Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-02-22
THE DEMANDS OF SLAVERY.


THE DEMANDS OF SLAVERY.
1t is well in the present crisis, to conside
precisely what it is that the $4,000 slave
holders demand ofus.
I. They demand the right to carry thei
slaves along with their cattle into all tht
territories of the United States. They say
VIC are willing the men of the North should
go there with their property, and only de
mand that we may do the same thing will
ours. We answer you may go there with
with all that we wish to take there; but We
do not wish to take slaves there, and you
shall not; because
l. If you take slaves into the territories
you shut US and our children out. We can
not and will not work side by side with
slaves.
2. In the 10th century we cannot con-
sent that the model Republic should extend
slavery, while the despots of Morocco and
Egypt abolish it.
II. The Shareholders demand the right Of
carrying their slaves through the free states,
and of ofretaining them as slaves while in such
states. We answer, to concede this privil-
eye makes every free state in effect slave
state. If one southerner may come among
us with his slaves and hold them as long
as convenient, ten thousand may; and our
only safety against the black curse is to bar
the door against it, and assert the doctrine
that slave brought by his owner into free
state, is therefore free.
III. The shareholders demand that the
north shall be made hunting ground for
fugitive slaves, and that the people of the
north shall aid in the hunt For this de-
mand they have some show of reason
There is a clause in the constitution which
provides for the rendition of persons bound
to service. We say if the bond demands
the pound of flesh, take it, but take not a
drop of blood Herewith. If we must see
men and women who are flying to land of
freedom, seized in our midst and hurried
back to bondage, for the sake of heaven,
ask no more of US than the bond demands.
". Tho Shareholders demand that Of
fences against the laws of slave states, tho
committed in free states, shall subject the
offender to trial under the cruel code of
slavery. In one word they ask to extend
their laws for the protection of slave proper
ty over the free states. If citizen of Ohio
has on the soil of Ohio broken the laws of
by aiding fugitive to escape, the
demand that he shall be given
up to be tried in Kentucky, and to abide
the mercy of Kentucky Judges, and Ken
lucky laws. When the people of the north
submit to this demand, there remains but
one lower degree of degradation, it is to sell
themselves to the Shareholders, and take
their place in the slave gangs. Already in
one instance has this demand been made by
a slave state and submitted to by free one.
Kentucky, through her governor, demanded
a citizen of Indiana, who was accused of
aiding the escape of fugitives, and, the gov
ernor of Indiana assented to the demand
The accused was compelled to fly the State,
or submit to trial under the sanguinary laws
of slavery, for an offence, which if commit
ted at all, was committed not in slave,
but free state
V. Finally, the Shareholders demand that
the doctrine of slavery is sectional and free
dom national, shall be given up; and the
opposite doctrine be admitted and estab-
lished, viz: that slavery is national. They
do not vet ask that the free states shall be
made slave states; but they demand the re-
peal of all laws which impede the spread of
slavery, or restrict the right of the slave
holder to hold his human chattles wherever
he chooses to 60.
To all these demands Pierce Democracy
Are the people of the north pre-
pared to sustain the party, with its men and
measures, who make this submission?