Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1857-11-27
From the Washington Republic.
Slavery the Supreme Lav---State Sovor-
cignty 10 be Oyerthrown.

Step by STEP the Black Democracy are
preparing to subjugatc this country to the
sway of African barbarism. 1t is scarcely
three months since the President startled all
sober men with the announcement that the
Constitution carried Slavery into all the Ter
ritorios of the Union; and now his pen
stoned organ, the WASHINGTON UNION,
SPEAKING DOUBTLESS BY AUTHORITY HAS
THE AUDAcITY TO ASSERT, THAT NOT
EVEN STATE SOVEREIGNTY IS A
BARRIER TO THE BLACK AND
BLIGHTING CURSE!
Who could have dreamed, five or seven
years ago, that the official organ of any
Administration would have DARED
ISUCH AN INSULT TO THE SOW
EREIGNTY OF THE STATES AND
THE RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE?
We could scarcely credit our senses, when
we read the following passages in the
Washington Union of Tuesday last:
'The Constitution declares that the cit-
zens Of each State shall be entitled to all
the privileges and immunities of citizens of
the several States Every citizen of one
State coming into another State has, there
fore, right to the protection of his person,
and that property which is recognized as
such by the Constitution of the United
States, any law of State to the contrary
notwithstanding. So far from any State
having right to deprive him of his prop
erty, it is its bounden duty to protect him
in its possession.
"If these views are correet-and we be-
lieve it would be difficult to invalidate them
it tollowS that all State lars, whether
organic or otherwise, sohich prohibit CIT
izen Of the State from settling in another,
and bringing has Stare property a0ith him,
and most especially declaring 1t ittoJeited,
are direct violations Of tie original inten-
ton of a Government which, as before
stated, is the protection of person and prop
erty, and of the Constitution of the United
States, which recognizes property in slaves,
and declares that the citizens of each State
shall be entitled to all the privileges and
Iimmunities of citizens in the Several States,'
among the most essential of which is the
protection of person and property"
Following this latest expression of Black
Democracy, which very far transcends the
creed of Calhoun, or of his South Caroi-
ma disciples of the present day, the editor
Ilabors, in an article of two columns and a
half to gild the nauseous pill. The la
bored length of this jesuitical editorial,
brmful as it is of the rankest toryism and
"moral treason" demonstrates it to be an
indirect emanation from the President and
the Cabinet; and we shall not be in the
least surprised if it turns out to be a fore
i, showing of the Message. The partial en-
: dorsement Of the Silliman letter by the
= Northern people, to be inferred from tho
result of the late elections, has embodcncC
the President to take another step forwart
!. in the work of .Africanzing the continent.
: : This step would never have been ven
= tured upon if the States of New York an
Ohio had rolled up as they might hav
! done, their accustomed Republican or Ant
: Nebraska majorities. This insult to th
,, free States is justly tIaceable to the culp'
/" ble supineness of the professed enemies {
I, despotism, who have either neglected
n vote, or ommitted exercising all the weigl
= of their influence at the late elections.