Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-08-01

q position, which believe TO be consistent
with Jeffersonian Democratic principles and
nntecedents of the Democratic party. l
cannot support any party whose organiza-
ton am satisfied is used to aid the exten-
sion of Slavery into Free Territory.
The article for the Delta Press was writ
ten in great haste, in order to have itpub-
lished in time 10 relieve my friends from
any embarrassment in the choice of dele
gates to the Democratic Congressional Con-
Tention. Being out of the State, circum-
stances beyond my control delayed its pub
Ioation. JAMES MYEES.
sARAroeA SpR1Nos, July 9th, 1855.
EprToR DELTA Passion the eve of
nv leaving home, was informed that by
the partialty Of some of my Democratic
friends of Fulton county, and other portions
-four Congressional District, my name had
been announced in your paper and Others,
as candidate for Congress, subject to the
approval of the Democratic Convention.
While feel grateful to the Democracy of
Fulton county, IA more intelligent and pat
riotic Democracy, no county in the State
can boast,) and other portions of the Dis
trict, fortheir confidence, the present atti-
tude of political parties in the United States,
forces upon me the conviction Of the impro-
priety Of my being candidate for Con-
gress, as proposed. Although am satisfied
that majority of the Democracy Of the
Fifth Congressional District, agree with me
IN sentiment, on the all absorbing subject Of
Slavery Extension, yet am equally salts
fed, that there is minority VINO would ex-
pect a candidate so nominated, to approve
and defend all the measures of the present
Administration, and the Cincinnati Plat
form on the subject of Slavery, and also
the inconsistent and unprincipled course of
Mr.. DOUGLAS, backed up by the U. S. Sen
ate: and to vote for the admission of Kan
sas as a Slave State, should she present
Constitution recognizing it, even though
such result was brought about by fraud
aud violence, as It now appears will be the
case. These things I could not conscien-
tiously do.
Ihave become satisfied beyond all doubt,
that the Democratic organization is now
used by ambitious and unprincipled men,
for their own aggrandizement, and to effect
their object, they have (as far as in their
power) thrown the Democratic party into
the hands of the Slave Power, to be used rs
they may direct. Believing as l do, that
their measures are calculated and intended
70 make KANSAS Slave State, cannotsus-
tain them without doing violence TO my
own principles.
Z The late acts Of Mr.. DOUGLAS, sanctioned
b7 the U. S. Senate, have removed every
remaining doubt and hope, upon which |
rested my justification in adhering to an or
ganization claiming to represent the DEM
ocratic party Of the country, the only party
to which have ever for single moment Of
my life been attached, and an organization
from which 1 could never be separated,
while it represented Jeffersonion Democrat
ic principles.
What has been and what is now the as
peet of the KANSAS question: Mr. DOUGLAS
and his followers, after claiming popular
sovereignty as the great virtue of the Ne
braska-Kansas act, and the justification for
the repeal of the Missouri Compromise,
pretended to adhere to that principle, while
all the fraud and violence was being COM
mitted by the Border Rufhans. By such
means, they forced upon the actual settlers
an Illegal Legislature, which passed laws
not only Unconstitutional, but of the most
unjust, oppressive and cruel description ten
fold worse than all the enactments Of the
British Parliament, from which the fathers Of
tho Revolution revolted; and so odious that
even a Southern Senator declared that they
would Justify revolution, and Gen. CAss
characterized them as disgraceful to the
present age. Yet, the Senate, of which
those gentlemen are members has been in
session seven or eight months, without do
ing anything to relieve the actual settlers
from those cruel grievances, but on the con-
trary sat silent and saw the President pro
claiming that those laws should be obeyed,
and to that end he would use all the means
at his disposol, while Mr. DOUGLAS was as
serting that the Free State men "must be
subdued." AL this was done under the
plea of carrying out popular sovereignty.
But now different card is to be played
for the benefit of Slavery. Popular sover-
eighty IS to be abandoned. Itappears to
/, have served the purpose of those who used
It as their justification for the repeal of the
Missouri Compromise.
Under the pretence of carrying out its
principles, the U. S. troops were allowed to
disarm tho Free State men, and the Bor-
der Rufians permitted to drive them out
of the Territory, destroy their presses, burn
their houses, steal their property, murder
thoir men, indict and imprison their leaders
and now when all the practicable avenues
into Kansas are guarded by Missourians to
prevent the enterance of Free State men
into the Territory, and after AToHINsoN
SrR1NGFELLow & Co., have got everything
prepared to have a majority of pro7Slavery
men in Kansas, on the 4th day of July, Mr.
TooxBs, an ultra pro-Slavery Senator (whc
boasted upon the floor of the Senate, that
he would yet call the roll of his slaves al
the foot of Bunker Hill monument,) intro
duces bill into the Senate, Mr.. DOUGLAS
adopts It, and the Senate passes it witt
GUYER's and ADAMS amendments, which
abandon and override the principle of pop
ular sovereignty, and contrary to all former
precedent in the government Of Territories