Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1857-02-27
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| We Cioseu hu Mtlcle last week, Dy saying
that the mission of the Republican party is,
to re-assert and defend the great doctrines
concerning the rights Of man, which are laid
down in the Declaration of Independence.
For this reassertion and defence there is
abundant need. The democratic party,
with its traitorous aidcrs and abettors from
other parties, hold that these doctrines are
sounding and unmeaning generalities."-
They are doing their utmost to establish as
the law of this nation, that slavery nay 90
into any and every territory of these United
States; that it has as much right to go
there as freedom. Thus the Constitution
of the United States, which was meant to
be great bulwark of human liberty, is
turned into avast engine of oppression; thus
a system of government, which its founders
meant should carry freedom into all the ter
ritory over which it was supreme, becomes
an instrument to carry the worst form of
slavery into regions probably never trodden
by the foot of slave since man was created
To all this, the boasted democracy of the
day, cries "nigger, niggcrp They tell this
government was made for achite men; that
niggers ought to be slaves; that all our talk
about human rights is sickly sentimental
ism.
We calmly and conclusively reply, that
republicans care not whether the men who
are to be made slaves are white or black
whether one man or million are to be de-
prived of the rights which belongs to a man.
In either and every case they would resist
the attempt with equal and unyieldng OBJ
stinacy. 1t is the principle we contend for.
Our doctrine is that no power on earth can
justly deprive any man, black or white, of
those natural rights which God has given
him, except on due conviction of crime; and
that slavery cannot be extended into terrific
ry now free under the Constitution, which
expressly declares, that no person shall be
deprived of life, liberty or property except by
due process Of law. If then the question
were to-day whether the meancst black man
in this nation should be deprived of liberty
or whether slavery should be permitted to
establish itself on n single acre of the barren
desert far west of Kansas; the republican
party ought to resist it with the same force
as if the liberty of a million or the funda-
mental law of the empire was at stake
When liberty is struck down any where un.
der the government, or in the person of it,
humblest citizen, the work of ruin is begun
1t remains only that the lust of gain by 9th
or mems toll, and the lust of power ovel
other mems persons, shall have time TO grow
and your liberty and union will be crushed
as greedily as "nigger's" is now. The cry
of "nigger, Niger" set up by the sham dc
mocracy, and rc-echoed by whclps ant
hounds and ours of low degree, furnishes t.
our mind the most convincing proof of tho
utter rottenness of that rarty. The stron.
can defend themselves, but the weak neec
defenders. The sham democracy like som
shameless bully stands by the southern
stakeholder as be carries his human chattel
into territory now free, and shakes its dirt
fist at all who would say nay, and bawl
'nigger! nigger!!" This is your nationa
democracy This is your constitutional de
mocracy! This IS your democracy that love
the dear people! This is your democrac
that sets itself up as the only friend of tn
poor and oppressed!