lily marked on the bosom of the Republic
' some meandering vein whence generations Of
: her children have drawn their nouTishment-
4 but shary and jagged chasm. rending the
hearts of great Commonweslths, nscerated and
o smeared with frAternal blood. On the night
o when the stars of the constellation shall fall
from heaven the blacknes Of darkness forever
will settle on the liberties of mankind in this
Western world"
The other objection to Mr.. Fremont addrss
ses itself particularly to Americans 1t is al
legged that he is Roman Catholic. The force
of this objection depends upon its truth or fall
: sty. 1t is a simple question of fact. The
charge originated in the New York Express, and
q rested upon the declaration Of Alderman Full
mer, who says that when at Browns Hotel, in
n Washington. in the winter of 1858, he saw Col.
Fremont Worshlpying in Catholic Church ;
that he conversed with the Colonel on the sub
lect of reli zion, and that he defended the ex-
: treme doctrines Of the Romsh Church. By
: reference to the columns Of the same Erpress,it
is shown that COL Fremont was, during the
\ whole of the time Alderman Fulmer locates
him at Washington, on board Of ocean stevm
ers. An examination Of the register and cash
books OF Browns Hotel show that Col. FIRE.
mont was not during the years of 1852 and
, '59. at the Hotel Here is conclusive. inde-
pendent evidence that Alderman FuImer is mis-
Itakeu: This testimony is confirmed by Col.
IFremont's denial of tho whole story. The ar
chiyes of the Episcopal Church, a: Washing
ton. show that Col. FremouPs children had
, Protestant baptism. Mr.. Livingston. who was
Col. Fremont's companion across the Rocky
Mountains, says that he carried with him a
: pocket Protestant Bible. He presented his
vile with Protestant prayerboOk before their