Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-06-06
TIne Snbinrntion of Knnsas.


er. In the name of the Union and by the
power of its arms, crime has been commit
ted which can only find its parallel in the
prosecutions which have been endured by
the lovers of liberty and religion in by-gone
ages. A grand jury in U. S. Court, un-
der the instructions of a Q. S. judge, have
declared printing Office a nuisance, solely
because it advocates the formation of free
state; hotel a nuisance solely because it
was built and owned by free state man !;
a bridge a nuisance solely because it exacted
toll of border rufians; and under the order
of the U. S. court, the printing office, the
hotel, and the bridge have been destroyed.
With natural extension of these powers
of destruction, the mob which a U. S.
marshal called to his aid, have pillaged
houses, robbed travellers upon the highway,
murdered free state men, and shot at wo-
men. Do our readers realize that while
they have been resting in their houses under
the protection of law, the inhabitants of
Lawrence have been drivenfrom their homes,
their women and children flying to the woods
and ravines for safety? Do they under
stand that in this year of our Lord 1856, in
this republic, whole community has been
subiugated, and placed under mob law, sole
ly for loving liberty too well? Do they
know that the blood of free state men, with
out trial and without even charge of crime,
has been shed on the plains of Kansas?
The men who have committed these
crimes, beginning with those who planned
and contrived the legal frame in which they
have been clothed, in the language of James
Watson Webb in reference to the murderer
Brooks, "deserve instant DEATH" Pierce
and Douglas with every man from the north
who has aided in the attempt to force slave
~ on Kansas deserve the halter; and
though they may escape a literal fclon's
death, posterity will hang them on the glib
bet Of its unmeasured execration. Pierce,
Douglas and their helpers have achieved
Immortality, but it will be the immortality
of Judas Iscariot and Benedict Arnold
Had any man or body of men under the
English government committed like crimes,
their heads would have inevitably fallen
But our readers will ask what is to be the
end of these things? Is Kansas to be a
slave state? Is the reign of terror which
has been inaugerated in Kansas and in
Washington, to be rendered perpetual by a
triumph of the slave democracy in the COM
ing presidential election? We confess that
the prospect is dark. Men are found at the
north, and at our own doors, who justify the
sack of Lawrence, the subjugation of Kan
sas, and the assault on Sumner
In Sandusky county paper has been
established with the very end and purpose
of sustaining the. men who planned and
have executed this crime against the people
Of Kansas, and against human liberty
Whether this peculiar visitation is on ac-
count of our sins we can not say, but the fact
remains. Douglas, the arch william in this
plot to overthrow freedom, is weekly lauded
and his lying speeches published in this pa
per called, by way of joke we presume, the
Democratic Messenger"
Such is the madness ofparty, So utterly
has the true spirit of liberty departed from
the leaders of what is called democracy. The
friends of liberty are indeed vast majority
in the north; but they are divided and it is
to be feared that they cannot be brought
to unite their forces in the coming contest
Their opponents will present an undivided
front Thousands who do not mean to vote
against liberty will yet do this BY support
ing the democratic nominee. Such is the
strength Of party ties. They have been
told that Kansas could never be slave State
that the intent of the repeal of the Missouri
compromise, and the Kansas-Nebraska bill
was to make these territories free states.-
And now, when these hes and frauds arr
no longer tenable, others will be founC
equally deceptive, and perhaps equally eff
} fective.
Still we do not despair. If the friend.
of freedom viii unite, the victory is certain
ly ours. If every man who hates slavery
and would shut it up in its present limits
and divorce the general government from it
would vote according to his convictions, the
sham democracy and its villainous leaders
would be buried beneath an avalanche O.
public hatred so deep that the seven last
thunders would not disturb them. In the
mean time with strong confidence in the
right, we shall still do battle for liberty
If the slave democracy triumph in the com
ing presidential campaign, they will SC
abuse their victory, che lash of the slave
drivers will be so brandished over the heads
of the American people, that long before
its four years lease has expired, its last sup
porter in the north, outside of custom hous-