Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-07-25
N0.s26.
GeOrge Lay1 oI the Present orlsis.
. New York, July 2, i56.

i A@.-s@As ASAAs = y -, " tlIIAlON ACu21 lily
receipt Of your letter on the 26th ut. Il
have carefully reflected upon It's contents
In reply,aI beg to state to you that deeply
regret no more perfect union has been affec- /
ted by those whose duty it was. to have -ac-l
4 complished that object-to unite the whole
elements Of opposition to the present cor
rupt administration, welded as It is by the
extreme slave oligafchy Of the Soutk. For
the last three years, this same oligarchy has
used the entire power and patronage Of the
general government to crush out all inde-
pendent action and honest representation on
the part Of the North to purchase up north
ern men who were willing to misrepresent
4 their constituents from personaInotives and
for promises of favor from the present cor
rupt administration.
All good men who have the love Of their
country at heart, both in the North and in
the South, should unite cordially in a COM
t mon effort to destroy the viper that has coil
ed around the freedom and Independence of
the American people. Freedom of speech
is prohibited, in the halls of Congress; bow
d ie knives and reyolyers are worn as daily
lapPendages at the Capital as a means Of
tdefenee. The Senate declares itself not
. only powerless for punishment, but even
! palsied for protection. Its members look
quietly on and see a member stricken down
: in open day in the Senate Chamber, with
Z out even the common effort of humanity
r that would be exercised in a bar-room to
save a man prostrated, without an opportu-
nifty of defending himself Thus you see
that those who represent their constituents
honestly, and by unanswerable arguments,
and who cannot be purchased by executive
= favor must be awed into silence by bowie
q knives, bludgeons and revolyers. Such is
the scheme of government inaugurated un-
der the Pierce dynasty, and fostered by the
,, Southern sectional power that supports it.
IL Upon this basis, and into the arms of this
~ power, the nominee of the Cincinnati Con-
vention surrenders himself before the coun-
.ktry, without the slightest reservation or in
:, diyidual independence of his own. What
L has the country to expect if Mr. Buchanan
succeeds Nothing better than what it ha;
= experienced under Mr. Pierce, and perhap:
e something worse. One is an old mar
~ without independence of mind or energy
N of character, which the country is forewarn-
d ed of by his declaration that he is nolougei
as James Buchanan, and has no views or opin
B, ions of his own, and is therefore the pliant
ld instrument of the slave power that nomina
ted him at Cincinnati, and must refee
q their views only. 1t viii be well for thC
le American people to remember this wher
Is they cast their votes for chief magistrate
es in November next.
n, The other came into Office, man in tn,
Ir prime of life, without any such submission
\, or pledges, backed up by almost the uDani
It, imous voice of the country in his election
l9 l99 and yet he was not three weeks in Office be
oHl fore he surrendered himself to the sam,
" oligarchy that has welded his powerdurin9
2, n his administration, as absolutely as if h,
had no will or mind of his own, and had n
L. responsibility to any section of the Uniol
ly except to the $4,000 Shareholders of tn
ct South, who now control the executive, tn
5eo Judiciary and the Senate. The only voice th
sr, free States have in the federal government
Nv is in the House of Representatives.
g Is it not fair to expect that if Mr.. Bu
of chahan should be elected, the evils that tn
h h country has experienced for the last thre
of years will go on increasing during his ad
on ministratiOn, until the Northern mind wi
i'm submit no longer to be cheated, bulIied, do
us us fed and deprived of It's Just rights an
}% I'M fair representation in the federal govern
S, ment?
on As one of the leading features of th
The coming administration, slavery is to B
i've forced into Kansas. The rivers, the grei
III highway of the nation through Missouri,
ith slave State, arc to be closed, as they al
l5S ioS at present. to the free men of the Nortl
9al who desire to emigrate to that Territory
ION Those great thoroughfares which have her
ii ibe tofore been looked upon as the pride of II
as, nation, and that steam has rendered so va
ng, liable for transportation of persons or pro
Isl erty, must be closed to the free men of tt
hin North, or they must be subjected to exam
ON nation, insult, loss of property, and turne
ar ar back unless they proclaim themselves
and favor of the institution of Slavery in Ten
! IN IN tory. Such means as these are made u
of to force slavery into Kansas. Whc
ave ave free emigrants arrive there, after al the
the difficulties and delays have been surmou
de- ted, they must undergo another examinatio
sn, oTs and swear allegiance to the government
; in the slave power organized in Kansas by Il
Missouri mob, or be deprived of the rig
! The be of franchise and of holding office. This
,uid the operation of squatter sovereignty, whiC
+ into TO deprives a man of his citizenship unless
cen swears fidelity to slavery and all this is
7ni- be carried out and put in execution by {
..EEaaas .Eas armed force, furnished from Missouri
vol adjoining slave State; and the federal 90
MAJ mat ernment with federal troops in the Territ
up ry will look on calmly, without interfering,
-en- long as the Missouri mob succeeds to enfor
tied ted slavery upon Kansas; but if the men fro
hey the free States, who believe in free speec
be free territory, free labor, free press and fir
,aio men, should be too numerous for the sla
re- labor, then the federal troops organized f
at, the special purpose under the command
ett, a Southern fayorite of Southern secce
sGe 'ePe sionist Secretary of War, are to interfe
=, and decide the contest in favor of sla
and and cry in Kansas. So much for the cha
ffoy ces of Northern principles and Nc
thern men in Kansas, snd all that va
territory north SO 80 secured to freedom