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Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1857-05-29

Can anything good come out of such q
Legislature as that which adjourned some
weeks since? If it can, or if it has, we
have failed to see or hear Of it. Like the
hero of the Athenian tragedy nothing
seemed to be lost in that body, for all that
was not knave was fool.
The above is the opening paragraph of n
very long article in tho Urbana Democrat
in which no particular charge is brought
against the Legislature, except that it pass
cd a bill submitting the question of amend
ing the Constitution to the people, so as to
have members of the Legislature elected by
single districts. That is the only sin which
it specially charges upon tho Legislature
The truth is, the Locofocos find the utmost
difficulty in bringing distinctive charges
against the Legislature, and therefore they
resort to the miserable deception of making
sweeping general assertions. The Legisla-
ture passed several hundred acts of differ
ent kinds. Now let the Democrat name
the particular acts to which it objects. We
state, without fear of contradiction, that
more good acts were passed by the late Leg
slature, than has been passed by any Loco
foco Legislature that has met here for the
last twenty years, and they did it in a short
er time and at less expense to the State.-
We hope tho Republican papers will hold
these general slanderers of the Legislature
to make their specifications. Let us know
precisely what they mean.-O S. Journal
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1857-05-29
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FREMONT: OHIO.
ISAAC M. KEHLuR, Editor.
Friday, May 20, 1857.
THE GANIE BLOCKED.

Never was prettier swindle got up, than
that by which the free state people of Kan
sas arc to be made tho tools for fastening on
themselves slave constitution. Tho whole
gamc was in the hands of the rufiians and
their faithful allies, Mr.. Buchanan and his
cabinet. But all at once, just as the trick
sters werc about to count their gains in an
ticipation, the whole game was blocked
The free state settlers wouldn't vote? They
wouldn't play out the game Then, o my
couutymen, what howl of vexation did
the whole false, hollow, lying, sham democ-
racy set up! Itwas all a trick of the cursed
black republicans to mako a slave state of
Kansas !-and all to spite the democracy.
Why wouldn't tho free state men vote p
Because the registration of voters was in the
hands of the tools of the slave party. Be
cause these myrmidons would not register
the free state voters, or very few of them.
Because the judges of elections werc all the
tools of slavery. Because the result of the
election was foredoomcd by the appointment
of such officials. Because they would not
endorse the usurping acts of Missouri leg
islature. Because they would not, by cast
ing the few votes they were permitted to
have, give the opposition chance to say,
=" You voted and were beaten" The wis
dom of this refusal is already vindicated.-
Tho administration is alarmed. Secretary
Stanton proposes to have a new registration
for one county. This will have to be done
for all the counties before the free state men
will vote.
Let them fix it as they please, Kansas
is bound to be free state. But let it be
remembered that this result is in no degree
TO the credit of democracy or the admins
tration. Not stone has been left unturned
by Buchanan or his cabinet, 10 favor the
slavites. The unheard of outrage of Mis-
souri, legislature and Missouri laws has been
sustained by the whole power of the gov
ernmcnt. Every official appointed at
Washington is lickspittlc of slavery. A
fair vote of the people is promised, but this
means the vote of such only as will acknowl-
edge the Missouri usurpation with all its
Iabominable laws.
But tho game is blocked. If the admin
istration dare suffer the election to come on
without new registration and without new
securities for fair vote, the free state men
will take no part. Mr. Buchanan dare not
meet such protest as this. The free state
men have got Mr.. Buchanan in tight place
let them keep him there.
One thing however is certain, the vast
free state emigration is settling the question
in favor of freedom in spite of that most un-
democratic of all human things, the sham
democracy.
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1857-05-29

