Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1858-06-25
L. w. HALL NC


Tho Messenger, we see, has taken upor
itself to endorse this renegade, and to assure
him of reelection. We advise the Mes
semger not to "arbitrate" largely on this re.
suit; and we advise Mr.. Hall not to put toe
much faith in the prophetic ken of tho Mes.
senSer. If the people of this congressional
district shall re-elect Mr.. Hall, all wo have
TO say is, that the men who vote for him
will be fitly represented. Tho man who
can approve Mr. Hall after his tricky, shift
ing and dishonorable course, must be such
a man as the man he votes for. Is there a
man in this district who does not know that
Hall went to Washington anti-Lecompton
to the core, (according to his professions, J
that he voted anti-Lecompton-till he dis
covered a sufficient (D reason for doing
otherwise. If Mr.. Hall in changing his
course, had adopted q new one which would
have preserved the right of the people of
Kansas 10 decide on their own constitution.
we would have found no fault with him.
He might then, we think, have walked over
the course almost without opposition. But
when he ceased TO he anti-Lccompton, what
did he become? Why thing as much
meaner than an open Lccompton man. as
thief who picks your pocket is meancr than a
robber who meets you face to face and knocks
you down or gets knocked down. This
English bill on which Mr.. Halls anti.Le-
comptonism fizzled out, does not submit the
Lecompton constitution to the people of
Kansas. They do not vote yes or no on
that constitution at all; but are only per-
mitted to say whether they will take so
many thousand acres of public land as a
bribe, and Lecompton aciM ii, or whether
they will reject the land and Lecompton al
SO. The man who protcnds that the con-
stitution is submitted by this pigglc must be
doughfacc and liar. The southern men
such as Toombs and Stephens, the real ru-
thors Of this cheat, never pretended that the
consttution,was submitted but expressly de-
MED that it was so. Yet Mr.. Lawrence w.
Hall, after protesting his fixed purpose to
stand by the right of the people of Kansas TO
say yes or no to their constitution, at last flats
out and votes for this English contrivancc. If
the people of this district will endure
man who thus bctrays the rights of Ameri-
can citizens, they will deserve 10 have an
odious constitution forced upon themselves,
without the power to right it; nay more,
they will deserve to be eternally represent
ed by L. w. Hall without the power to re-
ject him. The fact that the people of Kan
sas can get rid of Lccompton by voting not
to take the land, does not serve Mr.. Hall.
lie has given up tho right of saying yes or
no directly. He has by miserable quib-
BILE given up the dearest right of an Amer
lean citizen, the right to establish the funda-
mental law of his state. He has done
moro, he has voted for a bill, which says to
the people of Kansas that if they will take
the land bribe and Lecompton they may
come into the Union at once, but if not,
they shall stay out till they have l 100000
inhabitants. This is the man who asks
reelection. This is the man the Messen-
ger endorses. This is the man that tho
people of this district will give leave to stay
at home, where he cannot sell himself or
his constituents.