Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1858-02-05
aud lodged in the jails at the respective
county seats as they pass.

judiciary of our State not covering and
crouching but broken and disabled at tho
foct Of federal usurpation. They are also
laborng TO repeal the laws prohibiting kid
mapping and the holding Of slaves in Ohio.
In short the statutes of the State are noscd
through by these mousing rat-cycd politi-
clans, and wherever bar has been put up
against slavery and in favor of freedom, it
is forthwith assailed and broken down; and
all this vile iuiquily is carried on by certain
members of the legislature without single
petition or request from their constituents
and in the sacred namc Of democracy, and
in all this Mr.. F1NEFRocK is engaged might
and main.
Are the freedom loving democracy of
Sandusky county willing to endorse these
acts and doings as being in accordance with
their views and sentiments, and to be taxed
heavily to support such Representative
and thereby proclaim to the world that they
are opposed to every law and every meas
ure which has for its object and aim the So
curing of freedom to frcenion and free soil 2
What say the honest, industrious, frugal and
freedom loving Germans, (whc Mr.. FINE
FRocK, since his election by their votes, for
getting his own nativity and past favors con-
descends to call "dutchmep,) who have bid
farewell to their kindred and 'fatherland,"
and amid much privation and suffering have
crossed the brny waste of waters to find o
home for frOemcn in the groat Republic of
America?
1t is the main argument of these van
dals in their crusade against freedom, that
these laws are unnecessary and also that
comfy between States require their repeal.
What honest man in his sense will under
take to claim that the principles Of freedom
can be too often recognized or referred to.
or that any amount of security is too great
for such sacred purpose, and especially
when he looks through tho pages Of past
history and sees the states and empires that
have been tramplcd in tho dust under the
iron heel of tyranny and oppression by their
own rulors, notwithstanding all their safe
guards Of freedom. "Eternal vigilance is
the price of liberty" and he that cries
peace, peace, when there is no peace, is an
enemy to the people and dangeroussenti-
mel on the walls of liberty. And moreover,
if they arc unnecessary, they are at least
harmless, and being enacted, why spend five
thousand dollars of the peoples money, es-
pecially at the present time Of financial en-
barrassment, to repeal them. "But comfy
requires their repeal" What rule of com
ity, prayl Does that obligation arise strong
enough to set these very Just and beneoo-
lent spirits to work from the fact that free.
man Of the North cannot express his senti-
ments on the subject of slavery in the most
respectful manner in a slave State, without
danger of life or limbl Docs it arise from
the fact that free colored seaman from tht
north, on board Of northern vessel canno
stop in port of slave State, either from
stress of weather, disabled ship, sick crew
or other cause without being seized and i'm
prisoned, and when proUentO be free, sole
into slavery to pay the most exorbitant jai
fees? Is it because the agent of fre
State and his unoffending wife are mobbe'
and treated in the most outrageous and saw
age manner, when he goes as the agent Q
such State under its legislative authorit
, authenticated by its broad seal, to negoti
tiate with a slave State for the liberation c
freemcn wrongfully imprisoned there, an
to stipulate against recurrence of sue
, wrongsl Is it because tbe literature of th
f north-and such rs all the rest of the worl
! is open to the reception of, when sent to
slave State, no matter for what purpose,
: seized and burned like the Alexaudrian !
a brarv, and with about as much reason q
: was given by Omar, "that if it was eontri
:, ry to the Koran it should be destroyed, an
i if not inconsistent with it, the Koran wa
Y all sufficient without it, so let it be burned
y Is it because minister of the gospel fror
G tho north is in danger Of his life if he preac
Q at the south the doctrines and principle
t taught by our Savior and such as can b
: safely preached anywhere elsei Or las
= but not least, do these worthy legislato
d for Ohio urge this obligation upon her mi
> lion and half Of freemen, as compens
N ton for tho murderous assault of Brook
10 upon Senator Sumner, in the United Stat
" Senate
n Freemen of Sandusky county, can yC
re tell why just at this time, to (say nothing
2f any other time, every law Of the State
re tho better security of the libcrty of 4
Q, people to be found on our statute books,
ID sought to be swept away by tho wire wol
n ing politicians, unsolicited By the peop
~ and that too, Notwithstanding some Of the
81 have boen in force many years, and duril
es many political changes in the State. A fl