Under this head the New York Courier
G Enquirer holds the following:
1t seems to be reduced to a certainty
that an early and unexpected fruit of the
Kansas excitement will be to precipitate the
triumph of emancipation in Missouri. Re-
cent events have directed special attention
to that State; and her great natural re-
sources, and almost boundless extent of fer
tile and unimproved lands, have allured a
vast number of emigrants from Illinois, Iowa,
Indiana and Wisconsin, each of these States
having contributed largely to the population
of Missouri this spring. The late emanci-
patton movement has greatly accelerated
this emigration, and the information which
has been SO widely spread by the friends of
free labor, In regard to the small number of
slaves in that State and the limited space
occupied by slave labor, has had its influence.
1t appears that the entire slave population
is about one hundred thousand, against a
white population of eight hundred and fif.
teen thousand. That slavery decreases
wherever it comes in contact with the immi-
grafton of white laborers is demonstrated by
a recent State census of 1850 the white
population Of the State has increased thirty
seven per cent, while the number of slaves
has increased but fifteen per cent. in the
Same time.
The high prices which negroes command
in the cotton growing States operate at the
same moment TO promote the results we are
noticing; and as the extreme value of cotton
bids fair to be maintained for a long time
10 come, the migratory movement of the
blacks must continue, in accordance with
the inevitable laws of trade, and will 90 on
increasing until it completely drains those
more Northern Slave States in which other
labor can be easily substituted. A prime
tield-hand will now command in the Cotton
States from 81 500 to $4,000, which, at the
legal rate of interest 10 per cent? in Mis-
souri,, and the cost of clothing and risk of
keeping, is equivalent to $2o per month
and board-a price for labor that would call
to Missouri such an army of foreign laborers
as would soon cause her wilderness to bios
som. At present the hardy men of Iowa
and Illinois, who understand the position
and prospects of Slavery in Missouri, are
those who are ayailing themselves of her
cheap land and favored climate-the i'm
lnense eastern emigration to those States
enabling the older settlers to dispose of their
improved farms at high prices. Thus the
two forces Of cheap lands and dear negroes
are solving political problem, under the
operation of natural, or if you please high
er law, which is both inhexible and irresis-
table
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1857-05-29

Railroad Case.

The case of Rev. George B. Jewett, for
merly professor of Amherst College,
against the Concord Railroad Company, to
recover damages for personal injuries recciv-
ed by him by collision between train of
cars, on the road, at Nashua, N. H., and his
carriage, has Just been tried at Salem, be-
fore Justice Thomas, of the Supreme Court.
Mr.. Jewett was badly crippled for life, and
laid his damages at $4,000. The Jury
were ursble to agree. The Boston Tra1-
eier says:
They stood six to six, and their disagree
ment did not occur on tho assessment Of
damages, but on the primary question of the
liability of the corporation TO pay any dam
ages at all. We understand that tho prin-
ciple question considered by the jury was
whether the yiscious habits of the horse
driven BY Mr.. Jewett contributed to the in
jury, Il having been decided by the Supreme
Court lin case not yet reported) that in
such an event the plaintiff could not recover.
Before this case went 70 trial, the railroad
company offered Rev. Mr.. Jewett & s 900.
or 81 500 year so long as he should live,
and el 900 year to his wife SO long as she
should survive him. Both were declined,
fprgetful that "a bird in the hand is worth
two in the bush" After the above result,
the cempauy will not BE- likely to repeat
tpese onsfs' 0or fa4 -listsissa..al 5idt
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1857-05-29
rE- Paragraphs like the following mus

