Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-09-26
FREMONT sANDUSKY COUNTY. OHIO, SEPTEMBER 26. 1856
Correspondence.
For the Jonrnal.

their rights, by preventing them from ac-
quiring good and cheap lands, and homes in
the territories; that as the territories were
secured by the common treasure and blood
of all the States, it is cruel robbery to de-
Prige any portion of the people from settling
therein.
The above seems to awaken sympathy
for the south and alarm for the Union, in
that class Of minds who are in the habit of
receiving such broad statements, without
analyzing or examining them. submit
first: That neither the platform, the writ
ings, the public speaking, the legislative
acts in congress or otherwhere, furnishes
the least shadow of evidence that the repub-
lican party desire to hinder any portion of
the people from any part of the states, from
settling in the territories. But, on the con
trary, the whole action of the party in rela-
ton to the territories, is proof that they de-
sire to establish such state of society in
the territories, as will be inviting to the peo-
pie of all the states, and such a society can
exist only where there are just and righteous
laws to regulate it; laws that recognize and
protect all the national rights of every per-
son. The republican party are laboriug to
establish such laws in the territories as will
prevent or punish crimes of all kind. This
fact, it is true, may operate against the en-
igration, to the territories, of certain classes
of persons from all parts of the country
Many persons live by robbing and stealing.
Another numerous class live by gambling.
These persons may complain that their
rights and means of a living are encroached
upon; and tho the murderous bully that de.
lights in blood, and the libertine and bac-
chic bloat, who reyel in fornieation, adultery.
incest and polygamy or eoncubinage, may
also hate the law--yet no decent person
makes war with the republican party for Ia
boring to prevent such crimes in the terrific
ries. Nor are they charged with hindering
emigration ON the above account. But
there is another class of persons who live
by crime which was denominated, by a
wise and good man, the asunl of all william
les" crime in view of which Jefferson said
81 tremble when I reflect that God is lust y
A crime, that all the good and wise men
OF our own country, with the good and wise
of all other countries, deplored, and sought
to root out, wherever it existed. A system
of crimes 50 broad, 50 deep, its character so
black, that the mind cannot without labor.
comprehend the magnitude of the moral
pollution, degradation, and misery, that
abound in every community where this
crime is suffered to exist. This crime is
slavery; and the class of persons who are
banded together to live by the practice of it,
and to continue it against all Just laws, hu-
man or divine, are clamorous that their
rights are encroached upon, because they
may not be permitted to practice their crimes
in the territories; and what is singular many
persons in the northern States who are not
personally or directly polluted with this
crime, seem to think that almost any means
are lawful, which can be availed to prevent
the republican party from succeeding in pre-
venting slavery from being established in
the territories.
Those at the West who would keep sla-
very out of Kansas, are met by pillage,
robbery, imprisonment and death. At the
South, they are met by insult, threats and
assaults. But at the North, where moro
christianization is claimed, they have in gen
eral only to meet law and insulting epithets,
mingled with large proportion of misrep-
resentation. In this relation it is proper to
express regret that any of the republican
party should indulge in degrading epithets
or wrong insinuations. A good cause is al
ways injured by such course. Besides all
ienation and i'll will are always engendered
where such things are indulged.
To return to the argument, supposiug the
the republican party succeed in preventing
slavery from being established in the terri
tories. Would that be trespass on the in
terests or wishes of the South? No one
will pretend, that either the wishes or in
terests of any but the few who love slavery
would be trespassed on. There are S47, ,525
slave owners; only about one in twenty-eight
of the whole population. Are these few
shareholders all who are to be regarded
when we speak of the South? Are their
interests the only interests that are to be
regarded at the South and are the desires
of nine millions of people at the South not
to beregarded by us, because they do not
desire to uphold slavery? How frail is poor
These few slave holders, one in
twenty-eight of the people, are the South.
They are our very dear brethren of the
South; their interest is the mighty interest