Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1860-10-12

Hersohel v. Johnson's Record.
The who are Theya-And
Who supports Them1
The only excuse offered by Douglas and
his followers for their open and shameless
coalition and intrigue with the Americans,
North and South, has been that tho Union
is in danger! This cry has been more
especially raised against tho Breckinridge
men, who are branded as "secessionists," or
those who are ready, when occasion may
arise, to secede from the Union and set up
for themselves Mr. Douglas declares his
readiness to fuse with anybody but Mr..
Breckinridge to "beat Lincoln" and with
him also whenever that gentleman should
repudiate all purpose of seeding frcm the
Unicn when the Government is not ad-
ministered to suit him.
Mr.. Pugh had much to say the other
night about what eve" Douglas Democrats
aud Old Wings did to save the Union from
the Southern secessionists, &C., in 1852
and thereabouts.
Below is letter written by Herschel V.
johnson, Mr.. Douglas associate on the
Uuion-saving ticket. A pcrusal of the
precious document will show the reader
what kind of salvation he would be likely
to bringto the country. Let it be carefully
pondered, and then let the reader tell US
what he thinks of the sincerity of the men
who are insulting the people of the North
by asking their votes to elevate this traitor
to the second Office of the Governmet:
MILL1DevnIE, Ga, Aug. 80, 1851.
GENTLEMEN:-I thank you for your kind
and pressing invitation to barbecue; tc
be given to Colonel Robert McMillen, the
Southern Rights candidate for Congress il
the Eighth District, on the first Tuesday il
September next. But official engagements
prevent me the pleasure of acceptance
Morgan Court will be in session at tha
time.
My personal acquaintance with Coone
McMillen is limited, but know him b.
reputation as gentleman of high mora
worth, brilliant talents, and sound Republi
can principles. Such men l am pleased t.
honor, and sincerely trust the great caus
whose banner he bears by the united voic
of the Southern Rights party of his district
may be triumphant.
The contest in which the people of Ga
in common with her sister slaveholdin
States, is engaged, is one of vital impoI
tance. 1t involves the destiny of tn
! South, and the federative character of ou
system of government. 1t is waged upo
the right of State peaceably to seced
from the Union. The Gubernatorial can
didate of the Southern Rights (Herschel V
Johnson) maintains the affirmative, and tn
candidate of the submission party (Howel
Cobb) the negative of this great question
The one, that the right necessarily result
from the reserved sovereignty of the State
and the nature of the confederacy, and tn
other, that it exists only as a right of rev
olution. The former insists that the Gen
eral Government has no right TO coerce
seeding State; and the latter that sucl
seeding State must depend for the main
tenance of its position "upon the stou
hearts and strong arms of free people,
The one unhesitatingly and boldly avow
that if Southern State were to secede, h
would not obey a requistion by the Fedora
Government made upon him as the Execu
tive Of Georgia, for troops to force her bac
into the Union; and the other declare
that he "would convene the Legislature G
the State, and recommend them to call
Convention of the people" in an emergenc
in which the impulses of the true Souther
heart should be sufficient guide. IH
great issue, then, I repeat, as the right 0
a State to secede from the Union, and tn
correlative absence of any right on the pal
{ of the Federal Government to force such
State back into the Union. II cannot
evaded By THE SENSELESS CLAMOI
OF UNION ! THIS GLORIOUS UN
ION The integrity of the Union is nc
assailed by the Southern Rights patty j
Georgia. Its true friends are those Wh
insist upon maintaining the rights res,atin
! from the sovereignty Of the States. Il
real enemies are those who, from behind j
as "masked battery" level their destruc
, tive artillery against its strongest outpost'
by counseling submission to aggression
INJUSTICE, and ROBBERY, because
like "a aOolf IN sheep's clothing" they CON
under the HYPOCRITICAL GARB O.
COMPROMISE. Then let vigilant pc,
pie look we'll to the true and only issue il
volved in the pending campaign-the rigI
of State peaceably to secede from II
Union.
2 1 would not, if time and space justifie,
enter into an argument in favor of the a
, frmative of this issue. l believe that
t understood by the people. 1t has been
cardinal tenet Of the Republican creed fro
1898 down to the present day, maintaine
: by Jefferson, Madison, Macon, Lownde
Troup, and all the distinguished statesme
of that school, who properly understood II
' theory of our Government, and whose hear
: beat responsive to the great American Sc
: timent which is at once the parent and Il
soul of Constitutional liberty. Argume