The Trinity journal., 1856-08-30
Antecedents Of Fremont and DAYTON.


All the political experience which Ere
mont, the Black Republican candidate for
President, ever had, was a service of twenty
one days in the United States Senate
While there that extremely limited time he
voted against proposition to abolish slave
fy in the District of Columbia, subject to a
popular rOte, as well as against its uncondi-
tiohal abolishment He also voted against
refunding to the African Colonization So
ciety the money which it had advanced to
the United States, under the following cir
cumstances, as stated in report to the
Senate
"On the 10th of December, ls45, the
United States ship Yorktown, Commodore
Bell, landed at Monrovia, in Liberia, from
the SLAYER Pons, scren hundred and fftv re-
Captured Africans, in Naked starving and
dying condition, all of them, excepting
twenty-one, being under the age Of twenty
QUE The United States made no provision
for their support after they were landed"
TM services of providing for the desti-
tute negroes were not required to be per-
formed by the Society under their constitu-
ton, but the alternative was to leave these
recaptured Africans to starye and die, and
the Society, therefore, cheerfully took charge
of them, relying upcn the Government of
the United States to refund the cost to the
Society.
The question was discussed at length as
to whether the United States would pay
these just and legal demands and, on the
vote being taken for the engrossment of the
bill to the third reading, Mr.. Fremonts
name is found recorded in the negatire-
among the extreme Southern men.
Such are the only political antecedents
of the candidate of that party which profess
es to be SO devoted to the cause of human
feedom' Sincere and conscientious anti
slavery men will be slow to put their trust
and confidence in him, whatever the pOliti-
cians-who brought him out to subserve
.>theit>own selfish purposes-may do.
"The antecedents of Dayton are even
= orse than those of Fremont. He voted
,he in the Senate in favor of hogging in
he Navy. although humanity cried aloud
rho cung to that 'relict of barbarisnl' which
rsad been so long disgrace to the Amer-
81 flag He opposed the refunding to
drew Jackson the fine of $1,000, imposed
~ Judge Hall. which Jackson had paid at
New Orleans, in 1915, under circumstances
which caused every patriot to desire that it
should be refunded to him, and it was done
by an overwhelming vote.
"The explorations of Fremont in Ore
gon and California were judged of so little
importance by Dayton, his associate on the
Presidential ticket, that he voted on August
5th, lS4s, against an appropriation of $30.-
600 to continue and complete them.
Such was the estimation by the Black
Republican Vice President of the sole claim
to fame which is advanced by the friends of
Fremont.
Dayton also voted against the Compro-
mise measures introduced into the United
states Senate by Henry Clay, 1852, at the
imminent risk of disunion and civil war
which would have followed their rejection
On the Sth of August, lS4S, Dayton said ::
The questions of freesoil and slavery
were not the great questions of the Wing
party. They constructed too nayr0,o a kedge
jOr mat party to stand upon
August 10, lS4s the Oregon Bill being
loeiore the Senate, the question was taken
on the amendment embracing the Missouri
compromise, and it was decided, yeas 49,
nays ?l,' and in the megatire is the vote Of
Mr. Dayton.
"Nerily, are not these beautiful antece-
dents for the Black Republican nominees"