Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-07-18

come, gather around our council fires. Let
the watch cry be FREMONT, DAYTON,
and FREEDOM.
Judgment follows Conviction.
The miserable pettifogger down street,
the dormant editor of that delectable sheet,
the Messenger, is out, in the last issue of
that paper, in long, labored and shallow
leader, complaining bitterly ofthe burthens
of taxation, and as is the custom of such
unscrupulous demagogues, charges the whole
responsibility thereof upon the republican
Legislature. The head and front of his COM
plant, however, is the same that has been
troubling his diminutive brain for several
weeks past, viz: the exemption Of a certain
amount of bank capital from taxation. We
have so often informed this same BOBBY of
the cause of this exemption, that we deem it
an act of supererogation to refer to the mat
ter again, and would not do so, if we did
not see how determined he is to deceive the
people if possible, notwithstanding the light
he has received upon the subject. He
knows when he makes those charges of dis
honest legislation, that he is basely trying
to deceive his readers, if not telling an alb
solute falsehood; and were not his con-
science hardened by perfdious acts, both
political and otherwise, he would not have
the efrontry to persist in making such reck-
less assertions, neither would he have the
to presume to mingle with hon
est men. But such are the facts in the case;
and not content with this, he is, as is to be
Judged from his actions, attempting to re-
verse the decision of the chief tribunal of
the United States, the source of judicature
in our nation. What folly it is for those
wise sages of the law who sit upon our Su-
preme Bench, to advance an opinion adverse
70 one entertained by this modern legal lu-
minary, who is adding to his renown as a
jurist, additional fame as an editor in the
cause of modern locofocoism. The princi-
pies of the party and their worthy exponent
which is the most corrupt9
1t seems to us that if common sense had
been even very small element in the com
position of the creature above referred to,
he would long since have discontinued his
prating about the taxation of bank capital,
when the law taxing such capital has long
since been declared unconstitutional by the
U. S. Supreme Court. But he must have
some hobby to ride, some subterfuge to
which to resort, to attract the attention of
the people from the corrupt acts of his par
ty, and if it cannot be done by honest
means, there is nothing too low nor too false
for him and his party leaders to resort to in
order to accomplish their ends.
We cannot conclude these few practical
remarks without referring to the closing
paragraph of the article we have been speak
ing of. This same pettifoger uses a term
that we should have thought hewould have
been ashamed to have uttered. We should
have thought that desire to heal over an
old sore would have prompted silence. But
10! as if to assure us that impudence still
held eminent domain in him, he uses, with
seeming Indifference, the term "q6ida0it" !!
"Oh, shame where is thy blush!" Has he
already forgotten the time when he and a
few other dastards of the same kidney, sub
scribed to false affidavit which had the
effect TO remove from the small office of col
lector Of the port of Fremont, worthy old
democrat, who had grown gray in the ser
vice, and foist into his place miserable
young upstart, who had become odious, as a
man and politician, in the eyes of the re-
spectacle portion of this community? But
it serves to show to what extremity of wick
edness such characters will go in order to
carry out their base selfish purposes, and ell
evate to an official position, however small,
one of their own clan.
And we have word to say to the legit-
innate editor of the Messenger. 1t is this.
If you wish to attain to any degree of re-
spectability as journalist, you must sever
all connection with the dolts with whom
you are now associated in an editorial ca
Ipacity. If you have not already discovered
You soon will, unless willfully blind, the
standing of those men in this community,
both as regards their character and talents,
We do not wish to extend our remarks any
further on this subject at present, but will
refer to it again in the futuTe-ifrequcsted