Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1858-02-05
Or Ohio, and slnvery has proved such mill

Stone apOut tne neck OF the originally
strongest state in tho Union, inen will still
fall down and worship slavery
Tho gentleman from Hamilton, who sits
in front Of me, and b whose courteous and
eloquent remarks on this question, we all
listened with so much pleasure, very quiet
y intimated that the Republican party was
a cowdrdly party, seeking to secure by
stealth what it dare not openly demand
The Republicans have been in power in
Congress said the gentleman, since the pas
sage Of the Fugitive Law; and upon this
foundation he erected tho triumphant qucs-
ton: Why did they not repeal the obnoS-
ious actl Apparently triumphant ques-
ton; but the misfortune of the argument
was, the gentleman was wholly indebted TO
his imagination for the foundation fact
The Republicans have never been in power
in either house of Congress since the pass
age Of this offensive bill. They have never
approached majority in the Senate; and
in the House they only succeeded in the
election Of Mr. BANKS, after weeks Of strug-
Igling, by the aid Of the Know Nothings-
a party that never had any natural affintios
with the Republicans, but party, l may
Isay in passing, whose important aid to the
Democrats Of Ohio in the last canvass,
should have won from them at least more
respectful mention than they are receiving
on this floor. The old saw was, that man
should speak well Of the bridge that car
ried him safe over.
During this debate Mr. Chairman, we
have heard much sneeriug,y of tho igno-
rance and fanaticism and notification of the
Republican party. Now, the Republican
party is no more to be put down by sncer
and a jibe, than is the ignorance and disloy-
atty of the people of the Western Reserve
to bc established by like instrumeptality.
All these charges fall unsupported to the
ground. Are not the States where the
Republicans arc in the majority, as intelli-
gent as the States generally Of the Union
Sir, is it in the provcrbially intelligent or
in tho Egyptian districts, that Republican
ism rolls up its mightest majorities =
Take the twenty Republican Senators in
Congress-are not Seward, and Sumner,
and Hale, and Cameron, and Preston King,
and our own fearless Frank Wade, as intel
ligent, as patriotic, as fully American in
heart and sentiment, as their fellows'
In spite of all these sneers, l will take
the liberty of saving that tho Republican
party has right to an existence in this Re-
public. 1t is the party of FREQ Labor
Free Labor which has right to this entire
continent and will yet achieve the possession
of its inheritance. 1t is the party which is
in harmony with the genius and spirit Of
our Constitution and our Government--in
harmony with the history of the earlier and
puror days of the Republic 1t is the party
that is in step with the advancing civiliza-
ton Of tho times.
The cause of Free Labor embodies the
truths which lie at the foundation of Re-
publican Government, and while earnestly
contending for tho rights and the pro-
lection and the dignity of free and ntell-
gent industry, the Republican party viii re-
main stcdfast in its opposition TO the attempt
of the Federal Government to Africanize
the territorics-driving out free citizens to
mako room for slaves
4 Mr.. Chairman as citizen Of Ohio, | am
sorry to see the Legislation which tho ma
J jority Of this Assembly seem determined
5 upon inaugurating This opening of oul
t jails to the Slavc-huntcr; tho proposed re-
a peal of the Habeas Corpus act; and the re
9 peal of the act forbidding kidnapping ant
| Slave holding in Ohio; and the cnactmen
! Of n law forbidding emigration to our Stat,
: of mulattoes and negroes; gentlemen viii
excuse me for saying this is all unmany
: bowing to tho behcsts of Slavery. Men
! hare learned that the 100000 Shareholder
!, dispense the Federal patronage.
' 1t is reported that there is somewhere
j among the dark tribes of Asia class o
r heathen devotecs who, when they max,
: their yearly journey to tho temple wberc
+ their god is sheltered, believe it sacred du
q ty to keep straight line from the point o
r starting. Also to appease the wrath o
. thoir offended deity, on account Of thei
. many sins, they prosecuted the journey il
# the most humiIiatug and painful manner
o The devotee, putting his face towards Mec
y ca, throws himself forward his full leDgtl
# upon the ground. Then gathering himsel
d up, he plants his feet upon tho spot press0C
: by his face, and again measures his length
: and so on, though the distance may b.
> scores or hundreds Of miles, keeping in I
Q straight line towards his god, and prostratin,
; himself in whatever filth may como in hi
+ wav.
$ In ancient times, tho French had ban
It ncr called the Ori6amme, or Golden Flame
y which was used only on august occasions, an
e when the Christians went to war with tn
II nfidels. 1t was grost banner wrought G
n silk. and garnisbed with gold, and bcarin
s in its centre white cross, and when it wa
d Iunfurled to the breeze, it glistoned like tn
n Iauroral lights.
y Let mo remind gentlemen that tho youn
Is Republican party of America has unfurle
1t its Oriflammc. That on its ample folds al
d inscribed no such sentiments of folly as al
NJ imputed to us by the gentleman from Franl
3: lin, but these words of truth and sobernes'
is Loyalty to the Constitution and Union
z our Fathers; Freedom National and Etc
n nal-Slavcry Sectional and Temporar,
Free States for Free Men; Governments il
O. stituted only by tho consent the governed
n It is, indeed, golden banner--a white Gro
te banncr--a banner of light aud nspiratio
ne Full high advanced it already floats in Il
a uInph from the capitol Of n majority of Il
IN free States. The Egyptians cannot read
n, talismanic words. The sordid and the 81