Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1857-06-12
Correspondents.


III are the agencies Of human freedom In
working out their great proposed ends!--
Time was when an almost universal sleep,
,pon the question of slavery and slavery ex-
ension, seemed to pcrvade the American
people; so much so, indeed, that petitions
or the curtailment Of the slave power, to
Congress, were spurned from either house
with Indignation. And upon the question
Of receiving them sharp and bitter conflict
ensued. And with what apparent ease was
Texas admitted as q slave State, when it
had SO long been the settled and undisturbed
policy of the Government to give no further
extension to the bounds of human slavery.
But this aggression upon the rights of
freedom aroused many of its unwary abet-
tors to an inquiry into the meaning and
event of so daring a device. Many, too,
were stung to the core at SO gross and pal
pable violation of the most sacred com
promise made by the trainers and ratifors,
of the constitution viz: that slavery
should not extend another inch be-
yond its original limitations or exist
within the territory under tho control of
Government An array was formed, and
firm ground was taken against further en-
croachments. The times changed, and, al
though the compromise measures" were
passed by which vast territories were thrown
open to the introduction of slavery, and the
odous slave bill forced through Congress,
it was by dnt of the fercest and most des-
perate struggle ever witnessed. But the
secret truth is, these high handed measures,
instead of enhancing and strcngthing the
cause of slavery, only weakened it, and gave
vigor and encouragement to the cause Of
freedom.
In man there is an instructive love of lib.
erty; and when unbiased by interest, an ad
miration of justice. Hence, when those fla.
grant acts were perpctrated, not only upor
the rights of the colored race, whereby jus.
tice to them was avcrted, but upon the NOR
al and social rights of the great mass of free
men, indirectly, the master-spirits of the
country were aroused to vindication of thei
interests, in common with those of the op
pressed, more directly, Instinctively i'm
PEELED to action in repeling tho foul ag
: gressions, their enthusiastic zeal, like fam
, ing fire has swept its way to every nool
and avenue the free States. Like load
, ed car on descending surface, the weight
/ ier the burden the greater the speed. So
the greater and the more-ncreasng the
monstrosites the slaveocracy imposed OF
the abbettors of freedom, the more vehe
ment their zeal, the moro potent their pow
crs, the more amplifed their sources for re
pelling their encroachments and establish
ing freedom where slavery is seeking to gail
foothold. 1t has proved really so. The Flu
, gitve Slave Code, the Kansas Nebrask,
5 Act, the oppressive and bloody course of tn
Administration against the free State me
> in Kansas and the late decisions in tn
Dred Scott case, have, as reverted agencies
: effected more in opening tho eyes of tn
northern people, and in shaking the vcr
: foundations of slavery, than all the mora
suason, or direct efforts of anti-slavery me
have done since the government was formed
" 1t works gloriously.
> Many trembled at what the events of tt
- decision in tho Dred Scott case would
y likely to prove; and some predicted tn
- the free States would be overrun with slav
" ry, according to the sangune claims of son
southern demagogucs, who asserted that Il
y south would not be safe, contented nor vie
the contest till slavery was pushed to I'll
= Canada line. But mark. That great an
d boasted "Long Tom'--the great souther
: gun-has been turned already on its pivc
g and is pouring its deadly contents into til
5 very midst of their ranks. New York, Ohic
and Maine have made their fire, and ever
! free State will do the same See if the
!, don't. Why be so panic stricken, then,
Kansas is overrun with the pro-savery horde
: for the time being9 What if tho pro-slav'
!. ry mon sAould carry the election? An
b what if Congress should admit Kansas wit
+ pro-slavery constitutions What of it,
n Arc there not ten free State men to OF
! pro-slavery man therel And just so soc
n as they become State will they not ha,
Y their affairs in their own hands9 q In II
e election for tho first State legislature, nea
ly, or quite, the whole of both houses wi
. be free State men; and their first busine,
will be to authorize n convention to amen
the constitution or to form a new one, aftt
their own hearts. 1t must be so, and wi
/ be no other way. Now, they are in tn
v hands of tho merciless slave power, exercise
i through tho Administration. Then, the
+ will be their own masters, and every ma
: a sovereign, making their own laws in col
il junction with each other.
With such mighty army of free Sta
:. men, and master spirits, too, what can Il
% slave power dol Southern demagogu
g. NAV nc we'll thow nuff.balls AGAINST N