Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-02-15
The Cry of DIstress-NegIeet by the Presi-
ident-Aid for Kansas.


On the first page of our paper, to-day,
will be found the Message of Gov. CHASE,
communicating to the Legislature of this
State, the appeal made to tho citizens of
Ohio, through him. by the late elected Off
GERS of the Territory of Kansas. The Mis-
sourians arc undoubtedly preparing to make
a descent upon the Territory and crush out
the Free State men. The unlawful acts of
these 'Rufians' should be promptly and eff
fecturlly checked by the immediate interpo-
sition of the President and Congress, who
are tho legal and lawful protectors of the
citizens of Kansas. If the people of that
Territory are unable to protect themselves
from invasion by neighboring State, then
the United States forces should be sent to
their aid. President Pierce can talk warlike
to England for her interference in Central
American affairs, when he never intends to
do so much as knock chip off Queen Vic's
shoulder President Pierce makes great
fuss (of words only about Walkers fillibus-
tering operations, while but few days since
seven hundred 'rufians' left the port of New
York, under the eye of President Pierce's
Marshals, to join Walkers party. President
Pierce writes himself "your most Obedient
servant" THAT'S truth) to Parker H. French,
but says he cannot recognize him as Minis
ter of said Walker Republic; yet we believe
that all feint and that before sixty days,
arm-in-arm, the two will promenade Penn
sylvania Avenue, and that President Pierce
will give Walker all the aid ard comfort in
his power 1t will thus be seen how very
vigilant our Chief Magistrate is on some mat
ters. He has "swelled up and strutted as
valliantly as any veteran gObbler in the barn
yard, when he knew he was out of harms
way, but as soon as a show of resistance shall
come, he will as suddenly drop his feathers
and cry "qnit."
And further, President Pierce, issued a
special Message to Congress asking for men
and money to assist the Border Rufians,' Of
Missouri to put down the Free State men,
and to uphold Atchison and Stringfellow in
their endeayors to make Kansas Slave
State.
We are glad to see the people of Ohio so
ready to respond to the righteous demands
made upon them by their brothers in Kan
sas, for immediate assistance. They have
been forsaken by their legal and lawful pro-
tectors and now, in their extremity, they ap-
peal to the citizens of the Free States-
They will not appeal in vain. The @mate-
rial aid' will flow in upon them, and in four
weeks time they will be able to whip all the
Missouri, or other 'Ruffians that may come
against them. They have our sympathies,
and something more substantial, to assist
them in the maintainence of those principles
which made us a free people.
Sympathizing as we do with the Free
State men, the actual residents of Kansas,
we cannot help thinking, however, that Gov.
CHASE, was little indiscreto in sending his
special Message to the Legislature of our
State. 1t savors too much of the disposi-
ton of the fre-eaters of the Georgia and
South Carolina school. Ohio Legislators
have enough to attend to that comes within
the limits of our State, and that should be
their first duty. They were elected to leg
islate for Ohio, not the Union. If Congress
will not protect the citizens of Kansas, the
sovereign People of the Free. States will.
~ President Pierce issued gun-cotton
proclamation on the 18th in regard to Kan
sas affairs. He says, "plans for the deter