Eg- Paragraphs like the following must
be particularly interesting to the Northern
men of this republic. Newspapers in the
South, daily send forth articles of the same
stamp; but let a Northern man go South
and utter the views of three-fourths of the
voters of the Union, on the slavery question,
and he is Immediately gagged, driven off or
hung up on tree. Such are the beauties
of the "peculiar institution" This extract
if from the N. o. Delta:
The Danger and Position of the South.
The hour is assuredly approaching-nay,
we believe, is already at hand--when the
South must break, by one vigorous effort,
the spell which has so long bound her
must abruptly turn away from the national
charmer, 'charm he ne'er so wisely" or die
in hor infatuation, like the fool who though
brayed in mortar, will net relinquish his
folly. The political status Qato may have
sufficed once, as temporary policy, for one
or dozen years; but in tho present COM
plexion of affairs, the preservation of the
status 9uo, and that only, as the policy of
the South, means death, moro or loss, fast
or slow, but ultimate and inevitable.
Kansas as lost, doubtless, to the South, +,
but the political status quo was not disturb
ed, and non-ntervention was the order Of
the day, Black Republicanism has one foot
firmly planted in st. Louis, and in the cen
the of Missouri the other in no long time
may be resting; yet, as regards Missouri, the
political status quo is also intact, and non
intervention is the doctrine of tho faithful
National Democracy of that State. Vir-
ginia is in danger of being Thayerized ;
Slavery is undergoing an alarming drain
from that State; slave capital, as all capital
manifests symptoms of panic in all border
States, and thus helps to hasten the work
of depletion, which, if not arrested, must
finally yield them up to the peaceful occu-
patton of our enemies; and, nevertheless,
Virginian, the State in general, and tho
whole South, have had the full benefit of
the political status quo, and enjoyed the
triumph of non-intervention.
The fact is, the South must shortly rouse
from her somnolence; she must be stmula-
ted from the coma which the soporizing
nostrums of political quacks and incapables
have brought upon he; she must take her
own case in hand, and that right resolutely
and vigorously, or she will soon be past
help and past praying for
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1857-05-29
How the Census was Taken in Kansa.

How the Census was Taken in Kansas.
AS we have all along predicted, the bo-
gus law providing for census, and registry
of voters for delegates to the Constitution
convention, and placed in the hands of bor-
der-ruffian sheriffs and marshals for execu-
ton, has been SO carried out as to preclude
all hope of a fair representation of the Free
State sentiment of Kansas, in that Conven-
ton. A settler writes to the New York
Times, demonstrating against the course Of
that paper, and saying:
"Were it indeed possible for fair vote to
be secured Mt the June election, the argu-
ment for participation would be ten-fold
stronger. But we know this to be beyond
hope. The votinp there as done already; }.
and the electors are the Shcriffs and Pro-
bate Judges. In making up the census
and registry list, enough has already been
done to show that
~. Tho mass of Free State names are
omitted.
"2. Their places are occupied by names
Of actual non-residents, claiming citizenship
through the very outrages of the past.
"3. The distribution of the delegates is
so made on this false basis as to preclude
the possibility of Free State majority,
notwithstanding our proportion is as nine
TO one!i"
These statements are corroborated by a
letter from one of the border rufians of
the Stringfellow stamp. In letter to the
New York Hearld, although misrepresent-
ing and traducing the Free State men for
refusing to vote at the election, he mad
vcrtently admits most fully the intended
fraud. Under date of May 9Th he says:
"The following official returns of the cor
rected census list are all that have boon re,
ceived at the Executive office up to date:
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1857-05-29
Republican convention in WISCONSIN.

The Milwaukee Free Democrat publishes
call for the citizens of the State who are
opposed to the late decision of the U. S.
Supreme Court, that Slavery is constitution
ally entitled to foothold in all Territories
Of the United States, to the Fugitive Slave
Act, and 10 having the soil of Wisconsin
polluted with Slavery, and who are in favor
of maintaining tho Sovereignty and Rights
Of the State, and the Independence of State
Judiciary from Federal revision and control,
and who are resolved that Wisconsin shall
be FreeState, to meet at Milwaukee, on
the 18th of June, at l2 o'clock NJ, to con-
suit together as to the best means of pro-
noting the cause of Freedom and over
throwing tho despotism of Slavery. The
call is numerously signed by citizens of DIFF
ferent parts Of the State.
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1857-05-29
Total. 1856


"There are thirty organized counties and
seven unorganized attached to adjoining un-
organized counties. OF these, but ten coun-
ties hare as get been officially heard from,
leaving tscenty TO be returned, but some of
these counties are almost unsettled, SO that
we can make calculation which will ap-
pear small to the total of registered voters,
which it is presumed will reach a total of
ten thousand of the registered voters.-
There is probably a majority in favor of a
pro-Slapery Constitution of say 2,OOO.-
There are at least 5000 Voters not regis
tered"
The census was to have been completed
by April 10th, and the revised list of vo-
ters by the lst of May Yet here is an un-
blushing admission that the work was not
completed within the prescribed period and
that the lists had been closed, with prob
able "majority in favor of Pro-Slayery
Constitution of say 2,oo0," leaving Sat
least five thousand voters unregistered l"---
These unregistered voters are, Of course,
FREQ State men, who, If included in the lists,
would give the election another complexion.
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1857-05-29

