Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1859-04-22
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A certain southern divine once pitbily
said that be accepted American slavery as
It is" So does the sham democracy. They
not only accept it as it is but are using
their best endeavors to give us more of it
Well, what is American slaveryi If one
we're to read the democratic journals he
would see it pass before him as the cond-
ton of sleek and well fed niggers, happy
and contented. II he would carry his read
ing little farther and study such pious
journals as the New York Observer, and
Journal Of Commerce, he would imagine
that slavery is condition in which the
blacks nre all dcvotedly pious, and praying
devoutly for the conversion of their masters
But now and then NC get a peep at the
well fed and pious system from another point
of view. A few years ago slave moth
er escaped with her children, through man
fold danger and difficulties, and reached
Cincinnati. There she took refuge for a
time. But the keen scented slave hunter
was on her track; and when she found es-
cape impossible she deliberately killed one
child and attempted the life of another
What motive could account for this strange
actl Not the want of motherly love, for
the strength of this had been shown in
bravipg the dangers of the flight. 1t was
the excess of motherly love. She preferred
the death of her children to their enslave-
ment. What must have been her view of
American slaveryi~ Certainly not the well
fed and pious view of its democratic and re-
ligious apologists.
Recently father was on trial in the Dis
triet Of Columbia for harboring his own son,
boy of ten years of age, and was con-
demncd to severe punishment. The faith
er was black man but free; the mother a
slave. The children, therefore, by the well
fed and pious system Of American slavery,
were slaves. The owner of the mother al
lowed the father to keep his children at
home till they were ten years of age and
then mercilessly sold them. He had taken
away the boy to offer him for sale. The
boy escaped and returned, as what child
would not, to his fathers house. The faith
er, as what father would not, received and
sheltered his son. For this hei is tried and
condemned. And this iniquity, vile enough
to call down the lightnings Of heaven, was
transacted under the shadow of that flag
which has been truly called,
"The fustian flag that proudly waves,
J In splendid mockery oer land of slaves"
The power of our national government tc
which you and !, dear reader, contribute ou
share, passed and enforced tho law unde
which this villainuy was done. BY The
slave code which rules in the district of Co
lumbia, it was the duty of the father to turr
his little son from his door. Think you,
reader, that God who cares no more 70
white than black, will behold such thing
and pass them by: Wonder you that JET
r ferson said in view of such crimes as this
r "whcn ! remember that God is just l trem
bic for my couutryf".
More recently still, within the last few
days, man named Bushnell has been con
victed in the United States Court, at Glove
land, for tho sole and only crime of adm,
+ a slave to escape from the hands of thos
! who would have carried him back to bond
age. His companions in this crime whicl
. God and angels must approve are now i
r jail Ohio is a hunting ground for slaves
!, and il one Of her sons shall do that whic
: he would wish others to do for him in cas-
precisely similar, fines and iinprisopmer
! await him. To this pass has slavery brougI
US. The democracy of Ohio, with braze
: hypocrisy, which is enough to shame tn
: devil, have voted to open the Ohio jails
such conyicts as the above, and to kee
: them at the expense of the people. Ho
:, long shall these things be endured9
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