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

Is the title of an article nearly two COL
umns long, in the Messenger of last week,
and we mark it for one popularity, which is
an apparent effort at editorial decency.
We hopo that paper has become con-
vinced at last, that coarsepess, vulgsrity,
personal abuse and glaring, audacious mis-
representations, are not the means of per-
manent success.
1t may be that tho special notices we
have taken of the Messengers course have
had their intended effect, and convinced it
that throwing dirt is game that two can
play at, though it be mean. When men
cntrench themselves in meanness, and hurl
missiles from places where honorable men
scorn to walk, it may be justifiablc TO attack
them with their own weapons, on their own
ground, and in their own way.
We hope that paper is satisfied that there
is no speculation in its heretofore abusive
tyrannical and proscriptiye course. Being
beaten in IFS own trait, it comes and zap
peals."
Well, people do appeal when judgment
as pronounced against them. They appeal
sometimes to obtain justice, but more frc-
aaucntly to obtain stay Of execution. We
believe tho Messenger appeals to stay exc
cution of that judgmentwhich public opin-
ion has pronounced against it and the prin-
cipes it advocates.
In this appeal we will meet and take is
sue with the Messenger, in the court of
reason and public opinion.
What is the issue?
You declare and say, that the democratic
party has done all the good that ever has
been dono in this country, and that the
present administration and all its measures
are right In this you declare aud affirm,
1st That the expenditure of one hundred
millions of dollars per annum for govern
ment expenses is right.
I'd. That bribery is right.
Sd. That it is right to offer slave state
admission into the Union with thirly-fve
thousand inhabitants, while it is wrong to
admit the same territory as free state unless
there be ninety-three thousand inhabitants.
4th. That it is right to give slave state
a bribe of million dollars worth of land as
an inducemont to come into the Union with
slavery.
5th. That it is right to pay premium
on slavery, and enforce prohibition on
freedom.
These, all these you affirm and ask judg-
ment in your favor.
We make issue and deny.
1st. That democracy as at present or
ganized and prnciplcd, has done all the
good deeds in this country.
I'd. We deny that it is right to cxpend
hundred millions annually by the democ-
racy to maintain the government, when it
can be done for half the money, and was
done for less than half that sum by the last
opposition administration.
Sd. We deny that it is right to give a
bonus and bribe to slavery, and impose
prohibitions on freedom.
4th. We deny that slavery is better for
the laboring white man, than freedom and
equality are.
5th. We deny that it is right TO give
thlrty-five thousand slavery propagandists
preference over ninety-three thousand free
men.
9th. We deny that tho fathers of true
democracy ever sanctioned bribery or cor
ruption, or ever preferred slavery to freedom
as is now done and claimed by the misnam
ed democratic party.
Thus the issue is made. We will heal
some Of the proofs next week.
A Buchanan Ticket.