Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-10-09

RES OF SlaVeIv. Inc South would have
yielded to the Just laims of the North Ion.
ago if they had been pressed with ten.l
part Of the tenacity OF Southern claims.
| Their claims to extend Slavery over Ter
ritories now free is too preposterous to BIZ
entertained for a moment by any govern
ment now existing on earth, and the miser
abe donghfaces North who will parley witt
the South on this subject ought to be helt
up to the public scorn and contempt o
every newspaper in the land-J. w. Graz
in CIeueland Piqindeajsr.
Rssolued, That the maintenance of tt {
principles promulgated in the Declaration
Of independence, and embodied in the Fed
eral Constitution, are essential TO the pres
ervation OF our Republican Institutions, ant
that the Federal Constitution, the rights OF
the States, and the Union of the States shall
be preserved.-RepuJlican Platform
heartily concur in all movements which
have for their object ''to repair the mischie
arising from the repeal Of the Missouri Com
promise" | am opposed to Slavery in the
abstract, and upon principles sustained anC
made habitual by settled conviction. While
| feel infexible in the belief that it ought
not to be interfered with where it exists
under the shield of State sovereignty. | am
infexbly OPPOSED TO IT'S EXTEN.
SION ON THIS CONTINENT BEYOND
IT'S PRESENT LIMITS.-John C. Ere.
mont.
never owned one dollar in human flesh
and while reason holds it sway in nv brain
! never will.
! | love my wife with the most ardent az
fiction, but that wife must toll with her own
hands rather than own one dollar in human
flesh.--John C. Fremont.
recognize neither American nor Anti
American, Wing, Democrat, or Abolition
parties, in the approaching ntest, but
simply union of the people for Freedom
and Kansas. and the arrest of slavery eX-
tension.--John C. Fremont.
Free labor and natural capital, which
constitutes the real wealth of this great
country, and creates that intelligent power
IN the masses, which is alone to be relied on
as the buwark of our Free Institutions
F'remORt's Letter Of Aecepta, cs.
If | am elected to the high office for which
your partiality has nominated me, will en-
deavOr to administer the Government ac-
cording to the true spiri: of the Constitu-
lion as it was understood by the great men
who framed and adopted it, and in such a
way as to preserve both Liberty and the
| Union.--J6ta c. Fremont.
WHAT WEBSTER, CALHOUN AND OTHERS
! THOUGHT OF FREMONT.
have an acquaintance with the Colonel,
and am so favoraby impressed as to him,
that would as readily trust him as any
other individual. His integrity is beyond
sus oicion join c. Calhoun.
! Colonel Fremont is young soldier of
great merit-one who deserves we'll of his
country for the bravery and ability with
which he discharged his important and DEL
icate duties in California.-DanieL Webster.
Col. Fremont exhibited a combination Of
energy, promptiiude, sagacity and prudence,
which indicates the highest capacity for
civil and military command. That the
country will do justice to his valuable and
distinguished services, entertain not the
slightest doubt-Ssnator Dir.
Col. Fremont, in my opinion, is the most
;neritorious American of his age now in ex-
istence.-SeRator Alien. Of Ohio.
Iregard Col. Fremont as one of the most
baruin ap1 fI,I rff1corc in
an army Of which any hation might be
proud.--Senator Rusk, Of Ieras.
Hox J. C. FREMONT The history o:
this young man is highly interesting. His
travels, researches, scientific explorations
and fetes of vaIor and suffering in the Far
West, are events known to the world, and
we may say without parallel.
His collision with Kearney in California
brought him before the country in a new
light. He was accused of disobeying the
command of his superior, and technically was
so convicted on trial by Court Martial, de.
manded by himself. But the country &C.
quilted him, and although reprimanded by
the President, was applaudeC by the people
We were at his trial at Washington. anc
saw him confront the witnesses of the Gov
ernment in the most frank and gallant style
~. w. Gray, in Cleveland Piaindealer.
| have just read the history of his Gre
mont's) life, and believe him to be MAJ
as much marked out by Providence for thu
present exigency of our nation as Washing
ton was for that of the American Revolu
ton. He comes from whence great mel
usually come, from the mass of the people
Nursed in difficulties practiced in surmount
ing them; wise in council; full of resources
self-possessed in danger; fearless and fore
most in every useful enterprise; unexcep
tonabte in ru0ruls3 with an intellect cult
waited by nature, and cultivated in laboriou
fields of duty. trust he is destined to sav
the Union from dissoution; TO restore tn
, Constitution to its original purity; and t
relieve that instrument which Washingto
, designed for the preservation and enlarge
ment of Freedom, from being any longe
perverted to the multiplication of Slav
States, and the extension of Slavery
Josiah OuincV. Sen