Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1857-02-13
"ruE DEVIL TO PAY.

in full. When he has received the price
agreed on for his services, he always de-
mands more. We find il convenient TO OBJ
tain his aid in pinch, but when we have
paid as agreed, we arc compelled to pay
again or do worse. This is the present
wretched condition of the black democracy.
They bought the aid OF the demon of slave
ry in the last presidential campaign at n
stipulated price. The doctrine that slavery
cannot be shut out of any territory of the
United States, except by the act of the peo
pie in forming state government; that is,
not until it had obtained firm foothold :;
this doctrine, we say, was invented and ad-
vocated during the last campaign, as the
price which the black demon demanded for
his aid in upholdng sham democracy. This
doctrine was advocated with such honesty
as to tickle the father of lies. AT the south,
it meant the extension tf slavery into all
the territories where it choose to 90; at the
north it meant the right of the people of a
territory to regulate their own internal af-
fairs Well, the democracy payed the
price the black demon demanded they
adopted this doctrine of oppression and de-
ceit and advocated it through the campaign.
But now, not content with this, the black
demon demands still other rewards for his
services.
He publishes from his editorial chairs,
and by the mouths of his servants, the
prophets in congress, that democracy does
not mean freedom of all, that slavery is of
divine right; that it is not confined necessa-
rily to black men; that laborers everywhere
ought to be slaves; that all the evils of
modern society grow out of the freedom of
the laboring population these it asserts are
the doctrines of true democracy, and it de-
mands that these shall have the assent and
support of democrats north as well as south.
Take the following extracts from a recent
speech in the house of representatives by
Keitt, notorious as the ally of Brooks in his
murderous assault on Sumner. And be it
remembered, that such doctrines rs these
called forth no remonstrance or denial from
any northern democrat. These views OF
Kett we quote for the benefit of northern
democratic working men.
"First, upon the question of slavery =
Tho study of several years, devoted TO the
earliest traditions of races, the written record
of societies, and the comparative legisations
of antiquity, has convinced my mind that
slavery is primordial fact, rooted in the Or
igin of things. AS corollary to this, it
may safely be dcduced, that the existence
of laborers and mechanics in organized So
ciety was the result of the partial and pro-
gressive emancipation of slaves"
After speaking Of the condition of the
free laboring class and their present position,
he proceeds:
"This condition Il speak of it historically,
however CALLING it may be to human pride
TO reveal its origin, traces its primal, univcrs-
al, and absolute cause to former emancipa-
ton of slaves. History tells us, also, that
when the working classes stepped out of the
condition of bondage, by the process Of
emancipation, they branched into four re-
curing subdvisions--th hireling, tho beg
gar, the thief, and the prosttuto-whct
have no general existence in slave countries
unless there have been u commencement o.
emancipation. The necessity of ramcnt
and food, which are the main wants of ami
nal life, being the motive which leads thu
hireling to work, the pauper to beg, tho
thief to plunder, and the prostitute to dc
grade herself it is not difficult to see why
these four conditions, as general thing
should not exist under the system of slavery
in which all have the necessaries of life
the master by the fact that he is the master
the slave by reason that he is slave
There are no mercenaries, nor beggars, no
thieves, nor prostitutes, among the Arab
of the desert tribes, because the SLAYER
which roignod in days of Abraham stand
now in its almost primitive integrity"
These then arc tho doctrines of southerl
democracy proclaimed without rcbuko o
denial on the floor Of congress! For thes
doctrines the south demands the assent an
support of the northern democratic workin
classes This is the further price which tn
devil requires of those who have receive
his aid.
Can any man read these statements
(" democratic doctrine as the south understand
it, and not see what We mean when we sa
that in resisting the extension of SLAYER
a and the further domination of such men
d, Keitt, we are contending for the liberty, n
of the slave, but of ourselves? We belor
to tho working clasr," the class which th
le Keitt thinks ought to be slaves; tho ella
that he and his democratic compeers at Il
10 south wouid make slaves if they could
. In resisting him and his clan we are fiph
W ing for our own freedom. II such SEN
ments can be uttered in the house Of re
le resentatives and call forth no rebuke fro
: the northern democrats who there misrepl
r sent their constituents it is not too mu
to say, that such miserable doughfaces wi
n as soon as they dare, advocate these infer
~ al doctrines, as heartily as they have do