Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-06-27
TIE CArEPArGN OPENED.


The Presidential Campaign of 1856 is
now fairly opened. There IS no lack Of
candidates. The South Americans have
Fillmore and Donaldson in the field. The
Democracy present Buchanan and Brecken-
ridge. The Republicans have nominated
Fremont and Dayton. The North Ameri-
cans name Fremont and johnson. The
ultra Abolitionists will run Gerrit Smith
and somebody else whom we have forgot
ten.
1t is clear, however, that this campaign
is to be fought out between Fremont and
Buchanan. The other candidates may ap-
pear in the field, but it viii only be at the
head ofgucrrilla bands; while the hosts that
march under the leadership of Fremont and
Buchanan, viii form the mighty columns of
infantry, cavalry and artillery, whose onset
will make the earth tremble as with the
shock of doom. A few impracticables will
throw away their votes on other candidates,
but the great body of voters will vote for
Or against the naturalization of slavery;
! and they will see to vote yes on the ques-
ton they must vote for Buchanan; to vote
no they must vote for Fremont.
Let us take birdseye view of the two
great armies that are now marshaling for
the great contest. The party which bias
| phemously styles itself democratic, num-
bers first and foremost in its ranks $4,000
Shareholders, with their overseers, their slave
traders, and dependents. There are doubt
less thousands of whites at the south, who
own no slaves, and who would gladly vote
against the spread of slavery if they could
or dared. But 50 firmly are they bound by
the ties of business dependence, and so
thoroughly are they subdued by the terror of
the bludgeon, the pistol and the bowie knife,
that the vote of the south almost entire will
be given where it will tell for the extension
of slavery; that is for the blasphemous de-
mocracy. The great strength of Samson
I lay not more surely in his hair, than that
of the democracy does in the $4,000 slave
holders. Take away these and those they
govern through interest or fear, and the
nominations of the blasphemous democracy
could not carry ten thousand votes in the
United States This fact of itself writes
yi!lio2y and shameless hypocrisy on the very
front of every demagogue, who asserts that
the blasphemous democracy is not pro-slave-
ry. But to go on with our review of the
army of slavery. The $4,000 slavehold-
ers can carry the whole south. They have
also at the north an army of apostates, COM
posed of those who now hold office under
the general government or wish to do so,
and who will sell themselves for mess of
pottage to the Shareholders or the devil
These are the doughfaces we read Of. AT
ter these come 4 class of men whose party
prejudice is great and whose knowledge is
small They follow wherever they see the
word democracy, never troubling themselves
to inquire whether the thing itself is pres
ent or absent. With the help of these
northern allies, who constitute but small
minority in the northern states, the bias
phemous democracy, with the whole south
to back it, hopes to win.
The army of freedom, as it has been in
all ages, 50 it is now mixed multitude
1t acknowledges no single name, wears no
mans livery, is clothed in no harmonious
uniform, and carries no stereotyped arms.
Its members have been wings, democrats,
[freesoilers, Americans, but now and for the
time they are republicans. They hold them
selves bound by no party ties, but will up
hold the republican organization till it has
accomplished its end. They are not united
by the cohesive power Of public plunder.-
They are not politicians by trade. They
are the men who love freedom more than
party; who bow their necks at no mans
bidding; who can be bought with no mans
money, and turned aside by no mans fat
terry and promises. Their numbers are
great, but their discipline small. They will
fight, each armed with the weapons of his
trade; scythes, forks, old continental mus
kets, or whatever other weapon their houses,
shops and fields may furnish. They are to
battle with a trained and disciplined host,
armed from the arsenals of the government
and fed from its treasury. If the undiscip-
lined people shall in this contest trample
down, by main strength, the Shareholders
and their dependents, the oyerseers, office
holders and ofFice-seekers, it viii not be the
first time that the love of liberty has proved
too strong for all the discipline of the op-
pressors.
Eg- The NJ 7. Times in a capital bur
lesque on the recent Democratic Ratification
meeting in that city, gives the following as