Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-08-01
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hOISe BTdnltDaTJ aIteiuPsS W ahoh0A O0A
questions propounded two weeks ago.
l. 1t says it heartily approves of the re-
peal of the Missouri Compromise. ave
thank you for that word" You approve
the repeal of a solemn contract which secur-
ed Kansas to freedom toreuer, and you ap-
prove that repeal when it was not asked for
by any body north or south, when it was
demonstrated against by the whole north,
when it was forced through congress with
out giving the people time to act on it.
The williams who passed that repeal, and the
meaner Williams who approve it, dared not
let the people act on it. And yet you in
suit the memory of the democrats who pass
ed and approved that compromise, and the
common sense of mankind, by calling your
self democrat!
2. To the question whether the repeal
opened Kansas to slavery, the Messenger
after all its buster makes no direct answer.
1t attempts to eyade the point by saying
that a southern emigrant has thesame rights
there as northern one. So say we. The
northern man had no right to take slaves
there, neither had the southern man, until
the Compromise Uas repealed The very
point is that now, by that repeal, the south
claim and exercise the right to take slaves
to Kansas, and the repeal which thus ad-
mits slaves into Kansas you approve. The
Messenger says further that in case of dis
solution, the south would claim and receive
one half of Kansas, and then of course it
would be slave state. Whatever the south
might claim, it would never re-
ceive one acre of territory that has been
consecrated to freedom.
8. To the third question no answer.
4. To the fourth, viz: whether slavery
can be excluded from any territory until the
people adopt state constitution,-the re-
ply is miserable shuttle. We can tell our
readers why there was no reply to this
1t is part of the platform laid down at
Cincinnati, that slavery goes into all the
territories by right, and can remain there
unless excluded by the people when state
constitution is adopted. No wonder the
Messenger dare not openly acknowledge
such an abomination as this; but silence
gives consent, and we know what the posi-
ton of the Messenger is as well as if it had
spoken.
5. The fifth question was, "are you in ia
vor of preventing the further extension o.
slavery?" The Messenger thinks this in
sulting and impertinent. "What have We
to do with slavery!" says this organ of the
internal democracy. The question reminds
US of another. "Am I my brothers keep
ern said the first murderer. So the Mes
sengsr and its party, having done all they
can to make Kansas slave state, now ask
"what have we to do with slavery" We
will tell you what you have had to do with it
and what you have now to do with it. Yor
have repealed the Missouri Compromise
which shut slavery forever out Of Kansas
and Nebraska. You have done your ut
most to force slavery into Kansas. You art
now attempting to establish the principle
that slavery can go by right into all our ter
ritories. You have the same to do will
slavery that the thief has with his plunder
the same that the highway rObber has to Dc
with his victim; the same that the Missour
rufians have had to do with making law'
for Kansas; the same that Pierce has had
, to do with enforcing those laws which have
already established slavery there; the samc
that the Democratic party has now to do il
its partnership with niger breeders anc
drivers. And yet you have the boundles'
impudence to assert that the democratic
party does not favor the extension of slavery
The Messenger tells US that 'this govern
ment was formed for aChite men," WheI
did you learn that? You mean that it wa
made for white men only. Prove it if yol
can. Does the Declaration mean whit
men only when it says that "aH men arr
created equal| Docs the Constitution
mean white men only, when it says tha
ANo PERSON shall be deprived of life, ibert!
or property, without due process of law T-
You may howl "nigger worshipers" as mucl
as you please, but We tell you that thi
i, government was formed for all men, with
out distinction of color or race, who may be
come citizens thereof; and we tell you fur
ther, that the devil himself would b.
ashamed to call himself democrat afe
! avowing such principle as that "this govern
, ment was formed for white men only"
6. The Messenger shufies again in reply
) to the question how its party maintains sucl
:. close partnership with the niger driven
? as to secure all their votes, unless it favor
> their schemes No wonder it shuffles.
Z. The Messenger don't feel any interes
in Kansas matters!
8. The Messenger thinks Shannon is al