Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-09-26
How the Buchanan Democracy
Hate Freedom.


holds the following language:
@Until recently, the defence of Slavery
labored under great difficulties, because the
apologists, (for they were mere apologists,)
took halfway grounds they confined the
defence of Slavery to mere negro slavery;
thereby giving up the slavery principle,
and admitting other forms of slavery to be
aOrong. The line of defence, however is
now changed. The South now maintains
that Slavery is right, natural and necessary,
and does not depend upon difference of COM
PLExIoN. Fhe laws of the Slave States
justify the holding of WHITE MEN an bond
age"
The Charleston Standard, leading Bu-
chansn paper in South Carolina, says:
"Slavery is the natural and moral condi-
ton of the laboring man a0hether WHITE or
black. The great evil of Northern free So
ciety, is, that it is burdened with a serDile
class of MECHANICS and LABoRERs, unfit for
self government, and yet clothed with the
attributes and powers of citizens. Master
and slave is relation in society as necessa-
ry as that of parent and child; and the
Northern States will yet have to introduce
it. Their theory of free government is a
delusion."
Tie Richmond, Va, Enquirer, Buchan-
ans confidential organ, speaks as follows;
"Repeatedly have we asked the North,
Has not the experiment of universal liberty
FA1LEDl Are not the evils of FREE SOCIETY
NsUFFERABLE and do not thinking men
among you propose to subvert and recon
struct itP Still no answer. The gloomy
silence is another conclusive proof, added to
many other conclusive evidences we have
furnished, that free society in the long run is
an impracticable form of society; it is every
where starving, demoralized and insrrecto-
ry. We repeat, then, that policy and hu-
manity alike forbid the extension of the
ev;ls of free society to new people and
coming generations. Two opposite and
conflicting forms of society cannot among
civilized men, co-exist and endure. The
one must give way and cease to be univer-
sal. If free society be unnatural, immoral
unchristain, it must must fall and give way
to slave society as old as tie world, uni-
versal as man"
The Muscogee, Ala, Herald, another Bu-
chanan organ, says:
"Free society! we sicken of the name
What is it but a conglomeration of GREASY
MECHANICS, FILTHY OPERATIVES SMALL FIST
ED FARMERS, and moon struck THEORISTS
All the Northern and especially the New
England States, are devoid of society
fitted for well bred gentlemen. The
prevailing class one meets is that of me-
chanics struggling to be genteel, and small
farmers who do their own drudgery; and
yet who are hardly fit for association with a
Southern gentleman's body-servant This
is your free society which the Northern
hordes are endeavoring to extend into Kan
sas."
The South Side Democrat of Virginia,
whose editor was supported by the Demo
Gratis for Clerk of the House of Represen-
tatives of the present Congress pitches into
everything Free, after the following style:
awe have got to hating everything with
the perfx FREE, from free negroes down
and up throughout the whole catalogue
FREE farms FREE labor, FREE society, FREE
will, FREE thinking, FREE children and FREE
schools-aH belonging to the same brood
of ddmnable isn1S. But the worst of all
these denominations is the modern system OF
FREE schools. The New England system
of free schools has been the cause and pro-
life source of the infdelities and treason
that have turned her cities into Sodoms and
Gomorrahs, and her land into the common
nestling-places of bowling Bedlamists. We
a5omiaate the system because the SCHOOLS
ARE FREE"
The Alabama Mail, in speaking of the
shooting of the Irish waiter by that destin-
guished Democrat, P. 7. Herbert says:
at is getting time that walters at the
North were convinced that they are servants
and not gentlemen in disguise. We hope
this Herbert affair will teach them prudence.
The Washington Union, the national Or
gan of Buchanan, says that the free white
laborers of kansas
care a MISERABLE BLEAR-EYED RABBLE
who have been transferred like so MANY CAT
TIE to that county"
Senator Butler of South Carolina, the
uncle of the gallant nephew who assaulted
Charles Sumner, says:
"That men have no right to VOTE unless
they are possessed of property as required
by the Constitution of South Carolina
There no man can vote unless he owns ten
negroes, or real estate to the Ualue of ten
thousand dollars"
1t is the boast of the Slaveocracy that
theirs is national party-that its princi-
pies are the same both North and South
We may therefore safely conclude that the
above extracts express its opinions, and that
the Southern Buchanan organs faithfully
represent its national principles. Demo
Gratis of Sandusky County, are you willing
to indorse by your votes the atrocious senti-
mentS of these sectional nullifers?
Is Buchanan an Anti-Slavery Man?