Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1859-09-23
God EmrIors rHud-sllIs.

1t will be remembered that senator
Hammond Of South Carolina, q dis
tinguishcd leader in the modern Democrat
icparty, declared in his place in the Senate,
that Northern mechanics and laboring men
are no better than southern slayes-that
they are the mudsils of society, aud Of
right should occupy an inferior POSITION
In his allusion to to this modern Democrat
ic doctrine, Mr., Corwin, in speech at New
ark, is reported by the american to have
made the following remarks:
Mr.. Corwin, after denying that there was
any arrangement in the Providence Of God
by which one man was born to be the slave
of another went on to show that God Of
ten and indeed generally employs "the
weak things of this world to confound the
wise" There is doubt, said he, that men
who have read much, and are really learned,
have been educated in the belief that a
certain great man who figured largely in
Biblical history, was a white man. No
such thing--Moses was nigger-that is, a
slave He was Hebrew and not an Egyp-
tian. AS leader in the armies of Egypt
he was always successful and was in high
favor; but God did not mako him the
leader of Israel till he had had other ex-
perienecs. Having killed an Egyptianand
fed to indian, he became laborer, keep
er of sheep, a wanderer in the mountains.
He had to go through probation of
forty years, before he was deemed quail
fed for his great undertaking. His educa-
ton was not of the right sort. He must
be made to share the common sympathies
of the people. But when so qualified, he
returned and proved TO be one of the wis
est and ablest of the worlds great men,
So of Washington through whose instru-
mentality God had given this great land of
freedom. He was poor surveyor of lord
of Lord Fairfax. Little did he dream
while walking through Spotsylvania with
his staff and compass that he was to re-
deem this great country from the CONSTANTS
of despotism.
God, in his own way, works out his pur
poses, and never uses his peculiar instru
ment until he is qualified for the task
There was a poor man named Gideon, who
was the poorest of the very poor men
not worth as much by the laws of Ohio Is
: exempt from execution--not worth $3.50
He was modest man-though he couldn't
do such work. He was of the tribe of Ma
nassoh, the poorest of the tribes, and hc
was the poorest man of the tribe. He wa
not Southern gentleman who had some
body else to work for him. He knew wha
hard work was. He had some idea o
, what has been called the "rugged issue. -
!. He belonged to the class of men who hav'
. done service in the world.
= Well, Gideon was sent on very hazard
Gus and desperate enterprise, and wanted
men for the service that were equal to th'
occasion. How did heselect them? We'll
| as they were designed for rough work, h
/ was directed to try them at the brook, an,
: to select them by the straight forwardnes
/ which they manifested in Stacking thei
: thirst. If one Of them should ask for
cup, he wouldn't do; but if he went dow
on his knees and Tapped the water like I
/ dog, he was to be marked and taken.
+ Such men as these are not your Souther
= gentlemen, who think that you are all mud
: sils They think that it is necessary t.
? take the honorable to fght--such did no
!. the Supreme Governor select for the arm
Y of Gideon. Any curious inquiry in histc
9 ry will show tho fact that those men wer
familiar with hard trials, had known an
a were Injured TO hardships.
h Six hundred years ago, near Wagran
J. was fought battle which overturned th
;. Swabian dynasty. 1t was fought and wo
II by man who made his own horseshoe
/ and shod his own horse. This Shove
If that the "mudsills" had done thing or tw
= far back in the worlds history. Here WI
}. the foundation Of the great house Of Hap
t, burg, of which we have heard so much.-
o Six hundred years afterward came along
is poor lieutenant, the son of a lawyer, anotl
D. er "mudsill" who had got up in the worl
W and overturned this old dynasty. The e
Of pressive lesson that Napoleon taught hi
le not been lost. He taught that man coul
Of take possession of thrones and stand upc
% their smoudering ruins, because educate
b in the sympathy, experiences and feeling
II that the people understand and appreciat
Thus it would be seen that God honorC
IN the "mud-sills" whatever Southern gentl
r men and Southern chivalry might do.
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