Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1859-11-25

waa tho Asorv Of constitutional obira0on in the Slave
States but was also aware Of what YOU omit to mento
viz that the Constitution has IN reality been completely
and systematically uuiiGcd wherever suited tho couvcn-
ionce or The policy Of the Slave Power Your conshiu'
tonN oblgatou for which you profess 20 much respect
has never proved any protection citizens Of the Free
States who happen to have black brown o. yellow com
pleyion nor go any white citizen whom You even suspect
ed OF ente raining opinions opposite TO your oWn, on
question Of vast Importance TO the temporal welfare and
moral example Of our common country lhis telal gise
gard Of obligation has been manifested not
merely BY tho vnch law Of moben the slave States but
by the deliberate action Of magistrates and egslaq
Whatrogard psd TO constitutional obligation In south
Carolina when Massachusetts, sent the Hon Mr.. Hoar
there as envoy on purely legal errand Mr. hcdrch
Professor OF Political Economy 10 the University Of North
what reear paid 10 that right, when be driven
from his home merely tor declang hat he considered
Slavery mpolitic SYSTEM injurious 20 The prosperity Of
sotesf What respect for constitutional rights was
ifesedby Alabama, when bookseller in Mobile COM
PEELED n Gee for his life because he had ut the special lc
guest of some Of the citizens, imported few copies OF
novel thateveybody curious to readi Your cit
zen. NJ Underwood had constitutional right % live IN
Virginia, and vote oi whomsoever he pleased Whai re-
1rdwas paid tn his rights, when De was driven from YOU
state for declaring himsein favor Of the election Of Ere
montl With these, and multitude OF other eXanpos be-
fore your eyes 70 would IL the less that said
about respect for constitutional obligation at the South
the better slavery in fact an infringement OF all law,
and alheres TO law for It's purposes of oppression
You accuse Capt. John Brown Of "whcttng knives Of
bnohery for the mothers sisters, daughters, and babes
that be is "aTagued for the crimes Of murde ro1beyaud
treason" will not here stop TO explain why believe
that old hero to be crinn1l but martyr 70 principles
which he sought to advance by methods seaniioned g
bis own religions views, though not by niue. Allowing
that Capt Brown did attempt scheme Ia which murder,
robbery aud treason we're TO bis own consciousness IN
volved do not how Gov. Wise can consistently ar
raigu him for crimes he has himself commended. Nou
have threatened to taupe the Constitution, and break
the uninn II majority Of the legal voters in these Con-
federated States dared TO elect PRECEDENT unavoabc TO
tho extension of slavery Is not such declaration proof
premedatcd teason In the Spring oflo42 you made
a speech in Congress- from which copy thciollowingi
Once before the people Of the Great Valley the eon-
quest of the rich Mexican Provinces md you might as
well attempt to - op the wind. This Government might
send its troops bat they would run over them like herd
Of Buffalo. Let the work begin and Do not know
that this House would hold ne very long pi'e me N.Y.
millions Of dollars aud would undertake TO do it myself
Although do not know how TO set single squadron IN
the deld could find men 20 DO IT, slavery shoud pour
seabroad without restraint, and find no limit but the
Southern Ocean. The Camanchcs should no longer hold
the richest mines OF Mexico, Every golden image which
had received the PROCLAMATION ola false
he melted down into good American eagles would cause
much gold 10 cross the Rio del Norte the mules Of
Mexico could carry: ave. and would make better Of
it, too than lazy, bgoted priesthood under heaven
When you thus boasted that you and your 'booted
oacrs" would the oops of the United States
"ike herd of buffalo, If the Government sent them to
arrest your invasion OF neighborng nation at peace with
the United States did you not pledge Yourself to commit
treosoni Was it notify the murder OF unouendlng Mex
leans that expected TO advance those schemes o avar
ice and ambition What humanity had YOU Tor Mexican
mohers and babes, whom you proposed 70 make chlld
less and terless and for what purpose was this whole
sale to take placer Not to right the wrongs Of
any oppressed class not to sustain any great principles OF
Justice, OF freedom; but merely to enable 'Sayory to
pour itself out without restraint"
Even if Captain Brown ms bad as you paint him,
should suppose he must naturally remind you Of the words
Of Macbeth:
Bloody instructions. which, being taught return
To plague the inventor: This even handed justice
Commends the ingredients Of our poisoned chace
To own lips
IfCaptain Brown Intended you say to commit trea
SON. robbery, and murder, think have shown that he
public declarations of Gov Wise. Andf he himsc de-
carcs he merely intended to free the oppressed where
could he read orcble lesson than is furnished by
the State Seal of Virginia. Hooked at 1T thouehuuy be
fore opened your letter; and though it had always ap
pearod very suggestive. it seemed to me so
much so IL now did in with Captain John
PROSTATE dcspot; under his strong arm mGnaces and
eb,ns ie roen and the motto is Sic Semrsr lRraa-
mis- "Thus be done to Tyrants And this the ba-
zon OF State whose most profitable business Che inter
