Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-09-05
Of oongress-the Army Brm

the telegraphic news from Washington for
several DAYS has indicated, the certain end
Of the controversy. It is impossible at this
time to determine whether any of the Re
publican members of the House yielded, in
the final vote, to the imperious domineering'
of the Senate backed by the Executive.
We notice that the vote just previously IN
favor Of the Bill aoith the proViso was SO,
while the vote against striking out the pro-
viso was but 90. The Republican vote at
no time. in the extra session has exceeded
IOl. But however it may have occurred,
the Republicans of the House were in a
minority at the close Of the session.
The course of the Senate has been most
remarkable. Refusing to vote dollar for
the army unless full power was given to
Secretary DAVIS and his President to use it
as It has been heretofore used, as q corps de
fsssrve for the Border Rufian extermina-
tors, the Senate has been the abetter Of
Kansas invasion and outrage.
Messrs. Cas-, Clayton, Weller and other
Senators of the majority, have denounced
the Kansas enactments in the strongest
terms; yet they resist every effort made BY
the House to prevent the enforcement Of
those infamous provisions BY the arms and
army Of the United States. True to the
instincts of the upper 6rGneh en- ali iegisld-
tive bodies, the Senate goes for sustaining
prerogative against the people.
Five men indicted for treason under
the charge of JEFFREYs LEcoMPTE, by q
grand Jury which Sheriff Jones had packed
have been kept for more than three months
in military camp, under the guard of Uni
ted States soldiers. The Judge who gave
70 the grand jury definition of treason
broad enough to include the simplest act Of
self-defence against illegal attack, is sustain
ed by the Senate. The Sheriff and Marshal
who, under pretence of legal process, burn
houses and destroy printing presses, are
sustained bv the Senate.
The employment of the army in this bus
fness is not merely sanctioned, it is demand
ed, by the Senate. Sooner than require
them TO be restrained by the President, they
preferred to disband the army. The Presi-
dent demands $I4,OOO,0e0 for the support
of HIS army: the Senate says take it, use
the money and employ the army as you
plesse. We know what you will do from
what you have done. take the money and
60 on.
Gen. Cas- even has been dragooned into
this supple acquiescence. While in one
breadth declaring these enactments to be
s.infamous and disgraceful to the age" he in
the next votes with the men who declare
them proper and necessary; and that they
shall be enforced.
At last, majority of the House Of Rep
resentatives has been found who are willing
to acquiesce and vote millions from the
Treasury to carry out the atrocities behests
Of the South demanding the subjugation OF
Kansas.
The memorable declaration ofMr. Doue-
LAS, aWe will subdue you," occurs to the
mind Of every reader. Mr.. Douglas has his
way. Thus far the conspiracy against free
dom has prevailed Its author found If
sanctionedin in the Democratic platform adopt
ed at Cincinnati, approving the domestic
policy of FANKLN PIERCE. In his ratitica'
iion speech, speaking of the Kansas code
STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS said:
The platform was equally explicit in ref
erence to the disturbances in relation to the
Territory of Kansas, 1t declared that
TREASON was to be punished, and resis.
tance to the laws was to be put down. That
was the whole question involved-whethel
the supremacy of the laws should be main
tanned, or whether mob violence should over
come the officers of the law. ON THIS
QUESTION BETWEEN LAW AND
VIOLENCE, THE DEMOCRACY HAD
EXPRESSED THEIR SENTIMENTS
THEY SAYTHATTHE LAWS SHALL
BE EXECUTED so LONG AS THEY
STAND UPON THE STATUTE BOOK
Unconstitutional, infamous, disgraceful Il
the age-so declared by the highest Demo
cratic authority in the Senate-enacted a.
everybody knows by outsiders, thrust in by
outside cut-throats-yet they "shGH be ere
e,aed," and that willing tool, FRANKLR
PIERCE, shall have fourteen millions of dol
lars to enforce without restraint
One fact more should be noted-As soor
as the Army Bill was passed, the cohort:
of slavery in the H. R. refused even to en-
tertain proposition requesting the Presi
dent to direct the District Attorney for thu
Territory of Kansas TO apply to the prope
court for leave to enter noHe Prosequi IL
all the indictments now pending for Treason
or any other political offense alleged to hay'
been committed in that Territory.
No! These prosecutions, utterly baseles
and unfounded, shall go on. The promis
to abandon them, made through Mr.. Camp
bell. was meant only to humbug the peopl
and their representatives. 1t will not b
kept. Constructive treason in questioning
the validity Of ruffian legislation @shGH B
punished"-Pnerce says so. Tho Cincir
matt Convention says so. LecomPte say
SO. The Senate says last majorit
of the House saye AMEN so BE IT!
P.S.-Since the foregoing was write
the Hon. J. R. G1DDNes just returned frol
Washington, informs US that every Repul
Iican in the Houee stood firm to the tini
vote. There was no fiinching, The Kal
sas subiugationists had majority, by for
ing in all their absentees.
The pluck Of the Republicans upon Il
pointin controversy is shown by the fact th'
Mr.. Benton, Of Indiana, laboring under pa
alysis was carried into the House upon
couch to vote and was unable to respo1