Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1857-09-18
Judge Warden at Cleveland.

The Herald says large and enthusiastic
crowd gathered at the Melodeon in that city
on Thursday evening to welcome and hear
Judge Warden, of Columbus. The speech
of the Judge on the occasion is represented
to have been mastery effort. He re-
viewed, step by step, the descent of the
Democratic party, from the high anti-slavery
grounds it once occupied to its present de-
based condition of being mere clique of
slavery extensionists. The Judge was also
scorching in his allusion to the great decep-
ton Mr.. Buchanan has been guilty of to-
wards the North. Mr.. r. was supported by
the honest Democracy of the North under
the impression that Northern interests would
be safer in his hands than in those of the
imbccile Pierce or the trcachcrous Douglas.
Yet how basely Mr.. Buchanan has betrayed
the North can be seen in his late letter in
which he not only denies the right of Con-
gress to control the territories, but openly
avows the monstrous doctrine that slavery
now exists in Kansas under the Constitution
Of the United States, and that 1t as a mys-
terry how sach doctrine could eper hare
| been doubted
The Herald concludes its synopsis Of the
Judges speech by saying:
We cannot follow Judge Warden through
his speech, and least of all can we give
those shouts of cloquence which again and
again thrilled the house, and called down
most enthusiastic bursts of applause. We
wish we could give our readers one glimpse
of the picture Judge Warden drew before
the audience in his illustration of slavery as
an abstraction. 1t was the scene in Cincin.
natl, in which fugitive slave stabbed that
catcher of stray human cattle, Marshall Ell
hot, and in which the slave himself received
his death wound the wretched black wife
kissing the sable cheek of her husband, and
calling upon God to let them die together
That drove from the Judges breast the idea
that slavery is an abstraction. We never
heard an illustration which for touching
beauty, and thrilling power, exceeded this
For moment, the house was as still a.
midnight, and then rose such burst of ap
plausc as shook the walls to their founda
ton.
We thank Judge Warden for his speech
W. "iou every DcIuOCldJ III OUlO COult
have heard it, for VIC know that his dis
passionate and truthful history of that par
ty, and of its swaying from the real Jeffer
sonian standard, would open the eyes ol
thousands of its adherents, and induce them
to act with the Republicans in their effort.
to beat back the slavery crusade agains
, free labor.
We are happy in being able to state t.
the Republicans of this county, that Judg
WARDEN will address them at the Cour
. House in Fremont on Tuesday, Septembe
goth, at o'clock in the afternoon. Let tn
word be circulated throughout the county.
Mr.. WARDEN was late democratic Su
premo Judge of this State, but when th
/ decision of the United States Court in ,h
, Dred Scott case was given, he found tn
r administration had assumed that SLAYER
was to bc the rule and standard of thei
: faith he came out from among them an
, has taken his stand boldly on the side {
Freedom. We hope tho democrats of thi
5 vicinity will come out and hear Mr.. w
himself announce the reasons for leaving th
democracy. We promise them a first rat
speech.