Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1859-01-21
M istGlIanGons.
FROM YORK TOWNSHIP.


WELL, Mr. EDIroR:-This is dull day,
as have been most of the days since Octo-
Der. 1t is dull time dull in business, dull
in politics, dull in the news-world. dull in
everything. But why complain when we
have enough TO cat, enough to think Of,
enough to dot For the first time, if my
memrry serves ME in twenty years, "Young
America" has time TO pause and take breath,
for the want of some lion or hero to fire
the pross and excite the people. The Pat
riot war-the burning of the Carolina and
the incarceration of Mcleod in prison for
tho murder of American citizens-the
Northeastern boundary questionable an
nexation Of Texas--the Mexican war-the
discovery of mountains of gold in Califor-
nia-the adjustment of the acquired terri
tory and the "Fugitve Slave Law"--Kos-
suth-Jenny Lind-The Northwestern
boundary of "ifty-four forty or 6ght"--the
Nebraska strugglc-the Kansas outrage
the Satanic Dred Scott decisiou--the fill
busters--the "right of search" and the At
lantic cable, are some of the leading objects
that have, each in their turn, made the
country fairly blaze and gave their full
share TO create the great demand for news
papers, which has increased their numbers
by the hundreds of thousands, and has and
is creating corresponding taste for reading,
and thirst for knowledge. This with a
single exception we regard as a favorable
omen for our country. The exception is
this that reading almost exclusively con-
fined to tho incidents that arO transpiring at
the present time, have a powerful tenden-
cy to create distaste for the more "weight-
ier matters of the law" It is lamentablc
to think how history is being neglected, and
those moro important works on morals and
religion, which tend to purify the heart, as
well as enhghten the judgement. This
should be counteracted, not by reading good
wholesome newspapers less, but tho others
more and novels not at all, even should they
come from Thackeray, Dickens or any one
else. We would about as soon have rat
tie snake in our milk pantry, as a novel in
our library, regarding the one about as fit
a companion for our children as the other.
But let no one think that because wo have
a temporary lull, that things will remain
long in statu quo for, since Young America
has got lightning to chasing ITSELF it will
soon chase up lion. Only think of
the buncombO speeches in Congress on the
"rieht of search;" their tone would indi-
cate that John Bull his traps and kingdom
would have all been sent to Davy Jones'
locker in less than two weeks, not even
leaving a blank to mark the place whore it
STOOD And then little further back, only
think of tho buucombe on "fifty-four forty
or fight" when tho British government ac-
tually disappeared from tho earth as me
teor from the heavens, but old John, like
the Illinois volunteers that Santa Anna
whipped AZ Bucna Vista, could not quite
be made aware of the fact remember
of hearing little buncombe in ths"ffty-four
forty" times, which happened on street
corner a long way this side of Washington,
when the "ffty-four forty man, on being
asked what he would do with the myriads
Of hostile Indians that would harass his ar
my, while fighting John Bull and driving