The following from the GAINESVILLE Auro-
ra illustrates the "retrcnchment and reform"
practiced by the fusion Legislature which
adjourned few days ago.
The farmer who is used to building fence
at cost Of not more than 500 per mile,
may be little surprised to know that the
Extra "Reforna" Legislature which has Just
adjourned, appropriated ONE HUNDRED
THOUSAND DOLLARS of the peoples
money, to fence in the pile of stone at Co
lumbus, called the State House. The string
of fence will be about quarter of mile
long. When it is recollected that the entire
State House of Indiana cost but $50, 1000 it
will seem odd that Ohio must pay 100000
for fencing hers.
Oh, the beauties of Fusion Reform!-
Seneca Ad0ertiser.
On which the State Journm remarks -
at is by such mean Misrepresentation as
the above, that the Locofocos expect to gal
vanize some rattle snake life into their par
ty. 1t is not true that one hundred thous-
and dollars were appropriated "to fence in
the pile of stones, at Columbus, called tho
State House." which pile of stones, by the
way, if it be monument of extravaganza,
it is one made so by the rascally extraya-
gance and cheating of tho Locofoco party.
They are especially responsible for its cost,
and not the Republicans. 1t is proposed To
put an iron fence around the lot, one in
keeping with the building, plain and sub
stantial, and we are informed, that it will
not cost above forty thousand dollars. What
kind of fenco would the aurora or Ad-
vertiser have? one of rails or tree stumps,
lat the "rate of sixty dollars a mile," or
whatl Pray, tell us"
In the Journal last week we published
the bids on which the contract for building
this fence was awarded-least some of this
sham economy-striken, black locofoco party
have not read it We publish it again;
The bids for the iron fence around the
State House at Columbus were opened on
Saturday last, and the contract awarded to
N. T. Horton, of Cincinnati. The following
was Mr.. Horizons bid:
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1857-05-29
NoryynlIk Postmastor.

The editors of the Experiment at Nor
walk have shed barrels of tears, and said a
great many unkind things about the Bu-
chanan administration for appointing, a
Mr. Parks Postmaster at that place. But
it was all to no purpose. Mr.. P. has got
his commission and entered upon his du-
tics. What will the Experiment do nowi Z
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1857-05-29
EsE The Democratic Messenger says:-

RE The Democratic Messenger says: e.
"In Kansas, they [tho free state men
refuse TO go to the ballot box for fear that
that territory will become free state, and
thus their only issue be taken from thom."
The writer of the above is q knayc, or the
lager in which ho had bccn indulging had
so muddled his modicum of brain that he
did not know what he was writing. Ifnei-
thor of the foregoing is the true cause, there
can bo but one other; the writer don't
know any better. Everybody else knows
that under the present arrangement, the
constitutional election in Kansas is just like
a democratic caucus here. Here the candi-
dates arc nominated by the wire-pullers be-
fore the day of nomination arrives; thero
the democratic census takers have already
adopted slave constitution, and only wait
for the farce of an election to proclaim it.
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1857-05-29

ELEcrIoN.-Thero was an election for
Township Treasurer on Friday last, which
resulted in the election of @. w. STEELE,
democrat who received 200 out of 2el votes
cast. The republicans did not go the polls,
leaving it all to tho Americans and demo
Gratis. Is it not time that our republican
friends began to think about the fall election.
1t is only about four months. five arc 60
ing to nominate and elect ticket it is time
to be looking up the men.
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1857-05-29
DTrCH NOTICE.

