Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1858-08-20

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The 81. Louis Democrat says that forty
thousand votes were cast in Missouri this
ycar distinctly 10 favor Of emancipation
IL declares that in no locality, and under no
pressure Of adversely has the FREQ Soil son
timent rocedsd one single vote in that State.
II goes on TO say:
Those who think free soil by any means
prostratcd under the late elections, are wdo
indeed Of the mark and show littlo nppre-
citation Of the elements which 60 to make
up great popular movements. Tho result
may act as tonic not rs q parslysis-tho
forcc Of plurality triumphs can only teach
the opposition its divided weakness and its
united strength. Theirs is the future. To
none other can il belong, for they nre prog
ress-they are politics hereafter
Free soil, we assert, is stronger in st.
Louis to-day than it was n week ago. by
thousands Of votes. Those who tainted by
the wayside, or fingered in rear of the bat
Gle, will fight hOnceforth, upon eompulsion
The doubters numbered near six thousand
and Of the doubters four out of five are free
soil. And even as it stands, what does a
plurality OF two or thrre hundred signify,
where fraud has stalked Mt large through
the city, and the President of the United
States has anticipated tho national revenue
to carry his favoritos for Congress! Is it a
funeral knell for free soil. No! Bravo
men do not surrender thus--the six thou
sand FIVE hundred free soilers Of St. Louis,
arc victory Of themselves. But the seed
is there, tho trcO is growing, the fruit will
ripen. Thsre may not be member elect
TO the present General Assembly ready to
movc in the matter Of slavery extinction,
and yet there have been near forty thou
sand votes cast this year directly in its f;,-
vOr. 1t requires only unity, bravery, appre-
citation, to make those forty thousand
mount up in twelve months to eighty thou
sand The voters are intrinsically Of that
cast Of thought, and need only TO have their
sentiment eliminated. Tho vital Democra-
cy, the essential protest thought Of our
people, the radical fundamental liberalism
shat must underlie ovcry social reformation,
has made itself manifest in n share, with
prestige, and under circumstances shSi sd.
init of no retreat. As well talk Of N 70
action against tho daylight or the spring
time, or public intelligence, or the increase
of population--as reaction against free soil
in Missouri. Nothing can react against 1t
but slavo importation, and that has neither
where to come from or wherefore to come.
The column Of migration that embraces the
movement Of the white race from east to
west, is upon us, and it will blaze tho path
Of civilization with The church, the school,
the farm, the city, until slavery as a system,
shall be known no more in the land. In
speaking these things We know what we
say. Never was the heart of the free soil
party irmer than it is in this conjuncturo
Never did its prophetic men see with surer
vision the final triumph of the cause, aud
its rapid recuperation from the very elements
Of discord that induced defeat Never
were those who have led and those who
have been overborne moro calmly conscious
Of their strength or moro heroically resolved
10 hold their positions against all corners.
Before this doy tco years hence free soilers
aoM hare deuelopedin controlling force ,oith-
IN the Halls Of our assembly, and wiN
hare possessed themselves of the entire STATE.
Gorernment. Mark the prediction.