Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-07-04
TO WHAT BASE ENDS.

! TO WHAT BASE ENDS.
The editor of that most unscrupulous pro
Slavery sheet, called the Democratic Mes
sengey," not content with the baseness he
has acquired in the eyes Of every true friend
of human freedom, who has chancedto read
his paper, by his shameful subserviency to
his masters-Southern Slayeholders-and
advocacy of human Slavery, has exerted his
utmost skill in inventing falsehoOds against
the Republican party and the acts of the
Republican Legislature last winter. 1t is
said he is aided in this by certain individ-
ual known to the community as the head
manager of the affidavit Factory" who is
not only expert in inventing false state
ments, but stands ready to swear to them if
deemed necessary. 1t would require too
much space, even to point out all the bare
faced lies which have appeared in the edi-
torials of that paper. We viii at this time
notice but few of them as samples of the
many others, and we will not go back of his
last two issues.
In his paper of the 10th of June, under
the head of "Facts for the People" he says:
"They the Republican party pledged them
selves that if the government was given to
them, the salaries of State and County of
fcers should be lowered" The Republican
party never made any pledges to lower the
salaries of State officers, and we defy him
to substantiate that charge, and until he
does so, we will call that Lie No. l. They
did promise retrenchment in the expendi-
ture of money by the State, and the Legis-
Ilaturo fulfilled that promise wherever ii
could be done without detriment to the in
terests of the State, as we shall hereafter
prove to the satisfaction of every honest
mind.
Again he says, ''The first act of the oppo-
sition was, instead of paying the State debt,
to increase it two millions and a half oi
dollars" THERE IS NOT ONE WORD
| OF TRUTH IN THAT ASSERTION
The Legislature of last winter DID NOT
INCREASE THE STATE DEBT ONE
DOLLAR. If the last Legislature did
any act or passed any law by which the
State debt was increased, it is very easy fol-
the editor to point it out, and until he does
so, we will put that down as Lie No. 2.
Lie No. 8, is not open and bold, but one
of the mean sneaking lies. 1t don't say
directly that the aggregate rate of taxes !.
raised, but attempts to carry that impress.
ion to the reader by asserting that one item
of taxes has been raised, but has not the
honesty to tell his readers the reason for
raising it. The truth IS, and the editor
must have known it, that his party, when
they went out of power had expended all
the appropriations made by the last pro
Slavery Legislature, and run THE STATE
IN DEBT OVER HALF A MILLION
OF DOLLARS BESIDES, which occa-
stoned the increase in this item of taxes
The extravagant and in some instances
FRAUDULENT MANNER in which his
party expended and squandered the Peo-
ple's money and created this debt against
the State, viii be fully explained hereafter,
and the lions skin may be torn from some
gentlemen in this section of the State, who
are in the habit of making great deal o.
noisc leaving them to bray with their nat
ural dcformity fully exposed.
Bot we will pass to Lie No. 4. The edi
tor proceeds to assert that, ''instead of low.
ering the salaries they have been raised."-
When the editor pcnned this assertion he
knew very well that bill was passed LOW
IERING THE SALARIES in many in
stances, and that IN NO INSTANCE
has the salary of any County officer BEEN
INCREASED. The increase in Hamilton
/ County was not at the expense of other
parts of the State, but at the expense Of
Hamilton County alone, and at the request
of the Senators and Representatives of that
County, all of whom belong to the editors
party. An attempt was made to raise the
salaries of Judges and EVERY LOCOFO-
leo MEMBER OF THE SENATE YOT
ED FOR IT, and Judge Mathews, Senator
from Hamilton County, INTRODUCED
THE BILL.
Lie No ., says, "The distribution of the
School Library has been stopped, but mark
this; you neither get the books nor the
money" But the money is LEFT IN
THE POCKETS OF THE PEOPLE, it
is NOT TAKEN OUT. All the people
ask is to have their money LEFT IN
THEIR OWN POCKETS.
Lie No. 6, of this troab-Adting editor, as
serts that the Republican Legislature ex-
empted TWENTY MILLIONS of Banking
capital from taxation. When the truth is,
the law passed by the Republican Legisla-
ture does not exempt one dollar of Banking