Notice Is hereby given that application win be made
IN to the Trustees OF Madison township Sandusy eoun-
ty Ohio to locate water ditch In said town
ship, commencing on the south line of section number
23 township number range 49, in said township at the
quarter post ereon thence northwardly through said
section and on till IL intersects joins ditch Abram
ungns land; also commencing al the centre OF section
number 2 and running due east into section "a so far
be deemed axpedent by said trustees order 10 drain
the same, And that said Trustees will at the resi-
denee OF D. r. Harlbut la saa township the 9th day
OF July D. 1887 at 10 ocoek A. NJ and proceed to ex-
anime and locate said ditch, and assign the expenses and
MaT Is Isss@Isd sne1eoI D. HuRLBur.
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1857-05-29

There are 2,496 feet of fence, which will
cost s,720; four double gates, $500, and
four single gates, $300-rnaking in all $40,
$40. Then Mr.. Horton agrees to take the old
railroad iron, estimated at sixty tons, at $50
per ton, which comes to $2,16O, which
leaves balance for the cost of the fence
now to be built of 81, 500.
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1857-05-29
Notice.

Notice.
n BETS l. co. having quit the Mercantile businass
are anxious to close up their books and Accounts
and we hope that all indebted either by note or book
ACCOUNT wil call at our Office and settle Immediately.
You wtllhnd our Office In the second story same build
ing formerly occupied by u.s. D. BFTTs q Co
Fremont, April 10 1857. l2H ~
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1857-05-29

AIHITIoUuIg, u, MHy 70.
An axle of the fourth car of the train
from Philadelphia, was broken about mile
west of this city. The car was upset and
dragged short distance. Holmes Norton
of Trenton, N. j., was seriously injured, and
ten or twelve Others were considerably cut
and bruised. The wounded were brought
to this city. Col. Benton was among the
passengers and whas somewhat hurt but
proceeded on his journey. The Pittsburgh
train was detained two hours by the acci-
dent.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1857-04-29
AMENnMENT NO. 3.

Resolped by the General assembly Of the State
.of Ohio, Three-ffths of the members elected to
each branch, concurring therein, that it be and
hereby is proposed to the electors of the State,
to vote on the second Tuesday of October next,
to approve or reject the following amendment
as asubstitute for the second and third sections
of the twelfth article of the Constitution.
All property, personal and real, shall be sub
ject to taxation by uniform rule, at the true
value thereof in money. but such deductions
from credits may be allowed as the General
Assembly may deem expedient; Provided, that
burying grounds. public school houses, and
all other public property, and all institutions
of purely public charity, and all houses used
exclusively for public worship shall be ex-
empt from taxation; and if the total value of
the personal property of any person shall not
exceed fifty dollars, the same may be exempt
from taxation. All property employed in
banking shall always bear burden of taxa
ton equal to that imposed on the property of
individuals. -1s-
N. II. VAN WORRIES,
Speaker of the House of Representatives..
THOMAS H. FORD,
President of the Senate.
Dated April Sd, 1857.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1857-04-29
. AMENDMENT NO. 2.

RESOLVED by the General Assembly Of the State
of Ohio, Three-ffths of the members elected
to each House concurring therein, that it be,
aud hereby is, proposed to the electors of this
State to vote on the second Tuesday of Octo.
Der next, upon the approval or rejection of the
following amendment, as a substitute for the
fifth and sixth sections of the fourth article of
the Constitution, viz: Sec. 5. District Courts
shall be held in each county at least once in
each year, by one or more District Judges elect
ed by the electors of separate Districts to be
prescribed by law, who shall. hold their office
for five years; and during their continuance in
office, shall reside in the District for which they
are elected. The provisions of the fourteenth
section Of this article shall apply to District
Judges. The General Assembly may by law
authorize the Judges of the District Court and
of the Courts of Common Pleas, to fix the times
of holding their respective Courts until Dis
triet Judges shall have been elected and quail
flied. District Courts shall be held by the
Judges of the Supreme Court and of the Courts
of Common Pleas, as now authorized. Sec. 6.
The District Court shall have such jurisdiction
as may be provided by law, and the Judges
thereof shall have and exercise such power
and jurisdiction at chambers, and may be re-
quired to sit as Judges of the Courts of Com
mon Pleas as shall be directed by law.
N. H. VAN WORRIES,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
THOMAS H. FORD,
President Of the Senate.
Dated April Sd, 1857.