nal Slave Tradel In whose highways coillrs Of human
chatels chained and manacled frequently secn Aud
the Seal aud the Coiies both looked upon by other
chatels, constantly exposed to the same te what II
Yezey, Nat Turner should be growing up among
those apparently quiet spectatofs IT'S IN no SPt OF
aunt of exu taon, that ask this question. never
think of it but with anxiety, sadness, ana sympathy
know hata slayehoding community necessarily yes IN
the midst of npowder and in this age sparks Of free
thought flying in every direction You cannot quench
the fires Of free thought and human sympathy by any pro-
cess of cunning or frce hut there s method by which
YOU can eIpctuav wet the Cunpowder. England has al
ready tried II with safety and success Woud that you
could be persuaded set aside the preudce of educaon
and candidly examine the actual working Of that expert
ment Virginia richly endowed by nature that Free
Institutions alone are wanting 10 render er te most
prosperous and powerful OF the States
In your letter you suggest that such scheme Cap
tain Browns is the natural result Of the opinions with
which sympathze. Even thought TINS 70 he a cor
rect statement though should deeply regret IT. could
draw the conclusion that humanity ought to be sta
ed and truth struck dumb for fear that long-succesu
despotism might be endangered by their uteance But
the fact is you mistake the source Of that strange out
break. No abolition arguments or denuncaons, hoWey
earnestly, loudly, harshy proclaimed, would have
produced that result II the Legitimate consequence
OF the continual and constantly increasing ageressions
Df he Power states,
Efforts to sustain bad and dangerous institution have
encroached more and more on the liberties Of the Free
States Our Inherent love of law and order, and
perstitous attachment to the Union yon have mistaken
for cowardce and rarely have you let slip any orporu-
tunity 10 add insult to aggression.
The manifested opposition Slavery began with the
lectures and pamphlets Of few disntreted men and wO
lgious grounds bat their CNpostn1ns were met with
of rage with tar and feathers bucEhats demosh-
ed houses and other applications OF Lynch law. When
the dust Of the conflict began 70 spbslde niue, uelr
numbers were found TO be greatly increased by the efforts
to exterminate them. They had become an influence in
the too important to hcuvcooked by Srcwd cacu
lators Political economists began To look az the subject
from point OF view. They used their abilities to
demonstrate that Slavery waseful system, and that
the Free States taxed TO enormous extent TO
tain institution which, at heart, twothlds Of them
abhorred The forty millions more ofdoarseXpend-
ed in hunting Fugitive Slaves in Florida, undCr the
of the Seminole War addnced item IN proof TO
which many more were added. Atlast politicians were
compelled to take action on the subject II soon he
known to all the people that the Slave states hadal-
to hold in their hands the political power
Of he Union, and that while they constituted Only
third OF the white population OF these States they held
more than o-thirs Of all the lucrative and hou-
orable ofees an indignity to which but subuga
ed people had before submitted. The knowledge al
SO became generally dinused, that while the Southern
Staes ooRed their Democracy nj home and then
they also systematically brbed the nominay Democratic
party at the NORTH with the Offices adroy kept at their
disposal
Through these and other instrmentalite the senti-
ments Of the original GarrsOnian AbOti0niss became
very widely extended In forms less diluted But
far the efficient coahOrers have had have
been in the Slave States themselves. BY denying the
sacred Right Petition they reused the free spirit of the
North as il never could have been reused by the loud
trumpet Of Garrison the soul-anmang bueof Phil
lips They bought great slave Daniel. and according
their established paid him no wages for his labor
Bv his corporation, they forced the Fugitive Slave Law
upon u.s. in violation Of all human instincts and all
our prncipes Justice And what did they procure for
the Abolitionists by that despotie processi
deeper and wider detestaton of Slavery throughout
he Free States and the publication Of Uncle Toms Cabin
an eoquent outbnrs Of moral indignation, whose echoes
awakened the world to look upon their shame
By hlllbuserng and fraud, they dismembered Mexico,
and having thus 0btaned the soil Of Texas they tried to
Introduce Il as saYe State into the Union. Failing to
ecrt their purpose by constitutional means they aeeo
pshed Il BY open and papabe violation OF the
Constellation and by obtaining the votes OF Senators on
false pretences.
soon afterward Southern Slave Administration ceded
to the powerful monarchy OF Great Britain several hun
ded thousands square me that must have been made
into Free States 70 which that same Administration had
declared that the United States had san unquestonable
right and then they returned upon the weak republic Of
Mexico and in order 10 make Slave states wrested
FROM her twice many hundred thousands OF square
miles, to which we had not shadow Of right.
Notwithstanding all these extra efforts, they symp
toms that the Political power so long held with rm grasf
was in danger slipping from their hands, BY the reason