Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1858-03-19
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Tho committee appointed by tho Anti
Lecompton Democracy Of Knox County to-
correspond With leading men of tho party
throughout the State, and solicit their pres
enco as speakers at the late demonstration
held in Mt. Vernon, having invited Hon.
John A. Corwin, Of Urbana, late Supreme
Judge of the State, to be present aud adj
dress the meeting, he had published in the
Cincinnati Enguirer. without asking the
permission of It's authors, the note Of invi-
taton thus received, together with his re-
ply thereto. He said that it would be inn
possible for him to comply with their re-
quest, and went on to endorse tho Presi-
dents Kansas policy in unmeasured terms
aud without reserve, proving himself the
most servile of the servies. To this the
committee sent him the following ready and
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MT. VERNON, o., March 5, 1858.
HoN. JoHN A. CoRwIN:
Your favor of tho 9th February has
been received, in the columns of the Cincin-
natl Enquirer. For the gentemauly man
per in which you have given publication to
our correspondence, We humbly thank you.
You are pleased to tell us that the people
of Kansas are at perfect liberty, at any time,
after their admission into the Union under
the Lecompton constitution, 10 change, al
ter or amend it at their pleasure.
Need We say to you that there are but
two ways in which a people can change
their organic law--oue, lawfW;: tho other,
revolutionary The Lecompton Constitil-
tion, if Kansas be admitted under it, be-
comes the Supreme law of the people
And that Constitution .torbids any change
before the year 1854, and permits none
then only on condition that two-thirds of the
members of each branch of the Legislature
concur in authorizing call for convention,
and that any convention to be elected un-
der such call shall not impair, in any man
ner, the right of the stakeholder TO proper
ty in his slaves in Kansas.
Now, sir, the Constitution being the Su-
preRae lar, any attempt to alter il, not done
in accordance with and in conformity to that
supreme law, is necessarily unla'gfm, and if
unlawful, revolutionary.
You need not be astonished Mt this view.
One Of your distinguished coadjutors in tho
infamous attempt to destroy the Sovereignty
of tho people of Kansas, Senator Green, in
his majority report from the Committee on
Territories, recommending the admission of
Kansas under the Lccompton constitution,
boldly and distinctly takes the same ground
You will suffer us to commend to your prayer
ful consideration that report
And now, sir what position do you occu
pyl You propose, in the first place, tc
FORCE the people of Kansas into the Union
against their solemn protest, and then mag.
unanimously say to them, "You can get rid
of your wrongs by becoming rebels against
the government which we have forced upor
you" Generous Mr. Corwin
And this, sir, is Democracy in your opin
ion. God forbid that it should ever be ours
Our Democracy teaches us that "all jus
governments derive their powers from tht
consent of the governed" and that the peo
pie should rule, aud not n set of infamous
forgers, perjurers and ballot suffers, headed
by that heartless scoundrel and villain, Johr
Calhoun.
You are also pleased to remind us of thc
danger of being ruined by "villainous com
pany," and to intimate that we have gonc
over to the Black Republicans. Sir, while
we have for companions Representative
Groesbcck, Pendleton, Cox, Hall, Lawrence
} Burns, and Cockerili; every Democratic
member of the Ohio Senate and House
and nino-tenths of the honest masses of th,
, Ohio Democracy, we entertain no such fear
as appear to trouble your slumbers.
And as to the charge that we have gon,
over to the Black Republicans, you will sui
fer us to whisper in your ear, that it is on
only fit TO be made in a sewing circle o
wrinkled, tcethless, hairlOs, garrulous, sense
: less old grannies.
Do you expect, sir to wheedlo the homes
masses OF the honest Democracy of Obi
into the support of an infamous outrage b
: such silly twaddle as this? If you do,
assured, that the people in reply, will thur
: der in your ears, in the language Of one G
r old, 'Lct the hcathcn rage, and say raj
n thing"
= And now, sir, in conclusion, permit us t
+ hope that you will receive MS the reward G
t your treachery to the Democracy of Ohio
= the Mission to Mexico for which you ar
G understood to be an applicant. The dirtie
IF the services, the better should be the pay
c We remain yours truly,
d w, c. GASTON,
' C. Fl. SCRBNER.