Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1859-10-07

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tered BY him on IRE occasion, feelinRof a
truth that although the apoaiaios ffofrfFoe-
dom for the sake Of Office had sought 10
sell us and our children TO the infamous
slave power Of this nation, yet that We had
10 our midst men Of strong, vigorous minds
men who could not be made, for The
sake Of Office, or public plumber, TO help TO
approve Of the Infamous bill--men who
would stand by the freemen Of the North,
and aid us oil 10 battle for the right, and
for the overthrow, not only Of this pestilen-
tial law, but for tho political death Of every
son Of BeIial who aided in the procreation
of this bill of unmitigated infamyl
Didn't the "rampant bitter, and unre-
lenting Abolitionist" feel goodi Yes, ver-
lily, and with great cause. "one Of the
brightest minds in Ohio, and an old Dem
ocrat, and nothing else in politicsP had
jumped upon his Anti-Fugitive Slave Act
platform, and in ''scathing and blistering
curses" had denounced othe whole bill as
UNCONSTITUTIONAL He put the
glad tidiDgs of great joy to Democratic
Abolitionists on record in bis Inder, and
Judge Ranney, knowing the literal truth of
that record, suffered the Inder to circulate
il far and wide, without word Of contra
diction through the I,,der or any democrat
ic paper of the Reserve. He aequiesced in
the position assigned him on the Fugitive
Slave act, by the Indez, for it was then the
position of Judge Wilson, Gov. Wood, the
PlaindeGler, Ohio Statesman, and the lead
ing Democrats and Democratic presses Of
the State. Could the editorials Of that
day written by tho present editor Of tho
Democrat be exhumed-for we think he
was then connected with the Democratic
press of Ohio--we doubt not the language
of the rampant, bitter, and unrelenting
Abolitionist" of the Inder, would pale be-
for the Flood of his "scathing aud blister
ing denunciation of the Fugitive Slave
Act 1t was the fashion of the Ohio Dem
ocracy then, for Northern Democratic Hapos-
tates from freedom for the sake of Office"
had not, as now, so generally to the Slave
Power
"Bent the pregnant hinges Of the knee,
That thrift might follow fswniug."
Judge Birchard also denounced the act,
the Iader, says, alike an old Jefersonian
Democrat" On sober, second thought"
the ex-Supreme Judge, who was ambitious
of further official prefermcnt, backed down.
According to the National Democrat he
wrote a communication to the Trumbull
Democrat of Nov. 11th, contradicting tho
charge. Did the "noble and fearless Ran
neyp Not at all. He let the die" as
the Democrat now calls it, of "lying Alb
olition Sheet" run and be glorifed the State
and Union over, relying on stump speeches
Gin Trumbull, Mahoning and other coun-
ties" as claimed by his special home organ,
'to prevent the Democracy from being car
ried off in the wild goose chase against
this law" The Democrats bosh and moth
ing else.
This is not the first attempt Of the Ma
tioual Democrat to falsify contemporaneous
r history on its own mere ipse dieit. 1t at
tempted the same service for Judge Will
n son in regard to the famous Cleveland An
ii Fugitive Stave Act resolutions. Itmade
similar denials and explanations, but tho
e files of the democratic German paper ot
this city, not only proved Judge Wilson;
active participation in the meeting to be a
fixed fact, but that he used the fact when a
Democratic candidate for Congress to
wheedle into his support Anti-Fugitive Act
German voters
| Your old story, neighbor Denaocratwon't
/ do to be repeated To call the Inder, in
1850 "a rampant bitter, uurelenting abo
litionist sheet,"'is to place 'the noble and
fearless Ranney" in the same category al
that remarkable political period. Better
own up-plead the statute of limitations
or even the baby act-for Judge Ranney OIL
. the stump excuses himself for his Demo
' cratic heterodoxy of those days, by the ples
y that he iOas then Very young man.
CleVelnnd Leader.