Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-03-21

published tt abroad that AtchSSoR DGs tker
10Th bowie knife and reUolver; and By Go,
'tUas true. I ReVer did 90 into that Ter
ritory-[ neVer intend to 90 into that Ten
ritory, sOithout being prepared for all suc
cattle. Well, we beat them, and Governo
Reeder gave certificates to a majority c
all the members of both Houses"
Reprohensible as this language and con
duct may be thought, there is still one virtu
about the bold "Border Rufian," that ele
Yates him immeasurably above the dough
face"
It is we'll known that the hagitious act b,
which the Compromise was repealed, wa
dictated by squad Of nulliiers, (Atchison
Mason, Hunter & Co.. to the Doughfac
Presidential aspirant from the North-tha
when Atchison, as he himself boasted, CAV,
"Douglas twenty-four hours to bring in tn,
BILL" and other doughfaces has been wor
to the scheme by similar persuasivcs, opera
ting upon their anxiety for Presidential hon.
ors, of which being unworthy, they coulc
only hope to gain by trucking and subser
viency,the adhesion ofthese men thus gained
was upon the Southern members Of Congress:
to obtain their assent to the overthrow o.
the Compromise. 1t is believed that ma
jority of the Southern men were opposed tc
the measure, and were coerced into it by the
fear that they would not be sustained if they
refused an advantage offered to them by the
North. Thus the treachery of Northern
men to their own constituents was made to
work upon the honorable scruples of the
Southern men in order to accomplish an
an act which no respectable portion of any
section desired should be done.
1t is well therefore for the people to rec
ollect that if they have cause of complaint
in the violation of the Compromise, their
own Representatives have been chiefly to
blame, and that they themselves have CIV
en- prominence and importance to the dough-
faces, to the exclusion of better men, and
thus enabled them to influence even the
action of Southern men.
Mr. Douglas especially has taken the
trouble on several occasions, within the last
two years, to visit the State of Missouri, to
give aid and comfort to the 'nullifers and
rottens" the 'Hshinplaster Democracy" who
have been warning on old Bullion here
since the advent of Tyler. They deserve
to be betrayed who harbor and cherished
this restless intriguer, whilst he was assail-
ing the most illustrious of living Democrats.
The North should begin by disposing of
her doughfaceS. 1t would add very much
to her respectability, and insure her more
honorable and courteous treatment, to be
represented by respectable men and nciie
will look with greater satisfaction to see
the doughfaces swallowed up in the storm
they have raised, than the people of the
South.
To Western men, whose false hatred rep
resentatiyes contributed to the abrogation
of the Compromise, l would commend the
following extract from a letter recently pub
lished in the National Intelhgencer, and by
that paper said to have been written by "a
Veteran Whig Politician, who lives on the
sunset side of the Father of Waters" They
viii recognize it by its style and sentiment,
as well as BY the designation of the Intel
hgencer, to have been written by Edward
Bates. He says:
81 have never been able to comprehend
how it happens that the negro question
could become the all absorbing question Of
the country and especially how Southern
men of sense and talent and high hopes
could engage in such a dangerous controver-
sy, or allow it to exist. They put up all the
stake that IS played for, and may lose, bat
cannot possibly aciR. But this is long
ject, not to be handled now.
Il have sometimes been so uncharitable
as to suspect that the sensitive negro ques-
ton, the agitation of which had been qui-
eted by the compromise legislation of 1850,
condemned by the platforms of both parties
in 1852, and denounced by the respectable
press all over the nation-aOas thrust upon
the first Congress under Mr.. Pierce for the
purpose Of smotber1ng what was indubita-
bic the great question Of the day, and es-
Gaping tie supposed peril Of deciding upon
the real grand and neccessary proposition
of national railroad from tie Mississippi
Valley to the Pacific ocean. Whether or
not it was designed for that end it has GER
tainlv produced the effect"
This letter has been already drawn out
to too great length. 1 shall close with
the remark that expect to act in political
matters with those whose sentiments coin
eide with my own-without surrendering
the principle or the name of Democrat.
FRANK P. BLAIR, Jr.
st Louis, March l, 1856,