Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-07-25
Try him by his own Law.


The Messenger claims that though Mr..
BUcKLAND did not vote to raise salaries
and taxes, as he falsely charged, still he
must be held responsible for these things
because he voted for Fillmore, in 50, and
was a Republican in '55. Thus admitting
that every member of a party is response
ble for the acts of that party, though he
ererso stoutly opposes and condemns it.
Admitting this to be the true rule by
which men should be judged we leave Mr..
B. for the time being to his awful fate.
Now, Mr.. Editor, 1--WE will endeavor to
follow your own style, as well as apply
your own rula.) You, sic voted for Frank
Pierce, you, sir, supported and still support
his administration; and, sir, whatever that
administration has done You are response
bic for. When this administration went
into power, sir, Kansas was free soil, now it
is cursed with slavery, and you shall be held
responsible; Kansas was then in peace, it
has since been the theatre of civil war; you
are responsible for it. Then under the eye
and with the sanction and assurance of the
democracy, the sacred ballot-box, the right
of freemen to vote, has been violated, base
ly desecrated BY armed democrats, and you
are responsible for it. Then, sir, demo
Gratis employed by the government, have
destroyed private property, without cause or
provocation. Then, sir, on false charges
free men have been arrested, are held in
confinement, and refused liberty on bail
and you are responsible for it. Then, sir,
private dwellings have been burnt down for
no other reason than that the occupants had
Jared to repeat the language of the Dec
laration of Independence. Then, sir, cities
have been sacked, their inhabitants arrested,
murdered and dispersed, men, women and
children, homeless wanderers on the earth,
by armed rufians under the employ Of this
administration; and YOU, sir, are responsible
for it! No doubt millions of money have
been spent BY this administration to sub
due freedom and plant slavery in Kansas.
Then, too, sir, Border Ruffians subverted
and trampled under foot the right of the
people to govern themselves, and that with
the sanction of your democratic party, and
you are responsible too, for this. This IS
not all, but we viii stop enumerating for
the present, and end by saying this admin
istration has thrice broken its solemn pledges
to the country, to discountcnance agitation,
and for the purpose of extending slavery,
has disgraced our history ly series Of acts,
50 base and tyranical, that no parallel can
be found in the history of civilized nations,
and plunged the country into a state ofexcite-
mcnt verging on civil war, and you. sir, arc
responsible for this. Now, sir, we tell you
O. and restore to plnndered treasury the
MILLIONS SPENT TO EXTEND SLA-
VERY AND CONQUER FREEDOM,
endeayor to elevate your thoughts from the
imaginary loss of half a cent or two in home
affairs, to something worth your eapacious
mind. Go, sir, and drive out your demo-
cratic bayonets and cut throat border r'if-
fans from soil once so2e7,nly coHseerate9 to
liberty; strike off the shackles you have
there put on those whom God made free;
restore the peace and liberty you have most
foulIv robbed Kansas Of Then, sir, GO
wash from your hateful hands the stain of
every crime against women, aud the reeking
blood of murdered men. and when you are
clean, you may be fit to utter false charges
against men with more success.